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  1. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×3.62 | 483 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Computers Used in Movies (starringthecomputer.com)
    ×1.83 1 | 57 points by gitowiec 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. "These cameras are just like the Eye of Sauron" (arxiv.org)
    ×1.96 1 | 59 points by dijksterhuis 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.35 7 | 74 points by popcar2 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (dthain.github.io)
    ×2.05 3 | 219 points by AlexeyBrin 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
    ×1.05 10 | 62 points by jandeboevrie 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
    ×0.80 14 | 60 points by hyperific 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.64 6 | 96 points by msolujic 1 hour ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×1.57 3 | 71 points by thm 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.03 8 | 490 points by nozzlegear 16 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.41 13 | 253 points by dabinat 13 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
    ×0.65 18 | 19 points by matteocontrini 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
    ×1.81 4 | 76 points by captain_dfx 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis (science.org)
    ×0.60 51 | 3 points by bushwart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×4.68 10 | 77 points by deely3 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)
    ×1.00 9 | 66 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)
    ×7.00 10 | 255 points by stavros 7 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×1.64 5 | 155 points by cenazoic 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)
    ×0.89 21 | 49 points by handfuloflight 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×2.00 10 | 53 points by amichail 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Optimizing an Algorithm That's Quadratic by Design (earthmanmuons.com)
    ×0.51 64 | 3 points by elasticdog 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
    ×0.97 19 | 126 points by ankitg12 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
    ×1.27 10 | 107 points by ustad 11 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.12 2 | 74 points by ViktorEE 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×1.60 19 | 69 points by enz 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Moving Back Home Used to Be a Sign of Failure. Now It Shows Financial Savvy (wsj.com)
    ×1.49 7 | 10 points by apparent 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)
    ×1.06 77 | 3 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.93 2 | 641 points by asronline 23 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Megawatts by Microwave (computer.rip)
    ×0.78 27 | 70 points by eternauta3k 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
    ×1.53 21 | 132 points by edward 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×2.05 18 | 64 points by neilfrndes 3 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
    ×1.43 30 | 135 points by ementally 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Moby Dick Workout (2022) (hogbaysoftware.com)
    ×1.09 21 | 93 points by helloplanets 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)
    ×2.54 20 | 137 points by RickJWagner 6 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 26 | 95 points by iacguy 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline (nature.com)
    ×3.56 24 | 21 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cursed Gemstones – The Koh-I-Noor Diamond (vulcans-forge.com)
    ×0.89 1 | 5 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)
    ×0.84 34 | 74 points by jruohonen 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Atomic Force Microscope [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.23 25 | 111 points by mhb 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.14 6 | 346 points by maille 20 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How Bending Spoons built a $23B tech empire from struggling brands (ft.com)
    ×2.50 9 | 6 points by chuckus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. CNN Lite (cnn.com)
    ×2.36 11 | 22 points by empressplay 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. About the Digital Art (tricivenola.com)
    ×0.53 54 | 29 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)
    ×1.27 5 | 60 points by foxhill 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)
    ×0.99 64 | 6 points by ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.86 42 | 73 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Drone Autonomy (2021) (cggonzalez.com)
    ×1.16 48 | 75 points by cgg1 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. My ASN Journey series (2024) (animmouse.com)
    ×0.67 50 | 38 points by antonalekseev 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Functional Programming in hica (hica.dev)
    ×0.88 | 42 points by cladamski79 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics (forwardscattering.org)
    ×0.92 37 | 23 points by Ono-Sendai 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.70 72 | 5 points by erichocean 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid (nhk.or.jp)
    ×0.94 79 | 7 points by dvh 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×1.65 25 | 81 points by MaysonL 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)
    ×2.01 27 | 111 points by handfuloflight 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
    ×1.43 | 175 points by hhs 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SigMap: 97% token reduction for AI coding sessions (sigmap.io)
    ×1.00 58 | 15 points by handfuloflight 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Dungeon KeeperFX 1.4.0 with Multiplayer Released (keeperfx.net)
    ×1.40 59 | 19 points by MrJagil 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.88 8 | 490 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code (ryelang.org)
    ×1.03 33 | 28 points by mpweiher 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector (wordpress.com)
    ×0.44 85 | 16 points by stmw 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.83 23 | 510 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.78 19 | 144 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.31 34 | 658 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ABI vs. API (2004) (debian.org)
    ×1.39 13 | 3 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989 (digitalseams.com)
    ×2.47 18 | 5 points by bobbiechen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
    ×1.36 24 | 126 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.52 7 | 258 points by ciconia 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×0.94 42 | 109 points by msephton 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
    ×1.12 74 | 12 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A gender-swap EarthBound for my daughter (2025) (reddad.net)
    ×1.68 36 | 28 points by Sajarin 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Dark mode with web standards (olliewilliams.xyz)
    ×1.41 14 | 31 points by thm 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×1.91 16 | 213 points by leemoore 22 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×1.88 1 | 185 points by Breadmaker 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×2.14 6 | 226 points by tosh 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.62 13 | 312 points by chatmasta 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.24 34 | 124 points by yyyk 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Particle Box – Kinetic Molecular Theory Simulator (prepok.com)
    ×0.54 44 | 20 points by vaibhav1312 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.77 39 | 70 points by liffik 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 69 | 29 points by logickkk1 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.77 56 | 63 points by rtolkachev 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him (cailey.substack.com)
    ×5.06 47 | 67 points by FinnLobsien 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
    ×1.38 25 | 87 points by SVI 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.81 12 | 560 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.73 44 | 330 points by indy 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.06 10 | 450 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.52 48 | 54 points by toilet 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Germany's 60K-game preservation project collapses after €1.5M funding dries up (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.52 4 | 4 points by LorenDB 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.73 43 | 59 points by tobr 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.15 62 | 122 points by enz 11 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???