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  1. “I just chose words carefully” (aresluna.org)
    ×3.97 | 256 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)
    ×4.39 1 | 927 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (haiku-os.org)
    ×1.62 4 | 256 points by metrofun 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com)
    ×0.88 7 | 74 points by pwg 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
    ×1.50 3 | 99 points by WilsonHarper 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Sort branches by last commit date (ryangreenberg.com)
    ×1.30 9 | 87 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) (sander.ai)
    ×1.18 5 | 54 points by peter_d_sherman 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
    ×1.04 25 | 12 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver (github.com/KodeMunkie)
    ×0.92 12 | 67 points by SillyUsername 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.98 21 | 25 points by baud147258 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
    ×1.09 9 | 126 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)
    ×1.67 7 | 266 points by greenlightning 13 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×4.99 11 | 31 points by rguiscard 59 minutes ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
    ×1.01 26 | 84 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)
    ×2.20 22 | 78 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals (goto10retro.com)
    ×1.10 31 | 94 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)
    ×1.27 21 | 205 points by vntok 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Electric rain can eat through metal (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.14 16 | 94 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Adding a directional cost bias to a TSP heuristic reveals better local optima (uncledroid.app)
    ×0.43 77 | 3 points by Abhijit8086 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
    ×1.76 53 | 4 points by volodia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 22 | 192 points by joebig 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES (artie.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
    ×1.98 51 | 4 points by BirAdam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.56 41 | 14 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.94 19 | 356 points by nickslaughter02 10 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)
    ×4.37 22 | 411 points by trap0xcc 9 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code) (philrees.co.uk)
    ×0.63 35 | 36 points by sublinear 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero? (johndcook.com)
    ×1.27 | 19 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)
    ×1.04 26 | 91 points by smoores 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
    ×3.24 20 | 261 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.52 56 | 50 points by Bluestein 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.44 5 | 301 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s (askmike.org)
    ×1.31 6 | 132 points by askmike 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.74 42 | 59 points by cisc 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)
    ×6.14 17 | 701 points by shscs911 22 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (wordpress.com)
    ×2.80 23 | 227 points by catbird 11 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.69 42 | 221 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Orbs (ampcode.com)
    ×1.21 45 | 95 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Being kicked out of the tech industry (jacky.wtf)
    ×1.85 47 | 20 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (jupyter.org)
    ×1.14 42 | 94 points by arjxn-py 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 79 | 30 points by dudefeliciano 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
    ×1.22 42 | 166 points by sashk 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Building my own network stack (lyc8503.net)
    ×1.08 28 | 93 points by uneven9434 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020) (si.edu)
    ×1.18 51 | 99 points by EndXA 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. One Nix flake to rule them all (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.61 23 | 79 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.45 20 | 185 points by sparsesignal 12 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter (github.com/fugue-labs)
    ×0.63 44 | 46 points by networked 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals (kabaragoya.com)
    ×0.56 18 | 31 points by peteforde 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires: Infrastructure Is Sexy (governance.fyi)
    ×1.55 7 | 9 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. "A big win for Android interoperability" (osnews.com)
    ×1.30 20 | 4 points by aryonoco 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (python.org)
    ×1.75 7 | 294 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What We Tell AI (whatwetellai.com)
    ×1.75 62 | 34 points by thm 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
    ×2.04 7 | 383 points by davidmckenna 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.67 55 | 54 points by klelatti 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com/gbin)
    ×1.17 64 | 84 points by gbin 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.86 60 | 82 points by sys42590 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hy4 preview (tencent.com)
    ×1.74 4 | 380 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (acm.org)
    ×1.07 64 | 118 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why your boss doesn't seem to care about your tech career anymore (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.49 5 | 12 points by RoadieRoller 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.85 52 | 81 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.21 49 | 100 points by cisc 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting (theregister.com)
    ×1.77 9 | 14 points by joebuckwilliams 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.56 31 | 42 points by howard941 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (texastribune.org)
    ×3.93 16 | 412 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU (crossborderrail.eu)
    ×1.57 79 | 5 points by SiempreViernes 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
    ×2.70 6 | 527 points by zackb 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas (adropincalm.com)
    ×1.78 62 | 49 points by borracciaBlu 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
    ×1.22 40 | 175 points by tuckerwales 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Hillock: Local neuro-symbolic memory engine in <1.2GB VRAM (github.com/roandejager)
    ×1.13 54 | 8 points by roandejager5 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America (cnn.com)
    ×4.25 35 | 37 points by heresie-dabord 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (eng-leadership.com)
    ×3.91 12 | 446 points by gpi 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients (github.com/mk6i)
    ×0.97 58 | 61 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (nasa.gov)
    ×1.88 20 | 284 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
    ×0.76 63 | 61 points by hellerve 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 12TB Steam leak reveals unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.06 | 33 points by sbulaev 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning (newyorker.com)
    ×1.88 59 | 31 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
    ×1.07 59 | 108 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com/kingroryg)
    ×1.27 63 | 180 points by rgbimbochamp 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221) (debian.org)
    ×2.31 12 | 29 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript (typebase.io)
    ×0.83 58 | 116 points by andrewww-dev 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (theguardian.com)
    ×4.08 24 | 438 points by firefax 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EVE Online moves to Python 3 (eveonline.com)
    ×2.63 23 | 394 points by TylerJaacks 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Creating the Aetheryte Radio (haz.ee)
    ×0.63 73 | 77 points by wonger_ 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)
    ×1.71 56 | 310 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. My life was changed by four sentences in four books (sive.rs)
    ×3.53 28 | 38 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. West Point prof fired for continuing to teach human causes of climate change (theguardian.com)
    ×4.35 57 | 8 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Htmx 4.0 (htmx.org)
    ×3.53 14 | 815 points by rmsaksida 2 days ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.14 19 | 1971 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language (r136a1.dev)
    ×0.74 56 | 79 points by defrost 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal (nytimes.com)
    ×4.09 36 | 629 points by jbegley 2 days ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???