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  1. Scorched Earth 2000 – Web (scorch2000.com)
    ×2.41 | 163 points by meshko 3 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cisco Workforce Reductions (cisco.com)
    ×3.76 | 72 points by ahmedomran8 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.24 4 | 589 points by haunter 11 hours ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Claude for Small Business (anthropic.com)
    ×2.59 5 | 8 points by neilfrndes 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (fredchan.org)
    ×2.31 5 | 525 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A History of IDEs at Google (le-brun.eu)
    ×2.06 10 | 311 points by laurentlb 12 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Emacsification of Software (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.06 10 | 231 points by rdslw 11 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book (ardoedo.it)
    ×1.51 10 | 124 points by Eswo 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Nibble (github.com/glouw)
    ×1.42 22 | 12 points by glouwbug 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Golden Testing a CAD Library (doscienceto.it)
    ×1.19 74 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.68 25 | 347 points by jnord 20 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent (dailyprincetonian.com)
    ×2.49 6 | 285 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact (rsc.org)
    ×1.30 41 | 9 points by efavdb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AEPs: API Enhancement Proposals (github.com/aep-dev)
    ×0.48 51 | 10 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.26 12 | 32 points by cookiengineer 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion (jackhogan.me)
    ×0.88 12 | 48 points by jackhogan11 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration (tryardent.com)
    ×0.64 34 | 79 points by vc289 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.26 15 | 168 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization (avkcode.github.io)
    ×1.54 19 | 171 points by akrylov 14 hours ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming (theregister.com)
    ×5.16 16 | 78 points by e12e 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)
    ×0.82 23 | 109 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (python.org)
    ×1.43 18 | 208 points by curiousgal 16 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.77 38 | 649 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools (andreafortuna.org)
    ×0.77 34 | 55 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×3.62 20 | 224 points by pycassa 6 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (theverge.com)
    ×3.06 12 | 141 points by logickkk1 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter (dmitry.gr)
    ×1.35 25 | 216 points by dmitrygr 18 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)
    ×3.22 16 | 547 points by jorijn 15 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)
    ×4.49 21 | 903 points by monokai_nl 16 hours ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)
    ×1.09 27 | 154 points by magni121 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Comparing a 1980s memory map to the Raspi Pico (medium.com)
    ×0.63 44 | 25 points by Schlagbohrer 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Age of the Amplifier (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.57 34 | 13 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one's for you, Ned (adn.com)
    ×0.63 40 | 17 points by rolph 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Can a Language Model Paint? (etive-mor.com)
    ×1.74 | 13 points by liamlaverty 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Making the news available at no cost is a victory (sltrib.com)
    ×1.42 12 | 120 points by danso 8 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (algorithmicpattern.org)
    ×0.51 65 | 26 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us (mataroa.blog)
    ×2.18 9 | 8 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.56 14 | 67 points by brandonb 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways (vittorioromeo.com)
    ×1.05 75 | 80 points by sagacity 19 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs (bitplane.net)
    ×1.47 14 | 80 points by davidsong 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (sjmulder.nl)
    ×0.93 51 | 97 points by adunk 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Latest News in Vaccine Obstruction (science.org)
    ×3.21 33 | 17 points by pcrh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time (ossresistance.com)
    ×2.15 23 | 251 points by mikemcquaid 12 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.83 3 | 301 points by HardwareLust 21 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems (atalaykutlay.com)
    ×0.84 63 | 76 points by akutlay 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (jdhodges.com)
    ×2.05 27 | 146 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.22 70 | 156 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism (ug.edu.pl)
    ×4.89 25 | 66 points by doener 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com/FULU-Foundation)
    ×2.77 4 | 643 points by Murfalo 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Other Half of AI Safety (personalaisafety.com)
    ×1.40 40 | 52 points by sofiaqt 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×3.50 10 | 907 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 1519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
    ×1.16 74 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com/tracewayapp)
    ×1.32 59 | 167 points by sebakubisz 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005) (greem.co.uk)
    ×1.06 28 | 76 points by microsoftedging 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Intercom changes name to Fin (intercom.com)
    ×0.97 11 | 22 points by RyanShook 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens (github.com/composer)
    ×1.18 4 | 60 points by damienwebdev 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
    ×0.44 99 | 57 points by namanyayg 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)
    ×1.25 45 | 118 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)
    ×0.98 18 | 77 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)
    ×1.42 46 | 210 points by ericswpark 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors (kotaku.com)
    ×5.36 49 | 360 points by stalfosknight 12 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sleep linked to slower ageing: study pinpoints the right amount (nature.com)
    ×2.94 13 | 29 points by EA-3167 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×3.66 4 | 777 points by nilirl 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I was asked to install malware during a fake interview (ashishb.net)
    ×2.85 18 | 39 points by ashishb 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How can Apple deal with the memory shortage? (asymco.com)
    ×1.12 17 | 72 points by tambourine_man 10 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com/xtellect)
    ×0.98 64 | 101 points by enduku 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The vi family (ath0.com)
    ×2.05 9 | 264 points by hggh 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics (arxiv.org)
    ×1.44 5 | 289 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
    ×1.40 22 | 230 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.54 3 | 46 points by Bender 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
    ×2.38 1 | 478 points by _vaporwave_ 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Proton's password manager passes audit by top security firm – Proton (proton.me)
    ×3.01 18 | 12 points by abdelhousni 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage (propublica.org)
    ×4.05 59 | 182 points by ceejayoz 9 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×3.75 60 | 206 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Haiku (haiku-os.org)
    ×2.25 50 | 159 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
    ×0.60 68 | 89 points by sai18 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.27 51 | 167 points by luispa 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
    ×1.74 16 | 364 points by chizhik-pyzhik 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. ICE may be at World Cup matches in U.S. (nbcnews.com)
    ×5.20 58 | 14 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (savethearchive.com)
    ×3.55 14 | 412 points by doener 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff (reuters.com)
    ×6.21 63 | 14 points by doppp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×0.93 55 | 112 points by azurewraith 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Is BusyBox? (specular.fi)
    ×1.56 56 | 37 points by maxloh 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Redis and the Cost of Ambition (charlesleifer.com)
    ×1.41 56 | 36 points by maxloh 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com/Genymobile)
    ×2.98 1 | 353 points by xnx 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.36 67 | 55 points by ttpost 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Continual Harness: Online Adaptation for Self-Improving Foundation Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.62 55 | 7 points by milkkarten 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p` (x.com)
    ×3.73 30 | 45 points by ramoz 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.12 1 | 1084 points by varunsharma07 2 days ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???