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  1. Programming Isn't Special (glyph.im)
    ×2.64 1 | 28 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack (opentelemetry.io)
    ×0.99 1 | 34 points by dhruv_ahuja 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (dgt.is)
    ×3.85 1 | 713 points by jonotime 14 hours ago | 589 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.92 2 | 748 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs (aresluna.org)
    ×1.89 | 126 points by sohkamyung 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. MXC - a sandboxed code execution system (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.28 16 | 18 points by nreece 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (dexerto.com)
    ×4.18 8 | 669 points by ck2 19 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Theranos.world (theranos.world)
    ×2.36 2 | 432 points by kbyatnal 13 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×4.12 7 | 606 points by soheilpro 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Yes, and (htmx.org)
    ×3.36 3 | 406 points by Michelangelo11 14 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
    ×2.07 10 | 148 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The value of not getting to the point (2015) (arneson.name)
    ×1.01 18 | 161 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
    ×1.68 8 | 113 points by md224 9 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
    ×1.08 19 | 122 points by ray__ 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux (naturalsystems.io)
    ×1.33 27 | 154 points by chabad360 14 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser (oldroll.io)
    ×0.53 25 | 8 points by awa11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.77 17 | 227 points by mariocesar 16 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)
    ×1.45 18 | 300 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
    ×1.18 8 | 111 points by signa11 6 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DuckDB Ducklake (github.com/duckdb)
    ×1.43 42 | 174 points by saikatsg 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) (mitchellh.com)
    ×1.17 16 | 145 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What should we tell our students? (wordpress.com)
    ×2.24 13 | 106 points by sajid 6 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
    ×1.41 12 | 161 points by scottbez1 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (nature.com)
    ×1.19 29 | 132 points by bryanrasmussen 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.85 34 | 126 points by AnneWodell 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bevy 0.20 (bevy.org)
    ×2.60 8 | 158 points by Philpax 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025) (frontiersin.org)
    ×2.79 13 | 289 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com/danintheory)
    ×3.08 33 | 305 points by sashank_1509 1 day ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.90 40 | 131 points by Hooke 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.71 22 | 190 points by andreynering 18 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy (janestreet.com)
    ×0.84 29 | 43 points by eatonphil 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×2.83 44 | 167 points by pyduan 20 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)
    ×1.02 34 | 61 points by felix089 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.72 22 | 698 points by lukehandcool 18 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
    ×2.03 8 | 173 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. New gTLD Application for .lan (icann.org)
    ×1.56 30 | 122 points by mzajc 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (theguardian.com)
    ×1.81 37 | 170 points by sonabinu 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program (apnews.com)
    ×5.42 30 | 871 points by alephnerd 17 hours ago | 1480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton (theconversation.com)
    ×0.88 41 | 76 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OLED burn-in test: 30-month update (techspot.com)
    ×1.42 25 | 117 points by baal80spam 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 42 | 1326 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 1509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU (github.com/ymcrcat)
    ×0.63 48 | 49 points by boxstream 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled (cnbc.com)
    ×4.68 24 | 389 points by mfiguiere 16 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model (huggingface.co)
    ×0.57 69 | 35 points by joegibbs 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.47 7 | 597 points by ent101 1 day ago | 636 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.56 48 | 387 points by 6bitquant 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI (github.com/edrisranjbar)
    ×0.73 21 | 35 points by edris0077 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com/SamsungLabs)
    ×0.97 58 | 84 points by brainless 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.74 37 | 65 points by pierreneter 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked (pocketty.app)
    ×0.60 53 | 28 points by lukeed 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1 (loc.gov)
    ×1.62 63 | 11 points by alex000kim 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.00 59 | 52 points by danny00 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing (flinders.edu.au)
    ×0.59 74 | 35 points by geox 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Time Travel in Braid (2015) (qntm.org)
    ×0.99 56 | 101 points by Ariarule 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools (svg-spark.vercel.app)
    ×0.68 9 | 39 points by Zeus808 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (solarpowerworldonline.com)
    ×2.76 28 | 242 points by 01-_- 16 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
    ×2.34 31 | 390 points by stared 20 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bitmaps in the Linux Kernel (0xax.dev)
    ×0.63 90 | 10 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Telnet BBS Guide (telnetbbsguide.com)
    ×0.80 41 | 101 points by kmstout 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×2.82 13 | 32 points by lnguyen 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
    ×2.31 38 | 454 points by turrini 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (pkh.me)
    ×0.76 67 | 64 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.75 74 | 223 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Slow Formation of Durable Software (dancohen.org)
    ×1.60 14 | 280 points by benbreen 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×1.17 9 | 7 points by hanstyle 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
    ×1.09 73 | 181 points by speckx 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com)
    ×2.16 4 | 363 points by shahidhussain 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase (spinal.sh)
    ×0.72 60 | 16 points by handfuloflight 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.56 71 | 231 points by librasteve 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Clojure in the age of language models (yogthos.net)
    ×0.95 56 | 37 points by silcoon 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Iran's drones hit America's Achilles heel (politico.com)
    ×2.97 25 | 31 points by snarky-comments 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail (pentlander.com)
    ×0.60 61 | 33 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. .md File is not a specification: Using formal analysis to find requirements gaps (fizzbee.ai)
    ×0.88 72 | 22 points by jayaprabhakar 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
    ×2.14 42 | 339 points by nill0 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
    ×1.65 55 | 227 points by glinscott 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (github.com/snuri00)
    ×1.83 70 | 226 points by sn001 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Calling a function in C without naming it (wiro.world)
    ×1.36 43 | 38 points by birdculture 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances (cointelegraph.com)
    ×1.77 6 | 61 points by firstcomm 13 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed (bbc.com)
    ×4.53 35 | 68 points by mo7061 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×2.23 44 | 321 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×7.39 3 | 2032 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 1210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The art of defusing a second world war bomb (theguardian.com)
    ×1.16 75 | 146 points by sandebert 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
    ×1.27 70 | 159 points by acossta 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew (github.com/zerobrewhq)
    ×1.75 54 | 107 points by cachebag 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
    ×1.98 4 | 359 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
    ×1.38 55 | 203 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI Crawler Index (mojodojo.io)
    ×1.07 60 | 20 points by zenincognito 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com/pingdotgg)
    ×1.42 56 | 111 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I gave four coding agents $100 budget to build a PDF editor (nielstron.de)
    ×1.32 42 | 13 points by nielstron 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)
    ×0.73 60 | 19 points by dyarosla 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???