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  1. We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.00 4 | 58 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.49 4 | 173 points by tionis 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×1.64 9 | 218 points by theMackabu 9 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/Wren6991)
    ×1.26 15 | 94 points by mariuz 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
    ×0.94 20 | 37 points by c-c-c-c-c 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI (github.com/cereblab)
    ×5.29 5 | 162 points by jhoho 4 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)
    ×1.31 4 | 65 points by guenchi 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×1.95 13 | 212 points by adletbalzhanov 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.10 5 | 55 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
    ×2.28 6 | 80 points by jamiebeach 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 22 | 16 points by lioeters 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×2.68 9 | 29 points by nradov 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×0.98 24 | 20 points by hydrogen7800 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further (igropyr.com)
    ×1.80 4 | 42 points by guenchi 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach (ijidonline.com)
    ×2.90 7 | 88 points by thenerdhead 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.64 19 | 139 points by prtk25 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 17 | 74 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.25 10 | 191 points by saisrirampur 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×0.53 28 | 6 points by rellem 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.88 24 | 104 points by wolfi1 13 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.11 4 | 244 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)
    ×1.10 10 | 114 points by jacobobryant 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.53 10 | 12 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016) (cancerworld.net)
    ×3.18 14 | 116 points by downbad_ 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
    ×1.48 35 | 19 points by marzukia 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Optimization Solver as a Service (quicopt.com)
    ×0.74 31 | 26 points by paddi91 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.65 14 | 142 points by acley 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)
    ×2.62 13 | 56 points by daniel_iversen 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.60 27 | 60 points by dilawar 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.90 52 | 25 points by tejusarora 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.01 20 | 68 points by lukas9 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring (bbc.com)
    ×2.47 43 | 27 points by root-parent 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)
    ×3.49 18 | 281 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×0.96 44 | 47 points by targetbridge 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (uscap.org)
    ×2.55 9 | 16 points by thenerdhead 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.36 44 | 115 points by xlmnxp 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.47 4 | 73 points by cbrewster 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later (mattmichie.com)
    ×1.22 64 | 7 points by influx 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL (hakibenita.com)
    ×0.37 52 | 9 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process (nationalreview.com)
    ×2.20 14 | 16 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025) (vt.edu)
    ×3.07 33 | 133 points by sublinear 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.94 52 | 62 points by achairapart 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.82 55 | 92 points by poupeaua 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.77 42 | 38 points by modinfo 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)
    ×1.73 17 | 117 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Lost and Found (walzr.com)
    ×0.58 23 | 52 points by walz 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.39 38 | 896 points by vforno 2 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Rubber ducking is a mirror that says nothing (pilgrima.ge)
    ×1.77 55 | 10 points by momentmaker 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Survival guide: Key advice for what to do if you find yourself in a wildfire (euronews.com)
    ×2.17 2 | 8 points by rawgabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I built TradingSpy: local, privacy-first AI trading assistant(First Open Source) (github.com/mrhustlex)
    ×1.71 84 | 8 points by mrhustlex 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Evilcharts (evilcharts.com)
    ×1.70 65 | 9 points by handfuloflight 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)
    ×3.56 7 | 204 points by justswim 19 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.80 5 | 730 points by speckx 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (davidobando.github.io)
    ×2.67 55 | 8 points by mashally 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.68 2 | 386 points by hhs 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Future of Digital Money: The Race Between Tortoise, Hare and Rhino (duke.edu)
    ×1.10 48 | 6 points by zaik 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.14 19 | 101 points by jason_s 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Chaoshan's qiaopi remittance system built wealth on trust, not contracts (sixthtone.com)
    ×0.99 54 | 6 points by whiteblossom 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Combinatorial Games in Lean (github.com/vihdzp)
    ×1.33 69 | 7 points by wertyk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×0.99 60 | 74 points by rowbin 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.17 23 | 1125 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.26 55 | 191 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (jamesdrandall.com)
    ×0.80 7 | 51 points by msephton 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (sixthtone.com)
    ×2.22 29 | 75 points by homarp 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit (nautil.us)
    ×0.60 91 | 3 points by julkali 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.95 64 | 114 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.21 60 | 167 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea (usni.org)
    ×1.42 5 | 8 points by keepamovin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.25 20 | 626 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.15 54 | 104 points by chrwn 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)
    ×3.32 65 | 173 points by theorchid 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×8.32 51 | 1595 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 897 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)
    ×4.38 54 | 195 points by rvz 11 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.77 14 | 1542 points by logickkk1 2 days ago | 1094 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.88 50 | 177 points by downwithdisease 12 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
    ×1.19 3 | 68 points by _superposition_ 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.15 10 | 1614 points by rapnie 2 days ago | 848 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf] (ibm-1401.info)
    ×1.75 61 | 7 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Victorian War on Rabies (historytoday.com)
    ×0.51 57 | 21 points by benbreen 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S. (npr.org)
    ×1.92 22 | 12 points by ghtbircshotbe 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.17 16 | 198 points by mvdtnz 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.97 29 | 514 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.68 25 | 236 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) (vfxblog.com)
    ×0.57 61 | 12 points by fabiensanglard 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.45 62 | 181 points by downbad_ 11 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×1.32 25 | 91 points by zetalyrae 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×2.11 10 | 340 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Forms of life, forms of mind by Dr. Michael Levin (thoughtforms.life)
    ×1.38 53 | 7 points by plucafs 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Modern Implementation of Notational Velocity (nvnv.yoga)
    ×1.27 53 | 5 points by sirodoht 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???