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  1. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×2.14 1 | 173 points by atan2 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.44 1 | 296 points by DarkContinent 7 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.24 2 | 39 points by binyu 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.63 4 | 783 points by xtreak29 19 hours ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.39 2 | 81 points by msephton 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.08 3 | 697 points by colesantiago 19 hours ago | 739 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.03 4 | 455 points by ahamez 17 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×4.39 4 | 58 points by microtonal 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×2.00 4 | 300 points by ExMachina73 14 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.85 12 | 269 points by paulkrush 16 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.95 7 | 339 points by moonikakiss 17 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.54 2 | 207 points by greyblake 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise (gallup.com)
    ×3.46 12 | 26 points by giuliomagnifico 37 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.45 7 | 293 points by lladnar 17 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.65 1 | 573 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
    ×1.97 12 | 97 points by j4mie 4 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.74 9 | 190 points by Xeophon 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.69 25 | 38 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.71 20 | 20 points by skogstokig 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.60 11 | 248 points by hackerBanana 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.30 11 | 143 points by pella 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.74 12 | 235 points by calvinfo 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
    ×1.36 15 | 187 points by plaguna 18 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.67 6 | 40 points by nanochess 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
    ×2.20 19 | 258 points by mapping365 9 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.35 61 | 59 points by shailendraht 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)
    ×0.75 17 | 31 points by ksec 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×3.02 14 | 359 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.28 18 | 285 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.48 21 | 133 points by robin_reala 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.92 45 | 141 points by _____k 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.86 47 | 132 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.82 36 | 62 points by oryx1729 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.51 11 | 198 points by weli 20 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Cipher Behind Qsyrupwd: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (silentsignal.eu)
    ×0.67 7 | 14 points by jandeboevrie 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. It's Easier Than Ever to Fly Private Without Your Own Jet (wsj.com)
    ×3.16 16 | 7 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×0.91 33 | 89 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.30 50 | 52 points by Jare 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
    ×0.92 44 | 47 points by shuklaayush 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)
    ×5.14 21 | 51 points by geox 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.55 17 | 110 points by Tomte 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.83 44 | 115 points by Anon84 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Cuprate – an alternative and independent Monero node software written in Rust (github.com/Cuprate)
    ×1.57 73 | 4 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.07 15 | 175 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.20 39 | 140 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.34 45 | 206 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.86 48 | 98 points by MarcoDewey 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.85 49 | 102 points by yogthos 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×1.94 63 | 69 points by geerlingguy 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.69 52 | 57 points by triska 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.69 6 | 27 points by pradiptasarma 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×2.88 25 | 475 points by dzdt 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (bbc.com)
    ×1.61 66 | 54 points by neversaydie 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
    ×1.03 36 | 66 points by abelsm 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm (bbc.co.uk)
    ×4.05 19 | 25 points by smarri 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.14 75 | 437 points by pmg101 2 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
    ×2.04 20 | 124 points by DearAll 14 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.54 42 | 74 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.14 50 | 18 points by jandeboevrie 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
    ×0.57 50 | 55 points by lschueller 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Gallery of Installing from .dmg (aresluna.org)
    ×2.58 40 | 41 points by colinprince 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
    ×0.79 44 | 91 points by elasticdog 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Shrinking Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
    ×2.76 60 | 8 points by jandeboevrie 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
    ×3.14 16 | 152 points by embedding-shape 23 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (truegrittexturesupply.com)
    ×0.82 34 | 33 points by Michelangelo11 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controll (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.75 6 | 12 points by joozio 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)
    ×0.97 47 | 102 points by ngoldbaum 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have lowered RAM prices (theregister.com)
    ×1.64 | 7 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (cnelecar.com)
    ×1.66 16 | 187 points by iplaypc 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ryg_rans Is Not a Library (wordpress.com)
    ×0.50 57 | 6 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.11 48 | 176 points by lapcat 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.06 59 | 87 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Virginia orders data centers to pay for dedicated new electric infrastructure (realtor.com)
    ×2.00 11 | 37 points by mapping365 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.31 20 | 6 points by vcfgdev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Something is changing in the unit economics of software (nicolo.xyz)
    ×1.84 20 | 64 points by coconido 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (wired.com)
    ×4.77 60 | 300 points by malshe 16 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
    ×1.75 51 | 45 points by alvis 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Smalltalk Report from 1991 to 1996 (github.com/Ducasse)
    ×1.42 39 | 8 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.55 55 | 46 points by Jimmc414 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
    ×0.89 45 | 55 points by andrewjneumann 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.48 47 | 70 points by rowbin 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×5.21 18 | 1389 points by MaxMussio 2 days ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.86 20 | 383 points by tosh 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×2.38 39 | 249 points by vincent_s 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 48 | 96 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Lisp Machine: Your Next Step in Computing (symbolics.biz)
    ×2.21 50 | 20 points by yacin 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.99 3 | 478 points by riadsila 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.66 52 | 56 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.22 18 | 611 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???