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  1. Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
    ×2.14 | 61 points by luu 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.08 5 | 778 points by TangerineDream 17 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Small Models Have Arrived (calv.info)
    ×2.85 6 | 662 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)
    ×2.77 2 | 144 points by eigenspace 5 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)
    ×2.42 7 | 591 points by helloplanets 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com/elyosh)
    ×1.26 12 | 167 points by elyosh 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Microduck (pollen-robotics.com)
    ×2.91 6 | 678 points by robotswantdata 23 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
    ×2.29 9 | 299 points by k9294 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (newscientist.com)
    ×2.11 12 | 141 points by eutropheon 12 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (ffmpeg.org)
    ×1.74 12 | 253 points by dclavijo 17 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest (science.org)
    ×2.94 6 | 56 points by shymaple 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
    ×2.07 14 | 260 points by saretup 17 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (terminal-bench-science.ai)
    ×0.97 15 | 94 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
    ×3.95 13 | 542 points by Labo333 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×1.64 5 | 183 points by SilenN 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×2.32 14 | 311 points by nanna 20 hours ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.04 6 | 1899 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 880 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (chrislewis.au)
    ×1.66 16 | 248 points by knackers 19 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS (morphing.cloud)
    ×1.40 22 | 155 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Select * from Internet.blogposts (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.38 16 | 94 points by mmattbtw 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×1.01 38 | 182 points by RahulMJ 21 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. M5Stack Launches PaperMono (m5stack.com)
    ×1.24 22 | 143 points by marksully 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Previewing the Model Hardware Standard (anthropic.com)
    ×1.12 34 | 119 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.77 6 | 249 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why (lwn.net)
    ×0.87 9 | 42 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.41 17 | 151 points by 1986 9 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Voronoi Go (voronoigo.com)
    ×1.52 18 | 135 points by igpay 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives (digitellinc.com)
    ×0.98 44 | 107 points by ehwa37 19 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)
    ×2.01 25 | 11 points by modagent 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (mit.edu)
    ×1.08 48 | 130 points by pbui 21 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots
    ×0.39 86 | 45 points by Salem_robotics 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (economist.com)
    ×1.09 63 | 104 points by semiquaver 22 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Aphantasia Beginner's Guide (aphantasia.com)
    ×1.55 33 | 165 points by ksec 21 hours ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com/opslane)
    ×1.08 77 | 26 points by aray07 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
    ×1.84 52 | 305 points by wxw 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
    ×2.67 21 | 94 points by cocacola1 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Your AGENTS.md file doesn't do anything (pivot-to-ai.com)
    ×2.91 13 | 8 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Launching Route 53 Files (daemonology.net)
    ×0.90 37 | 113 points by louis-paul 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. That's a Lot of YAML (noyaml.com)
    ×3.22 34 | 56 points by hisamafahri 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (github.com/SenteLabsAI)
    ×5.23 18 | 977 points by GrumpySciGuy 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood (economist.com)
    ×1.33 42 | 101 points by vinni2 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.65 51 | 103 points by crescit_eundo 21 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
    ×4.04 1 | 1113 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Trade (and Tariffs) (xkcd.com)
    ×4.58 30 | 513 points by throw0101d 21 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk (cnbc.com)
    ×3.60 11 | 17 points by magoghm 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
    ×1.77 58 | 265 points by toomanyrichies 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (wsj.com)
    ×4.54 5 | 810 points by sss111 1 day ago | 1341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
    ×1.33 80 | 44 points by guitmz 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb (semafor.com)
    ×3.09 10 | 44 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.74 74 | 18 points by sebg 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×2.25 49 | 495 points by j0selit0 2 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service (reason.com)
    ×4.88 39 | 44 points by KomoD 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)
    ×4.77 51 | 176 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)
    ×0.66 76 | 33 points by anuptalwalkar 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (mturk.com)
    ×2.34 3 | 527 points by tmp10423288442 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AWS Acquires DuckLabs (ducklabs.com)
    ×4.09 10 | 1087 points by onderkalaci 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. WindFoil – algorithm for computing winding and anti-aliasing of 2D vector shapes (github.com/texel-org)
    ×1.08 76 | 10 points by coffeeaddict1 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology (science.org)
    ×1.60 4 | 100 points by slantedview 16 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust (github.com/IndexFlowing)
    ×0.48 14 | 21 points by mandarinclips 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (comaps.app)
    ×1.14 10 | 138 points by janandonly 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (ssp.sh)
    ×1.66 53 | 253 points by zazuke 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Markdown Database Pattern (wayofmarkdown.com)
    ×1.30 54 | 44 points by rufuspollock 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies (risklytics.ai)
    ×0.35 97 | 53 points by AlexRisio 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.48 24 | 79 points by sachinneravath 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Intel previews future instruction-set documentaton (intel.github.io)
    ×1.15 78 | 12 points by mmcloughlin 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 11 | 13 points by JeanKage 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com/tailscale)
    ×2.62 3 | 654 points by nderjung 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Laion Big Video Dataset (laion.ai)
    ×0.72 68 | 88 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
    ×2.24 11 | 480 points by Velocifyer 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API (wagtail.org)
    ×0.99 59 | 33 points by ThibWeb 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.35 | 403 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (yale.edu)
    ×1.31 72 | 137 points by speckx 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com/ahmadpiran)
    ×0.46 54 | 44 points by ahmadpiran 20 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.78 57 | 181 points by polyrand 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (qwen.ai)
    ×3.06 7 | 694 points by tosh 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
    ×1.92 37 | 224 points by mikestorrent 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Harness Engineering (habitat-thinking.github.io)
    ×1.35 | 121 points by tomrod 21 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.31 50 | 488 points by leumon 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.46 58 | 158 points by speckx 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sanjeev Gupta’s family takes out £24mn mortgage on Belgravia mansion (ft.com)
    ×1.53 15 | 12 points by petethomas 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.96 51 | 332 points by rguiscard 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) (github.com/issacnitin)
    ×0.49 53 | 39 points by issacnitin 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.44 48 | 124 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SK Hynix CEO: Memory Shortage to Persist Through the End of 2030 (newsis.com)
    ×0.89 65 | 8 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×5.55 82 | 252 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×4.67 3 | 1303 points by interpol_p 2 days ago | 1285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Writing for Developers Book (github.com/scynthiadunlop)
    ×0.98 55 | 23 points by cyndunlop 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kusama Yayoi has died (nytimes.com)
    ×2.26 3 | 265 points by phantomathkg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. YouTube Format IDs (github.com/MartinEesmaa)
    ×1.28 49 | 129 points by ksec 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???