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  1. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    ×3.93 3 | 914 points by minimaxir 12 hours ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.90 4 | 161 points by ProxyTracer 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (sfwriter.com)
    ×0.91 7 | 16 points by droidjj 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (semafor.com)
    ×3.97 2 | 320 points by bobrenjc93 6 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI in mathematics is forcing big questions (ieee.org)
    ×1.68 7 | 89 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (amazon.com)
    ×1.56 8 | 299 points by justincormack 14 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.95 9 | 38 points by PaybackTony 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (korins.ky)
    ×0.95 20 | 24 points by zX41ZdbW 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.61 1 | 166 points by kkm 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)
    ×6.25 9 | 926 points by alain94040 10 hours ago | 990 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
    ×1.72 6 | 23 points by efrecon 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×1.03 15 | 40 points by KraftyOne 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing (github.com/Tessil)
    ×0.63 9 | 80 points by gjvc 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Om (daringfireball.net)
    ×7.11 11 | 242 points by throw0101a 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (eff.org)
    ×4.32 10 | 307 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research (utexas.edu)
    ×2.68 17 | 27 points by hhs 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
    ×1.08 38 | 5 points by jupr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
    ×2.17 18 | 9 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.53 10 | 258 points by rossant 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (foster77.co.uk)
    ×0.88 15 | 23 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com/workweave)
    ×0.98 5 | 158 points by adchurch 12 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off (bbc.com)
    ×1.25 10 | 73 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels (healeycodes.com)
    ×0.69 16 | 32 points by healeycodes 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
    ×1.03 6 | 100 points by Eridanus2 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum (svpow.com)
    ×0.77 16 | 72 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
    ×1.47 11 | 74 points by jfoucher 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
    ×0.89 19 | 49 points by EndEntire 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    ×3.89 22 | 225 points by ortusdux 9 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.55 19 | 17 points by mzubairtahir 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.16 31 | 185 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
    ×0.78 24 | 69 points by crowwork 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (swiftlatex.com)
    ×1.03 34 | 95 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.38 58 | 21 points by leschak 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
    ×0.95 2 | 74 points by mwheeler 10 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
    ×0.11 83 | 3 points by zahir777 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial (evmar.github.io)
    ×1.97 36 | 22 points by joecobb 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×5.95 14 | 1642 points by verditelabs 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Om Malik has died (om.co)
    ×5.01 18 | 1299 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×1.28 21 | 80 points by gcanyon 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×0.83 39 | 114 points by amichail 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.72 51 | 88 points by ddecoene 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Lippmann Photography (jonhilty.com)
    ×0.58 33 | 21 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails (agent-kits.com)
    ×1.61 55 | 15 points by stoicstoic 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64) (github.com/skx)
    ×1.91 1 | 62 points by stevekemp 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Jolla Phone (October 2026) (jolla.com)
    ×2.82 28 | 282 points by mrbn100ful 14 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (science.org)
    ×2.30 34 | 360 points by adharmad 15 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
    ×3.86 39 | 526 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Data centers trigger voter backlash (newsweek.com)
    ×2.77 29 | 176 points by randycupertino 11 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths (outsideonline.com)
    ×3.40 35 | 95 points by LostMyLogin 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×2.61 66 | 158 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
    ×2.45 22 | 443 points by dhruv3006 23 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.44 4 | 278 points by luu 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)
    ×2.07 6 | 356 points by cuchoi 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.67 5 | 313 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (jtekt.co.jp)
    ×0.65 35 | 44 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car (wsj.com)
    ×2.72 13 | 36 points by JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File (sqlite.org)
    ×1.02 68 | 16 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients (github.com/tau-org)
    ×0.62 87 | 11 points by modinfo 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.60 89 | 189 points by ddxv 2 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com/naver)
    ×1.27 11 | 101 points by birdculture 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.80 15 | 55 points by oscgam1 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100 (apache.org)
    ×1.14 57 | 17 points by dr-jia-yu 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign (cookie.engineer)
    ×0.75 66 | 14 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (fire.org)
    ×5.25 40 | 1106 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com/plbrault)
    ×1.94 4 | 356 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI Erodes a Legacy of Reading (molochinations.substack.com)
    ×1.93 17 | 10 points by domhudson 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.76 74 | 75 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
    ×1.41 64 | 168 points by mektrik 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. OpenTag: An open-source alternative to Claude in Slack (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×1.67 55 | 8 points by davidmckayv 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
    ×0.84 60 | 116 points by Athas 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)
    ×1.36 18 | 229 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Murmur: Shared communication bus for your coding agents (github.com/instavm)
    ×0.89 62 | 12 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Endive 1.0: WebAssembly on the JVM, Now a Bytecode Alliance Project (endive.run)
    ×1.12 88 | 10 points by dustingetz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Scaling Laws, Carefully (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×0.45 78 | 9 points by tehnub 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.71 8 | 385 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies (science.org)
    ×1.20 75 | 179 points by rndsignals 2 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.48 10 | 792 points by htrp 2 days ago | 1290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 91 | 83 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Thomas Salme (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.40 6 | 12 points by st_goliath 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11 (github.com/GloriousEggroll)
    ×0.90 66 | 95 points by d3Xt3r 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.16 31 | 108 points by jonbaer 15 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.08 17 | 818 points by jamdesk 2 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 32bit Apple app running on M4 natively (reddit.com)
    ×1.25 12 | 17 points by carlosjobim 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.83 33 | 769 points by ytkimirti 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs (github.com/decrazyo)
    ×1.06 58 | 126 points by zdw 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×1.04 37 | 100 points by spidy__ 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.91 9 | 674 points by panza 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The annotated PyTorch training loop (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.72 66 | 78 points by smaddrellmander 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reed-Solomon for OCR: error correction for messy printed codes (github.com/chasangchual)
    ×0.52 50 | 8 points by chasangchual 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???