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  1. StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
    ×2.44 1 | 257 points by kls0e 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.48 1 | 187 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors (nytimes.com)
    ×1.39 6 | 31 points by benbreen 51 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 98% Isn't Much (whynothugo.nl)
    ×3.26 3 | 257 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
    ×1.94 2 | 153 points by adulion 3 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)
    ×0.82 12 | 24 points by anon_farmer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (heise.de)
    ×5.70 2 | 28 points by miroljub 17 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router (openwrt.org)
    ×2.99 11 | 752 points by peter_d_sherman 21 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps (comaps.app)
    ×3.32 11 | 702 points by basilikum 20 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (nwo.nl)
    ×2.84 3 | 217 points by 28304283409234 4 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup (wsj.com)
    ×0.87 15 | 36 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)
    ×2.16 10 | 327 points by bilsbie 15 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)
    ×1.36 31 | 12 points by anivan_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (ieee.org)
    ×1.87 21 | 226 points by sscaryterry 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.25 9 | 71 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.66 4 | 603 points by martinald 19 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (stanford.edu)
    ×2.11 11 | 121 points by archargelod 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.68 3 | 15 points by lo0dot0 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (pcmag.com)
    ×3.77 8 | 244 points by ifh-hn 6 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)
    ×3.34 17 | 154 points by pax 2 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)
    ×1.21 12 | 107 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (github.com/MaximeRivest)
    ×2.96 8 | 578 points by modinfo 16 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM) (ternlight-demo.vercel.app)
    ×2.29 8 | 292 points by soycaporal 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A global workspace in language models (anthropic.com)
    ×2.41 15 | 423 points by in-silico 21 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Resetting Xbox (xbox.com)
    ×4.02 5 | 701 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 833 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.80 30 | 366 points by LabsLucas 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. In Praise of Observational Evidence (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.11 26 | 64 points by fi-le 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A System of Systems for the Selection of Optimal Climate Change Decisions (ieee.org)
    ×1.20 6 | 4 points by rbanffy 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs (kapa.ai)
    ×1.07 36 | 137 points by emil_sorensen 18 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Linux on the Atari Jaguar (cakehonolulu.github.io)
    ×1.22 36 | 178 points by cakehonolulu 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Inkfield (inkfield.studio)
    ×0.88 29 | 47 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A verification loop 4x'd DeepSeek's intelligence, matching Opus at 1/7 the cost (medium.com)
    ×1.73 7 | 12 points by sozal 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.27 8 | 4 points by ingve 37 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released (openssh.org)
    ×1.19 36 | 106 points by throw0101a 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files (github.com/iOfficeAI)
    ×1.51 34 | 202 points by maxloh 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset (xcancel.com)
    ×4.00 24 | 15 points by LucidLynx 49 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mario Kart but it's a playable YouTube video (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 12 | 3 points by moralestapia 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Making of Claude Code (anthropic.com)
    ×1.98 37 | 29 points by kanamekun 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.26 7 | 59 points by whimbyte 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Learning to code is still worthwhile (stevekrouse.com)
    ×2.81 6 | 274 points by stevekrouse 18 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.25 18 | 19 points by santiagobasulto 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble (notus.org)
    ×1.91 3 | 5 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359] (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.09 45 | 127 points by Imustaskforhelp 21 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kani: A Model Checker for Rust (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 36 | 157 points by Jimmc414 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NSA and IETF: Fairness (yp.to)
    ×2.09 13 | 133 points by WatchDog 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Rotman Lens (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.22 39 | 127 points by thomasjb 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys (clojure.org)
    ×1.38 30 | 217 points by FelipeCortez 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Introduction to Genomics for Engineers (learngenomics.dev)
    ×1.75 44 | 259 points by yreg 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages (rntz.net)
    ×0.60 67 | 44 points by luu 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 64 | 47 points by Jimmc414 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.72 64 | 65 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (endbasic.dev)
    ×0.51 52 | 46 points by jmmv 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. M/PC – A Concatenative OS (xxiivv.com)
    ×0.97 48 | 75 points by caminanteblanco 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reinforcement Learning with Metacognitive Feedback Elicits Uncertainty in LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.57 73 | 6 points by jonnonz 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation (github.com/polyml)
    ×1.21 40 | 69 points by Lyngbakr 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Not Dark Yet (agoodhardstare.substack.com)
    ×0.93 20 | 32 points by paulpauper 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure (acm.org)
    ×1.12 45 | 70 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)
    ×5.88 53 | 111 points by wrxd 2 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.94 47 | 97 points by snyy 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. As Amazon lets Mechanical Turk fade, Mercor hits a $2B gross run rate (runtimewire.com)
    ×1.02 81 | 24 points by ryanmerket 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Egypt Is Building a New Nile (theb1m.com)
    ×1.36 32 | 145 points by geox 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability (andonlabs.com)
    ×1.38 27 | 191 points by optimalsolver 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study (arxiv.org)
    ×1.42 60 | 202 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×4.57 1 | 1159 points by tosh 2 days ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Aluminum foil (2021) (dernocua.github.io)
    ×1.39 2 | 277 points by firephox 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. 1k Words: A Writing Contest (writingclub.world)
    ×0.86 46 | 94 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network (signalbox.io)
    ×1.96 5 | 403 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Full Writeup of the Windows GDID (github.com/SmtimesIWndr)
    ×0.96 22 | 78 points by typeofhuman 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Companies hire more after AI adoption (ramp.com)
    ×1.37 67 | 42 points by mooreds 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Road to Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org)
    ×1.82 6 | 335 points by wolfadex 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.71 59 | 89 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Music of Destruction (thebaffler.com)
    ×0.58 60 | 25 points by lermontov 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries (nintendo.com)
    ×3.37 14 | 361 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Private Capture of Public Genius (wysr.xyz)
    ×1.63 51 | 191 points by martialg 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)
    ×1.54 63 | 171 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Taiganet.com, Home of the WS4000 Simulator (taiganet.com)
    ×0.58 70 | 23 points by Aloha 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.80 9 | 680 points by popcar2 2 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Complexity theorist Steven Rudich (1961-2024) (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.72 77 | 13 points by mtdewcmu 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×1.81 55 | 237 points by thm 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Tiny-C Reference Manual Excerpt (solarpunk.au)
    ×0.55 46 | 22 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×1.96 6 | 411 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI (vybe.build)
    ×0.93 61 | 20 points by marwann 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hobbes – A Language and Embedded JIT Compiler (github.com/morganstanley)
    ×0.60 61 | 34 points by ryan-ca 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Has_not_been_viewed_much (iamwillwang.com)
    ×2.51 1 | 458 points by wxw 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Odin 1.0 Announcement (youtube.com)
    ×5.87 34 | 80 points by jhack 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide (joshuaclifton.com)
    ×0.77 54 | 70 points by mrauha 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years (theguardian.com)
    ×2.87 9 | 32 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds (instantvideos.org)
    ×0.83 45 | 24 points by pw 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
    ×1.17 58 | 120 points by zdw 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???