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  1. The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
    ×1.22 2 | 104 points by userbinator 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
    ×2.38 2 | 175 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
    ×1.37 3 | 75 points by zX41ZdbW 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
    ×1.34 3 | 123 points by boilerupnc 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Fast and Hard Code (pocoo.org)
    ×2.14 7 | 42 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)
    ×2.84 4 | 366 points by felineflock 16 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
    ×1.66 11 | 92 points by cocacola1 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)
    ×2.15 1 | 376 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
    ×2.27 6 | 407 points by jemoka 20 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.80 7 | 366 points by auraham 19 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
    ×3.02 15 | 187 points by pjacotg 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. typ.ing (typ.ing)
    ×2.38 13 | 280 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.17 14 | 106 points by stared 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)
    ×1.66 19 | 206 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.67 24 | 217 points by pentagrama 21 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (tamu.edu)
    ×2.23 8 | 13 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.91 6 | 49 points by rznicolet 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.57 23 | 165 points by olalonde 18 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A Friendly Introduction to Racket (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.55 12 | 235 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×2.15 42 | 202 points by speckx 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.10 14 | 129 points by gnyeki 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
    ×3.46 17 | 17 points by henryaj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
    ×1.29 10 | 80 points by Sir_Twist 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
    ×1.50 22 | 146 points by grappler 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (unt.edu)
    ×4.52 7 | 64 points by tiahura 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×3.29 12 | 6 points by Fellwaa 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
    ×1.70 16 | 285 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
    ×1.55 8 | 102 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.74 30 | 47 points by jardy 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.96 28 | 114 points by taubek 4 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)
    ×0.91 38 | 143 points by asdefghyk 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Conway's Game of Life in real life (coredump.cx)
    ×1.09 33 | 58 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)
    ×1.34 30 | 95 points by paulpauper 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)
    ×1.07 20 | 89 points by danielochoa0620 16 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.36 12 | 182 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
    ×1.76 | 217 points by altmanaltman 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (nytimes.com)
    ×2.29 21 | 49 points by ilamont 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×6.62 16 | 620 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 1440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)
    ×0.92 17 | 36 points by hakkikonu 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
    ×0.93 38 | 67 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (mythic.ai)
    ×0.90 44 | 55 points by janandonly 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hacker News RSS (hnrss.github.io)
    ×1.91 49 | 17 points by sillysaurusx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×1.63 18 | 93 points by robpruzan 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)
    ×1.87 38 | 229 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com/ofdryads)
    ×0.66 53 | 41 points by ashenke 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.29 46 | 153 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
    ×0.91 36 | 47 points by rznicolet 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)
    ×3.54 14 | 630 points by Jach 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (soverybright.com)
    ×1.57 15 | 62 points by telecuda 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.25 66 | 142 points by gmays 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Steve French (SMB3/CIFSFS Linux kernel maintainer) has died (phoronix.com)
    ×2.74 27 | 14 points by starkparker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware (lwn.net)
    ×1.30 59 | 12 points by pykello 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23 (aengelke.net)
    ×1.04 83 | 3 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Nobody Explained the Schrödinger Equation Like This [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.86 9 | 6 points by peter_d_sherman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
    ×1.14 49 | 171 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
    ×6.41 55 | 68 points by verisimi 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.35 8 | 827 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary (vetto.ai)
    ×0.54 32 | 27 points by rigelbm 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.88 18 | 22 points by silverpiranha 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (gingerbill.org)
    ×1.46 42 | 152 points by adamrezich 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.47 23 | 1069 points by floathub 1 day ago | 1305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.78 27 | 128 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How to archive Everything and share It (aramzs.github.io)
    ×1.06 49 | 7 points by toomuchtodo 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com)
    ×1.26 23 | 124 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com/argofowl)
    ×3.80 37 | 192 points by matthieu_bl 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A historic El Nino is forming. Here's why scientists are worried [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.65 29 | 19 points by ksec 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.57 16 | 645 points by thepoet 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.67 74 | 300 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×0.97 40 | 40 points by mikeysight 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.41 29 | 14 points by littlexsparkee 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.71 7 | 621 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 895 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×2.18 20 | 412 points by matklad 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Creation of Abulafia (veitheller.de)
    ×0.73 26 | 33 points by saulpw 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.16 33 | 169 points by toebee 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)
    ×1.35 4 | 82 points by hakkikonu 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The lost airports of SimCity 3000 (2002) (archive.org)
    ×1.53 2 | 3 points by Lammy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (laszlokorte.de)
    ×0.78 16 | 56 points by laszlokorte 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.49 8 | 407 points by underdeserver 1 day ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)
    ×0.82 19 | 84 points by dariusmonsef 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.17 36 | 134 points by ra7 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×3.11 24 | 661 points by gavide 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.70 33 | 22 points by m463 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Firefox 155 and beyond will be released in a two-week cadence (mozilla.org)
    ×3.10 36 | 14 points by Throwthrowbob 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)
    ×1.60 1 | 214 points by tdullien 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NanoGPT Speedrun (github.com/KellerJordan)
    ×1.23 51 | 6 points by kelseyfrog 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.64 22 | 239 points by marcomezzavilla 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×1.26 27 | 148 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) (zeux.io)
    ×0.70 30 | 62 points by corysama 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.50 59 | 64 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???