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  1. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.25 5 | 516 points by the-mitr 13 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)
    ×2.31 3 | 259 points by ilamont 9 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
    ×2.73 6 | 444 points by ori_b 13 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
    ×1.91 9 | 364 points by j12y 13 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.52 11 | 60 points by herbertl 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.10 5 | 576 points by Cider9986 9 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers (gregraiz.com)
    ×2.11 3 | 51 points by graiz 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.73 12 | 79 points by zikani_03 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac (ieee.org)
    ×0.94 16 | 13 points by oldnetguy 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
    ×1.61 7 | 249 points by elvis70 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)
    ×6.17 9 | 1059 points by elmean 15 hours ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)
    ×2.04 6 | 378 points by chmaynard 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
    ×1.85 8 | 170 points by patrickhulin 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.66 10 | 116 points by armadsen 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
    ×1.76 11 | 286 points by vok 16 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
    ×1.20 9 | 57 points by zero-lab 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)
    ×1.18 29 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.78 14 | 57 points by kernalix7 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
    ×3.26 8 | 785 points by mpweiher 17 hours ago | 761 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)
    ×1.20 9 | 63 points by wglb 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)
    ×1.45 16 | 199 points by ferriswil 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.40 10 | 20 points by droppedasbaby 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.25 18 | 111 points by ethagnawl 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.70 18 | 176 points by gpjt 15 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
    ×1.47 9 | 270 points by scarsam 17 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)
    ×1.37 10 | 110 points by KraftyOne 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.07 21 | 78 points by Sir_Twist 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo (dustri.org)
    ×0.82 30 | 57 points by homebrewer 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)
    ×3.08 17 | 446 points by akyuu 14 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.48 13 | 285 points by steveharing1 19 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (alphaxiv.org)
    ×0.60 42 | 24 points by measurablefunc 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.78 37 | 60 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)
    ×0.88 18 | 17 points by otterwilde2 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
    ×1.61 42 | 17 points by wglb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (nik.digital)
    ×0.56 45 | 25 points by OuterVale 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mit.edu)
    ×0.97 31 | 89 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
    ×1.05 38 | 135 points by mostlyk 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
    ×0.53 55 | 23 points by pmw 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.87 75 | 106 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
    ×3.26 17 | 607 points by jaffathecake 22 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
    ×0.90 64 | 54 points by pantalaimon 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.21 20 | 2070 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs (biohub.org)
    ×1.32 2 | 27 points by warbaker 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.54 35 | 17 points by denismenace 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×5.50 18 | 1378 points by unsnap_biceps 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
    ×1.26 46 | 191 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
    ×0.77 49 | 78 points by g0xA52A2A 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.69 51 | 64 points by downbad_ 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.30 22 | 34 points by dotmanish 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
    ×1.27 38 | 194 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Vercel’s pricing page (theupsellgame.com)
    ×2.21 36 | 166 points by bartoindahouse 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
    ×1.29 34 | 135 points by louisbarclay 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.86 20 | 3460 points by WadeGrimridge 2 days ago | 1032 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×2.46 5 | 485 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
    ×1.37 17 | 73 points by nahimn 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How Semiconductors Were Made in America (siliconimist.com)
    ×0.77 29 | 45 points by johncole 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.60 43 | 196 points by noleary 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.44 19 | 645 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.98 54 | 119 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Agentic Harness Engineering (arxiv.org)
    ×1.86 49 | 6 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Human Creativity Benchmark – Evaluating Generative AI in Creative Work (contralabs.com)
    ×0.44 70 | 17 points by 0bytematt 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GCC 16 has been released (gnu.org)
    ×2.84 27 | 291 points by HeliumHydride 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.89 58 | 97 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. America's New Surveillance Dragnet (wsj.com)
    ×3.21 37 | 14 points by julienchastang 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
    ×0.77 49 | 83 points by dwrodri 21 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
    ×4.33 48 | 1025 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 631 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
    ×5.30 24 | 1173 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Utah's New Law Targeting VPNs Goes into Effect Next Week (eff.org)
    ×3.74 29 | 34 points by iamnothere 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.26 16 | 12 points by brandonb 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.62 35 | 34 points by carlovalenti 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Because It Doesn't Have To (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.66 45 | 39 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Manual Until It Hurts (indieweb.org)
    ×2.54 53 | 13 points by susam 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence (apnews.com)
    ×2.79 18 | 42 points by embedding-shape 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
    ×1.59 7 | 330 points by rdl 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (flyingmag.com)
    ×0.81 63 | 86 points by Jblx2 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 69 | 132 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (talkie-lm.com)
    ×2.85 64 | 761 points by jekude 3 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon (github.com/kubereboot)
    ×0.40 57 | 19 points by ankitg12 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.85 61 | 91 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets (wsj.com)
    ×5.60 73 | 289 points by kamaraju 10 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.83 56 | 140 points by takira 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Greptile's New Pricing Is Predatory (greptile-fail.vercel.app)
    ×0.80 60 | 15 points by not-chatgpt 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform (daringfireball.net)
    ×2.44 27 | 16 points by ffin 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US National Debt Surpasses GDP (thehill.com)
    ×4.09 38 | 49 points by eigenspace 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
    ×1.12 39 | 117 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Coding-Flashcards – Learn Rust, SQLite, or Godot from First Principles (github.com/ad-si)
    ×0.91 62 | 14 points by adius 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.44 45 | 3 points by slake 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot (lina.sh)
    ×1.89 39 | 149 points by fishgoesblub 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (agwa.name)
    ×1.79 3 | 408 points by agwa 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???