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  1. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
    ×2.62 | 182 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless (arxiv.org)
    ×2.04 1 | 277 points by mustaphah 6 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.67 1 | 438 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×2.29 6 | 119 points by max-m 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×4.69 3 | 180 points by VorpalWay 2 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.38 7 | 113 points by zachlatta 6 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What every compiler writer should know about programmers (Anton Ertl, 2015) [pdf] (tuwien.ac.at)
    ×1.15 18 | 16 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×1.04 1 | 60 points by dogline 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×1.88 9 | 327 points by ssgodderidge 12 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm (bbc.com)
    ×3.59 5 | 29 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Visual Introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
    ×1.67 6 | 142 points by 0bytematt 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.76 21 | 71 points by lirbank 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
    ×1.08 30 | 19 points by lorisdev 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
    ×1.19 24 | 21 points by tesserato 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×0.88 8 | 88 points by icwtyjj 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.34 21 | 391 points by danielhanchen 17 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
    ×1.24 18 | 105 points by varjag 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.99 22 | 68 points by kianN 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
    ×1.28 9 | 69 points by four_fifths 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×1.73 37 | 12 points by TMWNN 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×1.17 28 | 66 points by yichab0d 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.06 16 | 277 points by dvrp 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ghidra by NSA (github.com/NationalSecurityAgency)
    ×2.07 4 | 322 points by handfuloflight 14 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PascalABC.net (pascalabc.net:443)
    ×0.65 26 | 29 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] (voltropy.com)
    ×1.04 26 | 35 points by ClintEhrlich 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.96 28 | 53 points by knackers 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×0.85 19 | 62 points by HenryNdubuaku 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
    ×0.41 48 | 32 points by swesnow 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
    ×0.66 32 | 23 points by scoofy 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.42 19 | 238 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.25 14 | 114 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
    ×1.16 1 | 133 points by Alifatisk 10 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×0.94 34 | 66 points by p_ing 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.53 44 | 54 points by turth 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh (eejournal.com)
    ×0.40 58 | 20 points by transpute 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×3.70 16 | 22 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs (reddit.com)
    ×3.05 18 | 12 points by ivewonyoung 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
    ×1.37 3 | 211 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.78 34 | 269 points by enz 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.80 68 | 60 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview (lux.camera)
    ×1.01 25 | 74 points by patrikcsak 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.96 41 | 112 points by mpcsb 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
    ×2.38 30 | 487 points by harel 13 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.34 29 | 332 points by righthand 12 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.88 24 | 149 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
    ×1.34 31 | 143 points by gurjeet 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.42 22 | 1394 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 1076 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.69 36 | 24 points by neogoose 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I graded 234 stocks on free cash flow (not earnings) (aureus-swart.vercel.app)
    ×1.66 23 | 4 points by babylonprince 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter (slyka.net)
    ×1.34 51 | 36 points by e145bc455f1 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.43 20 | 363 points by beardyw 16 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.01 42 | 121 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Wiretext – ASCII Wireframe Creator (wiretext.app)
    ×1.14 57 | 17 points by helloplanets 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
    ×1.51 6 | 151 points by headalgorithm 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    ×7.10 48 | 1407 points by novemp 20 hours ago | 885 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space (observablehq.com)
    ×1.38 61 | 27 points by miyuru 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.93 13 | 87 points by presbyterian 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
    ×0.87 67 | 13 points by muzzy19 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway) (resistandunsubscribe.com)
    ×3.77 6 | 24 points by beatthatflight 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found (cnn.com)
    ×0.51 59 | 29 points by YeGoblynQueenne 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
    ×1.21 41 | 133 points by telotortium 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.39 52 | 161 points by luu 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The End of the Office (andrewyang.com)
    ×3.60 65 | 19 points by HR01 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting (dexerto.com)
    ×3.34 12 | 18 points by madihaa 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×1.25 36 | 62 points by AnujNayyar 6 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.33 2 | 670 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Robert Duvall has died (nytimes.com)
    ×3.37 46 | 135 points by glimshe 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.39 63 | 13 points by mprast 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.68 63 | 51 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.03 41 | 145 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.07 59 | 140 points by nikodunk 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.33 2 | 791 points by deevus 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.24 64 | 26 points by mustaphah 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 (dexerto.com)
    ×1.66 6 | 48 points by magoghm 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? (nytimes.com)
    ×2.33 2 | 20 points by shpat 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
    ×1.04 29 | 122 points by luu 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.13 10 | 12 points by doener 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.70 63 | 100 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)
    ×1.71 2 | 358 points by prophylaxis 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    ×3.94 9 | 939 points by panic 2 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck (tryarchaic.com)
    ×2.40 64 | 11 points by baijan 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.65 9 | 406 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.24 39 | 168 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
    ×2.31 44 | 85 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp (iwillig.me)
    ×1.49 51 | 15 points by _emacsomancer_ 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.75 18 | 295 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Audio is the one area small labs are winning (amplifypartners.com)
    ×1.82 10 | 305 points by rocauc 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    ×0.71 51 | 87 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations (reuters.com)
    ×2.47 7 | 20 points by billybuckwheat 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???