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  1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
    ×5.57 1 | 220 points by baranul 2 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.52 2 | 444 points by vitaut 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)
    ×1.94 5 | 19 points by couAUIA 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.64 5 | 1222 points by nprateem 23 hours ago | 716 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.39 5 | 37 points by Kudos 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.97 1 | 664 points by nicholasjbs 16 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.53 4 | 142 points by parksb 9 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 4 | 33 points by sciences44 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
    ×2.24 13 | 473 points by neversaydie 22 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (stackexchange.com)
    ×3.01 7 | 69 points by secretslol 1 hour ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.32 13 | 242 points by st_goliath 17 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains (in-toto.io)
    ×0.93 22 | 47 points by Erenay09 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read (github.com/waaldev)
    ×0.78 14 | 23 points by waaldev 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×2.02 4 | 83 points by gregsadetsky 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/BadChemical)
    ×1.85 21 | 154 points by BadChemical 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
    ×1.85 10 | 273 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.23 15 | 361 points by droidjj 22 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks (github.com/tucan9389)
    ×0.96 1 | 50 points by tucan9389 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.09 20 | 81 points by herbertl 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week (boilingsteam.com)
    ×2.19 14 | 21 points by ekianjo 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Responsive Design Calculator (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.63 39 | 4 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)
    ×0.96 27 | 63 points by radeeyate 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm (30fps.net)
    ×0.51 39 | 12 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
    ×1.79 17 | 148 points by lalitmaganti 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)
    ×2.36 8 | 192 points by subinalex 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.78 28 | 34 points by MeetingsBrowser 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)
    ×0.99 23 | 58 points by bkardell 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025) (velvetshark.com)
    ×5.75 28 | 253 points by miniBill 1 hour ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)
    ×1.52 22 | 117 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.65 11 | 133 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
    ×1.65 21 | 142 points by NaOH 18 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)
    ×1.45 23 | 98 points by wertyk 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
    ×1.77 10 | 258 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland (csmonitor.com)
    ×2.80 22 | 5 points by RickJWagner 31 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
    ×2.57 15 | 457 points by rellem 22 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
    ×0.93 29 | 98 points by lortex 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.90 42 | 102 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)
    ×7.32 16 | 2040 points by vincent_s 1 day ago | 1181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
    ×2.96 35 | 523 points by gnabgib 14 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
    ×1.14 24 | 163 points by tusksm 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.11 37 | 128 points by pavel_lishin 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. America Broke Its Own Military (tribunemag.co.uk)
    ×2.98 28 | 6 points by robtherobber 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
    ×3.29 11 | 461 points by twerkmeister 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
    ×2.05 30 | 229 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators (workspaces.xyz)
    ×0.85 46 | 85 points by ryangilbert 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
    ×1.06 52 | 66 points by pentagrama 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig (moonstone.sh)
    ×0.97 | 59 points by ksymph 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.78 42 | 97 points by duha 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
    ×2.56 25 | 182 points by hmm37 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (lobste.rs)
    ×3.68 22 | 202 points by abetusk 16 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Quintile – keyboard N×M grid tiling for macOS (github.com/stefanopineda)
    ×0.74 35 | 10 points by stefanopineda 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.93 42 | 103 points by thm 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/CharmingBlaze)
    ×0.91 36 | 68 points by klaussilveira 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)
    ×1.02 4 | 77 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says (theguardian.com)
    ×2.60 19 | 14 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.80 54 | 70 points by enz 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)
    ×3.41 20 | 395 points by merksittich 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)
    ×1.63 56 | 186 points by speckx 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (mataroa.blog)
    ×5.65 25 | 19 points by bertman 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Three workers digging in a field outside the data center (sign2.nl)
    ×0.97 72 | 5 points by jruohonen 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.51 20 | 260 points by divbzero 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)
    ×2.14 47 | 297 points by JeremyTheo 2 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (capitalone.com)
    ×0.83 42 | 73 points by medina 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders (rogerdickey.com)
    ×0.88 51 | 27 points by rogerdickey 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)
    ×1.38 23 | 81 points by j2kun 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (microsoft.com)
    ×3.24 10 | 798 points by jervant 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks (jse.li)
    ×0.65 48 | 39 points by eat_veggies 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction (qusaisuwan.github.io)
    ×1.79 31 | 26 points by qusaisuwan 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)
    ×1.09 50 | 146 points by anyonecancode 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)
    ×1.57 36 | 210 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Decoy Font (mixfont.com)
    ×3.08 8 | 705 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)
    ×1.08 53 | 158 points by zhinit 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
    ×1.82 40 | 284 points by Sherex 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Martin Picard's Mitochondrial Theory of Mind (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.96 46 | 6 points by nsoonhui 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. ASCII Art (github.com/doctorfree)
    ×1.21 41 | 9 points by audreyfei 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)
    ×1.51 14 | 150 points by guybedo 21 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
    ×1.65 | 266 points by crazysaem 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Instrumation a PYPI library for Instruments (github.com/abduznik)
    ×0.47 55 | 10 points by abduznik 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (spaceweather.gov)
    ×0.95 45 | 175 points by yabones 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.75 48 | 70 points by ingve 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×3.78 1 | 825 points by mcgin 2 days ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
    ×1.31 7 | 251 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)
    ×1.56 26 | 191 points by silcoon 22 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser) (om-intelligence.ch)
    ×1.06 27 | 90 points by busssard 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld (pocketjs.dev)
    ×1.15 31 | 46 points by itvision 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled (dustycloud.org)
    ×1.08 43 | 17 points by sanqui 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin (yale.edu)
    ×1.04 35 | 118 points by gmays 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply (bbc.com)
    ×1.88 46 | 148 points by clarionbell 2 days ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (arxiv.org)
    ×0.91 37 | 18 points by shenli3514 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???