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  1. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.61 | 206 points by Ariarule 2 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.35 2 | 626 points by emctech 7 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×3.22 7 | 234 points by encyclopedism 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
    ×2.44 4 | 336 points by simedw 5 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
    ×2.85 6 | 153 points by EwanG 4 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
    ×1.91 4 | 250 points by abhisek 4 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.88 1 | 73 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 5 | 86 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Linux 7.2 Released (igalia.com)
    ×1.91 10 | 21 points by mariuz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Generic Methods in Go 1.27 (dominik.info)
    ×1.10 8 | 23 points by EspressoGPT 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
    ×1.12 1 | 35 points by codedge 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901 (x.org)
    ×1.54 10 | 70 points by st_goliath 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.41 2 | 39 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch (mikekasberg.com)
    ×0.77 3 | 51 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.59 14 | 17 points by yousefh409 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Mojo is now open source (modular.com)
    ×3.84 12 | 239 points by visheshdembla 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 (icarm.cloud)
    ×1.10 1 | 49 points by robinhouston 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Git at any scale (cursor.com)
    ×2.66 22 | 146 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
    ×0.82 7 | 41 points by vga805 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU (marekfiser.com)
    ×0.82 13 | 28 points by iliketrains 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.93 2 | 316 points by luu 11 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities (strawberry9.github.io)
    ×0.96 8 | 21 points by SilentLambda 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)
    ×1.05 2 | 35 points by knaught 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
    ×1.45 | 64 points by pajop 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
    ×4.03 20 | 163 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis (therevelator.org)
    ×1.43 6 | 71 points by sohkamyung 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative (zoneless.com)
    ×0.93 | 29 points by tinyprojects 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (arxiv.org)
    ×1.68 57 | 132 points by nunodonato 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.83 9 | 49 points by librasteve 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.97 13 | 320 points by mayoff 15 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)
    ×1.11 14 | 60 points by throwaw12 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data) (nytimes.com)
    ×0.61 16 | 25 points by cckolon 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (research.google)
    ×0.74 20 | 44 points by leanderjanssen 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Router by Ramp (router.com)
    ×1.62 | 92 points by zackfield 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.72 17 | 232 points by gavide 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult (sparrowhub.io)
    ×0.53 20 | 15 points by melezhik 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter (stwipe.com)
    ×4.63 33 | 174 points by eatonphil 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Could AIs Become Conscious? (economist.com)
    ×0.88 29 | 8 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.75 30 | 222 points by jumploops 20 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI (zellij.dev)
    ×1.87 6 | 30 points by peterhajas 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.32 29 | 179 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
    ×5.44 40 | 939 points by pjerem 9 hours ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Bufo pulls the andon cord (hatchet.run)
    ×0.39 38 | 10 points by abelanger 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Polchinski's Paradox (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.58 45 | 5 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.52 10 | 932 points by rvz 23 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.15 9 | 339 points by fg137 20 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked (sgoedecke.github.io)
    ×0.89 37 | 7 points by gfysfm 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Meta's Internal Research (metasinternalresearch.org)
    ×0.59 55 | 4 points by throw0101d 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (frnanan.substack.com)
    ×5.16 35 | 13 points by madihaa 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Chauffeur Problem (1999) (uh.edu)
    ×0.84 25 | 54 points by leowoo91 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.00 10 | 766 points by Animux 23 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 54 | 7 points by bretkoppel 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Teens Taking on Data Centers (nytimes.com)
    ×1.76 11 | 10 points by bcaulfield 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it (franciscotrindade.me)
    ×1.92 18 | 59 points by franciscomt 5 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Code Factories Without Quality: The AI Development Blind Spot (qawolf.com)
    ×0.60 35 | 5 points by BinRoo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×3.23 17 | 732 points by database64128 22 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust (linuxiac.com)
    ×1.24 20 | 35 points by datakan 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google's AI photoscanner can determine body fat through selfies (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 50 | 9 points by Phreaker00 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (os8088.com)
    ×0.99 35 | 118 points by jggonz 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dutch data protection authority advises Twitch users to opt out from Amazon AI (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl)
    ×1.70 59 | 11 points by HelloUsername 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.41 38 | 12 points by valentinprgnd 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (bizibah.com)
    ×1.48 31 | 291 points by gurov 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I Refrain from Infosec Punditry (coredump.cx)
    ×0.57 87 | 4 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Arthur Eddington's Theory of Everything (2015) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 63 | 4 points by lioeters 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.16 75 | 159 points by j4mie 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era (theverge.com)
    ×0.90 59 | 85 points by animalcule 21 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (github.com/cesarblum)
    ×0.78 49 | 51 points by sigalor 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.56 75 | 85 points by guyb3 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sentrint, a security scanner for projects build with LLMs (sentrint.com)
    ×0.56 70 | 5 points by Gourabdg 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Is Undermining Leaders' Judgment. Here's What to Do About It (hbr.org)
    ×1.21 20 | 9 points by abixb 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)
    ×1.35 15 | 10 points by jorangreef 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. LinkedIn cracks down on automated content with AI detection button (campaignindia.in)
    ×1.20 20 | 9 points by qikouki 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Conway's Game of Life, in real life (coredump.cx)
    ×0.64 53 | 6 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The little-known winstart.bat batch file (microsoft.com)
    ×1.08 31 | 131 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn (qdrant.tech)
    ×0.25 67 | 9 points by softwaredoug 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs (jeremymorrell.dev)
    ×1.11 26 | 163 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement (ornith.ai)
    ×1.23 19 | 203 points by CommonGuy 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. PWAs: Personal Web Apps (ttias.be)
    ×0.92 66 | 5 points by barredo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
    ×6.31 28 | 1584 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.43 31 | 405 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
    ×4.16 34 | 990 points by kareiva 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (modular.com)
    ×2.32 41 | 218 points by flaburgan 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex (openai.com)
    ×1.81 24 | 33 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)
    ×0.88 16 | 96 points by tobr 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 138M children are in child labor. What does this mean? (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.03 32 | 8 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios (tomaytotomato.github.io)
    ×0.71 32 | 6 points by tomaytotomato 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (colorado.edu)
    ×4.50 33 | 611 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Solving the Flat Cube (wordpress.com)
    ×0.30 63 | 4 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. We replaced our ledger with two functions (river.com)
    ×2.01 17 | 15 points by leishman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???