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  1. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.58 1 | 56 points by st_goliath 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  2. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.39 1 | 889 points by nprateem 7 hours ago | 483 comments | ??? ???
  3. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
    ×2.11 4 | 281 points by neversaydie 6 hours ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  4. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
    ×1.92 4 | 83 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  5. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)
    ×1.69 10 | 110 points by guybedo 5 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  6. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.47 5 | 201 points by droidjj 6 hours ago | 116 comments | ??? ???
  7. Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
    ×1.63 9 | 152 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  8. The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
    ×2.38 3 | 310 points by rellem 6 hours ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  9. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
    ×0.87 16 | 20 points by lortex 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  10. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.98 17 | 47 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  11. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.82 18 | 73 points by duha 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
    ×1.24 9 | 118 points by tusksm 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  13. A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)
    ×1.47 4 | 147 points by silcoon 6 hours ago | 96 comments | ??? ???
  14. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.26 16 | 88 points by pavel_lishin 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  15. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
    ×1.31 21 | 240 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  16. Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks (jse.li)
    ×0.82 34 | 23 points by eat_veggies 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  17. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/CharmingBlaze)
    ×0.80 17 | 17 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  18. Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 (repebble.com)
    ×1.65 27 | 247 points by crazysaem 16 hours ago | 162 comments | ??? ???
  19. Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  20. Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.79 17 | 65 points by thm 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  21. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
    ×0.95 58 | 6 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  22. Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters (ft.com)
    ×3.66 10 | 339 points by merksittich 8 hours ago | 282 comments | ??? ???
  23. Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.87 33 | 53 points by enz 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  24. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)
    ×1.17 14 | 26 points by j2kun 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  25. Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
    ×2.05 14 | 182 points by geerlingguy 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  26. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (capitalone.com)
    ×0.71 26 | 51 points by medina 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  27. Decoy Font (mixfont.com)
    ×3.03 19 | 681 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  28. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (reuters.com)
    ×3.86 15 | 133 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  29. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)
    ×7.14 6 | 1976 points by vincent_s 1 day ago | 1151 comments | ??? ???
  30. An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)
    ×1.96 19 | 275 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  31. How to Make a Triode Yourself (neocities.org)
    ×2.02 4 | 5 points by Gecko4072 40 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (tryai.dev)
    ×2.49 29 | 375 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 506 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer (mehran.dk)
    ×0.48 45 | 18 points by mehrant 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  34. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.56 10 | 252 points by divbzero 17 hours ago | 207 comments | ??? ???
  35. Tannakian Reconstruction (bartoszmilewski.com)
    ×0.49 53 | 26 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  36. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)
    ×1.68 31 | 314 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 120 comments | ??? ???
  37. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
    ×1.91 44 | 357 points by xnx 1 day ago | 177 comments | ??? ???
  38. PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum (github.com/PennyLaneAI)
    ×0.70 20 | 37 points by donutloop 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  39. Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.08 17 | 24 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  40. Solod: Go can be a better C (solod.dev)
    ×1.70 42 | 202 points by koeng 21 hours ago | 133 comments | ??? ???
  41. The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (github.com/alxndrTL)
    ×1.52 43 | 197 points by mustaphah 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  42. Alzheimer's trial results lend momentum to strategies targeting tau (science.org)
    ×1.11 82 | 12 points by lonelyasacloud 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  43. Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser) (om-intelligence.ch)
    ×1.10 23 | 85 points by busssard 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  44. Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)
    ×1.75 50 | 276 points by srean 1 day ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  45. ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard (humanrightsfirst.org)
    ×4.58 31 | 30 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  46. CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)
    ×1.70 65 | 169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 196 comments | ??? ???
  47. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
    ×3.60 38 | 419 points by twerkmeister 9 hours ago | 257 comments | ??? ???
  48. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (lyc8503.net)
    ×1.33 48 | 233 points by uneven9434 1 day ago | 173 comments | ??? ???
  49. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.78 55 | 67 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  50. Flock Safety had a car journalist stalked, wrongly accused, and detained (thedrive.com)
    ×7.09 40 | 22 points by monksy 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)
    ×1.13 56 | 144 points by anyonecancode 1 day ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  52. Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)
    ×1.60 39 | 202 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  53. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (microsoft.com)
    ×3.20 12 | 780 points by jervant 1 day ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  54. Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10B Deal (nytimes.com)
    ×2.20 6 | 20 points by mfiguiere 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  55. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)
    ×2.19 47 | 283 points by JeremyTheo 1 day ago | 288 comments | ??? ???
  56. 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin (yale.edu)
    ×1.05 56 | 112 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  57. T-Mobile's billing-system migration made free lines billable (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.45 12 | 3 points by logickkk1 49 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)
    ×1.10 63 | 154 points by zhinit 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  59. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
    ×1.81 51 | 273 points by Sherex 1 day ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  60. Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature (olafalders.com)
    ×1.98 42 | 128 points by oalders 6 hours ago | 110 comments | ??? ???
  61. Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (spaceweather.gov)
    ×0.96 62 | 172 points by yabones 1 day ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)
    ×1.40 43 | 133 points by _samt_ 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  63. In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring (vandecreme.net)
    ×0.77 55 | 44 points by avandecreme 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  64. 85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core (github.com/houslast3)
    ×1.06 85 | 5 points by houslast 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  65. US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.96 8 | 42 points by pimienta 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  66. Pushinka (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.62 37 | 45 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  67. Old Icons (leancrew.com)
    ×1.21 39 | 94 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  68. Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says (theguardian.com)
    ×7.40 64 | 50 points by barbazoo 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  69. Much of the crypto universe is "gambling" with a better vocabulary (medium.com)
    ×1.01 20 | 6 points by rakeshmenon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  70. Pseudpocalypse (dynomight.net)
    ×1.51 44 | 137 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  71. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×3.77 1 | 814 points by mcgin 1 day ago | 575 comments | ??? ???
  72. British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply (bbc.com)
    ×1.99 61 | 144 points by clarionbell 1 day ago | 278 comments | ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
    ×3.02 49 | 203 points by mstolpm 10 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  74. Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (techdirt.com)
    ×5.06 15 | 680 points by nekusar 1 day ago | 435 comments | ??? ???
  75. Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 65 | 60 points by binyu 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  76. Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public (schema-harness.github.io)
    ×1.78 56 | 117 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  77. US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story (stlouisfed.org)
    ×1.67 6 | 23 points by loughnane 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  78. Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
    ×0.41 80 | 42 points by XiaHua 1 day ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  79. OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (oneplus.com)
    ×2.57 4 | 582 points by pilililo2 1 day ago | 359 comments | ??? ???
  80. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)
    ×1.55 51 | 223 points by speckx 1 day ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  81. Abstracting Effects with Continuations (crowdhailer.me)
    ×0.88 56 | 70 points by crowdhailer 1 day ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  82. I tried to record music onto a cassette tape using modern tech (swiftrocks.com)
    ×0.96 82 | 3 points by rockbruno 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  83. Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars (404media.co)
    ×2.63 23 | 32 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  84. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×4.64 4 | 1205 points by vimarsh6739 2 days ago | 289 comments | ??? ???
  85. Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure (onatm.dev)
    ×0.92 50 | 141 points by onatm 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  86. How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)
    ×3.26 9 | 514 points by jorangreef 1 day ago | 288 comments | ??? ???
  87. If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (madcampos.dev)
    ×1.47 42 | 241 points by treve 1 day ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  88. Australian Data Centres forced to generate more power than they use (afr.com)
    ×1.20 2 | 12 points by root-parent 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. Victory Flock Ends Rollout of Audio "Distress Detection" of Human Voices (eff.org)
    ×1.16 19 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  90. UIUC AI Teaching Assistant (github.com/Center-for-AI-Innovation)
    ×0.58 61 | 26 points by teleforce 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???