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  1. Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 116 points by supermatou 2 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
    ×0.97 7 | 35 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.81 2 | 559 points by poisonfountain 4 hours ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)
    ×1.74 10 | 303 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com/devenjarvis)
    ×2.20 7 | 104 points by devenjarvis 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.25 3 | 253 points by predkambrij 4 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (ycombinator.com)
    31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
    ×1.02 18 | 107 points by supermatou 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (podman.io)
    ×2.05 1 | 53 points by daesorin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.77 11 | 46 points by le_chuck 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (bbc.com)
    ×2.41 3 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.16 17 | 120 points by kkm 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
    ×0.84 20 | 44 points by ChrisGammell 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
    ×1.72 13 | 170 points by kristoff_it 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (kdab.com)
    ×0.53 28 | 25 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
    ×1.84 21 | 390 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    ×1.72 23 | 203 points by davidbarker 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The best relationships are all-encompassing. (andys.blog)
    ×1.40 6 | 40 points by andytratt 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.08 22 | 143 points by gscott 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (safia.rocks)
    ×0.36 11 | 15 points by ankitg12 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.64 1 | 237 points by babuskov 14 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
    ×1.35 27 | 129 points by mmastrac 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
    ×1.21 23 | 149 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com/a-yiorgos)
    ×0.73 28 | 39 points by nextos 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com/garethgeorge)
    ×1.04 13 | 8 points by flexagoon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.68 19 | 139 points by zeech 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 26 | 34 points by yorwba 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
    ×1.50 27 | 133 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    ×1.40 22 | 83 points by old_sound 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)
    ×1.75 27 | 337 points by jwilk 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    ×1.99 5 | 267 points by pramodbiligiri 18 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved (acs.org)
    ×1.13 40 | 112 points by crescit_eundo 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The User Doesn't Care – But you should (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×2.92 44 | 11 points by kugurerdem 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.88 46 | 665 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1048 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Partitions over Permutations (johndcook.com)
    ×0.41 41 | 8 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    ×1.67 35 | 158 points by rohanucla 21 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (weekinsecurity.com)
    ×4.30 18 | 660 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The J Programming Language (2014) (infoq.com)
    ×1.55 6 | 4 points by tosh 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
    ×1.57 66 | 4 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. gonum (github.com/gonum)
    ×1.69 67 | 4 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)
    ×2.37 41 | 185 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Vim Classic 8.3 Released (vim-classic.org)
    ×1.87 62 | 21 points by tempodox 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. "Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum (eghammuseum.org)
    ×2.62 46 | 6 points by lifeisstillgood 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (airandspaceforces.com)
    ×3.96 29 | 17 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
    ×2.25 41 | 111 points by futurisold 2 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue (respeak-io.github.io)
    ×1.03 40 | 50 points by evolabs 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Automated QA and Testing with AI (antirez.com)
    ×1.20 54 | 13 points by Chrisszz 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.53 51 | 19 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap (yon-lang.org)
    ×0.60 26 | 41 points by amenn 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
    ×1.40 31 | 176 points by uonr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
    ×2.31 33 | 210 points by MrBuddyCasino 12 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.68 74 | 80 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.36 47 | 265 points by BerislavLopac 7 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. You Can Run (atavist.com)
    ×1.03 43 | 133 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid (mojodojo.io)
    ×2.68 33 | 9 points by zenincognito 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 47 | 135 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser (github.com/sauravrao637)
    ×0.88 28 | 57 points by sauravrao637 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Customers Are Giving Billions to Scammers. Tellers Are Intervening (nytimes.com)
    ×1.78 23 | 12 points by donohoe 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×3.15 53 | 282 points by toephu2 1 day ago | 867 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.48 68 | 170 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×4.17 11 | 910 points by 0xkato 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The ROI of AI coding looks different when you are a bootstrapped founder (octavio.substack.com)
    ×1.34 | 7 points by tavioto 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×1.71 4 | 319 points by tosh 1 day ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI (ieee.org)
    ×2.04 78 | 9 points by jruohonen 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11 (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.69 50 | 40 points by kristianp 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.02 45 | 102 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.90 1 | 12 points by simianwords 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (su3.io)
    ×1.41 1 | 262 points by losfair 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.21 25 | 24 points by HelloUsername 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Enforcing the First as in BGP AS_PATHs (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.61 38 | 12 points by berlianta 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Social Cache Busting (autodidacts.io)
    ×1.13 47 | 140 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes' (nytimes.com)
    ×4.75 55 | 15 points by ohjeez 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development (saturnci.com)
    ×1.46 48 | 241 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health (science.org)
    ×2.33 10 | 189 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter (github.com/hatearena)
    ×1.39 42 | 29 points by death_eternal 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen (theregister.com)
    ×3.52 15 | 574 points by toomuchtodo 2 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose (oshogbo.com)
    ×1.49 63 | 34 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (privacyguides.net)
    ×2.22 59 | 274 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 66 | 50 points by rsn243 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Grad Student Who Broke Microplastics Research (drstanfield.com)
    ×1.53 59 | 7 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships (theregister.com)
    ×1.51 2 | 4 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Qualcomm Linux (github.com/qualcomm-linux)
    ×1.64 56 | 39 points by tosh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I am giving up on VM Gaming (deployonfri.day)
    ×1.99 40 | 42 points by BoKKeR11 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. India's surprise baby bust (economist.com)
    ×1.78 46 | 234 points by hakonbogen 2 days ago | 1012 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say (nbcnews.com)
    ×6.12 60 | 565 points by MilnerRoute 23 hours ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (rochester.edu)
    ×2.47 16 | 509 points by speckx 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography (benthamsgaze.org)
    ×1.09 63 | 121 points by lordgilman 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.31 75 | 38 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing (goto10retro.com)
    ×0.74 42 | 58 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
    ×2.18 20 | 342 points by tripplyons 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???