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  1. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.61 | 325 points by itvision 4 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.01 5 | 129 points by neversaydie 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.50 2 | 69 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×2.97 2 | 853 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.82 17 | 41 points by Audiophilip 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.94 9 | 57 points by baranul 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.63 4 | 136 points by collinmanderson 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.61 8 | 181 points by tsak 7 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.27 5 | 49 points by sebg 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.99 11 | 184 points by willcarkner 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Almost no skill required to cook a steak (sydorets.com)
    ×1.90 2 | 268 points by yusyd 9 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.97 11 | 140 points by tedsanders 7 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.68 1 | 311 points by Footkerchief 8 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds (github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri)
    ×1.30 11 | 7 points by kzahiri 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.62 25 | 14 points by indyjo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
    ×1.45 8 | 82 points by luu 6 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.77 14 | 201 points by dsubburam 4 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×0.98 13 | 55 points by bschne 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.55 10 | 248 points by Wirbelwind 12 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com/mattdeeds)
    ×0.97 2 | 36 points by mdeeds 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (wsj.com)
    ×3.86 17 | 20 points by boplicity 43 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×1.71 12 | 103 points by laurentiurad 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.37 52 | 5 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 15 | 84 points by davidmckayv 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.92 21 | 95 points by hasheddan 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.41 48 | 5 points by purestatelabs 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.83 22 | 58 points by mpweiher 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 14 | 216 points by binyu 15 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.16 27 | 418 points by apitman 6 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders (bbc.com)
    ×6.08 20 | 23 points by samaysharma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    ×0.37 57 | 11 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.23 15 | 129 points by pseudolus 6 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners (reuters.com)
    ×3.33 14 | 15 points by voxadam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.09 34 | 72 points by jandrewrogers 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.70 27 | 79 points by tchalla 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.09 8 | 65 points by john_strinlai 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.49 44 | 160 points by nanochess 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer (keel-iot.eu)
    ×0.52 64 | 9 points by fcravio 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.65 11 | 648 points by DarkContinent 20 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×0.28 69 | 11 points by jdkee 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.96 9 | 455 points by atan2 18 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015) (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.46 58 | 31 points by dima55 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents (thenextweb.com)
    ×2.65 6 | 14 points by FireBeyond 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.33 47 | 110 points by msephton 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.56 12 | 30 points by layer8 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (twz.com)
    ×2.20 3 | 10 points by delichon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.83 2 | 912 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 579 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids (wired.com)
    ×1.71 19 | 4 points by worik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.72 14 | 20 points by beardyw 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
    ×0.97 62 | 15 points by danschuller 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.05 3 | 823 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.59 44 | 239 points by Xeophon 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.73 61 | 66 points by skogstokig 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Goiânia Accident (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.99 5 | 12 points by ycollet 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)
    ×1.92 17 | 80 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.62 70 | 65 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.35 91 | 66 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock (github.com/palamim)
    ×1.49 66 | 32 points by leopalamim 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.99 12 | 435 points by speckx 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.92 72 | 155 points by _____k 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)
    ×0.48 52 | 38 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (pbs.org)
    ×3.95 54 | 90 points by starkparker 4 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 56 | 162 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.19 67 | 99 points by Jare 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (techdirt.com)
    ×3.17 11 | 45 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees (cnbc.com)
    ×4.20 6 | 11 points by andrewstetsenko 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)
    ×4.77 58 | 132 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.50 48 | 221 points by weli 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.32 10 | 408 points by lladnar 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.93 4 | 415 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.60 7 | 5 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.45 55 | 73 points by rowbin 23 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.84 62 | 140 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
    ×1.10 23 | 55 points by quuxplusone 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.94 2 | 422 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.63 6 | 646 points by speckx 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×2.86 20 | 208 points by microtonal 18 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.65 11 | 321 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.35 59 | 220 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.13 76 | 443 points by pmg101 3 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What Happened to Talenti? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.85 31 | 49 points by tysone 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.83 61 | 126 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.13 59 | 148 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.83 55 | 79 points by oryx1729 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.07 40 | 187 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money (bbc.com)
    ×3.35 4 | 53 points by tartoran 11 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.06 24 | 519 points by ahamez 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×0.88 53 | 98 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.01 16 | 284 points by greyblake 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.48 38 | 124 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???