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  1. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×1.87 1 | 196 points by Philpax 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
    ×3.21 1 | 95 points by outlier99 56 minutes ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    ×2.02 15 | 13 points by E-Reverance 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How to save a life without knowing CPR (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×2.00 11 | 44 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.34 11 | 440 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.55 11 | 66 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.94 22 | 115 points by Vosporos 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.06 3 | 75 points by hising 1 hour ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×2.11 3 | 53 points by smilelamp 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort (smyck.net)
    ×1.28 39 | 8 points by hukl 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×6.17 21 | 402 points by emptybits 16 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A third way of using Linux (hisvirusness.com)
    ×1.43 22 | 10 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
    ×1.35 24 | 79 points by mkornaukhov 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.90 13 | 58 points by delphidolphin 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.86 21 | 174 points by maguay 11 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×1.92 17 | 82 points by farslan 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.04 31 | 165 points by 0xedb 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.80 8 | 97 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×0.97 60 | 45 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. WSL containers is now generally available (windows.com)
    ×2.61 7 | 22 points by abdelhousni 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.15 29 | 119 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.37 33 | 124 points by AlexeyBrin 13 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×0.95 64 | 10 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.55 39 | 101 points by lode 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.35 6 | 216 points by benbreen 7 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi (npr.org)
    ×2.36 12 | 42 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Beating the compiler (2024) (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.84 26 | 57 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (ess-news.com)
    ×1.45 8 | 47 points by msalsas 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.15 37 | 91 points by tiagod 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (techarp.com)
    ×0.24 56 | 10 points by userbinator 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.64 20 | 383 points by finnlab 8 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (ft.com)
    ×2.93 26 | 87 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.37 39 | 241 points by rdmuser 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
    ×1.61 1 | 56 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.56 11 | 449 points by clan 13 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)
    ×2.38 8 | 220 points by roflcopter69 10 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×2.80 34 | 163 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.50 30 | 390 points by wiso 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.63 45 | 42 points by andre15silva 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.44 6 | 296 points by Vaslo 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Tao of Backup (taobackup.com)
    ×1.93 30 | 255 points by vntok 22 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×3.89 38 | 240 points by brokensegue 4 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.83 45 | 69 points by pykello 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live? (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×0.57 56 | 4 points by Mond_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users (insufferable.dev)
    ×2.40 5 | 17 points by garo-pro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.64 60 | 9 points by abe94 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)
    ×2.31 16 | 111 points by Tomte 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.97 43 | 79 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.94 43 | 106 points by shellpipe 20 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.23 28 | 324 points by dachworker 10 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Infidel goes wild (zarfhome.com)
    ×1.14 39 | 178 points by tobr 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)
    ×3.14 45 | 191 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
    ×1.10 32 | 130 points by eustoria 6 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)
    ×4.48 13 | 747 points by privacyisntdead 1 day ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.93 63 | 116 points by shannadige 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.76 18 | 33 points by JamesCoyne 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com/Niko1221)
    ×3.53 6 | 907 points by snehesht 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.62 35 | 29 points by adityamukho 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS (theverge.com)
    ×0.94 10 | 5 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons (mozilla.org)
    ×1.83 4 | 31 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.69 5 | 513 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 670 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.33 36 | 230 points by r0r0 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 51 | 138 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.96 45 | 115 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (redhat.com)
    ×1.92 9 | 150 points by tomncooper 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (scienceux.org)
    ×0.83 44 | 72 points by s4074433 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
    ×0.70 38 | 54 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
    ×1.42 42 | 101 points by sssilver 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×1.04 30 | 12 points by linesofcode 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Another step towards Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org)
    ×1.74 13 | 23 points by wheatBread 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.55 56 | 137 points by zdw 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.35 2 | 5 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (motorsport.com)
    ×2.25 14 | 280 points by llm_nerd 20 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 39 | 97 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.12 40 | 162 points by allenleee 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia (cambridge.org)
    ×0.83 26 | 62 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.62 47 | 56 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx (bernat.ch)
    ×1.98 7 | 188 points by renehsz 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.34 47 | 147 points by knuckleheads 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex (alexalejandre.com)
    ×0.80 42 | 55 points by veqq 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.82 22 | 50 points by greghn 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.23 49 | 120 points by rkagerer 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)
    ×0.79 36 | 84 points by pepys 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com/net4people)
    ×1.04 34 | 85 points by timbill 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
    ×2.21 21 | 98 points by jgx0 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.71 11 | 927 points by paveworld 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Dutch government to ban smartphones from schools (nltimes.nl)
    ×2.03 10 | 7 points by Betelbuddy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.48 9 | 17 points by ortusdux 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.84 41 | 58 points by zero_k 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???