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  1. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.67 1 | 438 points by asronline 9 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.05 2 | 59 points by nozzlegear 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.06 2 | 203 points by maille 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.61 4 | 392 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
    ×1.35 7 | 75 points by hhs 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.06 | 538 points by javxfps 12 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more (youtube.com)
    ×1.55 4 | 33 points by mhb 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)
    ×1.12 22 | 8 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.81 4 | 447 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×1.80 | 132 points by leemoore 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
    ×1.87 4 | 49 points by ementally 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.60 5 | 282 points by chatmasta 15 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.97 7 | 31 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×2.22 7 | 165 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. "Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×2.38 14 | 118 points by Breadmaker 11 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×2.34 18 | 15 points by MaysonL 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Drone Autonomy Crash Course (cggonzalez.com)
    ×1.15 22 | 26 points by cgg1 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)
    ×5.47 11 | 22 points by OutOfHere 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Log Is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.50 21 | 7 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com/Llucs)
    ×0.94 48 | 4 points by Llucs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.47 21 | 146 points by ciconia 15 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.09 19 | 38 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
    ×1.31 4 | 99 points by wrxd 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×3.25 4 | 93 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Vespa at 80 (cbc.ca)
    ×1.35 26 | 154 points by cf100clunk 19 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
    ×2.89 5 | 140 points by adamraudonis 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×0.96 20 | 98 points by msephton 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 47 | 21 points by logickkk1 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reflections on the Guillotine (1957) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
    ×1.51 6 | 37 points by halperter 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload (ridgetext.com)
    ×0.69 32 | 14 points by Buckwheat469 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
    ×1.46 6 | 77 points by SVI 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.49 10 | 19 points by cpncrunch 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
    ×2.72 24 | 58 points by natbennett 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How to Enjoy John Ashbery (joshuacorey.substack.com)
    ×0.24 73 | 3 points by Caiero 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.75 15 | 59 points by liffik 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.79 30 | 55 points by tobr 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.27 15 | 112 points by yyyk 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services (cloudslinker.com)
    ×0.39 45 | 10 points by janandonly 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.54 28 | 52 points by toilet 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. $85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable (lovable.dev)
    ×1.43 55 | 14 points by aliclark 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches (jefftk.com)
    ×1.52 23 | 149 points by jefftk 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.82 35 | 60 points by rtolkachev 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (endbasic.dev)
    ×0.56 50 | 28 points by jmmv 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ (yp.to)
    ×0.93 101 | 3 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cells, boundaries, and the emergence of biological order (embl.org)
    ×1.12 102 | 5 points by hhs 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×2.85 14 | 6 points by shpat 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tungsten – an expressive, fast programming language (tungsten-lang.org)
    ×2.82 47 | 8 points by jeffpeterson 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)
    ×1.78 13 | 107 points by ohjeez 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Anthropic performing prompt injection on its users (reddit.com)
    ×3.12 6 | 12 points by murderfs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024) (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.75 62 | 7 points by zX41ZdbW 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.08 13 | 431 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.26 6 | 198 points by jnord 19 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×4.14 10 | 101 points by AlexeyBrin 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (owlposting.com)
    ×0.34 69 | 11 points by abhishaike 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.11 16 | 92 points by gverrilla 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Plein Air (joonas.wtf)
    ×1.12 2 | 59 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (mattgreer.dev)
    ×0.87 30 | 30 points by jandeboevrie 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms (2025) (nature.com)
    ×2.06 13 | 25 points by cybermango 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.81 2 | 547 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GTA 2 ported to JavaScript, with WebRTC P2P multiplayer (gta2js.vercel.app)
    ×3.12 40 | 13 points by possiblelion 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Exploiting LLM Agent Supply Chains via Payload-Less Skills (arxiv.org)
    ×0.76 109 | 4 points by _pdp_ 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.10 66 | 113 points by wslh 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×1.28 36 | 52 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.72 46 | 323 points by indy 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Official US Time (time.gov)
    ×0.95 88 | 11 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation (abc.net.au)
    ×3.71 31 | 41 points by phs318u 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Ugly Phase (trishagee.com)
    ×1.18 45 | 7 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.13 1 | 167 points by gm678 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    ×2.08 3 | 244 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×1.73 68 | 131 points by djoldman 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mama Look a White Dove (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×1.99 23 | 15 points by Aloha 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.36 12 | 350 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)
    ×1.38 10 | 171 points by andrenotgiant 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.07 11 | 145 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (tamu.edu)
    ×2.26 75 | 184 points by cybermango 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth (2025) (bbc.com)
    ×0.99 82 | 16 points by taubek 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.59 22 | 359 points by programLyrique 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.87 81 | 10 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design (colfax-intl.com)
    ×1.04 102 | 3 points by skidrow 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Returning to Zig (gracefulliberty.com)
    ×2.33 37 | 15 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenScience: Workbench for scientific research using custom LLMs (github.com/synthetic-sciences)
    ×1.24 74 | 11 points by ignoramous 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Speck – AI spec-driven agents, inspired by compilers and build tools (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×0.73 102 | 4 points by gidellav 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything (apenwarr.ca)
    ×1.49 91 | 5 points by yorwba 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
    ×5.70 44 | 1342 points by weli 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)
    ×1.07 46 | 189 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×1.91 89 | 133 points by MegagramEnjoyer 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.77 72 | 220 points by sensanaty 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Xylem Surfactants Introduce a New Element to the Cohesion-Tension Theory(2017) (oup.com)
    ×0.47 89 | 5 points by rolph 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. MITS - Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (abortretry.fail)
    ×0.46 93 | 7 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???