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  1. Show HN: Distill and serve small models with frontier quality for half the cost (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×1.77 10 | 8 points by SilenN 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS (beyondloom.com)
    ×1.45 2 | 186 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.41 26 | 11 points by lee_ars 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Teaching Kids Forth (gracefulliberty.com)
    ×1.14 5 | 30 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg (github.com/AARomanov1985)
    ×1.63 11 | 49 points by xterminal 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (france24.com)
    ×3.30 2 | 126 points by saaaaaam 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf] (gamedevs.org)
    ×1.20 10 | 89 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth (ieee.org)
    ×0.89 12 | 35 points by marc__1 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Design is compromise (stephango.com)
    ×1.29 3 | 174 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Cursor Bridge – Run Unlimited Claude Code on Your Cursor Subscription (github.com/hkc5)
    ×1.52 8 | 12 points by hakancan 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy (htmx.org)
    ×3.40 4 | 332 points by rcy 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)
    ×1.90 1 | 37 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs (github.com/gmrandazzo)
    ×0.83 13 | 95 points by zeldone 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to Block Some of the Bots (nochan.net)
    ×1.34 9 | 64 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How to Write English Prose (thelampmagazine.com)
    ×0.95 12 | 63 points by geneticdrifts 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team (go.dev)
    ×1.28 12 | 171 points by AbuAssar 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Japan legend Miura, 59, scores first goal since 2022 (bbc.com)
    ×2.32 16 | 31 points by brudgers 54 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)
    ×2.01 15 | 45 points by herrington_d 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The relay market powering token resellers and fraud (vectoral.com)
    ×1.61 3 | 144 points by mlenhard 8 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough (rickmanelius.com)
    ×1.53 15 | 120 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (lsu.edu)
    ×1.22 25 | 7 points by jxmorris12 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.62 8 | 371 points by Cider9986 18 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (pentaton.app)
    ×1.72 8 | 168 points by interfeco 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Kill The Cookie Banner (killthecookiebanner.eu)
    ×6.40 21 | 770 points by rapnie 12 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai) (wolframphysics.org)
    ×0.72 11 | 16 points by marysminefnuf 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (popsci.com)
    ×1.12 6 | 94 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. It's not empowering to hand off the details (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
    ×2.97 22 | 166 points by davnicwil 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper (sunflowersgame.com)
    ×1.89 6 | 130 points by pompomsheep 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (pement.org)
    ×0.75 20 | 43 points by TMWNN 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (practical.engineering)
    ×1.92 10 | 156 points by sohkamyung 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Strongest El Niño Ever (theclimatebrink.com)
    ×4.61 29 | 205 points by ndsipa_pomu 5 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Building the Grace Cathedral experience (playcanvas.com)
    ×0.58 15 | 26 points by ovenchips 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service (aerospaceglobalnews.com)
    ×1.68 26 | 265 points by agotterer 9 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
    ×1.72 42 | 118 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (techspot.com)
    ×8.16 25 | 20 points by eecc 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (refp.se)
    ×2.22 5 | 378 points by olexsmir 20 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Productivity Paradox (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.06 16 | 8 points by azhenley 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Infinite Jigsaw Game (infinitejigsaw.com)
    ×0.77 7 | 16 points by impostervt 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rethinking legal education in the AI era (uchicago.edu)
    ×1.33 32 | 136 points by jjwiseman 18 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another (epatel.github.io)
    ×1.36 20 | 5 points by epatel99 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
    ×2.40 16 | 102 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites (phys.org)
    ×0.73 23 | 7 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk (ktz.me)
    ×1.64 13 | 260 points by alexktz 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We're Thinking About Darkness All Wrong (harvardmagazine.com)
    ×1.09 48 | 4 points by ilamont 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake (wsj.com)
    ×3.20 31 | 304 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What does GitHub's security team even do? (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.52 40 | 84 points by theorchid 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)
    ×2.57 26 | 240 points by pod_krad 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sum of Cubes via Difference Tables (leancrew.com)
    ×0.60 26 | 19 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs (vimuser.org)
    ×1.92 6 | 3 points by birdculture 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight (bbc.com)
    ×1.82 47 | 40 points by porridgeraisin 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone (grego.site)
    ×2.76 32 | 111 points by marosgrego 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (seti.org)
    ×1.62 26 | 163 points by spzx 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tesler's Law (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.06 16 | 7 points by soupspaces 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Systemd Linger (coker.com.au)
    ×1.17 40 | 52 points by edward 14 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59 (astral.sh)
    ×1.97 31 | 332 points by vismit2000 14 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×0.99 50 | 66 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I mapped every US golf course (golfcoursebrowser.com)
    ×1.40 9 | 200 points by rickmf 21 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history (tangled.org)
    ×1.19 27 | 117 points by nerdypepper 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Your GPS Is Lying to You (medium.com)
    ×1.88 12 | 5 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SP/1.0: deterministic, reproducible verdicts for AI-agent decisions (github.com/Fame510)
    ×0.67 59 | 7 points by shacklepro 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Elevated Errors for Opus 5 (claude.com)
    ×1.19 6 | 91 points by TimCTRL 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why does every mammal get 1B heartbeats in their life? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.90 | 4 points by binyu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Android may soon restrict on-device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
    ×3.99 5 | 971 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory (mapn.ro)
    ×2.48 41 | 221 points by _tk_ 11 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes (science.org)
    ×1.12 38 | 134 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline (wsj.com)
    ×2.12 16 | 30 points by fortran77 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
    ×2.37 13 | 438 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
    ×1.15 29 | 56 points by antigizmo 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Git rebase -i is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×1.32 38 | 108 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun (thedailywtf.com)
    ×1.19 17 | 19 points by jjgreen 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.10 41 | 127 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A browser-based video editor that renders videos directly with FFmpeg (github.com/thiagoalbrecht)
    ×0.85 50 | 13 points by thiagoas 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
    ×1.54 41 | 243 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bitchat is now on Radicle (radicle.network)
    ×1.75 31 | 252 points by h1watt 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Memory safety absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×1.53 43 | 130 points by drogus 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs to Be Launched Across the Country (eff.org)
    ×1.71 3 | 3 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Systems and Delays (janiczek.cz)
    ×0.79 40 | 79 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.47 2 | 397 points by tknaup 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Skill Router – a local-first router for large agent skill libraries (github.com/torakagemusha-sudo)
    ×0.92 46 | 9 points by torafirma 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)
    ×1.82 11 | 245 points by oliculipolicula 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Duress Codes and How to Use Them (2024) (safeescape.org)
    ×1.58 40 | 10 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (mit.edu)
    ×1.76 52 | 287 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)
    ×1.39 6 | 197 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×1.50 10 | 198 points by nateb2022 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Independent PHA Asteroid Notability Scoring by Astrophyzix Observatory (academia.edu)
    ×0.40 56 | 4 points by ProfessorRob 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border (theverge.com)
    ×6.60 37 | 21 points by arkits 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Authoritative Dnsmasq in a MikroTik Container (op-co.de)
    ×0.93 79 | 3 points by ge0rg 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Taxonomy of Internet Demons(2025) (lastwordonnothing.com)
    ×0.90 80 | 3 points by rolph 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. JetZero (jetzero.aero)
    ×2.09 32 | 247 points by lisper 21 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???