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  1. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×3.79 | 849 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 571 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.52 1 | 113 points by aw1621107 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.04 2 | 233 points by cybermango 7 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×1.10 7 | 50 points by unsuspecting 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.31 3 | 543 points by aray07 10 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.19 2 | 624 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.71 2 | 101 points by louiereederson 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.22 2 | 226 points by binsquare 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.40 23 | 85 points by ericHosick 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.19 2 | 232 points by LorenDB 10 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.78 8 | 131 points by seanieb 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.51 3 | 203 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.29 7 | 128 points by nowflux 9 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.58 4 | 173 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.18 10 | 44 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe (calif.io)
    ×3.06 3 | 93 points by arkadiyt 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.56 3 | 83 points by wespiser_2018 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.13 11 | 29 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (davidma.org)
    ×0.69 14 | 16 points by taikon 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
    ×0.90 16 | 15 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Spending 3 months coding by hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.48 16 | 137 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.17 19 | 604 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald – Factually with Adam Conover (art19.com)
    ×0.77 17 | 17 points by tpoindex 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
    ×1.03 38 | 101 points by charleslpan 14 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.33 2 | 46 points by matt_d 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 17 | 75 points by mellosouls 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Iceye Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×1.10 15 | 106 points by marklit 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
    ×0.93 18 | 56 points by Cider9986 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.27 3 | 145 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.22 21 | 61 points by atan2 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 68 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.54 7 | 254 points by mpweiher 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.91 31 | 55 points by mcookly 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.74 32 | 42 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The big business of survival bunkers (economist.com)
    ×1.88 36 | 11 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×6.24 30 | 174 points by breve 7 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)
    ×1.00 16 | 70 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)
    ×1.96 38 | 11 points by lwhsiao 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.78 24 | 132 points by bryanrasmussen 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.51 38 | 87 points by AlexC04 16 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber (medium.com)
    ×4.41 29 | 11 points by anon-ex-uber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×2.50 8 | 15 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×1.02 30 | 138 points by Mr_Minderbinder 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.90 19 | 13 points by doctaj 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind" (bigthink.com)
    ×2.74 24 | 12 points by lschueller 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.98 42 | 25 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (motherjones.com)
    ×2.62 15 | 14 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.04 49 | 143 points by xk3 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (write.as)
    ×1.06 7 | 28 points by aniijbod 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k (fulu.org)
    ×1.35 81 | 6 points by SomaticPirate 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Irl.rent – What renters pay, not what's listed in SF
    ×2.31 21 | 7 points by rajatady 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)
    ×10.08 30 | 143 points by tcp_handshaker 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com/treyorr)
    ×0.74 89 | 4 points by trey-orr 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×1.51 64 | 8 points by ChuckMcM 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.16 51 | 116 points by apollinaire 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
    ×0.57 68 | 35 points by AusiasTsel 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.00 16 | 45 points by doener 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
    ×1.10 32 | 136 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cerebras S-1 (sec.gov)
    ×3.54 24 | 33 points by herpderperator 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.34 11 | 97 points by WesSouza 12 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (heise.de)
    ×1.78 16 | 51 points by doener 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Self-Hosting (pcora.eu)
    ×0.86 93 | 5 points by speckx 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.04 54 | 171 points by gmays 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. NASA's X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight (nasa.gov)
    ×1.62 3 | 8 points by big_toast 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
    ×0.95 58 | 154 points by sebg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
    ×1.25 19 | 218 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Japan's Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper (nytimes.com)
    ×2.11 7 | 7 points by caycep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gmail label bridge on Claude Cowork just broke
    ×0.31 71 | 3 points by mangoe 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)
    ×0.54 92 | 94 points by alexblackwell_ 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception (cornell.edu)
    ×2.89 4 | 15 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring (lbl.gov)
    ×1.48 41 | 5 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.46 | 445 points by simonw 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.95 57 | 1934 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 1421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)
    ×1.98 3 | 321 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (googleblog.com)
    ×1.80 14 | 300 points by ingve 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
    ×2.14 10 | 7 points by conductor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.45 60 | 206 points by jgrahamc 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.04 54 | 4 points by throw0101d 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/SeanFDZ)
    ×0.89 75 | 146 points by hammer32 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 3 Hours with Claude Opus 4.7: functional study webapp and remote MCP- Oneshotted (github.com/AmmarSaleh50)
    ×0.97 53 | 4 points by AmmarSaleh50 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)
    ×1.92 19 | 258 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)
    ×2.66 1 | 258 points by kmfrk 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (php.net)
    ×0.91 80 | 121 points by moebrowne 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.40 89 | 188 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
    ×2.46 3 | 157 points by dotmanish 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.57 21 | 318 points by evo_9 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
    ×1.16 78 | 155 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)
    ×2.62 18 | 207 points by sams99 22 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com/gainsec)
    ×1.31 5 | 222 points by scaredpelican 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???