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  1. The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
    ×2.17 4 | 70 points by apitman 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
    ×3.50 7 | 579 points by tomzorz 14 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com/AminBlg)
    ×2.29 9 | 280 points by navs 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com/openjdk)
    ×2.62 12 | 17 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013) (bunniestudios.com)
    ×1.15 12 | 24 points by jacquesm 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
    ×1.59 8 | 151 points by volumes94 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
    ×2.50 6 | 526 points by ai2027 15 hours ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Human Honeypot (human2llm.pages.dev)
    ×0.74 21 | 5 points by kevin_kraft 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return (science.org)
    ×2.70 7 | 121 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.96 3 | 666 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)
    ×2.52 | 159 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The AI Aesthetic (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.19 6 | 266 points by montroser 7 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
    ×2.56 5 | 81 points by MobiusHorizons 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.78 18 | 41 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×0.86 31 | 4 points by akbabu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.27 12 | 200 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.60 8 | 227 points by javaeeeee 15 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)
    ×1.01 9 | 73 points by ernestrc 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
    ×1.34 5 | 156 points by robin_reala 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Bad Apple but It's Traceroute (jssfr.de)
    ×1.27 13 | 91 points by jssfr 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)
    ×7.60 17 | 918 points by dickfickling 11 hours ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.60 50 | 4 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
    ×2.52 11 | 273 points by arto 18 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
    ×0.92 28 | 46 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com/MemoireMorte)
    ×0.74 34 | 64 points by sciences44 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The lost civic life of movie rental stores (mit.edu)
    ×1.69 19 | 156 points by facundo_olano 16 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.24 11 | 110 points by cgorlla 12 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
    ×3.38 20 | 545 points by tedsanders 13 hours ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (deepseek.com)
    ×6.87 19 | 8 points by dnhkng 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.34 17 | 184 points by crescit_eundo 17 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)
    ×3.06 17 | 345 points by Areibman 12 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.08 32 | 103 points by wgjordan 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)
    ×1.85 5 | 199 points by ryannevius 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)
    ×2.37 15 | 249 points by tnisonoff 12 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
    ×1.18 15 | 145 points by bmacho 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)
    ×2.23 36 | 128 points by haipothetical 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)
    ×1.84 20 | 238 points by alberto-m 22 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
    ×0.53 49 | 69 points by marinoseliades 16 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.23 30 | 94 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Premier league bans gambling sponsors (footyheadlines.com)
    ×2.66 34 | 17 points by paoliniluis 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner" (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.26 19 | 76 points by ghuroo1 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits" (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×1.55 50 | 5 points by telotortium 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)
    ×1.14 9 | 110 points by KraftyOne 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
    ×0.93 17 | 121 points by notarobot123 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.53 18 | 135 points by jjgreen 18 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Claude Opus 5 jailbreak with a 3-word prompt (twitter.com/i)
    ×2.27 26 | 10 points by gck1 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)
    ×0.83 25 | 47 points by patrickhulin 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)
    ×1.39 20 | 118 points by Thom2503 18 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (googleblog.com)
    ×2.93 24 | 395 points by dmantis 20 hours ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt (alec.is)
    ×5.52 32 | 45 points by arm32 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.87 30 | 60 points by karakoram 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×0.96 21 | 62 points by SilenN 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.01 18 | 6 points by ColinEberhardt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
    ×1.25 44 | 118 points by baud147258 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Azulejo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.81 4 | 180 points by Amorymeltzer 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers (moritzhamann.com)
    ×0.28 72 | 6 points by mrtz 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com/n67094)
    ×0.61 32 | 58 points by n67094 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Showdown Elo: weighted Elo for baseball (tanji.systems)
    ×1.25 81 | 4 points by merriman-xyz 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
    ×0.84 17 | 121 points by benn_88 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
    ×1.19 31 | 81 points by laurentiurad 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in Coldcard Firmware (block.xyz)
    ×2.17 21 | 7 points by greyface- 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
    ×1.30 18 | 104 points by mushstory 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.80 47 | 62 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Conductor launches multiplayer cloud workspaces that keep coding agents running (runtimewire.com)
    ×0.99 81 | 3 points by ryanmerket 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)
    ×1.40 28 | 70 points by blenderob 17 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Now Anthropic Is Saying Claude Escaped and Hacked Several Companies (cnn.com)
    ×1.81 25 | 8 points by hackmack10 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)
    ×2.62 12 | 600 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)
    ×0.84 43 | 54 points by jackedEngineer 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Vale CLI: Linter for Prose (github.com/vale-cli)
    ×1.59 63 | 4 points by joeyhage 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Aschenbrenner's hedge fund forced to unwind all public stock positions (cnbc.com)
    ×1.38 28 | 4 points by akbabu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 15-Year-Old Alan Turing's Notebook Summary of Relativity Theory (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.52 36 | 17 points by tylerdane 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Judge Voices Doubt US Has Justified Its Ban on Anthropic AI (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.73 18 | 25 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Top 1% of U.S. nonprofits account for 75% of revenue (charitysense.com)
    ×1.82 54 | 5 points by mtweak 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)
    ×4.25 26 | 158 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? (rusty.today)
    ×0.50 45 | 38 points by rustyconover 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
    ×1.23 45 | 10 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling (reuters.com)
    ×4.11 75 | 108 points by kaycebasques 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again (github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper)
    ×0.79 23 | 49 points by hamza_rehman 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Widen – Open-source Mac Postgres GUI with local or cloud text-to-SQL (widen.dev)
    ×2.14 39 | 6 points by thedreammachine 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What would it mean to see a new color? (newyorker.com)
    ×1.19 19 | 30 points by fortran77 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Toot.community is shutting down (jorijn.com)
    ×1.01 16 | 41 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)
    ×3.64 43 | 814 points by robbiet480 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The first watch featuring computer functions (seiko-design.com)
    ×1.02 34 | 84 points by stefanv 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (wiz.io)
    ×1.13 22 | 64 points by uvuv 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents (github.com/yashmahajan10)
    ×0.47 50 | 17 points by yashmahajan10 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits (carolinacloud.io)
    ×0.88 40 | 61 points by bojangleslover 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Great Spectations, the Spec Checker (greatspectations.org)
    ×1.16 68 | 3 points by RustyRussell 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (github.com/YoanWai)
    ×1.24 7 | 95 points by yoanwaidev 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
    ×2.09 5 | 196 points by _doctor_love 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???