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  1. Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
    ×1.79 3 | 146 points by tempodox 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.12 5 | 679 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) (github.com/matt1398)
    ×1.78 3 | 52 points by matt1398 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)
    ×7.82 3 | 29 points by layer8 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
    ×1.39 10 | 88 points by MrFinch 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×2.14 8 | 267 points by max-m 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.95 16 | 72 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
    ×1.07 24 | 30 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×2.13 13 | 428 points by ssgodderidge 19 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
    ×2.05 8 | 259 points by 0bytematt 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
    ×1.06 26 | 15 points by elayabharath 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.52 8 | 193 points by zachlatta 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.88 14 | 115 points by mustaphah 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
    ×3.00 12 | 415 points by colinprince 9 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.92 20 | 94 points by dogline 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ghidra by NSA (github.com/NationalSecurityAgency)
    ×2.13 20 | 373 points by handfuloflight 21 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.91 40 | 50 points by TMWNN 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
    ×1.29 16 | 111 points by four_fifths 11 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.76 40 | 122 points by presbyterian 15 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.98 40 | 99 points by kianN 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.org)
    ×1.44 13 | 45 points by d_silin 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
    ×1.09 22 | 66 points by lorisdev 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
    ×0.80 42 | 47 points by tesserato 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×1.13 42 | 98 points by yichab0d 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.16 9 | 369 points by dvrp 15 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×1.13 32 | 83 points by AnujNayyar 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)
    ×3.62 14 | 121 points by GoodluckH 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
    ×1.18 25 | 131 points by varjag 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
    ×1.99 21 | 334 points by mustaphah 12 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Professor of the Lower Senses (vittlesmagazine.com)
    ×0.45 55 | 5 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.73 31 | 88 points by lirbank 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] (voltropy.com)
    ×1.12 38 | 65 points by ClintEhrlich 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
    ×1.49 16 | 14 points by valgaze 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.89 45 | 67 points by knackers 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.82 41 | 74 points by HenryNdubuaku 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.48 16 | 290 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×0.88 10 | 106 points by icwtyjj 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome (lanl.gov)
    ×0.56 64 | 12 points by LAsteNERD 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. H-1B Exposed: The Talent Shortage Is a Myth (h1bexposed.tech)
    ×5.09 13 | 64 points by joshcsimmons 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
    ×0.41 71 | 38 points by swesnow 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×5.07 37 | 345 points by VorpalWay 9 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 27 | 119 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. PascalABC.net (pascalabc.net:443)
    ×0.72 41 | 43 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×0.96 49 | 76 points by p_ing 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway) (resistandunsubscribe.com)
    ×3.14 30 | 47 points by beatthatflight 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.40 5 | 413 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
    ×0.58 60 | 28 points by scoofy 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.43 24 | 1405 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 1091 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
    ×1.38 5 | 220 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.78 71 | 64 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.98 48 | 119 points by mpcsb 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.54 52 | 59 points by turth 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.90 34 | 157 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
    ×1.14 6 | 138 points by Alifatisk 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
    ×2.40 37 | 497 points by harel 20 hours ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
    ×1.31 39 | 147 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview (lux.camera)
    ×1.00 37 | 80 points by patrikcsak 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh (eejournal.com)
    ×0.46 62 | 26 points by transpute 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs (reddit.com)
    ×5.02 31 | 67 points by ivewonyoung 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.24 31 | 352 points by righthand 19 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents (github.com/klawsh)
    ×1.05 59 | 58 points by eftalyurtseven 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (tuwien.ac.at)
    ×0.96 25 | 64 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The End of the Office (andrewyang.com)
    ×3.49 61 | 40 points by HR01 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×0.99 44 | 123 points by tosh 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.84 49 | 291 points by enz 15 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    ×7.12 56 | 1427 points by novemp 1 day ago | 897 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space (observablehq.com)
    ×1.51 61 | 36 points by miyuru 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter (slyka.net)
    ×1.28 51 | 41 points by e145bc455f1 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.39 30 | 374 points by beardyw 22 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.40 46 | 166 points by luu 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.35 1 | 680 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Wiretext – ASCII Wireframe Creator (wiretext.app)
    ×1.14 58 | 22 points by helloplanets 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found (cnn.com)
    ×0.54 62 | 32 points by YeGoblynQueenne 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.66 49 | 26 points by neogoose 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.69 61 | 54 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.35 1 | 797 points by deevus 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×3.27 11 | 38 points by JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.09 53 | 145 points by nikodunk 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
    ×0.92 62 | 17 points by muzzy19 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Programming Is Free (idiallo.com)
    ×2.88 17 | 20 points by nomdep 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    ×3.94 10 | 941 points by panic 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.65 15 | 407 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.02 32 | 146 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.23 43 | 169 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (bbc.com)
    ×4.55 45 | 55 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.42 62 | 15 points by mprast 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.70 55 | 101 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.71 22 | 297 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Audio is the one area small labs are winning (amplifypartners.com)
    ×1.82 11 | 309 points by rocauc 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???