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  1. Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (parcelscope.net)
    ×1.26 1 | 192 points by rustywasm 5 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon (github.com/Sadpainy)
    ×1.96 7 | 36 points by CMDDestory 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 1 | 132 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads (virtualizationhowto.com)
    ×2.63 8 | 67 points by josephcsible 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. TALA Is Open-Source (d2lang.com)
    ×1.79 21 | 8 points by alixanderwang 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×1.94 8 | 45 points by Wilsoniumite 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
    ×2.51 | 209 points by matthieu_bl 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (ox.ac.uk)
    ×1.86 8 | 124 points by mudil 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra (kallus.org)
    ×0.79 16 | 57 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle (jigsawhaiku.com)
    ×1.78 14 | 31 points by windowshopping 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
    ×1.32 10 | 49 points by Lucent 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (youtube.com)
    ×6.73 25 | 458 points by treve 20 hours ago | 704 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×3.28 16 | 143 points by exploraz 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)
    ×1.22 28 | 216 points by astroanax 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.18 20 | 112 points by mariuz 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.60 36 | 124 points by worldvoyageur 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    ×1.39 13 | 179 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. John Margolies' Photographs of Roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.12 260 | 3 points by duck 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Macbeth and His Problems (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.62 12 | 30 points by apophatic 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Methods for Random Gradients (2024) (justinjay.wang)
    ×0.62 27 | 42 points by nickswalker 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Decapitating a MacBook (2025) (mm-dev.rocks)
    ×0.89 25 | 53 points by luu 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)
    ×3.78 3 | 941 points by sonicrocketman 21 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. bzip3 (github.com/iczelia)
    ×2.08 10 | 366 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Dataflow Model Revisited (vldb.org)
    ×0.89 24 | 80 points by scott_s 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work (nber.org)
    ×1.43 3 | 52 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
    ×1.11 24 | 184 points by coinfused 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Whistle Synth Mac App (jefftk.com)
    ×0.76 41 | 59 points by luu 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000) (nature.com)
    ×0.28 62 | 12 points by stefanpie 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. She Also Found It at the Movies (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×0.45 48 | 19 points by prismatic 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform (werwolv.net)
    ×1.19 19 | 67 points by WerWolv 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Schemy Lisp En DOS (neocities.org)
    ×0.58 44 | 27 points by AlexeyBrin 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs (vllm.ai)
    ×0.93 28 | 126 points by ankitg12 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive (economist.com)
    ×2.28 51 | 66 points by MrBuddyCasino 13 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Every novel is boring until it isn't (publicbooks.org)
    ×1.12 71 | 71 points by samclemens 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on (electrek.co)
    ×6.80 34 | 128 points by FabHK 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.70 28 | 284 points by jmpman 23 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003) (techemails.com)
    ×6.10 34 | 342 points by highfrequency 9 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.99 21 | 33 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Impedance Matching (2017) (edge.org)
    ×0.65 43 | 76 points by muti 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host (github.com/logimaxx)
    ×0.77 48 | 22 points by vsergione 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The NX bit is not just about security (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.87 76 | 85 points by torutofu 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements (theregister.com)
    ×2.39 19 | 270 points by mdp2021 12 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer (claytonwramsey.com)
    ×0.93 59 | 103 points by claytonwramsey 22 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. De-Brainrot Vacations (devz.cl)
    ×2.72 36 | 462 points by DanielVZ 11 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
    ×1.47 22 | 307 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs (tiiny.ai)
    ×1.71 8 | 18 points by alex-moon 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.71 22 | 290 points by imadtaieber 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex (github.com/trailofbits)
    ×1.29 79 | 51 points by aggrrrh 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Splash-free urinals (2025) (oup.com)
    ×1.91 22 | 218 points by u1hcw9nx 11 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office (myhomecat.com)
    ×0.79 7 | 25 points by dearilos 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32 (didac.dev)
    ×0.96 30 | 85 points by sabatesduran 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 1% increase in immigration leads to a 1.78%-2.97% increase in Far-Right voting (2024) (sciencedirect.com)
    ×5.46 37 | 17 points by cwwc 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Searching for the best silicone USB cable (frankchiarulli.com)
    ×0.83 17 | 27 points by evakhoury 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)
    ×1.17 52 | 126 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. El Yayster – a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs (github.com/yayster)
    ×0.84 54 | 6 points by dTal 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.43 17 | 190 points by samizdis 13 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)
    ×0.88 49 | 99 points by nchudleigh 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 61 | 114 points by ur-whale 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI Cold Showers (reyes.sh)
    ×4.09 40 | 69 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×1.11 8 | 107 points by maxim-fin 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×1.47 50 | 205 points by iamsyr 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018) (acm.org)
    ×1.62 27 | 87 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM (bschaatsbergen.com)
    ×0.65 59 | 35 points by bschaatsbergen 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) (dtrace.org)
    ×3.03 2 | 705 points by cyb0rg0 1 day ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 (netbsd.org)
    ×0.86 58 | 148 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs (github.com/timgordontg)
    ×0.82 36 | 81 points by timgordontg 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.53 7 | 98 points by joozio 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Education of a Doomer (borretti.me)
    ×2.93 58 | 50 points by f311a 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Isle – managed application environments for computer-use agents (tryisle.com)
    ×1.34 58 | 8 points by sxhivs 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Australian government to chart course away from 'American war machine' (theguardian.com)
    ×3.04 5 | 7 points by Alien1Being 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. An Alien Mind (openai.com)
    ×2.81 1 | 461 points by tosh 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. VMtree is a fast and easy way to provision self-hosted ephemeral VMs (github.com/kkovacs)
    ×0.52 85 | 3 points by indigodaddy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)
    ×2.77 11 | 607 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers (itsfoss.com)
    ×4.47 32 | 335 points by ivell 18 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (techaro.lol)
    ×1.82 4 | 349 points by xena 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Programming is Art (orchidfiles.com)
    ×2.01 26 | 183 points by theorchid 16 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A Modest Proposal (systemsapproach.org)
    ×0.67 72 | 8 points by teleforce 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A/I shuts down (keepitfree.ai)
    ×3.85 17 | 620 points by captainmuon 1 day ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com/marsbos)
    ×0.65 46 | 98 points by bosmarcel 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database (glazer.ee)
    ×0.71 56 | 64 points by pintprint 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings (cordcuttersnews.com)
    ×2.37 8 | 167 points by dmitrygr 19 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) (yale.edu)
    ×1.14 35 | 164 points by yubblegum 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
    ×0.32 49 | 27 points by busymom0 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set (thurrott.com)
    ×2.20 52 | 100 points by neogodless 8 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security (oxide.computer)
    ×0.57 45 | 51 points by cyb0rg0 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations (vidact.dev)
    ×0.69 53 | 70 points by mohebifar 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.11 23 | 394 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 2026 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org)
    ×1.66 46 | 111 points by signa11 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Research carried out using NetBSD (netbsd.org)
    ×0.74 44 | 98 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???