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  1. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.09 1 | 361 points by thepoet 6 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×2.97 1 | 443 points by colinprince 7 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.55 2 | 427 points by floathub 9 hours ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned (shelvd.org)
    ×3.94 5 | 9 points by bvanbranden 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
    ×1.33 1 | 115 points by NKosmatos 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×4.25 5 | 944 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.12 5 | 199 points by dash2 6 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×2.77 3 | 392 points by gavide 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.10 6 | 439 points by dares2573 12 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
    ×1.20 10 | 70 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.14 6 | 87 points by toebee 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×1.50 4 | 101 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.37 8 | 73 points by ra7 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
    ×2.30 5 | 164 points by aakil 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.25 10 | 88 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (hardcoded.net)
    ×1.11 11 | 37 points by vicek22 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.51 52 | 9 points by domenkozar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters (henriemategui.com)
    ×1.10 14 | 10 points by henriemategui 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.88 14 | 130 points by neom 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
    ×3.07 4 | 224 points by rcymerys 11 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
    ×0.91 22 | 31 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×1.10 7 | 71 points by jakelsaunders94 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.94 16 | 492 points by Cider9986 20 hours ago | 827 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com/aravpanwar)
    ×0.91 30 | 44 points by unprovable 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Size of the World Wide Web (worldwidewebsize.com)
    ×0.50 5 | 19 points by 1970-01-01 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. 'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them (wsj.com)
    ×4.87 14 | 16 points by bcaulfield 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.53 43 | 50 points by cainxinth 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.83 23 | 60 points by eatonphil 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.81 12 | 70 points by rhgraysonii 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 16 | 93 points by pppone 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (plos.org)
    ×0.42 46 | 23 points by Ariarule 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.84 10 | 194 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
    ×1.08 7 | 40 points by garo-pro 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rust Glancer (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.24 28 | 15 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×1.76 29 | 67 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
    ×0.83 39 | 56 points by karma_daemon 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) (super-nova.co.jp)
    ×0.38 13 | 16 points by Bluestein 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.48 9 | 242 points by spankibalt 15 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.64 1 | 206 points by marcomezzavilla 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×5.85 37 | 618 points by throw7 10 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
    ×0.57 31 | 25 points by gus_massa 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.80 34 | 38 points by baruchel 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
    ×0.73 36 | 68 points by ksec 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him (wsvn.com)
    ×2.11 23 | 24 points by madihaa 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (cnn.com)
    ×1.27 7 | 76 points by jader201 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)
    ×0.58 72 | 11 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (eth.limo)
    ×0.58 43 | 26 points by fbrusch 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.42 39 | 12 points by karakoram 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com/proliferate-ai)
    ×0.84 10 | 35 points by pablo24602 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
    ×1.09 31 | 104 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OTel Isn't Going Well (and I Made a Spreadsheet About It) (matduggan.com)
    ×1.08 63 | 10 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)
    ×0.56 48 | 13 points by bobbiechen 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.70 11 | 72 points by ankitg12 10 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SCO Lawsuit agains Linux 20 years later (lwn.net)
    ×2.33 17 | 9 points by p0w3n3d 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I Just Want to Search (0xsid.com)
    ×2.12 32 | 96 points by ssiddharth 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (circleback.ai)
    ×0.66 8 | 35 points by arguiot 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com/omarfakih1)
    ×0.95 49 | 7 points by omarfakih 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
    ×0.83 44 | 12 points by WolfOliver 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LFM2.5-DSpark: Up to 3.2x Faster Inference from H100 to MacB (liquid.ai)
    ×0.79 72 | 8 points by Alephinitesimal 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.47 43 | 115 points by osnium123 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Volcanoes That Made History (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×0.66 71 | 6 points by knowablemag 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How we built a proxy to migrate Kafka producers with zero downtime (warpstream.com)
    ×1.61 43 | 19 points by exposition 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Making stinkarm stink less, or more – userspace armv7 emulator (xnacly.me)
    ×0.09 79 | 7 points by xnacly 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.81 22 | 226 points by mtokmak06 23 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.06 51 | 21 points by chilipepperhott 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 87 | 280 points by nunodonato 2 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Does whispering to agents in docs help? (passo.uno)
    ×0.53 11 | 27 points by theletterf 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Nothing Doing (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.81 41 | 33 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.99 54 | 53 points by olexsmir 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.49 112 | 57 points by yousefh409 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (killscreen.com)
    ×1.18 56 | 25 points by keiferski 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.14 1 | 143 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. c100 (caligra.com)
    ×1.57 45 | 105 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Agent Access Model (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.45 80 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×1.02 45 | 77 points by wise_blood 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.95 15 | 1006 points by emctech 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.48 57 | 203 points by speckx 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.00 33 | 11 points by dthread3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.69 34 | 284 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (coredump.cx)
    ×0.93 39 | 24 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.20 24 | 975 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Oasis - Giving Agents Situational Awareness (joinoasis.com)
    ×1.58 69 | 5 points by ns90001 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.64 27 | 625 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 730 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.30 26 | 845 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)
    ×1.86 51 | 97 points by erikschoster 8 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The US techlash is real (ft.com)
    ×3.04 33 | 48 points by thm 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs (nakamotoinstitute.org)
    ×0.57 80 | 4 points by r3trohack3r 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.68 60 | 8 points by jardy 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Cosine similarity is dead. Long live cosine similarity (2025) (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.69 51 | 14 points by j0selit0 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???