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  1. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×5.25 | 1401 points by haunter 17 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How Unsloth and Nvidia made LLM training 25% faster on consumer GPUs (unsloth.ai)
    ×2.49 3 | 19 points by segmenta 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×4.90 1 | 1120 points by diebillionaires 16 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.43 1 | 134 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×2.88 2 | 237 points by whatisabcdefgh 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.18 | 83 points by stereo-highway 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.30 2 | 585 points by e12e 18 hours ago | 641 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×1.10 13 | 16 points by darkrishabh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
    ×1.37 4 | 37 points by mindcrime 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 8 | 42 points by jonbaer 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.18 6 | 93 points by SpyCoder77 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (aresluna.org)
    ×1.45 | 20 points by frizlab 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
    ×1.45 9 | 255 points by stevekrouse 15 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (google.com)
    ×2.07 2 | 297 points by unforgivenpasta 15 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×1.47 19 | 8 points by TMWNN 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What I Learned Making an App for My Family (mendelgreenberg.com)
    ×1.16 7 | 51 points by chabad360 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
    ×1.56 13 | 143 points by ks2048 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.93 41 | 8 points by wojtczyk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.93 6 | 47 points by petethomas 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.83 8 | 215 points by bstrama 16 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.16 22 | 100 points by dmos62 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.80 2 | 38 points by isaacfrond 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.02 24 | 161 points by ozkatz 17 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
    ×0.72 39 | 57 points by zeech 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.08 14 | 132 points by benanne 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.89 56 | 69 points by jonbaer 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.59 23 | 16 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.56 1 | 187 points by elonlit 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.86 3 | 49 points by LabsLucas 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.92 4 | 272 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
    ×3.03 21 | 307 points by s1291 13 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens (noetik.blog)
    ×0.43 52 | 21 points by crescit_eundo 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.98 27 | 70 points by asmodios 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.98 23 | 132 points by oahmadov 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×0.77 44 | 136 points by jandeboevrie 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
    ×4.93 28 | 359 points by jeromechoo 14 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.57 17 | 556 points by Anon84 23 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.78 63 | 89 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×5.32 28 | 458 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.66 3 | 635 points by rolph 1 day ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.38 | 1669 points by john-doe 2 days ago | 1103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×3.07 5 | 654 points by signa11 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
    ×0.79 30 | 95 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×1.01 48 | 130 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.36 2 | 458 points by hakonjdjohnsen 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.30 47 | 7 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.78 81 | 141 points by mtricot 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
    ×2.55 13 | 347 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google tools for customizing searches (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
    ×0.84 35 | 74 points by maxutility 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.81 5 | 449 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.68 14 | 667 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense (togetherloop.com)
    ×0.97 55 | 6 points by DoctorOW 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.03 1 | 737 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
    ×1.03 58 | 125 points by omarsar 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)
    ×2.69 26 | 187 points by thunderbong 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (sciencehistory.org)
    ×0.51 48 | 57 points by benbreen 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion (therecord.media)
    ×1.51 6 | 38 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition (theguardian.com)
    ×1.92 4 | 70 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.54 8 | 237 points by notsentient 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Compressed Cognition: The Cost of Faster Coding (adamtornhill.substack.com)
    ×0.95 28 | 3 points by nephrenka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We programmed a program to program new programs (2011) (smbc-comics.com)
    ×2.29 27 | 29 points by Georgelemental 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
    ×1.40 52 | 6 points by gregsadetsky 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×2.30 31 | 72 points by BiraIgnacio 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
    ×1.63 11 | 255 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Proton Meet (proton.me)
    ×2.66 22 | 130 points by Einenlum 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.31 22 | 60 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.19 3 | 331 points by veeti 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.45 | 219 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works (kevinwebber.ca)
    ×0.97 50 | 22 points by kw3b 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.21 6 | 482 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Taphouse – A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew (multimodalsolutions.gr)
    ×1.71 62 | 11 points by jupe69 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.11 6 | 138 points by cainxinth 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×0.99 61 | 138 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.65 15 | 232 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
    ×2.05 2 | 367 points by nohell 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
    ×1.90 28 | 74 points by iristenteije 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.01 5 | 33 points by epistasis 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.57 38 | 259 points by ingve 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
    ×2.21 5 | 530 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.32 51 | 223 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.12 14 | 421 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.14 43 | 69 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
    ×2.78 3 | 376 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 14 | 324 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Building the deployment tool I wish I had (ruuda.nl)
    ×0.97 32 | 39 points by ruuda 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
    ×4.40 14 | 475 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
    ×3.28 3 | 476 points by adrianmsmith 1 day ago | 763 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Visualize Any Hugging Face Model (hfviewer.com)
    ×1.06 44 | 36 points by rippeltippel 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
    ×6.03 9 | 1514 points by thitran 2 days ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???