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  1. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (apple.com)
    ×3.96 1 | 487 points by interpol_p 3 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×3.37 1 | 448 points by interpol_p 3 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (apple.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 216 points by runako 3 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs (yale.edu)
    ×1.84 1 | 105 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
    ×2.52 4 | 200 points by garo-pro 4 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Don't Wordle (dontwordle.com)
    ×1.93 4 | 197 points by Hbruz0 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application (github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC)
    ×0.76 11 | 62 points by Bluestein 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War (historytoday.com)
    ×0.58 11 | 13 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.01 1 | 57 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it (erathos.com)
    ×0.50 11 | 18 points by gpaulbagetti 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (apple.com)
    ×2.43 9 | 570 points by K7PJP 18 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How much of HN is AI? (coredump.cx)
    ×5.33 11 | 153 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue (wsj.com)
    ×2.89 2 | 16 points by cwwc 22 minutes ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
    ×3.24 12 | 813 points by ComputerGuru 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Visualizing Binary Files (movq.de)
    ×1.45 10 | 13 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×3.49 7 | 951 points by tosh 1 day ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.98 24 | 63 points by giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How Universities Should Prepare Founders (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.50 15 | 214 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SiFive's First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.02 29 | 110 points by geerlingguy 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What's new in Emacs 31.1 (masteringemacs.org)
    ×2.70 4 | 300 points by geospeck 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
    ×6.47 4 | 1557 points by l-one-lone 1 day ago | 969 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com)
    ×2.29 16 | 93 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (thijs.gg)
    ×2.79 7 | 564 points by centrosphere 23 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Moon (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×1.60 14 | 243 points by simonebrunozzi 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Solving the 1+N Query Problem (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.15 56 | 8 points by wheatBread 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage (github.com/murerkinn)
    ×1.28 32 | 155 points by arbayi 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Where did all the public bathrooms go? (jstor.org)
    ×2.06 24 | 317 points by herbertl 23 hours ago | 720 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
    ×1.53 15 | 173 points by Tiberium 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study (plos.org)
    ×1.57 50 | 214 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff (dover.com)
    ×0.01 176 | 1 points by adawg4 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.29 30 | 117 points by subset 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines (itch.io)
    ×1.06 40 | 96 points by Gorsefound 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (archive.org)
    ×1.13 41 | 143 points by signor_bosco 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
    ×1.35 37 | 179 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (jstor.org)
    ×1.47 14 | 132 points by neom 15 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com/paulg)
    ×2.59 27 | 584 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 656 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents (laude.org)
    ×1.10 3 | 106 points by lbw1215 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
    ×1.52 29 | 254 points by inputmice 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com/tobi)
    ×1.42 8 | 129 points by matallo 14 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenAI JalapeñO: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell (semianalysis.com)
    ×1.83 6 | 12 points by bmulholland 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.10 27 | 99 points by MC995 4 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×5.52 5 | 1408 points by schlarpc 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.74 62 | 95 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
    ×1.68 38 | 219 points by ssx360 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
    ×2.54 48 | 380 points by pantelisk 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services (arxiv.org)
    ×0.92 74 | 72 points by lensecat 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fences, Not Sandboxes (yegge.ai)
    ×1.44 63 | 82 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog (textlog.cc)
    ×0.90 59 | 78 points by stagas 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
    ×1.05 41 | 142 points by adesh_nalpet 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Oceans hit highest temperature on record (bbc.com)
    ×5.17 28 | 659 points by tcp_handshaker 21 hours ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.67 25 | 56 points by at1as 20 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. EVE Online moves to Python 3 (eveonline.com)
    ×2.42 7 | 10 points by TylerJaacks 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What Is a Syslog Server? (greencloudvps.com)
    ×0.86 61 | 71 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.81 21 | 188 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.11 41 | 123 points by tke248 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3 (github.com/ovenpasta)
    ×0.98 31 | 57 points by ovenpasta 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (ft.com)
    ×3.79 20 | 799 points by naves 1 day ago | 696 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file (hamiltonulmer.com)
    ×1.29 53 | 163 points by v3gas 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown (github.com/dragthelake)
    ×0.92 10 | 59 points by Dramatize 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Diamond Rapids (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.79 66 | 11 points by ingve 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. JSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2 (antonz.org)
    ×1.45 9 | 8 points by typical182 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nostr is an inclusive communication commons (nostr.org)
    ×1.83 34 | 207 points by Bluestein 13 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
    ×3.16 5 | 535 points by setheron 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge (codefloe.com)
    ×0.80 67 | 64 points by jeremyjh 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MNT Station – A modular, open hardware desktop computer and server (crowdsupply.com)
    ×0.60 30 | 3 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers (theguardian.com)
    ×2.43 4 | 35 points by YeGoblynQueenne 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM (github.com/thiagotigaz)
    ×1.02 56 | 136 points by thiagolima 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (openai.com)
    ×2.21 11 | 330 points by tosh 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Volcanoes that made history (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×0.42 52 | 14 points by flabber 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×2.72 24 | 128 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Walgit leans on S3 primitives but has classic distsys bugs (twitter.com/kellabyte)
    ×1.08 30 | 3 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed (cnn.com)
    ×1.59 7 | 171 points by related 19 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walk through (flostep.dev)
    ×0.95 69 | 23 points by pandurang90 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.46 65 | 51 points by ksec 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth (macrumors.com)
    ×4.64 68 | 78 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI Chip Architectures (jepeake.com)
    ×1.24 61 | 151 points by Finbarr 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Triangulating AI's Climate Impact, a Look at Studies, Research and Regulation (misalignedmag.com)
    ×0.79 8 | 6 points by lcubw 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
    ×0.94 13 | 196 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Quantum battery upends the rules of charging (bbc.com)
    ×1.09 52 | 52 points by reconnecting 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 'Never seen this level of objection': Scotland pushes back against datacentres (theguardian.com)
    ×2.52 7 | 33 points by ndsipa_pomu 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.47 7 | 565 points by vanpra 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.03 16 | 286 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease (washu.edu)
    ×1.02 26 | 186 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Agent Lightning v1.0 (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.01 45 | 53 points by qainsights 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
    ×1.18 53 | 198 points by the-mitr 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
    ×2.01 36 | 357 points by iand 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (modelrepublic.org)
    ×6.02 42 | 722 points by reasonableklout 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anger, Anxiety and Agency (pocoo.org)
    ×1.42 1 | 121 points by lumpa 22 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Mourning Steve French (lwn.net)
    ×1.03 56 | 78 points by mfrw 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.03 77 | 57 points by DGAP 2 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???