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  1. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    ×1.30 3 | 149 points by davidcollantes 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes (alexewerlof.com)
    ×2.50 5 | 14 points by firstSpeaker 20 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com/ahmd-sh)
    ×1.17 3 | 46 points by ahmd-sh 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)
    ×4.51 2 | 335 points by ljewalsh 5 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
    ×1.67 8 | 88 points by nicocarsui 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'" (bookofrevenue.com)
    ×1.08 13 | 91 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
    ×4.71 2 | 880 points by Eric_Gullichsen 12 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.35 13 | 527 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.19 15 | 22 points by seamus_c 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.36 2 | 1508 points by sancho-panza 18 hours ago | 810 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    ×1.09 19 | 107 points by mroche 11 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 10 | 137 points by teleforce 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Made by Mechanical Means (felixrieseberg.com)
    ×1.00 12 | 55 points by cocoflunchy 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×1.17 18 | 125 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×2.53 13 | 274 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 21 | 53 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com/dashersw)
    ×1.21 26 | 121 points by arbayi 14 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (quora.com)
    ×1.00 33 | 162 points by midnightfish 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lunar Terminator Paradox (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.70 51 | 93 points by dima55 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
    ×2.12 20 | 281 points by birdculture 21 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×1.23 33 | 179 points by verdagon 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 28 | 267 points by danso 23 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 25 | 65 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.58 44 | 62 points by zeristor 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 (claude.com)
    ×2.16 15 | 168 points by Michelangelo11 6 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.83 5 | 283 points by safaelmali 19 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.75 48 | 89 points by mpweiher 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×3.48 27 | 41 points by p-s-v 42 minutes ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    ×1.08 43 | 188 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×1.02 41 | 114 points by bingden 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi (jazzwise.com)
    ×0.92 53 | 100 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
    ×1.09 42 | 168 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network (nine.ch)
    ×0.53 27 | 14 points by nine_ch 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (space.com)
    ×4.76 31 | 242 points by geox 4 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 47 | 84 points by Rochus 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×0.77 60 | 27 points by BurnerBurner 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Agents Target Government (wired.com)
    ×0.92 26 | 3 points by chunky1994 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    ×1.28 14 | 152 points by utiiiD 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×1.09 51 | 145 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
    ×0.92 49 | 97 points by AareyBaba 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money (theregister.com)
    ×2.13 3 | 18 points by samizdis 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
    ×2.21 58 | 64 points by FKJ 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×2.22 48 | 7 points by sia_xi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A New Experiment Meta-Strategy (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.49 63 | 32 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 8 | 8 points by sinnsro 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    ×1.54 37 | 136 points by ClydeN 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (livescience.com)
    ×0.93 46 | 91 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.77 72 | 86 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fool's Expertise (dtrace.org)
    ×1.51 45 | 27 points by elffjs 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
    ×0.90 51 | 81 points by pptadversary 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. European industry is doing better than you may think (economist.com)
    ×2.50 44 | 35 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
    ×1.26 51 | 103 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr) (soapbox.pub)
    ×7.85 27 | 115 points by long____cat 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    ×0.98 25 | 114 points by hp6 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step (engadget.com)
    ×0.94 17 | 6 points by poisonborz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (ihatethefuture.com)
    ×2.10 10 | 272 points by pxx 22 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past (btrblocks.com)
    ×1.51 20 | 72 points by tkhattra 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.18 55 | 90 points by ingve 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    ×2.12 10 | 388 points by blutack 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.65 51 | 186 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cambrian Explosion of AI (debarshibasak.github.io)
    ×0.75 67 | 13 points by debarshri 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. KICKI: a DECsystem1060 (icm.museum)
    ×0.52 63 | 31 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
    ×0.88 3 | 61 points by trekhleb 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (aresluna.org)
    ×3.11 30 | 378 points by jandeboevrie 23 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (sciencenews.org)
    ×0.93 50 | 95 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.29 70 | 276 points by pancomplex 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators (basin.la)
    ×1.23 65 | 117 points by big_toast 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com/InfinityLoop1308)
    ×2.07 19 | 497 points by Qision 2 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit (neorg.org)
    ×1.61 50 | 28 points by cupcakerob 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.23 57 | 197 points by birdculture 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ten lines of code that changed my world (pixelambacht.nl)
    ×1.62 9 | 136 points by dimonomid 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. ReScript 12 (2025) (rescript-lang.org)
    ×0.88 74 | 8 points by networked 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.61 64 | 44 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    ×2.07 4 | 390 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada (cbc.ca)
    ×1.71 6 | 35 points by BiraIgnacio 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.40 57 | 277 points by mlaux 2 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.50 31 | 125 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Congressman Cohen Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump (house.gov)
    ×7.26 61 | 37 points by hkhn 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily (github.com/golang)
    ×0.86 31 | 17 points by zx2c4 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Have an LLC (zachholman.com)
    ×2.41 5 | 65 points by mlex 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
    ×2.55 14 | 183 points by HotGarbage 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
    ×4.38 41 | 619 points by papergirl 1 day ago | 606 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.15 43 | 118 points by pwg 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not (arxiv.org)
    ×0.79 65 | 13 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    ×0.70 54 | 64 points by matt_d 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The smart home graveyard is getting crowded (theverge.com)
    ×2.22 75 | 44 points by CrypticShift 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
    ×3.04 12 | 745 points by specked-citrus 2 days ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.38 34 | 133 points by flxflx 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (mesh.host)
    ×0.99 55 | 92 points by z-mach9 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.23 15 | 397 points by MC995 2 days ago | 864 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???