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  1. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×1.81 1 | 91 points by seg6 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.02 2 | 60 points by bobbiechen 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.17 2 | 320 points by groomlake 9 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    ×3.94 5 | 42 points by adletbalzhanov 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×2.86 2 | 29 points by jggonz 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×1.99 5 | 346 points by shaunpud 12 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    ×1.50 6 | 89 points by MarcoDewey 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    ×1.29 17 | 14 points by hyperific 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.49 5 | 58 points by hakkikonu 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    ×1.94 6 | 162 points by gumby 9 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.56 6 | 21 points by jmusall 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.31 9 | 387 points by bhavansig 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.73 5 | 340 points by 882542F3884314B 14 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (maryland.gov)
    ×1.46 8 | 85 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.54 12 | 138 points by electricant 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.49 8 | 247 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)
    ×0.94 14 | 43 points by robinpdev 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
    ×0.86 15 | 43 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com/GrammaTech)
    ×0.75 11 | 19 points by aboardRat4 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.64 30 | 9 points by tchalla 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    ×0.80 18 | 47 points by skibz 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    ×3.25 21 | 510 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.90 23 | 100 points by rfarley04 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×5.73 21 | 580 points by senko 11 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
    ×2.83 49 | 220 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.27 | 345 points by epestr 18 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (njit.edu)
    ×1.13 7 | 25 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.63 17 | 61 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The AI Apocalypse Is Here (compactmag.com)
    ×3.91 19 | 7 points by reasonableklout 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.75 21 | 77 points by rahen 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal (nyujll.com)
    ×1.92 12 | 18 points by like_any_other 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    ×0.84 24 | 69 points by kkgupta 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.16 14 | 80 points by mmoogle 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library (towardsdev.com)
    ×0.90 53 | 4 points by cheikhdev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
    ×2.07 12 | 152 points by happosai 11 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.42 41 | 252 points by aagha 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×0.74 64 | 69 points by csmantle 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 41 | 67 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.34 4 | 424 points by aanet 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    ×0.93 26 | 32 points by bgpdude 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.54 26 | 163 points by andrewpollack 9 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×3.92 34 | 205 points by geox 8 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.12 6 | 764 points by tosh 1 day ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.17 6 | 981 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.63 8 | 5 points by sakuraiben 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
    ×2.11 24 | 299 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×3.84 20 | 201 points by allenc 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE (amibeingpwned.com)
    ×0.65 74 | 7 points by Doohickey-d 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
    ×2.46 8 | 357 points by wglb 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.55 30 | 160 points by zdw 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)
    ×0.45 89 | 4 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.62 80 | 6 points by modinfo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.44 61 | 187 points by jnord 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.85 35 | 225 points by cckolon 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.97 | 345 points by moelf 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.97 14 | 149 points by 01-_- 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
    ×0.99 49 | 185 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.95 33 | 326 points by poly2it 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.63 66 | 46 points by denismenace 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Monitors for Work (coker.com.au)
    ×1.35 32 | 76 points by edward 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.12 29 | 57 points by jandeboevrie 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.30 51 | 212 points by m3h 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.11 30 | 196 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?
    ×0.85 5 | 6 points by kocial 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.74 25 | 385 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.13 5 | 793 points by boplicity 2 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.62 43 | 3 points by climate_denier_ 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.98 10 | 411 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.00 15 | 520 points by delduca 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind (twitter.com/DimitrisPapail)
    ×2.80 26 | 11 points by amichail 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 923 points by itvision 2 days ago | 693 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.47 3 | 492 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)
    ×3.81 37 | 176 points by eternalreturn 15 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country (npr.org)
    ×1.44 9 | 8 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.80 54 | 85 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.79 54 | 82 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana (nytimes.com)
    ×1.95 16 | 5 points by jihadjihad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.77 63 | 230 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Coldcard hardware wallet firmware flaw sees 2k BTC (~$130M) drained (web3isgoinggreat.com)
    ×1.92 30 | 13 points by ilamont 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GPT-4 finished training four years ago today (twitter.com/gdb)
    ×1.68 2 | 4 points by nekofneko 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.30 36 | 193 points by stagas 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.45 6 | 1167 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×2.66 15 | 244 points by Bender 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Big Tech Changed Health Care. The System Must Keep Up (newsweek.com)
    ×1.21 19 | 3 points by brandonb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B (nikkei.com)
    ×4.08 65 | 8 points by yogthos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.08 50 | 218 points by gnabgib 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.63 44 | 24 points by aadisang 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.64 54 | 75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.24 19 | 214 points by v0id_isgood 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause (bigthink.com)
    ×2.71 78 | 28 points by lschueller 2 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???