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  1. EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe (eurobirdportal.org)
    ×1.27 5 | 125 points by NKosmatos 4 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  2. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)
    ×4.49 6 | 1060 points by u1hcw9nx 15 hours ago | 470 comments | ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)
    ×1.04 1 | 27 points by callbacked 52 minutes ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  4. XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings" (xcancel.com)
    ×5.87 3 | 78 points by unfocso 47 minutes ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  5. A 386 PC for Your RP2350 (github.com/rh1tech)
    ×1.34 5 | 87 points by SamuraiLion 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  6. An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem (threebodyorbits.com)
    ×2.23 7 | 94 points by danielmorozoff 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  7. Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.28 5 | 28 points by joozio 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  8. What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org (tenderlovemaking.com)
    ×1.71 27 | 3 points by gregnavis 12 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows (macrumors.com)
    ×3.00 7 | 36 points by tosh 52 minutes ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  10. OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures (github.com/anuj0456)
    ×1.69 6 | 67 points by anuj0456 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  11. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (signalusers.org)
    ×2.10 13 | 316 points by Cider9986 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ??? ???
  12. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (treybastian.com)
    ×1.97 6 | 280 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  13. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (apple.com)
    ×2.65 7 | 262 points by herbertl 12 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  14. Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls (github.com/Danilaa1)
    ×1.02 13 | 12 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: StemJSON – a language for LLMs to extend native mobile apps on the fly (stemjson.com)
    ×0.55 36 | 5 points by vkrychun 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  16. The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
    ×1.96 6 | 201 points by contact9879 11 hours ago | 265 comments | ??? ???
  17. HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory (storagereview.com)
    ×1.26 6 | 27 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  18. A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine (nickpoole.me)
    ×0.81 36 | 17 points by luu 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  19. The Nature of Dance (vester.si)
    ×0.94 28 | 30 points by wonger_ 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  20. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.25 12 | 208 points by ilamont 16 hours ago | 280 comments | ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.72 39 | 218 points by david927 19 hours ago | 626 comments | ??? ???
  22. Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.17 24 | 93 points by knowablemag 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  23. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    ×1.56 21 | 249 points by eigenspace 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: ChaosTree – A zero-dependency Java tree library (AVL,RBT,B-Tree,B+Tree) (github.com/Chaos-vy)
    ×1.30 60 | 6 points by chaos_vy 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  25. Who Aligns the Aligners? (prestonbyrne.com)
    ×1.65 18 | 43 points by timr 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  26. Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
    ×0.95 26 | 45 points by luu 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  27. Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports (screensize.net)
    ×0.63 10 | 30 points by zenpe 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  28. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)
    ×3.95 13 | 878 points by iamflimflam1 19 hours ago | 379 comments | ??? ???
  29. The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (katjahoyer.uk)
    ×0.97 50 | 94 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  30. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (wisc.edu)
    ×0.79 55 | 100 points by walrus01 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  31. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    ×4.21 14 | 217 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 269 comments | ??? ???
  32. D-Matrix Raptor 3D-DRAM Accelerator for Generative Inference at Hot Chips 2026 (servethehome.com)
    ×0.64 1 | 7 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  33. Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×2.88 10 | 8 points by deathcakes 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  34. Pkgsrc Is Cool (2022) (wisellama.rocks)
    ×1.29 13 | 22 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  35. Open-source AI and open models reading list (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.40 4 | 129 points by simonpure 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  36. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    ×1.11 26 | 75 points by rasengan0 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  37. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.06 3 | 451 points by Levitating 22 hours ago | 209 comments | ??? ???
  38. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    ×0.96 57 | 100 points by rzk 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  39. Goldman CIO: Don't rule out open models (axios.com)
    ×1.76 1 | 4 points by vismit2000 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  40. Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture (theregister.com)
    ×2.92 15 | 16 points by joebuckwilliams 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)
    ×2.70 1 | 440 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  42. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    ×0.78 35 | 44 points by fdeth 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  43. Five Words from Vanishing Fleece (wordnik.com)
    ×0.39 61 | 13 points by dan353hehe 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  44. Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)
    ×0.61 65 | 33 points by akkartik 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  45. Most People Don't Think About Culverts. Their Failure Can Be Deadly (nytimes.com)
    ×1.24 27 | 3 points by cainxinth 55 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  46. Why is privacy so hard? (2019) (acm.org)
    ×0.95 57 | 54 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  47. 'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up (ft.com)
    ×2.08 3 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  48. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    ×2.43 7 | 554 points by taubek 1 day ago | 223 comments | ??? ???
  49. Mark (colossus.com)
    ×1.32 9 | 4 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. LG says we're fake news [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.93 58 | 361 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 188 comments | ??? ???
  51. A lesson in lighting through blade runner (nofilmschool.com)
    ×0.93 31 | 5 points by srean 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    ×0.65 76 | 68 points by kevvok 1 day ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  53. XCancel service is suspended (again) (xcancel.com)
    ×2.09 14 | 8 points by shelfchair 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  54. 'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit (wsj.com)
    ×0.62 38 | 15 points by Thevet 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  55. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 45 | 92 points by binyu 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  56. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (wikisource.org)
    ×1.85 1 | 106 points by gregsadetsky 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  57. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    ×2.71 6 | 424 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  58. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    ×0.82 49 | 125 points by blincoln 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  59. Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping (securityaffairs.com)
    ×2.41 16 | 74 points by kristianp 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  60. Who gets to define the rules for AI? (cohere.com)
    ×1.45 7 | 45 points by throwworhtthrow 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  61. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.55 25 | 392 points by TheJCDenton 21 hours ago | 216 comments | ??? ???
  62. No cities on the Moon – there isn't enough water, scientists say (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.47 19 | 16 points by geox 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  63. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    ×3.18 7 | 629 points by jonifico 1 day ago | 677 comments | ??? ???
  64. AI Risk: The Approval Nobody Signed Off (sdarchitect.blog)
    ×1.00 15 | 6 points by SanjeevSharma 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  65. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    ×1.35 28 | 196 points by ichacas 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  66. Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    ×0.78 39 | 59 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  67. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.68 9 | 254 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  68. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×3.79 23 | 310 points by kolanos 20 hours ago | 231 comments | ??? ???
  69. Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.04 67 | 4 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  70. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.58 54 | 74 points by zdw 1 day ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  71. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.58 7 | 211 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  72. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.63 47 | 67 points by lumpa 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  73. After Math (wordpress.com)
    ×1.94 50 | 143 points by throwaway81523 1 day ago | 156 comments | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (thevidmarket.com)
    ×0.34 58 | 13 points by ryanpere2298 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  75. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.05 27 | 608 points by mikemcquaid 1 day ago | 244 comments | ??? ???
  76. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (utk.edu)
    ×0.66 46 | 46 points by azhenley 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  77. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    ×0.50 50 | 51 points by xlmnxp 21 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  78. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)
    ×1.08 9 | 172 points by chiassedu80 22 hours ago | 94 comments | ??? ???
  79. Show HN: What Just Pinged Me? (whatjustpingedme.com)
    ×2.06 58 | 15 points by furyofantares 14 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  80. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022) (honisoit.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 78 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  81. The Three AI Pills (wordpress.com)
    ×2.18 45 | 22 points by maxutility 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  82. Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade
    ×1.99 51 | 4 points by thelastgallon 26 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  83. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    ×2.18 41 | 90 points by negura 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  84. UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23M users (theregister.com)
    ×2.70 16 | 8 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  85. The contagion of fear (dtrace.org)
    ×3.82 56 | 230 points by elffjs 14 hours ago | 156 comments | ??? ???
  86. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
    ×0.86 32 | 74 points by DamnInteresting 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  87. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.57 48 | 55 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  88. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.15 42 | 462 points by wcrichton 2 days ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  89. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    ×2.37 5 | 608 points by juliantigler 1 day ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  90. The End of Friday Nights with Friends (sagepub.com)
    ×1.28 43 | 18 points by marojejian 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???