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  1. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×6.94 | 599 points by bradleyg223 1 hour ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 5 | 68 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.14 1 | 80 points by iandinwoodie 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.87 5 | 97 points by anerli 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.83 7 | 17 points by theanonymousone 50 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.22 7 | 68 points by jbott 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.89 7 | 32 points by luu 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.67 9 | 188 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.73 1 | 561 points by yarapavan 11 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.28 9 | 222 points by luispa 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.68 6 | 37 points by porridgeraisin 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.16 14 | 145 points by megalomanu 8 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×1.42 42 | 7 points by pminimax 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.73 46 | 8 points by lashkari 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.80 43 | 12 points by leephillips 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×0.64 48 | 7 points by pwim 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.81 10 | 109 points by b-man 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×2.64 16 | 44 points by rzk 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.25 9 | 100 points by yedhukrishnan 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.42 4 | 81 points by viraj_shah 6 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.03 5 | 116 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
    ×2.21 1 | 18 points by ArchAndStarch 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
    ×0.45 62 | 12 points by Levitating 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.79 69 | 10 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×1.18 45 | 56 points by aureianimus 9 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.53 22 | 12 points by OlympicMarmoto 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.21 13 | 70 points by kmstout 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.71 9 | 51 points by croes 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×4.92 28 | 89 points by thoughtfullyso 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.59 8 | 19 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.11 29 | 124 points by BurnerBurner 12 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.96 6 | 62 points by mogrinz 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.23 17 | 71 points by dancablam 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×0.65 72 | 3 points by cachrevolt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.85 21 | 120 points by gvuksic 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.65 13 | 246 points by laurenth 16 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.92 29 | 64 points by systemerror 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (cmu.edu)
    ×1.84 8 | 29 points by Guyadou 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.17 18 | 111 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.65 33 | 112 points by Zeruxe 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×4.43 22 | 17 points by paimapi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.96 87 | 92 points by primitivesuave 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (amazon.com)
    ×1.71 11 | 8 points by daigoba66 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.18 81 | 7 points by cobbzilla 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases (theregister.com)
    ×2.45 10 | 5 points by johnshades 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.44 41 | 26 points by danaris 55 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.62 18 | 864 points by bryan0 23 hours ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.60 42 | 16 points by ajoski9 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (eia.gov)
    ×0.32 54 | 10 points by thelastgallon 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 82 | 338 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) (bbc.com)
    ×1.96 18 | 8 points by alentred 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Bologna Bottle (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 1 | 9 points by _josh_meyer_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.23 31 | 23 points by turantekin 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.47 72 | 111 points by papa-whisky 22 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.79 59 | 57 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.66 52 | 197 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.00 5 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.30 4 | 5 points by merksittich 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.15 45 | 120 points by Baljhin 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.41 32 | 414 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 820 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.80 57 | 85 points by luu 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.44 21 | 1041 points by crorella 1 day ago | 928 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×2.85 17 | 31 points by sdlkj- 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×0.98 55 | 73 points by seam_carver 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.24 50 | 144 points by birdculture 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.92 59 | 36 points by throw0101a 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Cuckoo's Egg (Book) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.64 2 | 5 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.51 45 | 153 points by thelastgallon 23 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden's Blog (mrhaydendp.com)
    ×0.53 72 | 4 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.32 15 | 744 points by alvis 1 day ago | 627 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.16 3 | 370 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers (phoronix.com)
    ×1.07 7 | 4 points by porridgeraisin 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Los Alamos Bets on Eniac: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947–1948 [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.18 67 | 9 points by nill0 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.11 2 | 305 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 12 | 744 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 686 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Senate Democrats block bill to limit lawmakers' stock trades, citing voter ID (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.22 1 | 4 points by mc32 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.11 53 | 169 points by rossant 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×2.57 2 | 12 points by mikhael 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.26 56 | 160 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.17 2 | 375 points by wanick 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.25 17 | 275 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.69 20 | 293 points by dmux 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane (ft.com)
    ×3.11 5 | 24 points by alephnerd 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (backblaze.com)
    ×2.21 21 | 295 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.02 14 | 344 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.63 58 | 197 points by Thom2503 10 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (theguardian.com)
    ×2.27 14 | 199 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.34 2 | 577 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Homeless Community in Portland, Oregon That Became a Self-Governed Village (nytimes.com)
    ×2.60 6 | 8 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???