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  1. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.69 | 627 points by itvision 11 hours ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.62 2 | 212 points by boplicity 8 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×1.40 | 34 points by rogix 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.20 5 | 46 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×3.11 5 | 394 points by tsak 15 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.12 6 | 215 points by neversaydie 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.35 15 | 116 points by Audiophilip 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sao Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.13 10 | 115 points by rmason 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.29 5 | 146 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.56 1 | 392 points by Footkerchief 16 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.95 2 | 171 points by baranul 11 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.92 21 | 202 points by willcarkner 16 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.95 8 | 227 points by tedsanders 15 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)
    ×0.66 22 | 9 points by mpc75 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (frame.work)
    ×3.40 13 | 64 points by RobinHirst11 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Parsers don't have to be complicated (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×1.82 46 | 6 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.53 2 | 199 points by collinmanderson 13 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.24 11 | 10 points by purestatelabs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.46 15 | 64 points by koolhead17 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.80 28 | 51 points by indyjo 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.57 17 | 293 points by Wirbelwind 20 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
    ×1.38 17 | 134 points by luu 13 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×3.12 4 | 55 points by champagnepapi 7 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
    ×1.15 8 | 24 points by martinhath 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.23 19 | 1028 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×1.54 16 | 148 points by laurentiurad 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.57 20 | 17 points by CaRDiaK 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.86 20 | 289 points by dsubburam 12 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.21 1 | 97 points by sebg 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 29 | 102 points by davidmckayv 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.85 30 | 116 points by hasheddan 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.42 18 | 245 points by binyu 23 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (divyendusingh.com)
    ×0.47 36 | 12 points by divyenduz 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.15 12 | 87 points by bschne 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.82 38 | 78 points by mpweiher 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.71 24 | 32 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.52 40 | 99 points by tchalla 19 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
    ×2.12 23 | 363 points by yusyd 16 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.44 42 | 169 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.02 42 | 84 points by jandrewrogers 19 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware (socket.dev)
    ×3.37 24 | 30 points by bhavansig 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×3.98 16 | 10 points by MBCook 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.67 18 | 666 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.35 39 | 493 points by apitman 13 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×2.01 8 | 473 points by atan2 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com/mattdeeds)
    ×0.82 10 | 47 points by mdeeds 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian (reddit.com)
    ×1.53 16 | 11 points by zekrioca 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    ×0.40 59 | 18 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.20 17 | 151 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.04 26 | 70 points by john_strinlai 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.84 7 | 921 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300 (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.36 12 | 7 points by helsinkiandrew 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.27 43 | 115 points by msephton 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.06 7 | 833 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 898 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.61 35 | 249 points by Xeophon 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.25 1 | 13 points by guiambros 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Shades of Meaning (2018) (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.17 60 | 5 points by mkmk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×0.25 72 | 14 points by jdkee 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.95 11 | 446 points by speckx 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.36 86 | 68 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
    ×0.93 55 | 24 points by danschuller 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015) (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.47 48 | 35 points by dima55 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.71 51 | 68 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 45 | 167 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. With software alone, one B200 beats the LPU and gets close to Cerebras (runinfra.ai)
    ×1.36 53 | 10 points by OsamaJaber 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.61 58 | 66 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.09 55 | 105 points by Jare 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages (github.com/Pr1nted)
    ×1.14 74 | 4 points by Pr1nted 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.50 36 | 225 points by weli 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself (sawyerhood.com)
    ×2.34 21 | 18 points by sawyerjhood 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners (reuters.com)
    ×2.83 20 | 37 points by voxadam 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.12 65 | 446 points by pmg101 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer (keel-iot.eu)
    ×0.37 63 | 10 points by fcravio 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom (motortrend.com)
    ×2.53 6 | 25 points by thehoff 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.84 54 | 142 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way (30pin.com)
    ×1.32 63 | 8 points by ndiddy 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.34 2 | 414 points by lladnar 1 day ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock (github.com/palamim)
    ×1.56 43 | 40 points by leopalamim 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.95 12 | 425 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.36 46 | 223 points by nozzlegear 2 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.64 15 | 653 points by speckx 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.95 8 | 426 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Common knowledge shapes our lives and societies (theconversation.com)
    ×2.84 3 | 4 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding (useknowable.ai)
    ×0.82 56 | 5 points by samuelzxu 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.41 42 | 75 points by rowbin 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)
    ×0.47 34 | 38 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.11 45 | 148 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.82 45 | 126 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.65 5 | 324 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.08 25 | 189 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???