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  1. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×2.77 | 211 points by flipped 2 hours ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  2. The Burning Man MOOP Map (not-ship.com)
    ×2.28 4 | 479 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 245 comments | ??? ???
  3. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.94 4 | 225 points by bsuh 5 hours ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  4. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
    ×1.58 4 | 120 points by instagraham 3 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  5. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
    ×1.47 8 | 217 points by berlianta 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ??? ???
  6. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×5.58 3 | 240 points by thm 2 hours ago | 230 comments | ??? ???
  7. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
    ×2.49 3 | 215 points by tamnd 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  8. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.27 11 | 148 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 368 comments | ??? ???
  9. Colored Shadow Penumbra (chosker.github.io)
    ×0.62 17 | 24 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  10. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
    ×4.58 5 | 362 points by newsoftheday 5 hours ago | 140 comments | ??? ???
  11. Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
    ×0.79 21 | 36 points by blumpy22 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  12. PySimpleGUI 6 (github.com/PySimpleGUI)
    ×1.06 18 | 80 points by geophph 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  13. Easy Random Trees (wilsonb.com)
    ×1.15 77 | 5 points by aebtebeten 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server (github.com/pthom)
    ×1.03 10 | 18 points by pstomi 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  15. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
    ×2.41 1 | 307 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 223 comments | ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.79 27 | 10 points by andres 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  17. RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
    ×1.09 19 | 147 points by atilimcetin 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  18. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
    ×1.32 3 | 126 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  19. OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus) (online.fr)
    ×0.80 20 | 54 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  20. Creating for a niche (davesnider.com)
    ×0.93 75 | 5 points by snide 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  21. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.15 9 | 209 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 252 comments | ??? ???
  22. OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
    ×1.04 77 | 87 points by chabad360 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.11 74 | 99 points by wojtczyk 15 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  24. I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (johnozbay.com)
    ×2.00 4 | 88 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  25. GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  26. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
    ×1.31 24 | 173 points by suoken 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  27. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport (ietf.org)
    ×0.77 21 | 52 points by mondainx 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  28. Building for the Future (cloudflare.com)
    ×4.88 26 | 111 points by PriorityLeft 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  29. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters (firethering.com)
    ×1.22 60 | 78 points by steveharing1 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  30. Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.57 80 | 4 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  31. The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture (leaflet.pub)
    ×0.51 47 | 6 points by fagnerbrack 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  32. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (itsnicethat.com)
    ×1.19 10 | 147 points by sahar_builds 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.61 34 | 27 points by cpan22 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  34. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.24 17 | 33 points by epistasis 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  35. Printing Blogs (fi-le.net)
    ×0.72 11 | 30 points by fi-le 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  36. Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow (github.com/alikamp)
    ×0.64 33 | 45 points by kauai1 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  37. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.35 3 | 80 points by mobeigi 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  38. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×6.01 11 | 1682 points by haunter 1 day ago | 566 comments | ??? ???
  39. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.13 37 | 246 points by SpyCoder77 21 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  40. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.27 39 | 183 points by stereo-highway 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  41. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) (cardor.dev)
    ×0.70 33 | 70 points by enmanuelmag 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  42. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×0.98 76 | 4 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  43. Automating AI Research (jack-clark.net)
    ×2.01 60 | 5 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  44. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
    ×1.46 33 | 151 points by mindcrime 16 hours ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  45. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×1.01 53 | 86 points by TMWNN 14 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  46. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×3.39 2 | 590 points by whatisabcdefgh 23 hours ago | 178 comments | ??? ???
  47. The agent principal-agent problem (crawshaw.io)
    ×2.76 54 | 8 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  48. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×5.96 19 | 1521 points by diebillionaires 1 day ago | 621 comments | ??? ???
  49. The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape (iop.org)
    ×0.54 71 | 30 points by gnabgib 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  50. Consumer Confidence Diverging for Low- and High-Income Households (apollo.com)
    ×0.70 104 | 3 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Mojo Language (mojolang.org)
    ×1.54 88 | 4 points by melodyogonna 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van (thedrive.com)
    ×0.92 55 | 61 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  53. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 34 | 136 points by jonbaer 16 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  54. Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
    ×3.07 38 | 86 points by wslh 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  55. RIP social media. What comes next is messy (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.08 20 | 18 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  56. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.47 10 | 244 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.78 69 | 65 points by darkrishabh 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  58. Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads (theregister.com)
    ×1.56 5 | 7 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  59. "Mother of all Demos" (1968) (youtube.com)
    ×1.78 18 | 20 points by aragonite 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  60. Dayton suspends Flock contract, says data used for immigration enforcement (coxfirstmedia.com)
    ×0.84 107 | 3 points by JohnMakin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  61. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
    ×1.47 48 | 294 points by stevekrouse 1 day ago | 226 comments | ??? ???
  62. Campaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidates (npr.org)
    ×2.27 31 | 16 points by geox 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  63. ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×7.88 54 | 34 points by tfirst 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.92 52 | 287 points by bstrama 1 day ago | 256 comments | ??? ???
  65. Data Science Weekly – Issue 650 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)
    ×1.24 7 | 4 points by sebg 53 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  66. Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce) (yahoo.com)
    ×7.38 55 | 14 points by gcr 25 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  67. As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices (nytimes.com)
    ×2.93 29 | 19 points by tcp_handshaker 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  68. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.91 62 | 87 points by petethomas 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  69. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.17 63 | 143 points by dmos62 1 day ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  70. Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.21 59 | 7 points by droidjj 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.51 14 | 742 points by e12e 1 day ago | 842 comments | ??? ???
  72. I bought an analog watch and I love it (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.27 103 | 3 points by pastel5 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.05 61 | 190 points by ozkatz 1 day ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  74. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)
    ×3.01 46 | 204 points by robin_reala 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ??? ???
  75. The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis (harpers.org)
    ×1.57 58 | 100 points by Caiero 21 hours ago | 201 comments | ??? ???
  76. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×1.91 59 | 105 points by BiraIgnacio 22 hours ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  77. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.48 4 | 106 points by segmenta 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  78. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.87 59 | 71 points by isaacfrond 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  79. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.63 44 | 227 points by elonlit 1 day ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  80. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.40 20 | 1709 points by john-doe 2 days ago | 1117 comments | ??? ???
  81. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×5.51 36 | 37 points by HieronymusBosch 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  82. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.06 71 | 70 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  83. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
    ×0.76 72 | 78 points by zeech 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  84. The Key to EV Racing? Japanese Commentary and Jazz Fusion (thedrive.com)
    ×1.07 40 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×6.06 70 | 463 points by Qem 10 hours ago | 305 comments | ??? ???
  86. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.84 36 | 287 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 239 comments | ??? ???
  87. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×0.75 77 | 141 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  88. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.08 48 | 152 points by benanne 1 day ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  89. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.66 26 | 647 points by rolph 1 day ago | 363 comments | ??? ???
  90. 60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (theregister.com)
    ×2.43 2 | 7 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???