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  1. Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)
    ×3.26 | 47 points by user5994461 51 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript (cosmic-odometer.vercel.app)
    ×1.39 7 | 9 points by captainnemo729 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)
    ×1.55 2 | 158 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
    ×1.79 3 | 343 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 80386 Multiplication and Division (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.24 3 | 47 points by nand2mario 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
    ×3.41 | 30 points by io_eric 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
    ×1.91 5 | 394 points by rocauc 17 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Traintrackr – Live LED Maps (traintrackr.co.uk)
    ×1.41 7 | 53 points by recursion 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space (eurofusion.eu)
    ×1.51 22 | 10 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×1.45 16 | 52 points by clarus 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
    ×1.92 7 | 338 points by pavel_lishin 18 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)
    ×3.66 10 | 55 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Telli (YC F24) is hiring eng, design, growth [on-site, Berlin] (telli.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.82 2 | 258 points by sarreph 14 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)
    ×1.57 5 | 164 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Banned C++ features in Chromium (googlesource.com)
    ×1.68 7 | 178 points by szmarczak 14 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)
    ×2.98 13 | 276 points by JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.30 15 | 856 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.79 18 | 166 points by dsrtslnd23 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
    ×1.64 21 | 318 points by yesturi 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
    ×1.13 22 | 100 points by hahahacorn 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The strange case of the underestimated Merge Join node (dalibo.com)
    ×1.04 31 | 10 points by daamien 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Air traffic control: the IBM 9020 (computer.rip)
    ×1.14 26 | 39 points by pinewurst 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
    ×2.52 12 | 516 points by dbushell 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.11 20 | 148 points by nomaxx117 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
    ×1.50 13 | 230 points by bpierre 20 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.20 17 | 196 points by at1as 19 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.38 33 | 58 points by lumpa 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
    ×1.47 22 | 246 points by rvermeulen98 23 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.87 38 | 68 points by janandonly 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Kotlin's rich errors: Native, typed errors without exceptions (cekrem.github.io)
    ×0.71 60 | 46 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
    ×1.00 37 | 86 points by mnazzaro 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
    ×0.79 39 | 82 points by chaz6 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
    ×0.92 36 | 79 points by avaer 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go (tbray.org)
    ×1.52 11 | 89 points by moks 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Eloquent: Improving Text Editing on Mobile (2021) (acm.org)
    ×0.82 83 | 3 points by icwtyjj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives (anthropic.com)
    ×1.02 37 | 127 points by malshe 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
    ×1.26 26 | 111 points by chmaynard 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
    ×1.01 28 | 93 points by elpocko 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
    ×1.59 23 | 220 points by 01jonny01 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions (zsweep.com)
    ×0.61 46 | 76 points by oug-t 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
    ×7.25 21 | 988 points by nhod 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.70 40 | 25 points by Couto 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cap'n Proto (capnproto.org)
    ×2.81 71 | 18 points by tosh 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
    ×1.39 7 | 274 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
    ×2.59 11 | 460 points by zdw 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path (nitishastra.substack.com)
    ×3.01 28 | 13 points by thisislife2 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The SIM-to-real problem isn't about simulators – it's about behavior robustness (medium.com)
    ×0.59 46 | 23 points by fabotelli 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
    ×1.24 28 | 174 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
    ×6.85 40 | 697 points by s_dev 22 hours ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The lost art of XML (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.98 48 | 148 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Certificate Transparency Log Explorer (swerdlow.dev)
    ×0.62 41 | 28 points by benswerd 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×2.22 42 | 49 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC (cannoneyed.com)
    ×5.05 20 | 1279 points by cannoneyed 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users (interfree.ca)
    ×0.98 47 | 97 points by tuukkao 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
    ×2.52 26 | 316 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.23 15 | 460 points by codetheweb 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives (sec.gov)
    ×2.92 47 | 98 points by sizzle 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. NIST is rethinking its role in analyzing software vulnerabilities (cybersecuritydive.com)
    ×2.27 2 | 5 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Zotero 8 (zotero.org)
    ×4.02 33 | 225 points by bouchard 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.19 56 | 57 points by Qem 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×3.16 34 | 486 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt (stackoverflow.blog)
    ×4.74 30 | 51 points by thebeardisred 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: New 3D Mapping website - Create heli orbits and "playable" map tours. (easy3dmaps.com)
    ×0.39 60 | 29 points by dobodob 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×1.06 64 | 18 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. December in Servo (servo.org)
    ×2.48 56 | 8 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update (valueaddedresource.net)
    ×2.14 67 | 329 points by bdcravens 2 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
    ×1.24 52 | 138 points by marklit 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.13 58 | 147 points by schopra909 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI video, declarative programming language for Claude Code (varg.ai)
    ×0.70 22 | 37 points by alex_varga 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.71 38 | 202 points by BoorishBears 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Presence in Death (rubinmuseum.org)
    ×0.98 25 | 79 points by tock 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. CSS Optical Illusions (alvaromontoro.com)
    ×1.28 39 | 217 points by ulrischa 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)
    ×2.16 28 | 250 points by tuananh 22 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking (philipotoole.com)
    ×2.29 15 | 168 points by otoolep 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. TI-99/4A: Leaning more on the firmware (wordpress.com)
    ×0.62 57 | 71 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.56 49 | 286 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.93 25 | 74 points by shikhar 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? (hugodaniel.com)
    ×3.74 25 | 723 points by hugodan 1 day ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation (qwen.ai)
    ×3.09 15 | 718 points by Palmik 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? (eieio.games)
    ×3.16 25 | 647 points by eieio 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss (pdfa.org)
    ×1.19 57 | 167 points by whizzx 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
    ×1.75 7 | 380 points by personjerry 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light (anaghmalik.com)
    ×0.41 48 | 35 points by pillars 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022) (eliotakira.com)
    ×1.22 10 | 51 points by mifydev 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance
    ×0.32 85 | 45 points by kmajid 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (science.org)
    ×1.06 43 | 143 points by colincooke 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser (github.com/browseros-ai)
    ×0.81 60 | 82 points by felarof 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
    ×1.14 27 | 144 points by timsneath 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. My Time at Amazon (beccaselah.substack.com)
    ×3.38 31 | 20 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???