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  1. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×2.49 | 160 points by komape 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive (kciter.so)
    ×2.21 1 | 70 points by kciter 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.36 4 | 589 points by bvaldivielso 14 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×3.93 2 | 1031 points by bratao 19 hours ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016) (scienceblog.com)
    ×1.98 1 | 57 points by DamonHD 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Computer Museum of America reclamation project (computer-museum.org)
    ×0.80 10 | 47 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
    ×2.21 11 | 422 points by jakobgreenfeld 20 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (nytimes.com)
    ×2.21 3 | 394 points by donohoe 15 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Holden's Lightning Flight (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 6 | 161 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026) (experimentalliving.substack.com)
    ×1.31 17 | 11 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (mistral.ai)
    ×2.23 12 | 446 points by teekert 21 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex (werwolv.net)
    ×1.71 5 | 209 points by carlos-menezes 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com/PhiloLabs)
    ×2.04 1 | 253 points by surreal_ 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
    ×1.24 11 | 74 points by MrOrelliOReilly 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
    ×0.65 36 | 64 points by lloydarmbrust 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (science.org)
    ×1.67 18 | 300 points by randycupertino 20 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.84 23 | 287 points by mdp2021 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Wendell Berry has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.63 15 | 190 points by Curiositry 16 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (medium.com)
    ×1.42 25 | 142 points by gumby 15 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets (theguardian.com)
    ×4.72 15 | 15 points by haunter 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)
    ×1.20 24 | 98 points by herobird 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022) (tweedegolf.nl)
    ×1.04 41 | 97 points by kooi 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)
    ×1.66 14 | 269 points by akkartik 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards (clui.org)
    ×1.27 33 | 171 points by 1970-01-01 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. LLMs and Self-Referentiality (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.40 15 | 52 points by mavdol04 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (gatesnotes.com)
    ×0.67 49 | 61 points by Eridanus2 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.26 31 | 115 points by torutofu 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)
    ×1.12 32 | 167 points by vismit2000 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai)
    ×1.51 10 | 97 points by ddp26 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote) (nango.dev)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)
    ×0.92 47 | 121 points by saikatsg 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×1.80 41 | 181 points by amunozo 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Syria, eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.76 11 | 14 points by divbzero 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.86 27 | 25 points by EmiCorleone 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)
    ×3.33 26 | 706 points by rwky 21 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Much Ado About Adenoids (damninteresting.com)
    ×0.98 19 | 30 points by SamuraiLion 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs (nature.com)
    ×2.05 18 | 144 points by Anon84 11 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.19 7 | 1391 points by denysvitali 1 day ago | 1354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money? (theconversation.com)
    ×2.53 13 | 10 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods (nexusmods.com)
    ×1.45 28 | 117 points by HelloUsername 18 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities (owntime.app)
    ×1.44 29 | 84 points by fmos 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I wanna live an NPC life (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.18 29 | 259 points by conferza 14 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Making the Internet Boring (cemrehancavdar.com)
    ×1.42 16 | 120 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway (qualityf2p.workers.dev)
    ×2.76 37 | 59 points by duck 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini (lws.io)
    ×2.15 42 | 306 points by raybb 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero (aisle.com)
    ×1.70 16 | 167 points by goobreee 20 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.74 | 342 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds (geekwire.com)
    ×1.07 5 | 5 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
    ×1.83 37 | 245 points by Alephinitesimal 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)
    ×0.92 42 | 84 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.16 19 | 404 points by tatersolid 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form (nooshu.com)
    ×0.84 49 | 36 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development (norirobotics.com)
    ×1.03 66 | 197 points by AntonioLi 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux (paint.net)
    ×2.34 18 | 194 points by judah 17 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.33 3 | 187 points by user_7832 20 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain (neuroai.science)
    ×0.97 46 | 47 points by pminimax 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
    ×4.05 8 | 845 points by jatins 1 day ago | 1018 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. It's Like Having 150 Extra Engineers (wikimedia.org)
    ×4.28 23 | 58 points by glimshe 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A docs page is a search query to find AI agents and route them to your company (val.town)
    ×0.81 56 | 21 points by stevekrouse 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken (prodpad.com)
    ×0.62 44 | 26 points by adrianhoward 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
    ×1.57 11 | 287 points by schmuhblaster 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Check if a file was made with Claude (claude.com)
    ×1.74 4 | 165 points by frexs 22 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Unified Arabic (worksthatwork.com)
    ×2.52 59 | 23 points by spacebuffer 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link (github.com/ankidroid)
    ×3.64 | 912 points by hexa555 2 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (mozilla.org)
    ×3.13 17 | 579 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) (dougbarnesauthor.com)
    ×0.93 74 | 87 points by Vedor 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.38 13 | 42 points by joshka 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I Don't Have a Smartphone (ploum.net)
    ×3.45 39 | 228 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The efficient frontier of LLM inference (baseten.co)
    ×1.15 42 | 152 points by philipkiely 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI is stopping startups from completing puberty (rolfmore.com)
    ×1.45 37 | 34 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence (worldlabs.ai)
    ×2.37 29 | 264 points by johnsutor 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory (kedglobal.com)
    ×3.86 22 | 41 points by gmays 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard (chris48s.github.io)
    ×0.93 39 | 58 points by stefanvdw1 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.91 54 | 111 points by all2 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Overton Window of Food (think-twice.me)
    ×1.25 50 | 24 points by zug_zug 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Selling Software Worldwide from Europe (holtwick.de)
    ×1.95 42 | 27 points by viermalbe 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools (nytimes.com)
    ×6.52 56 | 176 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect (bbc.com)
    ×2.32 46 | 126 points by yakkomajuri 12 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Open Battery Information (github.com/mnh-jansson)
    ×0.79 52 | 50 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. WebFPGA (2019) (webfpga.io)
    ×0.99 36 | 108 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.20 25 | 80 points by JulianPGough 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor (tangleml.com)
    ×0.60 48 | 23 points by duck 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How to debloat your Xiaomi 15 Ultra without root access (trackerninja.codeberg.page)
    ×0.80 30 | 38 points by spacedrone808 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations (vidact.dev)
    ×0.77 42 | 16 points by mohebifar 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident (metr.org)
    ×2.79 57 | 110 points by stikit 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users (gitlab.com)
    ×2.80 6 | 553 points by erikvanoosten 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident (ariadne.space)
    ×1.08 21 | 30 points by miniBill 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI, ex-Soviet engineers, and the Holy Grail of rocketry (fastcompany.com)
    ×0.98 33 | 38 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How Railroad Crossings Work (2024) (practical.engineering)
    ×1.03 31 | 32 points by at1as 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kakistocracy (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.07 52 | 49 points by rolph 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???