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  1. Old Bitly Links Are Being Hijacked (ransomnews.com)
    ×1.32 2 | 39 points by hspeiser 52 minutes ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A short explainer on how El Niño works [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 5 | 136 points by nharada 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Protomaps: Self-hosting map tiles has gotten cheap and easy (bruceroettgers.eu)
    ×2.18 6 | 81 points by bcye 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Your Agent Will Pick the Hackable One (geoffstearns.com)
    ×1.14 | 54 points by tensafefrogs 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can (nytimes.com)
    ×1.36 7 | 123 points by gumby 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM problem (macanorak.com)
    ×2.16 5 | 378 points by MacAnorak 9 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. WebGL Flight Simulator with seed generated terrain (dai.studio)
    ×1.56 12 | 35 points by ranger_danger 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Handwriting, as a Font (sorenblank.com)
    ×2.65 8 | 54 points by coinfused 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Claude Code and Codex reverse engineered my 1994 Jeep's ECU over a $3 Arduino [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.79 8 | 286 points by envoked 9 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker (github.com/eclipse-mosquitto)
    ×0.85 15 | 52 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests (wdr.de)
    ×5.35 9 | 284 points by DeepLogin 4 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) (dadgum.com)
    ×1.32 14 | 180 points by ksec 9 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Clice v1.0 Released: Welcome to Modern C++ (ykiko.me)
    ×1.80 14 | 72 points by molenzwiebel 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Emacs Is My Browser (joshblais.com)
    ×1.51 6 | 163 points by nyc111 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.61 13 | 186 points by vismit2000 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Vulcan rocket fails during return-to-flight launch, 40 Amazon satellites lost (space.com)
    ×3.37 11 | 71 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Keylogger Detection and Containment [pdf] (vu.nl)
    ×0.72 50 | 5 points by movsx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Notes on Mathematics for Engineers (1959) [pdf] (umich.edu)
    ×0.99 14 | 60 points by the-mitr 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Eval Awareness vs. Eval Paranoia (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.90 16 | 41 points by ezrasu 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites (reuters.com)
    ×2.24 10 | 27 points by rexbee 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Aspidistra: A British wartime radio transmitter used for MitM attacks (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.62 20 | 10 points by BoxOfRain 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. All AI-generated code should be Open Source (jankiewicz.org)
    ×5.91 21 | 1021 points by jcubic 8 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher? (2019) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 213 points by Skyfall106 13 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Bullet Dodged (idiotking.org)
    ×1.05 5 | 35 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A NES emulator written in Odin (lucypero.com)
    ×1.03 14 | 98 points by frostbyte7 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Stripe closed us after one $1,500 invoice and never asked for evidence
    ×2.64 8 | 46 points by snirgbs 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15 (spacex.com)
    ×6.20 6 | 1619 points by 1 day ago | 1191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 20 Years of Pyrolog (pypy.org)
    ×0.85 17 | 67 points by lumpa 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model (operator0x.com)
    ×1.06 22 | 106 points by josip208 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Do House members' stock trades beat the market? A test of 8,900 trades (arkanumdata.com)
    ×1.65 24 | 94 points by Bluestein 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business (nytimes.com)
    ×5.25 18 | 443 points by JumpCrisscross 11 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Your room can be as bright as the outdoors (2019) (benkuhn.net)
    ×1.40 10 | 64 points by mday404 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer? (2021) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.74 26 | 309 points by Skyfall106 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Chasing an audio artifact on power loss (subalpinecircuits.com)
    ×0.67 38 | 52 points by ireflect 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages (crissyfield.de)
    ×3.78 2 | 971 points by armcat 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case (litnews.ai)
    ×3.25 | 481 points by ybathaee 21 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. My favourite modern NES games (inversethought.com)
    ×1.92 27 | 197 points by jordigh 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.81 47 | 75 points by nephihaha 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How the Telephone Changed the World (lithub.com)
    ×0.61 26 | 47 points by NaOH 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy (netbsd.org)
    ×1.00 48 | 91 points by jaypatelani 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Open-Source HF Communications for Remote Communities and Experimenters (ardc.net)
    ×0.93 51 | 78 points by tejtm 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS (github.com/db-branch)
    ×0.87 45 | 28 points by nu_nu11 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons (niklasroy.com)
    ×0.87 31 | 73 points by r0r0 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Semicircle Packing (rorz.io)
    ×1.17 33 | 98 points by sarreph 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.01 55 | 101 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller (aosabook.org)
    ×0.98 63 | 97 points by myth_drannon 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. NoisyTCP (twitter.com/v4bel)
    ×1.98 16 | 11 points by george_max 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible (bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com)
    ×0.87 9 | 57 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (nick-black.com)
    ×2.08 12 | 123 points by num42 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs (unemploymentlabs.com)
    ×3.27 101 | 431 points by firloop 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust (tsoracle.rs)
    ×0.56 57 | 38 points by znano 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We're Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches (eff.org)
    ×3.48 5 | 333 points by nobody9999 21 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Abyssal Garden: A dreamy underwater world you can swim through (96 KB HTML) (github.com/Noniv)
    ×2.14 40 | 27 points by soheilpro 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 'Duffy Lied': Controllers Refute Transportation Secretary's Ground Stop Story (commondreams.org)
    ×4.85 31 | 136 points by mikestew 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Sicilian Citrus Family Tree (notesfromtheroad.com)
    ×1.28 57 | 112 points by wmchen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Email addresses used in Euro school bomb hoaxes spotted in old infostealer logs (theregister.com)
    ×2.34 17 | 9 points by nephihaha 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. ULA suffers first total mission failure with loss of Vulcan rocket carrying 40 A (spaceflightnow.com)
    ×2.35 13 | 15 points by bookmtn 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A family tree of software job titles (zwischenzugs.com)
    ×2.09 2 | 431 points by umerf 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Demystifying phone unlocking tools: A technical overview (osservatorionessuno.org)
    ×1.45 62 | 140 points by iloveyoutwo 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.78 67 | 103 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. KDE: The documentary [video] (kockatoo.org)
    ×2.63 2 | 559 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? (thanks.fish)
    ×2.62 16 | 614 points by casi 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Eric Trump-backed robot soldier startup can't pay staff; founder embezzled $4.6M (cnbc.com)
    ×6.45 48 | 13 points by mikhael 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Uber confirms hackers stole drivers' license information in breach (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.64 9 | 35 points by gnabgib 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui (gitlab.com)
    ×1.03 51 | 164 points by snipedbywifi 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Astro Spiral: Greatest Car Stunt Was Also First Computer-Modeled Stunt (boldentrance.com)
    ×0.75 62 | 52 points by CharlesW 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Oxford Molecular Motors (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.84 57 | 73 points by handfuloflight 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021) (esquire.com)
    ×1.52 37 | 165 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip (righto.com)
    ×0.92 57 | 118 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Turbo-Browser-MCP – Batch forms, DOM deltas and submit guards for MCP (github.com/Tthanh2k6)
    ×0.64 55 | 46 points by tthanh2k6 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Repurposing Thin Clients (parkytowers.me.uk)
    ×0.94 10 | 6 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A custom font based on the Jamaican flag alphabet (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×0.91 58 | 53 points by bobbiechen 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A visual explanation of reinforcement learning (aatishb.com)
    ×1.50 46 | 160 points by aatish 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live (pypi.org)
    ×1.27 20 | 271 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Vulcan vehicle suffered an anomaly 10 minutes into the flight (twitter.com/ulalaunch)
    ×1.37 7 | 12 points by logifail 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth (atg.science)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Argentina's austerity-hit economy reels towards recession (reuters.com)
    ×1.87 26 | 5 points by doener 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Vulcan launch of Amazon Leo satellites fails (spacenews.com)
    ×1.95 11 | 4 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting (projectzero.google)
    ×2.58 22 | 304 points by hacb 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ethiopia Banned Petrol Cars but Climate Was Never the Real Story (energytransitionafrica.com)
    ×1.41 24 | 9 points by e12e 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A rare glimpse inside the high-risk, high-reward Hormuz trade (lloydslist.com)
    ×1.54 5 | 103 points by everybodyknows 17 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jensen Huang discusses comeback as Nvidia CEO with allies (ft.com)
    ×6.83 74 | 87 points by eyalitki 3 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Parents pay $75k for Alpha's AI school. Half of its students missed math target (fortune.com)
    ×3.38 69 | 57 points by vrganj 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.42 15 | 4 points by baxtr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. LinkedIn, Monster take down over 1000 fake job postings after CBC investigation (cbc.ca)
    ×2.83 2 | 282 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text (umich.edu)
    ×1.33 25 | 231 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ggml v1.0.0 (github.com/ggml-org)
    ×1.93 20 | 415 points by cobychapple 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side (monkeyisland.pages.dev)
    ×3.22 8 | 500 points by maximilianburke 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax (github.com/Vaibhaav-Tiwari)
    ×1.71 8 | 271 points by VaibhaavTiwari 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: What does building hardware with AI look like?
    ×0.23 54 | 5 points by mjs06 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???