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  1. “I just chose words carefully” (aresluna.org)
    ×3.99 | 687 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  2. P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
    ×1.19 6 | 85 points by dbalatero 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  3. Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)
    ×4.66 3 | 1102 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 543 comments | ??? ???
  4. My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures (sandyuraz.com)
    ×2.10 3 | 93 points by thecsw 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  5. Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care (hank.bond)
    ×1.55 9 | 27 points by hankbond 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  6. Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
    ×1.41 13 | 93 points by BirAdam 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  7. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.55 2 | 159 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  8. Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
    ×2.02 2 | 64 points by jllyhill 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  9. A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.91 7 | 54 points by WithinReason 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  10. It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
    ×2.16 2 | 133 points by vghaisas 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ??? ???
  11. Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (haiku-os.org)
    ×1.65 9 | 307 points by metrofun 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  12. How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
    ×1.44 12 | 68 points by volodia 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  13. OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)
    ×2.12 10 | 75 points by doppp 3 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  14. Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
    ×1.50 7 | 163 points by WilsonHarper 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  15. Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com)
    ×0.84 17 | 103 points by pwg 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  16. Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)
    ×1.72 12 | 307 points by greenlightning 20 hours ago | 213 comments | ??? ???
  17. Sort branches by last commit date (ryangreenberg.com)
    ×1.12 18 | 115 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  18. Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver (github.com/KodeMunkie)
    ×1.00 23 | 104 points by SillyUsername 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  19. Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) (sander.ai)
    ×1.09 12 | 91 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  20. Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
    ×0.64 34 | 33 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  21. Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
    ×1.11 19 | 154 points by rzk 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  22. Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
    ×1.65 4 | 49 points by robinpie 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  23. What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (studyfinds.com)
    ×0.59 42 | 4 points by mdp2021 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  24. How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero? (johndcook.com)
    ×1.11 22 | 52 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  25. Racter (1984) (ubu.com)
    ×0.49 22 | 25 points by buescher 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  26. Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals (goto10retro.com)
    ×1.16 33 | 128 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  27. Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)
    ×1.29 23 | 228 points by vntok 23 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  28. Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
    ×1.01 33 | 106 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  29. Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails (pcmag.com)
    ×2.90 20 | 11 points by Bluestein 50 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  30. Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.12 28 | 203 points by joebig 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  31. Electric rain can eat through metal (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.11 20 | 109 points by sohkamyung 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  32. Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.73 28 | 44 points by baud147258 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  33. Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES (artie.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  34. European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.94 18 | 408 points by nickslaughter02 17 hours ago | 169 comments | ??? ???
  35. Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)
    ×1.05 40 | 104 points by smoores 20 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  36. Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code) (philrees.co.uk)
    ×0.61 52 | 43 points by sublinear 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  37. Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
    ×3.32 15 | 302 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 350 comments | ??? ???
  38. An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.52 67 | 54 points by Bluestein 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  39. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)
    ×6.09 14 | 739 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 357 comments | ??? ???
  40. METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (wordpress.com)
    ×2.77 13 | 245 points by catbird 18 hours ago | 193 comments | ??? ???
  41. Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today (twitter.com/ClaudeDevs)
    ×3.00 24 | 8 points by partsch 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  42. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.47 35 | 236 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  43. Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)
    ×2.31 1 | 149 points by rzk 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  44. Are We Sixel Yet? (arewesixelyet.com)
    ×1.57 55 | 20 points by smasher164 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  45. Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers (bbc.com)
    ×1.61 72 | 44 points by dudefeliciano 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  46. When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.73 45 | 64 points by cisc 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  47. Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.39 4 | 309 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 188 comments | ??? ???
  48. FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
    ×1.22 36 | 173 points by sashk 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  49. Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.46 59 | 18 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  50. What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s (askmike.org)
    ×1.30 12 | 139 points by askmike 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  51. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (jupyter.org)
    ×1.15 38 | 102 points by arjxn-py 1 day ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  52. The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020) (si.edu)
    ×1.17 49 | 105 points by EndXA 1 day ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  53. SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.36 17 | 22 points by thelastgallon 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  54. Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.72 3 | 11 points by rramadass 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  55. Building my own network stack (lyc8503.net)
    ×1.08 25 | 100 points by uneven9434 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ??? ???
  56. Domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0B birds and 6.3–22.3B mammals annually (nature.com)
    ×3.13 7 | 19 points by agnosticmantis 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  57. Pentagon installs military influencers in civilian roles (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.87 9 | 19 points by dataflow 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  58. Orbs (ampcode.com)
    ×1.22 35 | 103 points by tosh 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  59. One Nix flake to rule them all (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.51 23 | 84 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  60. In less than a year, Google made scraping 10× harder (growtika.com)
    ×1.86 21 | 6 points by Growtika 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  61. What We Tell AI (whatwetellai.com)
    ×1.68 61 | 42 points by thm 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  62. RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (python.org)
    ×1.75 9 | 298 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  63. Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.40 18 | 194 points by sparsesignal 19 hours ago | 219 comments | ??? ???
  64. Adding a directional cost bias to a TSP heuristic reveals better local optima (uncledroid.app)
    ×0.16 75 | 5 points by Abhijit8086 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  65. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
    ×2.04 12 | 387 points by davidmckenna 1 day ago | 263 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com/gbin)
    ×1.20 54 | 92 points by gbin 1 day ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  67. monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter (github.com/fugue-labs)
    ×0.64 40 | 50 points by networked 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  68. Hy4 preview (tencent.com)
    ×1.73 4 | 381 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  69. Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.84 54 | 83 points by sys42590 1 day ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  70. Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (acm.org)
    ×1.07 54 | 121 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  71. Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.67 47 | 56 points by klelatti 1 day ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  72. Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.85 47 | 83 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  73. Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.21 41 | 104 points by cisc 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like? (August 2026)
    ×0.96 19 | 14 points by Hixon10 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  75. Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals (kabaragoya.com)
    ×0.54 28 | 32 points by peteforde 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  76. Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (texastribune.org)
    ×3.90 24 | 420 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 324 comments | ??? ???
  77. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
    ×2.72 11 | 534 points by zackb 1 day ago | 217 comments | ??? ???
  78. Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (eng-leadership.com)
    ×3.94 11 | 459 points by gpi 1 day ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  79. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
    ×1.23 33 | 179 points by tuckerwales 1 day ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  80. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (nasa.gov)
    ×1.88 12 | 288 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  81. "A big win for Android interoperability" (osnews.com)
    ×1.69 6 | 14 points by aryonoco 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients (github.com/mk6i)
    ×0.97 50 | 64 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  83. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.14 17 | 1973 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago | 910 comments | ??? ???
  84. TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com/kingroryg)
    ×1.26 53 | 180 points by rgbimbochamp 2 days ago | 87 comments | ??? ???
  85. The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)
    ×1.72 48 | 314 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago | 170 comments | ??? ???
  86. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×4.10 35 | 637 points by jbegley 3 days ago | 433 comments | ??? ???
  87. Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
    ×0.76 51 | 63 points by hellerve 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  88. Htmx 4.0 (htmx.org)
    ×3.53 7 | 817 points by rmsaksida 2 days ago | 232 comments | ??? ???
  89. PlayStation wants to prove in court that you don't own your digital games (polygon.com)
    ×2.29 10 | 5 points by Markoff 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  90. EVE Online moves to Python 3 (eveonline.com)
    ×2.62 14 | 399 points by TylerJaacks 2 days ago | 219 comments | ??? ???