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  1. A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.51 2 | 47 points by Usu 51 minutes ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)
    ×3.67 1 | 826 points by regnerba 7 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (reuters.com)
    ×2.09 7 | 239 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (browser-use.com)
    ×1.58 13 | 146 points by gregpr07 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.25 10 | 714 points by himata4113 12 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/Adam-CAD)
    ×0.89 15 | 119 points by zachdive 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
    ×1.66 6 | 166 points by brownrout 5 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. U.S. science is in chaos (scientificamerican.com)
    ×5.24 10 | 522 points by presspot 11 hours ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation (sigarch.org)
    ×0.77 29 | 13 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (rfc-editor.org)
    ×1.69 16 | 288 points by schappim 11 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors (storiedcolors.com)
    ×0.34 33 | 3 points by susiecambria 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (grapheneos.org)
    ×3.82 5 | 403 points by microtonal 6 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction (loreline.app)
    ×1.91 24 | 9 points by smartmic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.85 6 | 21 points by greenchair 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)
    ×1.49 7 | 79 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (thesignalist.io)
    ×1.60 14 | 126 points by kodesko 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.26 17 | 137 points by Yenrabbit 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27 (manualdousuario.net)
    ×2.53 15 | 10 points by rpgbr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.41 8 | 22 points by Bender 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Want your images back? That'll be $5 (lutr.dev)
    ×3.00 12 | 572 points by lutr 8 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)
    ×1.24 6 | 164 points by peter_d_sherman 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hacker News but for independent blogs (bubbles.town)
    ×3.18 2 | 494 points by headalgorithm 14 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry (openai.com)
    ×0.91 5 | 40 points by ilreb 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Kirkland Roundabouts (kirklandroundabouts.com)
    ×1.44 57 | 132 points by DenisM 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout (flickey.site)
    ×0.98 4 | 15 points by tal_alfi 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Image Compression (makingsoftware.com)
    ×1.20 16 | 127 points by vinhnx 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
    ×3.13 14 | 296 points by BerislavLopac 7 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025) (freerange.city)
    ×1.42 31 | 94 points by Redoubts 11 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup (claude.com)
    ×1.50 22 | 192 points by e2e4 14 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: StarScope – Free astronomy dashboard for observers outside the US/UK (starscope.live)
    ×0.58 28 | 12 points by xenophin 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code (greptile.com)
    ×0.73 18 | 44 points by dakshgupta 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You (wordpress.com)
    ×0.55 25 | 24 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields (airfields-freeman.com)
    ×1.25 11 | 141 points by wizardforhire 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Capitoline Wolf (thehappytraveler.ca)
    ×0.30 52 | 12 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms (iam.mt)
    ×1.33 29 | 17 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata (cells2pixels.github.io)
    ×1.16 4 | 176 points by esychology 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch (wsj.com)
    ×4.10 14 | 11 points by foobarqux 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.34 3 | 64 points by evanklem2004 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.48 27 | 136 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Language Courses in the Public Domain (yojik.eu)
    ×1.08 57 | 17 points by hggh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation (science.org)
    ×1.29 19 | 125 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate (github.com/pbkx)
    ×0.54 29 | 26 points by rmi0 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite (greg.technology)
    ×1.13 40 | 113 points by gregsadetsky 14 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock (github.com/ArcaEge)
    ×1.29 16 | 130 points by arcaege 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026 (eia.gov)
    ×4.04 40 | 53 points by martinpw 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I scored 200 blockchain NPM packages for deprecation and hijack risk (chain-audit.netlify.app)
    ×0.74 73 | 3 points by Heavensinfinite 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this (dedoimedo.com)
    ×3.87 28 | 37 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length (theguardian.com)
    ×1.29 41 | 162 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Gemma 4 E2B running in-browser at 255 tok/s (huggingface.co)
    ×2.38 10 | 4 points by victormustar 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
    ×5.31 18 | 1501 points by jfb 1 day ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (grapheneos.org)
    ×3.69 20 | 969 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd (statsignificant.com)
    ×0.61 36 | 35 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap (stephantul.github.io)
    ×0.95 46 | 70 points by stephantul 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)
    ×4.53 2 | 1105 points by itsmarcelg 1 day ago | 1640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users) (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.63 14 | 68 points by FrustratedMonky 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff (wpvip.com)
    ×6.16 52 | 965 points by thm 9 hours ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety (wsj.com)
    ×2.08 47 | 65 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display (glasskit.app)
    ×0.23 64 | 11 points by Jeries 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 59 | 71 points by ascarshen 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Making 'food out of thin air' (2024) (noemamag.com)
    ×0.59 63 | 48 points by muchweight 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents (github.com/mupt-ai)
    ×2.07 50 | 7 points by byhong03 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.86 58 | 112 points by jensgk 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity (owlposting.com)
    ×0.41 95 | 3 points by abhishaike 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.16 53 | 181 points by gpjt 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Neural Cellular Automata with WebGPU (ivanludvig.dev)
    ×1.04 80 | 5 points by IvanLudvig 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (mareksuppa.com)
    ×2.25 8 | 517 points by mrshu 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. FortiBleed – 75k Fortinet firewalls have admin passwords cracked (doublepulsar.com)
    ×1.42 1 | 6 points by _____k 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.72 67 | 359 points by karakoram 4 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (mll.sh)
    ×1.71 2 | 348 points by denysvitali 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DeepSeek v4 Pro 1.6T model post-trained by Huawei on 1000 Ascend 910C chips (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.12 6 | 19 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Vpod – Tiny Linux sandbox running in WASM (github.com/capsulerun)
    ×1.51 75 | 4 points by mavdol04 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×2.81 3 | 726 points by razin 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)
    ×5.81 4 | 1581 points by lwhsiao 2 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Magic Trackpad 2 force-touch clicks and haptics for Linux (eriskii.net)
    ×1.32 61 | 5 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)
    ×2.60 5 | 532 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (tim.blog)
    ×2.24 11 | 390 points by imakwana 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust (github.com/nvlabs)
    ×0.86 49 | 99 points by melihelibol 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.12 71 | 195 points by alexis-d 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload (brevio.pro)
    ×1.41 1 | 83 points by ruimbarreira 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (theverge.com)
    ×5.30 32 | 861 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator (analogtv.net)
    ×0.49 66 | 57 points by ambanmba 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A 24-byte TAR-like file system for microcontrollers (github.com/clisystems)
    ×1.67 71 | 6 points by drewcg 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×4.08 2 | 914 points by apitman 1 day ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. UK's Social Media Ban: The Monumental Pretext for Total Digital Surveillance (modernity.news)
    ×2.24 31 | 16 points by arrowsmith 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Multiple JetBrains IDE plugins caught stealing AI keys (aikido.dev)
    ×1.96 55 | 19 points by sschueller 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×4.87 23 | 631 points by throwarayes 1 day ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands (tno.nl)
    ×1.28 11 | 248 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: In-browser Python/Pandas/Git practice with animated Git simulator (lernerpython.com)
    ×1.14 72 | 4 points by reuven 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat (rferl.org)
    ×1.39 49 | 186 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???