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  1. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×2.92 | 491 points by tambourine_man 5 hours ago | 816 comments | ??? ???
  2. How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
    ×2.10 1 | 132 points by _vaporwave_ 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  3. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
    ×1.76 3 | 189 points by chizhik-pyzhik 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.65 1 | 209 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  5. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×2.55 6 | 299 points by nilirl 7 hours ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  6. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
    ×2.33 7 | 134 points by aduffy 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  7. The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
    ×2.22 3 | 266 points by xz18r 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  8. Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
    ×1.94 7 | 378 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  9. Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
    ×1.67 9 | 98 points by devhouse 5 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  10. Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.31 9 | 500 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  11. Is this why science advances one funeral at a time? (nautil.us)
    ×0.79 20 | 19 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  12. Beyond Semantic Similarity (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 11 | 26 points by 44za12 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  13. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×6.24 11 | 994 points by rubenbe 7 hours ago | 341 comments | ??? ???
  14. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.34 28 | 33 points by ttpost 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  15. Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
    ×0.65 12 | 48 points by fedek_ 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×0.89 16 | 53 points by azurewraith 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  17. Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com/FULU-Foundation)
    ×1.96 27 | 5 points by Murfalo 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
    ×0.54 21 | 40 points by sai18 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  19. Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 5 | 35 points by raybb 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  20. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.28 1 | 92 points by luispa 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
    ×0.53 28 | 33 points by namanyayg 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  22. Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot (x86.lol)
    ×0.35 67 | 4 points by evilmonkey19 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  23. Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
    ×3.96 16 | 204 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  24. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
    ×2.07 10 | 206 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 192 comments | ??? ???
  25. SQL: Incorrect by Construction (chreke.com)
    ×1.09 16 | 29 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  26. Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (thebuild.com)
    ×0.77 10 | 18 points by samaysharma 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  27. We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
    ×1.15 1 | 41 points by amr_shawky 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  28. Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (ycombinator.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  29. The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
    ×0.49 25 | 22 points by jxmorris12 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  30. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.64 27 | 58 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  31. The Real Story of Troy (storica.club)
    ×0.68 16 | 47 points by cemsakarya 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  32. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
    ×3.17 10 | 630 points by adunk 17 hours ago | 332 comments | ??? ???
  33. Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (python.org)
    ×0.76 19 | 81 points by djoldman 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  34. EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant (eff.org)
    ×2.50 4 | 8 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  35. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×4.59 46 | 70 points by YeGoblynQueenne 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  36. FairyFuse: Multiplication-Free LLM Inference on CPUs via Fused Ternary Kernels (arxiv.org)
    ×0.77 66 | 9 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
    ×1.59 25 | 197 points by pinewurst 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  38. Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)
    ×0.80 27 | 75 points by NaOH 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  39. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.08 14 | 1053 points by varunsharma07 1 day ago | 440 comments | ??? ???
  40. Bullshit Machines (thebullshitmachines.com)
    ×1.26 18 | 11 points by Arodex 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  41. Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
    ×1.51 30 | 199 points by aragonite 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  42. EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
    ×3.62 25 | 453 points by thm 11 hours ago | 407 comments | ??? ???
  43. I hate soldering (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.00 51 | 229 points by James72689 1 day ago | 202 comments | ??? ???
  44. Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM (bogomolov.work)
    ×1.29 35 | 72 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  45. eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.17 29 | 211 points by voisin 7 hours ago | 203 comments | ??? ???
  46. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (newscientist.com)
    ×1.09 68 | 92 points by emot 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  47. A Preview of the Future (aresluna.org)
    ×0.97 1 | 16 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  48. They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
    ×2.87 10 | 534 points by tokenburner 22 hours ago | 180 comments | ??? ???
  49. If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com)
    ×4.28 16 | 844 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 895 comments | ??? ???
  50. Complexity Creates Risk: Why Simpler Infrastructure Is Safer Infrastructure (fshot.org)
    ×0.67 65 | 6 points by victorkulla 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
    ×0.44 44 | 31 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  52. Coursera and Udemy are now one company (coursera.org)
    ×2.04 18 | 181 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  53. UnDUNE II (itch.io)
    ×2.34 24 | 161 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  54. Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com/pion)
    ×0.84 43 | 82 points by nateb2022 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  55. Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×2.45 20 | 314 points by smhx 1 day ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  56. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers (andreaturchet.github.io)
    ×1.21 61 | 175 points by ciwrl 1 day ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  57. UK to send drones, jets and warship to join defensive mission securing Hormuz (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 14 | 6 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  58. Nonlinearities in Vacuum Tubes, Bipolar and, Field-Effect Transistors(2024) (till.com)
    ×0.58 65 | 6 points by rolph 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  59. Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (pietschsoft.com)
    ×0.65 49 | 54 points by pabs3 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  60. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (gitlab.com)
    ×4.38 20 | 667 points by AnonGitLabEmpl 1 day ago | 644 comments | ??? ???
  61. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)
    ×7.65 10 | 2148 points by ChuckMcM 2 days ago | 744 comments | ??? ???
  62. UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025) (ucla.edu)
    ×2.03 5 | 431 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  63. Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory (github.com/mamba-studio)
    ×0.88 49 | 159 points by joe_mwangi 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  64. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (cocoawithlove.com)
    ×1.27 46 | 253 points by zdw 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  65. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×7.09 6 | 1838 points by cylo 2 days ago | 734 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.96 39 | 113 points by tsiry 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  67. Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
    ×0.69 54 | 65 points by AlexeyBrin 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  68. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
    ×0.83 60 | 71 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  69. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)
    ×1.07 53 | 158 points by yoeven 1 day ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  70. AI isn't paying off in the way companies think according to Gartner study (fortune.com)
    ×3.22 7 | 12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  71. Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message (privacyguides.net)
    ×3.22 17 | 615 points by negura 1 day ago | 492 comments | ??? ???
  72. AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs (duarteocarmo.com)
    ×0.90 57 | 140 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  73. The rise and fall of snake oil (historytoday.com)
    ×0.72 65 | 77 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  74. Kash Patel Touts AI Overhaul of FBI Crime-Fighting Operations (decrypt.co)
    ×3.17 29 | 14 points by jethronethro 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  75. I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night (martin.sh)
    ×1.71 10 | 262 points by showmypost 1 day ago | 274 comments | ??? ???
  76. What Satellite Images Reveal About Iran's Attacks on U.S. Bases [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 7 | 4 points by Teever 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  77. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics (ratty-term.org)
    ×2.64 3 | 658 points by orhunp_ 1 day ago | 233 comments | ??? ???
  78. Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
    ×1.37 6 | 217 points by matrixhelix 21 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  79. Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.38 7 | 16 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  80. Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone (gorillafund.org)
    ×0.83 56 | 74 points by alex000kim 1 day ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  81. Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (imtomt.github.io)
    ×0.91 58 | 128 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  82. Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer (tautme.github.io)
    ×1.05 59 | 169 points by adm4 1 day ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  83. A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns (eff.org)
    ×1.07 18 | 5 points by worik 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. Swatch Internet Time (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.29 19 | 3 points by florianmari 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×3.91 81 | 148 points by dxs 3 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  86. OpenAI Hit with Overdose Suit Targeting ChatGPT Drug Advice (1) (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×1.55 10 | 7 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  87. Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.80 75 | 203 points by Bender 6 hours ago | 212 comments | ??? ???
  88. CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler (nvlabs.github.io)
    ×2.28 8 | 415 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 116 comments | ??? ???
  89. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
    ×5.02 81 | 50 points by delichon 1 hour ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  90. Curl and Mythos (anderegg.ca)
    ×2.36 1 | 7 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???