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  1. Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
    ×3.09 1 | 35 points by shaunpud 55 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×2.24 1 | 165 points by gurjeet 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.01 2 | 167 points by wglb 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 (dork.dev)
    ×1.40 9 | 138 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com/GreatScott)
    ×1.00 15 | 12 points by parkaboy 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
    ×1.77 4 | 74 points by rebane2001 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
    ×5.24 3 | 1361 points by oldnetguy 16 hours ago | 1041 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.14 13 | 34 points by beardyw 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates (guidelabs.ai)
    ×2.08 6 | 104 points by adebayoj 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
    ×0.86 13 | 165 points by marcodiego 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.76 8 | 130 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
    ×2.60 10 | 170 points by felix089 10 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series (intel.com)
    ×0.75 20 | 12 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
    ×1.28 18 | 208 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons (guitarworld.com)
    ×1.52 6 | 153 points by mhb 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.27 13 | 234 points by levkk 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (varank.in)
    ×2.24 11 | 328 points by varankinv 8 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
    ×4.53 7 | 1137 points by adius 19 hours ago | 623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×1.40 30 | 120 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music (plos.org)
    ×0.53 59 | 5 points by coloneltcb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (colino.net)
    ×0.68 25 | 68 points by homarp 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (ifixit.com)
    ×2.76 6 | 85 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.45 31 | 9 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Lords of the Ring (harpers.org)
    ×0.66 33 | 28 points by lermontov 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends (singh-sanjay.com)
    ×0.88 30 | 35 points by singhsanjay12 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
    ×0.92 11 | 88 points by eigen-vector 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×1.07 23 | 146 points by Sabrees 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.07 18 | 122 points by swolpers 13 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Typed Assembly Language (cornell.edu)
    ×0.90 18 | 19 points by luu 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
    ×3.22 13 | 317 points by pieterr 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer (twitter.com/BenjaminBadejo)
    ×3.42 15 | 163 points by bundie 8 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The rise of eyes began with just one (nytimes.com)
    ×0.65 17 | 35 points by marojejian 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/JeffBezanson)
    ×1.00 36 | 133 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.13 51 | 152 points by ai_bot 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
    ×0.81 44 | 92 points by platzhirsch 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
    ×2.47 9 | 542 points by qsi 22 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×5.65 11 | 1538 points by saeedesmaili 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×5.33 31 | 478 points by boplicity 11 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026) (federalregister.gov)
    ×1.64 15 | 43 points by ascarola 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Scent, in Silico (asimov.press)
    ×0.47 55 | 27 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020) (newscientist.com)
    ×0.82 31 | 77 points by nixass 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
    ×2.07 | 372 points by microflash 22 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics (jamesoswald.dev)
    ×0.49 20 | 37 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
    ×0.48 62 | 52 points by usually 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
    ×1.58 10 | 234 points by montenegrohugo 16 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
    ×1.94 2 | 399 points by mhb 1 day ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] (columbia.edu)
    ×0.33 64 | 29 points by luu 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare (lendingtree.com)
    ×3.59 37 | 45 points by toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Warm Oceans Turned a 3-Inch Forecast into a Record NYC Blizzard (umbrellatoday.app)
    ×0.77 73 | 10 points by s-xyz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×1.85 48 | 174 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Unfavorable Semicircle (unfavorablesemicircle.com)
    ×0.74 37 | 14 points by evo_9 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
    ×1.83 9 | 332 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
    ×0.66 51 | 88 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.69 50 | 633 points by mikece 11 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone (0x19.co)
    ×1.28 65 | 15 points by 25hex 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Our Warrant Canary (joplinapp.org)
    ×1.10 71 | 13 points by Coral-Tiny 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
    ×0.54 55 | 60 points by jmount 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
    ×1.16 15 | 157 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.00 59 | 20 points by EA-3167 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
    ×3.65 30 | 540 points by josephcsible 23 hours ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.40 25 | 19 points by mroche 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok (joinloops.org)
    ×2.62 5 | 563 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
    ×2.30 10 | 474 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Mind Illuminated [pdf] (archive.org)
    ×1.61 29 | 3 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs (techradar.com)
    ×1.18 7 | 67 points by thelastgallon 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026) (mit.edu)
    ×1.62 62 | 27 points by anishathalye 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good (httptoolkit.com)
    ×1.36 81 | 31 points by pimterry 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL (zerohedge.com)
    ×4.15 34 | 84 points by gradus_ad 9 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (reddit.com)
    ×1.88 17 | 115 points by HelloUsername 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
    ×0.66 71 | 79 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.75 73 | 82 points by zdw 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Code Mode: give agents an API in 1k tokens (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.33 90 | 5 points by consumer451 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ukrainian hackers uncover how Russian drone operators are using Belarus (informnapalm.org)
    ×2.76 3 | 29 points by doener 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
    ×1.20 60 | 154 points by jalev 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
    ×0.95 61 | 76 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Microspeak: Escrow (microsoft.com)
    ×0.33 78 | 25 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)
    ×2.71 5 | 642 points by susam 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ed's Stratego Site (edcollins.com)
    ×0.95 31 | 41 points by Torwald 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.91 66 | 66 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)
    ×7.87 14 | 2232 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances (videocardz.com)
    ×2.60 52 | 98 points by LorenDB 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia's most famous painting (theguardian.com)
    ×0.83 8 | 19 points by n1b0m 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.32 1 | 373 points by jstanley 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. It's Official: The Cybertruck Is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto (fuelarc.com)
    ×5.48 28 | 28 points by ceejayoz 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation (404media.co)
    ×1.65 44 | 89 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data (electrek.co)
    ×3.48 26 | 40 points by breve 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map (xweather.com)
    ×1.22 45 | 182 points by unstyledcontent 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
    ×2.42 9 | 409 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 (feld.me)
    ×0.83 46 | 112 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???