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  1. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.68 2 | 456 points by asronline 9 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.17 1 | 90 points by nozzlegear 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.84 5 | 14 points by dabinat 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.02 3 | 209 points by maille 7 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents (hic-ai.com)
    ×2.00 23 | 4 points by handfuloflight 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)
    ×1.30 5 | 16 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.63 2 | 403 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
    ×1.29 7 | 78 points by hhs 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.09 4 | 550 points by javxfps 12 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more (youtube.com)
    ×1.45 2 | 37 points by mhb 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
    ×1.38 14 | 7 points by aua 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Moby Dick Workout (hogbaysoftware.com)
    ×1.34 8 | 7 points by helloplanets 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. My ASN Journey series (2024) (animmouse.com)
    ×1.23 11 | 6 points by antonalekseev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×1.77 1 | 135 points by leemoore 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
    ×1.76 3 | 52 points by ementally 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Binary Coverage the Wrong Way (redvice.org)
    ×0.58 38 | 3 points by matt_d 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.60 4 | 284 points by chatmasta 15 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.92 9 | 32 points by Anon84 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×2.16 7 | 166 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. "Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×2.36 14 | 123 points by Breadmaker 12 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×2.23 11 | 21 points by MaysonL 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reading Minds with Ultrasound: Less-Invasive Technique for Brain's Intentions (2021) (caltech.edu)
    ×1.51 45 | 3 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Drone Autonomy Crash Course (cggonzalez.com)
    ×1.11 22 | 28 points by cgg1 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)
    ×4.85 20 | 34 points by OutOfHere 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com/Llucs)
    ×0.99 25 | 7 points by Llucs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.40 22 | 147 points by ciconia 16 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.75 21 | 41 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Log Is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.21 11 | 9 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×3.14 6 | 97 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector (wordpress.com)
    ×0.70 66 | 3 points by stmw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
    ×1.30 2 | 101 points by wrxd 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Vespa at 80 (cbc.ca)
    ×1.34 29 | 154 points by cf100clunk 19 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
    ×2.87 4 | 142 points by adamraudonis 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×0.95 21 | 98 points by msephton 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.35 5 | 20 points by cpncrunch 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 50 | 21 points by logickkk1 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Reflections on the Guillotine (1957) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
    ×1.45 6 | 37 points by halperter 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.82 24 | 450 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×4.34 22 | 13 points by shpat 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload (ridgetext.com)
    ×0.67 35 | 14 points by Buckwheat469 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
    ×1.44 | 77 points by SVI 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
    ×2.71 32 | 60 points by natbennett 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.75 17 | 59 points by liffik 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.80 32 | 56 points by tobr 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to Enjoy John Ashbery (joshuacorey.substack.com)
    ×0.22 87 | 3 points by Caiero 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.54 32 | 52 points by toilet 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.26 15 | 112 points by yyyk 17 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services (cloudslinker.com)
    ×0.42 44 | 11 points by janandonly 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.82 36 | 60 points by rtolkachev 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. $85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable (lovable.dev)
    ×1.33 56 | 14 points by aliclark 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches (jefftk.com)
    ×1.51 29 | 149 points by jefftk 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (endbasic.dev)
    ×0.55 53 | 28 points by jmmv 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Cells, boundaries, and the emergence of biological order (embl.org)
    ×0.98 106 | 5 points by hhs 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ (yp.to)
    ×0.76 106 | 3 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)
    ×1.76 15 | 107 points by ohjeez 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tungsten – an expressive, fast programming language (tungsten-lang.org)
    ×2.90 37 | 10 points by jeffpeterson 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.07 14 | 431 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024) (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.70 67 | 7 points by zX41ZdbW 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.26 9 | 198 points by jnord 20 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic performing prompt injection on its users (reddit.com)
    ×2.67 12 | 12 points by murderfs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×4.07 11 | 101 points by AlexeyBrin 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Infographic – An Infographic Generation and Rendering Framework (antv.vision)
    ×1.81 72 | 5 points by javatuts 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.11 17 | 92 points by gverrilla 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (mattgreer.dev)
    ×0.89 35 | 31 points by jandeboevrie 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (owlposting.com)
    ×0.39 63 | 12 points by abhishaike 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Plein Air (joonas.wtf)
    ×1.11 1 | 59 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.81 1 | 547 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.09 72 | 113 points by wslh 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×1.28 42 | 52 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GTA 2 ported to JavaScript, with WebRTC P2P multiplayer (gta2js.vercel.app)
    ×3.17 40 | 14 points by possiblelion 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms (2025) (nature.com)
    ×2.09 19 | 26 points by cybermango 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.72 44 | 323 points by indy 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Exploiting LLM Agent Supply Chains via Payload-Less Skills (arxiv.org)
    ×0.71 111 | 4 points by _pdp_ 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Official US Time (time.gov)
    ×0.93 88 | 11 points by Bender 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.13 4 | 167 points by gm678 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything (apenwarr.ca)
    ×1.43 95 | 6 points by yorwba 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    ×2.07 4 | 244 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth (2025) (bbc.com)
    ×1.04 85 | 17 points by taubek 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×1.73 65 | 131 points by djoldman 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation (abc.net.au)
    ×3.64 37 | 41 points by phs318u 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.36 11 | 350 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Ugly Phase (trishagee.com)
    ×1.13 45 | 7 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)
    ×1.38 10 | 171 points by andrenotgiant 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.06 13 | 145 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.60 21 | 361 points by programLyrique 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mama Look a White Dove (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×2.06 30 | 16 points by Aloha 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.85 83 | 10 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (tamu.edu)
    ×2.26 87 | 185 points by cybermango 5 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design (colfax-intl.com)
    ×0.92 102 | 3 points by skidrow 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???