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  1. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (anthropic.com)
    ×1.45 3 | 129 points by salkahfi 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×2.88 3 | 574 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.52 3 | 284 points by trms 7 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.61 6 | 170 points by bhouston 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×2.55 20 | 4 points by GalaxySnail 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
    ×1.21 8 | 54 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. xAI joins SpaceX (spacex.com)
    ×4.09 6 | 561 points by g-mork 6 hours ago | 1242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.60 3 | 335 points by wodniok 11 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.44 6 | 38 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (frommers.com)
    ×5.94 8 | 289 points by donohoe 5 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.14 9 | 247 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hacking Moltbook (wiz.io)
    ×2.01 5 | 269 points by galnagli 12 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.89 | 72 points by ashergill 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.67 11 | 270 points by ck2 5 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.73 15 | 277 points by indigodaddy 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.70 20 | 114 points by cf100clunk 10 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (macrumors.com)
    ×3.26 10 | 122 points by stalfosknight 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.53 3 | 14 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×1.09 | 23 points by pouyathe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (sdan.io)
    ×0.80 27 | 30 points by sdan 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×1.01 13 | 53 points by mci 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.83 29 | 71 points by dbgrman 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    ×1.13 14 | 223 points by yz-yu 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.95 16 | 54 points by geox 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×1.06 13 | 95 points by tromp 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
    ×0.99 9 | 116 points by salkahfi 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    ×2.90 3 | 181 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com/orgs)
    ×4.10 19 | 75 points by aofeisheng 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×1.86 20 | 159 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×1.00 12 | 152 points by defrost 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.91 15 | 106 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    ×1.25 34 | 95 points by Technolithic 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.12 28 | 100 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com/stelviodev)
    ×0.51 38 | 29 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why software stocks are getting pummelled (economist.com)
    ×1.94 9 | 147 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×0.94 22 | 137 points by noelwelsh 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com/mattermost)
    ×3.21 25 | 154 points by MallocVoidstar 7 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled (cnbc.com)
    ×2.44 20 | 119 points by greatgib 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)
    ×0.60 31 | 32 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (epa.gov)
    ×2.00 18 | 169 points by bilsbie 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder (iso-coaster.com)
    ×1.04 13 | 103 points by duck 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (theverge.com)
    ×3.33 14 | 356 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Parking lots as economic drains (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
    ×2.91 16 | 139 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
    ×1.29 34 | 121 points by tontony 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.30 5 | 823 points by zdw 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.55 13 | 194 points by JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TileIR Internals (maknee.github.io)
    ×0.27 64 | 9 points by vimarsh6739 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ratchets in software development (2021) (qntm.org)
    ×1.02 39 | 111 points by nvader 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Termux (github.com/termux)
    ×2.42 17 | 331 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Valanza – my Unix way for weight tracking and anlysis (github.com/paolomarrone)
    ×0.33 57 | 25 points by lallero317 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
    ×0.48 42 | 24 points by ps2026 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hypergrowth isn’t always easy (tailscale.com)
    ×1.18 11 | 128 points by usrme 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Best Gas Masks (theverge.com)
    ×6.49 30 | 536 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×0.85 49 | 99 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source (hackaday.com)
    ×1.87 14 | 6 points by lxm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.92 41 | 131 points by kioku 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.20 7 | 417 points by rafaelcosta 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 23 | 35 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Treasures found on HS2 route (bbc.com)
    ×0.92 43 | 118 points by breve 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Axiom: Hi-perf. C++ tensor lib. NumPy/PyTorch-like API, SIMD,BLAS,Metal support (github.com/Frikallo)
    ×0.59 73 | 4 points by npalli 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library (github.com/rustrum)
    ×0.27 62 | 30 points by rumatoest 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rev up the viral factories (science.org)
    ×0.60 60 | 46 points by etiam 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system (wesmckinney.com)
    ×3.57 40 | 35 points by j4mie 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×3.20 9 | 383 points by righthand 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons (rogueamoeba.com)
    ×2.67 13 | 30 points by fanf2 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker (wyounas.github.io)
    ×0.31 55 | 15 points by simplegeek 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.30 1 | 325 points by martinald 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    ×2.60 14 | 409 points by rebane2001 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.11 1 | 719 points by l1am0 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
    ×0.66 41 | 46 points by bryanrasmussen 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    ×2.27 29 | 155 points by zdw 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.16 4 | 191 points by zdw 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce (wired.com)
    ×3.20 18 | 266 points by smurda 23 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.61 23 | 503 points by jimminyx 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.80 37 | 143 points by chrisjj 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why Go is not my favourite language (habets.se)
    ×1.99 42 | 16 points by behnamoh 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.30 37 | 128 points by cyanbane 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×1.76 6 | 393 points by doener 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Lawsuit Challenges National Park Service Ban on Cash Payments (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.85 49 | 10 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. John Romero: Making Catacomb 3-D [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.00 22 | 17 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×0.97 43 | 102 points by gmays 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.48 7 | 31 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.05 29 | 107 points by bryantwolf 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Git v2.53.0 (lwn.net)
    ×0.92 13 | 8 points by samtrack2019 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
    ×1.23 4 | 267 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.07 21 | 108 points by accrual 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.39 | 875 points by cbeuw 2 days ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push (spacenews.com)
    ×2.45 27 | 157 points by benkan 19 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.05 19 | 34 points by bikenaga 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???