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  1. I put my whole life into a single database (howisfelix.today)
    ×2.33 1 | 163 points by lukakopajtic 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement (freebsd.org)
    ×1.94 3 | 43 points by vermaden 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009) (ribbonfarm.com)
    ×2.24 3 | 113 points by janandonly 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy (redox-os.org)
    ×2.31 1 | 227 points by pjmlp 4 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round (ft.com)
    ×4.95 4 | 138 points by ottomengis 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ (arobenko.github.io)
    ×1.41 3 | 33 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.64 3 | 51 points by ukkare 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Two Years of Emacs Solo (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×1.66 4 | 289 points by celadevra_ 13 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×1.27 6 | 128 points by TMWNN 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. TCXO Failure Analysis (serd.es)
    ×1.65 1 | 48 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley) (loger-project.github.io)
    ×1.46 3 | 83 points by helloplanets 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Caxlsx: Ruby gem for xlsx generation with charts, images, schema validation (github.com/caxlsx)
    ×0.89 25 | 9 points by earcar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)
    ×2.23 8 | 531 points by imadr 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults (cnbc.com)
    ×2.10 7 | 8 points by bilsbie 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection (vittorioromeo.com)
    ×1.14 23 | 46 points by SuperV1234 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.96 3 | 303 points by jnord 13 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (hongminhee.org)
    ×2.81 13 | 506 points by dahlia 22 hours ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Optimizing Top K in Postgres (paradedb.com)
    ×1.18 5 | 105 points by philippemnoel 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)
    ×1.71 23 | 344 points by TechTechTech 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner (realtuner.online)
    ×1.77 11 | 222 points by smith-kyle 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim (codeberg.org)
    ×1.73 8 | 19 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×3.92 14 | 230 points by robenkleene 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings (washere.live)
    ×0.80 23 | 46 points by mrktsm__ 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Darkrealms BBS (darkrealms.ca)
    ×1.36 24 | 116 points by TigerUniversity 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×0.78 34 | 76 points by jhalderm 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art (kapwing.com)
    ×1.51 4 | 154 points by jenthoven 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other (wyattsell.com)
    ×1.46 28 | 89 points by wyattsell 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw (github.com/DenchHQ)
    ×0.87 54 | 128 points by kumar_abhirup 20 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. DARPA’s new X-76 (darpa.mil)
    ×1.35 23 | 209 points by newer_vienna 20 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
    ×0.67 61 | 110 points by filipbalucha 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters (carlini.com)
    ×1.27 46 | 144 points by mad 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Getting Started in Common Lisp (lisp-stat.dev)
    ×1.68 43 | 64 points by oumua_don17 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications (bunniestudios.com)
    ×1.98 38 | 26 points by sohkamyung 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (cbs12.com)
    ×3.56 8 | 448 points by 1970-01-01 19 hours ago | 586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Notes on Baking at the South Pole (newyorker.com)
    ×0.74 67 | 69 points by mitchbob 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 (iana.org)
    ×1.16 69 | 125 points by speckx 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)
    ×5.09 17 | 987 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (cnbc.com)
    ×3.86 21 | 390 points by spenvo 16 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Drosophila Fly Brain Emulation (github.com/eonsystemspbc)
    ×1.04 84 | 7 points by dtj1123 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later (reddit.com)
    ×1.10 40 | 165 points by 1970-01-01 23 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: The Mog Programming Language (moglang.org)
    ×1.00 25 | 154 points by belisarius222 19 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)
    ×1.09 46 | 168 points by baconomatic 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (fb.com)
    ×2.40 51 | 256 points by sudhakaran88 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I'd had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62 (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 1 | 10 points by mellosouls 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down (bsky.social)
    ×3.26 20 | 378 points by minimaxir 18 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Algebraic topology: knots links and braids (tue.nl)
    ×1.00 68 | 92 points by marysminefnuf 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (therestartproject.org)
    ×1.20 16 | 173 points by robtherobber 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A useless infinite scroll experiment (futile.ch)
    ×1.58 8 | 74 points by dolin_ch 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The window chrome of our discontent (pxlnv.com)
    ×1.38 59 | 154 points by zdw 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) (rs-online.com)
    ×0.71 50 | 104 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL (arxiv.org)
    ×0.94 73 | 129 points by runningmike 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Worming out molecular secrets behind collective behaviour (iisc.ac.in)
    ×0.33 75 | 12 points by rainhacker 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency (github.com/manifold-systems)
    ×0.56 76 | 49 points by owlstuffing 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. M5 Max: Chiplets, Thermals, and Performance per Watt (creativestrategies.com)
    ×2.08 84 | 22 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems (durdraw.org)
    ×0.86 57 | 62 points by caminanteblanco 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.34 53 | 276 points by david927 1 day ago | 1032 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font (pirillo.com)
    ×2.12 10 | 458 points by rendx 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas (theguardian.com)
    ×3.04 39 | 4 points by sohkamyung 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Gabibi is a tool for intentionally degrading images (in Japanese) (amix-design.com)
    ×1.44 75 | 39 points by anigbrowl 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The first airplane fatality (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.72 24 | 81 points by Hooke 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does (aresluna.org)
    ×3.40 22 | 121 points by tambourine_man 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing (vivianvoss.net)
    ×0.91 44 | 118 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Velxio, Arduino Emulator (velxio.dev)
    ×0.82 56 | 55 points by dmonterocrespo 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Add Age Verification Signal Specification · Merge requests · xdg / xdg-specs (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
    ×2.34 7 | 5 points by watashiato 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Dependency Tracking Is Hard (haxx.se)
    ×1.77 | 10 points by riffraff 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Segagaga Has Been Translated into English (thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)
    ×0.95 65 | 99 points by nanna 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)
    ×2.11 14 | 206 points by heresie-dabord 20 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What I Always Wanted to Know about Second Class Values (acm.org)
    ×0.52 73 | 39 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.71 63 | 92 points by gbro3n 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Hopalong Attractor. An old classic with a new perspective in 3D (github.com/ratwolfzero)
    ×0.64 66 | 18 points by ratwolf 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)
    ×2.60 13 | 234 points by mariuz 22 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (agent-safehouse.dev)
    ×3.22 10 | 798 points by atombender 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. So you want to write an “app” (2025) (arcanenibble.github.io)
    ×1.70 17 | 128 points by jmusall 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
    ×2.47 25 | 536 points by dryadin 1 day ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (youtube.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 620 points by zdw 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19 (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.96 39 | 86 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. WSL Manager (github.com/bostrot)
    ×0.88 75 | 134 points by gballan 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.47 9 | 85 points by voxadam 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. DuckDB 1.5.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×3.04 34 | 30 points by erikcw 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. FrameBook (edoo.gg)
    ×2.21 18 | 518 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Iran War; Pyrrhic Victory (waterofmarch.substack.com)
    ×1.53 41 | 7 points by PonDiDancefloor 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.88 71 | 110 points by gepheum 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×3.39 14 | 40 points by 20after4 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles (heise.de)
    ×2.57 15 | 8 points by ecscte 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (github.com/astral-sh)
    ×2.09 61 | 319 points by networked 2 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LLM Writing Tropes.md (tropes.fyi)
    ×2.84 58 | 370 points by walterbell 2 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI (arxiv.org)
    ×0.66 73 | 121 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec)
    ×1.44 28 | 257 points by zachlatta 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees (github.com/gritzko)
    ×0.88 69 | 109 points by strogonoff 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. China Deploys 30k-Ton Liaowang-1 "Floating Supercomputer" to Gulf of Oman (defencesecurityasia.com)
    ×2.88 6 | 36 points by swed420 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???