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  1. The paper computer (jsomers.net)
    ×1.33 6 | 44 points by jsomers 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.72 6 | 303 points by dbreunig 8 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)
    ×0.81 12 | 87 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.91 10 | 127 points by armcat 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (ieee.org)
    ×2.23 1 | 51 points by WaitWaitWha 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (eff.org)
    ×7.06 5 | 1249 points by Brajeshwar 10 hours ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. God sleeps in the minerals (wordpress.com)
    ×2.08 10 | 486 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)
    ×1.85 15 | 247 points by Benjamin_Dobell 12 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew (mcdonalds.co.jp)
    ×3.64 6 | 280 points by bckygldstn 6 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters (tratt.net)
    ×0.98 23 | 57 points by ltratt 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
    ×1.15 10 | 36 points by luu 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux (tinycorelinux.net)
    ×0.81 17 | 91 points by gregsadetsky 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com/SethPyle376)
    ×0.67 27 | 8 points by ozarkerD 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.97 8 | 462 points by Alex_Bond 9 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (theverge.com)
    ×4.57 13 | 248 points by pentagrama 4 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.85 62 | 101 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.95 24 | 367 points by askl 20 hours ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (stevehanov.ca)
    ×0.45 259 | 3 points by sebg 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Gemini app is now on Mac (blog.google)
    ×1.76 23 | 107 points by thm 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (ldjam.com)
    ×1.28 1 | 28 points by raincole 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
    ×0.76 33 | 32 points by ankitg12 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998) (pbs.org)
    ×0.67 36 | 30 points by opengrass 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com/macOS26)
    ×1.21 39 | 14 points by jv22222 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.68 36 | 97 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Hacker News CLI (2014) (pythonhosted.org)
    ×0.77 25 | 40 points by rolph 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017) (bbc.com)
    ×1.34 9 | 89 points by harambae 6 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.63 15 | 222 points by upmostly 15 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.34 18 | 245 points by misterchocolat 8 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How can I keep from singing? (danieljanus.pl)
    ×1.16 17 | 60 points by nathell 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Arguing with Agents (blowmage.com)
    ×2.34 26 | 52 points by asaaki 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023) (aalonso.dev)
    ×0.99 13 | 122 points by cyclopeanutopia 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.16 20 | 13 points by canucker2016 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks (zenodo.org)
    ×0.58 52 | 12 points by skinney_uce 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Open Source Isn't Dead (strix.ai)
    ×2.27 15 | 313 points by bearsyankees 12 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared (warped3.substack.com)
    ×2.33 41 | 172 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself? (github.com/gastownhall)
    ×2.55 28 | 224 points by rektomatic 7 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic (github.com/saffron-health)
    ×0.85 29 | 90 points by muchael 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env (keycard.studio)
    ×1.12 15 | 19 points by jijane 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. One interface, every protocol (openbindings.com)
    ×1.30 23 | 46 points by clevengermatt 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King (theguardian.com)
    ×0.36 67 | 9 points by lermontov 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)
    ×2.13 17 | 475 points by downbad_ 18 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Free open source AI Editor (github.com/MeepCastana)
    ×0.73 85 | 3 points by Meeeeeep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference (gizmoweek.com)
    ×2.24 30 | 275 points by takumi123 22 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Golden eagles' return to English skies (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.54 43 | 41 points by techterrier 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How Wake-On-LAN works (2020) (xaner.dev)
    ×0.95 30 | 84 points by swq115 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)
    ×1.93 13 | 378 points by downbad_ 19 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. EU Age Verification Solution (ageverification.dev)
    ×1.61 101 | 6 points by t0bia_s 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)
    ×1.83 18 | 247 points by aphyr 14 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases (semafor.com)
    ×1.53 20 | 121 points by thm 10 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 (deepmind.google)
    ×1.89 16 | 207 points by markerbrod 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do (github.com/BasedHardware)
    ×1.58 108 | 7 points by kodjima33 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built a Wikipedia based AI deduction game (sleuththetruth.com)
    ×1.68 85 | 4 points by brikym 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
    ×0.73 67 | 51 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Claude.md Scorer: paste your file, get rubric score and rewrites (surge.sh)
    ×0.81 108 | 3 points by autonomykit 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)
    ×0.71 42 | 29 points by parzivalt 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 54 | 59 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.27 51 | 181 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why are Flock employees watching our children? (substack.substack.com)
    ×4.59 47 | 226 points by enaaem 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log (stylewarning.com)
    ×1.27 62 | 140 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator (github.com/faiscadev)
    ×1.02 58 | 24 points by lucas_vieira 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. TX Tesla driver narrowly avoids disaster when autopilot engages at RR crossing (fox4news.com)
    ×2.22 11 | 14 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half (twitter.com/ToddZywicki)
    ×1.78 2 | 50 points by MrBuddyCasino 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
    ×1.39 7 | 173 points by porsche959 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Iowa cancer rates surge – farm chemicals are a key risk, new report finds (thenewlede.org)
    ×2.72 | 29 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Costasiella kuroshimae (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.92 24 | 145 points by vinnyglennon 18 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly, overcharged fans (cnn.com)
    ×2.56 12 | 17 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Claude Code Routines (claude.com)
    ×2.80 3 | 700 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Stop Flock (stopflock.com)
    ×5.78 32 | 949 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI (github.com/steipete)
    ×1.43 5 | 231 points by dinakars777 21 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)
    ×0.98 66 | 193 points by petalmind 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem (voxweb.nl)
    ×0.93 63 | 43 points by the-mitr 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Gemini App on Mac (gemini.google)
    ×0.79 74 | 17 points by pretext 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. My adventure in designing API keys (vjay15.github.io)
    ×1.06 49 | 108 points by vjay15 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)
    ×1.15 57 | 192 points by xnx 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.73 8 | 693 points by jrm-veris 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The AI Market Is Hitting Peak Absurdity (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.86 31 | 19 points by drob518 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.20 53 | 214 points by zdw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you (reuters.com)
    ×2.16 15 | 145 points by alephnerd 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 (iczelia.net)
    ×1.37 | 257 points by snoofydude 23 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS – with directed prompts (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.25 72 | 13 points by aanet 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MIT Radiation Laboratory (mit.edu)
    ×0.55 68 | 43 points by stmw 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
    ×4.45 22 | 1180 points by speckx 2 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×4.35 5 | 1126 points by thebiblelover7 2 days ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Python Is Dead (calebfenton.substack.com)
    ×2.88 2 | 8 points by nlehuen 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.41 3 | 60 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)
    ×3.79 12 | 900 points by zdw 2 days ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.24 78 | 5 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain (newyorker.com)
    ×0.78 75 | 10 points by littlexsparkee 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (thenation.com)
    ×0.31 68 | 6 points by samclemens 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???