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  1. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    ×4.49 1 | 574 points by minimaxir 3 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)
    ×6.52 1 | 417 points by alain94040 2 hours ago | 606 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (amazon.com)
    ×1.39 5 | 197 points by justincormack 6 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
    ×1.13 6 | 39 points by mwheeler 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com/workweave)
    ×0.99 4 | 104 points by adchurch 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The "Bizarre Headgear" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum Is Incredible (svpow.com)
    ×1.31 11 | 33 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
    ×0.85 21 | 39 points by crowwork 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.44 10 | 184 points by rossant 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
    ×0.99 12 | 37 points by Eridanus2 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (jtekt.co.jp)
    ×0.75 22 | 36 points by ksec 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Data centers trigger voter backlash (newsweek.com)
    ×2.92 4 | 89 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.44 26 | 268 points by luu 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery' (classicfm.com)
    ×1.88 38 | 241 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)
    ×2.08 21 | 337 points by cuchoi 18 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (swiftlatex.com)
    ×1.04 25 | 59 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.68 26 | 305 points by Alupis 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (science.org)
    ×2.22 13 | 311 points by adharmad 6 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.66 41 | 68 points by ddecoene 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×0.83 28 | 100 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Jolla Phone (October 2026) (jolla.com)
    ×2.95 15 | 248 points by mrbn100ful 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.09 44 | 105 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
    ×3.83 19 | 465 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.34 65 | 7 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
    ×1.29 68 | 6 points by jfoucher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com/plbrault)
    ×1.94 33 | 343 points by exploraz 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (fire.org)
    ×5.20 4 | 1068 points by bilsbie 23 hours ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Om Malik has died (om.co)
    ×4.95 8 | 1266 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients (github.com/tau-org)
    ×1.08 82 | 5 points by modinfo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
    ×0.99 97 | 81 points by MHard 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×5.88 5 | 1608 points by verditelabs 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)
    ×1.36 46 | 225 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, triggering evacuations (dailymail.com)
    ×2.27 | 5 points by Bender 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64) (github.com/skx)
    ×5.39 23 | 34 points by stevekemp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100 (apache.org)
    ×1.16 28 | 7 points by dr-jia-yu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.75 1 | 38 points by oscgam1 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Murmur: Shared communication bus for your coding agents (github.com/instavm)
    ×1.50 46 | 6 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour (oxide.computer)
    ×2.06 23 | 460 points by darthcloud 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign (cookie.engineer)
    ×1.03 66 | 5 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.69 45 | 378 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File (sqlite.org)
    ×1.14 68 | 5 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
    ×2.43 17 | 426 points by dhruv3006 15 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Scaling Laws, Carefully (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×0.59 99 | 3 points by tehnub 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (princechazz.com)
    ×2.25 31 | 417 points by cowboy_henk 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ActPlane: Programmable OS-Level Policy Enforcement for Agent Harnesses (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 99 | 3 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com/naver)
    ×1.33 12 | 98 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.82 27 | 355 points by engomez 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.16 26 | 101 points by jonbaer 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)
    ×1.02 59 | 186 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×2.83 76 | 145 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)
    ×1.62 53 | 218 points by rozumem 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads (reuters.com)
    ×4.32 7 | 813 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago | 1202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
    ×1.26 64 | 273 points by kouosi 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Chronic Pain: The Science of Unlearning Pain (zeit.de)
    ×2.22 15 | 4 points by Tomte 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OS9Map (yllan.org)
    ×1.48 61 | 261 points by LaSombra 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.11 65 | 165 points by tosh 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Yen's decline makes perfect sense to some analysts (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.18 11 | 3 points by mikhael 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Microbubbles in Medicine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.41 75 | 30 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. You can't unit test for taste (karltryggvason.com)
    ×1.33 63 | 297 points by kalli 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.09 71 | 127 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.76 78 | 73 points by g0xA52A2A 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 31 | 10 points by geox 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)
    ×1.30 73 | 189 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.63 94 | 185 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. In Loving Memory of Om Malik – Hodinkee (hodinkee.com)
    ×2.77 10 | 6 points by adamfuhrer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
    ×0.83 68 | 112 points by Athas 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Using GitHub Actions to Build Linux Kernels – 萌え豚's Blog (moebuta.org)
    ×1.91 18 | 5 points by abdelhousni 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
    ×1.43 70 | 166 points by mektrik 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Endive 1.0: WebAssembly on the JVM, Now a Bytecode Alliance Project (endive.run)
    ×1.54 92 | 4 points by dustingetz 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.00 | 8 points by skibz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11 (github.com/GloriousEggroll)
    ×0.90 76 | 92 points by d3Xt3r 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. New Intel Linux Driver Patches Enable HDR over DP MST Connections (kernel.org)
    ×1.24 52 | 3 points by DemiGuru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SQLite improving performance with pre-sort (andersmurphy.com)
    ×0.69 108 | 3 points by tosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Swsim: A Software SIM Card (github.com/tomasz-lisowski)
    ×1.36 8 | 20 points by fanf2 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies (science.org)
    ×1.20 85 | 177 points by rndsignals 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. South Korea to Train All Active-Duty Soldiers to Operate Drones (wsj.com)
    ×1.47 12 | 13 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 102 | 81 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs (github.com/decrazyo)
    ×1.07 70 | 123 points by zdw 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.79 35 | 756 points by ytkimirti 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The annotated PyTorch training loop (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.72 74 | 77 points by smaddrellmander 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.46 21 | 784 points by htrp 1 day ago | 1281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.13 9 | 42 points by lucamark 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (cornell.edu)
    ×0.36 90 | 28 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking (pete.design)
    ×0.82 69 | 101 points by petekp 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.90 6 | 670 points by panza 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.08 32 | 814 points by jamdesk 2 days ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (reddit.com)
    ×10.12 37 | 137 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.55 80 | 86 points by alder 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.36 3 | 513 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (twitter.com/mfts0)
    ×5.20 23 | 586 points by mmunj 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???