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  1. US bans differential privacy in Census data (desfontain.es)
    ×3.33 | 129 points by nl 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed (github.com/tensorzero)
    ×1.45 2 | 135 points by hek2sch 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones (research.google)
    ×1.19 7 | 148 points by vikas-sharma 6 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt (lr0.org)
    ×1.29 9 | 43 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch (economist.com)
    ×1.56 12 | 24 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire (roman-names.com)
    ×1.36 8 | 39 points by metiscus 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    ×3.86 4 | 75 points by ravenical 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Orthodox C++ (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×2.15 16 | 12 points by signa11 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.53 11 | 35 points by lumpa 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The state of building user interfaces in Rust (areweguiyet.com)
    ×1.16 8 | 88 points by mahirsaid 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
    ×2.71 10 | 610 points by bestouff 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
    ×3.43 11 | 915 points by gmays 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages (phoronix.com)
    ×3.13 10 | 159 points by qwertox 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×12.28 12 | 2834 points by Dylan1312 14 hours ago | 2073 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration (github.com/Paca-AI)
    ×1.06 7 | 80 points by pikann22 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 (imil.net)
    ×2.22 16 | 41 points by iMil 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery (hallucinate.site)
    ×0.82 5 | 53 points by stagas 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Open source AI must win (opensourceaimustwin.com)
    ×7.26 13 | 1299 points by vednig 13 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Appreciating Exif (brentfitzgerald.com)
    ×0.45 50 | 5 points by burnto 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The computer science degree isn’t dead (ieee.org)
    ×1.41 19 | 158 points by jnord 13 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
    ×2.08 17 | 428 points by kkm 22 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game (putt.day)
    ×1.48 14 | 247 points by ellg 16 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Leaving Mozilla (unitedheroes.net)
    ×2.44 15 | 384 points by martey 9 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×1.13 2 | 133 points by vnglst 9 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×3.06 16 | 400 points by theahura 10 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
    ×2.10 19 | 428 points by marc__1 23 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case (theguardian.com)
    ×2.04 12 | 49 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter (swift.org)
    ×1.19 29 | 223 points by DASD 19 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg (depthfirst.com)
    ×1.57 11 | 260 points by redbell 17 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (eff.org)
    ×1.70 26 | 249 points by Cider9986 20 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
    ×0.29 119 | 49 points by arcb 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (piwodlaiwo.github.io)
    ×1.66 20 | 302 points by iweczek 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Automating Myself Out of Development (thoughtfultechnologist.com)
    ×0.92 28 | 59 points by nisabek 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering (github.com/entGriff)
    ×0.78 41 | 62 points by ent1c3d 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)
    ×1.05 51 | 212 points by FergusArgyll 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.5: Better Planning, Similar Execution (kilo.ai)
    ×1.22 11 | 6 points by justiceforsaas 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine (tectonic-typesetting.github.io)
    ×0.77 47 | 77 points by maxloh 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×6.46 4 | 1635 points by jjfoooo4 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles (6it.dev)
    ×0.62 33 | 58 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)
    ×1.26 69 | 169 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Future of wasi-gfx and wasi:webgpu (wasi-gfx.dev)
    ×0.41 81 | 33 points by mendyberger 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking (nytimes.com)
    ×1.85 14 | 19 points by mhb 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine (ft.com)
    ×2.99 12 | 378 points by sschueller 19 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Quant Picker – which GGUF file fits your model and machine (vettedconsumer.com)
    ×0.95 104 | 4 points by ermantrout 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian (github.com/vladignatyev)
    ×0.44 88 | 16 points by v_ignatyev 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A key remapping daemon for Linux (github.com/rvaiya)
    ×0.73 67 | 61 points by joooscha 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF (yadutaf.fr)
    ×0.71 89 | 104 points by jtlebigot 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fudgetown, USA (2024) (tastecooking.com)
    ×0.28 92 | 10 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown (google.com)
    ×2.28 31 | 12 points by itherseed 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Alchemist of Flesh: The Man Who Turned Humans into Stone(2025) (medium.com)
    ×0.31 94 | 14 points by ofalkaed 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×3.12 18 | 750 points by sam_bristow 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tears Across Nigeria: Citizens Are Losing Hope (it.com)
    ×1.21 104 | 5 points by sureosasu 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
    ×1.00 44 | 155 points by SarthakGaud 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Dangerous Technology for Americans Only (pocoo.org)
    ×3.51 14 | 11 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Yoti does not report GrapheneOS users to the authorities (yoti.com)
    ×1.01 88 | 14 points by Cider9986 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Maxproof (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 78 | 135 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015) (harvardlawreview.org)
    ×1.70 74 | 94 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
    ×0.93 97 | 164 points by sneela 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936) (natlib.govt.nz)
    ×0.85 79 | 75 points by cf100clunk 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)
    ×3.37 26 | 441 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GLM 5.2 Released (twitter.com/i)
    ×4.29 14 | 20 points by xendo 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.23 10 | 1428 points by mikemcquaid 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Doing nothing at work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.95 94 | 461 points by Sukram21 2 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.88 54 | 129 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.24 107 | 179 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SkillSpector (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×0.54 79 | 45 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Rejected Emoji Proposals (charlottebuff.com)
    ×2.03 17 | 16 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. There Is Life Before Main in Rust (grack.com)
    ×0.82 71 | 88 points by mmastrac 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
    ×1.30 90 | 169 points by dougcalobrisi 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
    ×5.81 41 | 1426 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Encrypted Spaces: An architecture for collaborative applications (encryptedspaces.org)
    ×0.70 91 | 77 points by _____k 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations (theregister.com)
    ×1.68 14 | 19 points by dijksterhuis 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Cleve Moler (Developer of Matlab) Dies at 86 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.73 30 | 12 points by atan2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship (stackscope.dev)
    ×0.56 90 | 59 points by datafreak_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (lopp.net)
    ×2.20 12 | 322 points by FergusArgyll 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
    ×3.54 14 | 440 points by nekofneko 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. You can power on a Mac remotely (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.28 90 | 51 points by speckx 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
    ×0.77 91 | 100 points by croqaz 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
    ×1.56 1 | 251 points by mavdol04 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.58 160 | 90 points by simianwords 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012) (righto.com)
    ×1.23 90 | 162 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape (bairui.dev)
    ×0.57 76 | 38 points by subairui 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.15 16 | 753 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu (joao.town)
    ×0.84 6 | 23 points by joaopalmeiro 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life (fabianhemmert.com)
    ×1.29 85 | 137 points by hemmert 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)
    ×2.31 20 | 513 points by matthewbarras 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What Would It Look Like If the AI Bubble Popped? (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.21 11 | 19 points by pimeys 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I Wrote a Game Boy Advance Game in Zig (2024) (jonot.me)
    ×0.89 40 | 5 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.98 90 | 123 points by andrewstuart 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???