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  1. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.71 | 331 points by bilsbie 7 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.48 1 | 174 points by ronbenton 6 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler (axler.net)
    ×1.89 7 | 16 points by the-mitr 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.42 3 | 465 points by Narishma 14 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.92 7 | 66 points by erickhill 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.59 9 | 91 points by sudo_cowsay 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×2.81 6 | 625 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.90 8 | 61 points by spdegabrielle 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)
    ×1.45 17 | 156 points by Bluestein 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
    ×1.19 23 | 37 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
    ×0.88 21 | 14 points by terranivium 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) (breakintochat.com)
    ×0.88 18 | 47 points by bananaboy 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    ×1.00 24 | 108 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)
    ×0.82 29 | 8 points by mkmk 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
    ×4.31 12 | 19 points by lumpa 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.63 12 | 23 points by _delirium 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (epfl.ch)
    ×0.77 47 | 9 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com/crabbuild)
    ×1.24 18 | 31 points by forhappy 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (wolfram.com)
    ×0.76 28 | 38 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.70 2 | 268 points by mlenhard 16 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (google.com)
    ×2.72 | 88 points by dt3ft 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.90 26 | 86 points by homarp 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.34 18 | 300 points by zacharyozer 10 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    ×1.25 1 | 141 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.29 38 | 44 points by hardlianotion 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 41 | 64 points by tobr 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×0.95 31 | 104 points by emptybits 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×3.08 14 | 192 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.58 18 | 629 points by pentagrama 18 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.45 24 | 432 points by stagas 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)
    ×0.79 29 | 84 points by lermontov 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.57 2 | 184 points by toomuchtodo 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
    ×5.44 31 | 202 points by walrus01 6 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.99 41 | 103 points by austinallegro 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    ×1.23 47 | 141 points by txrx0000 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    ×1.51 29 | 147 points by abelanger 21 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 54 | 92 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.37 74 | 27 points by brod_ie 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
    ×0.62 66 | 67 points by sbulaev 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout (dave.tf)
    ×0.27 85 | 5 points by raggi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×4.12 22 | 385 points by Alifatisk 18 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.37 71 | 27 points by samclemens 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.16 36 | 304 points by hruvhwe 12 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023) (pbs.org)
    ×0.31 60 | 6 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.79 7 | 149 points by brandonb 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×1.14 9 | 68 points by evakhoury 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever (bbc.com)
    ×2.99 24 | 27 points by tartoran 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (wunc.org)
    ×0.58 59 | 28 points by yareally 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (falstad.com)
    ×0.93 73 | 69 points by pykello 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    ×1.74 42 | 82 points by riskone 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)
    ×1.55 37 | 183 points by maxutility 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (slowtravelberlin.com)
    ×0.81 49 | 19 points by yitchelle 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.65 7 | 20 points by eig 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×5.17 14 | 1417 points by erdaltoprak 2 days ago | 787 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges' (militarytimes.com)
    ×2.56 7 | 10 points by toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Asus Bike Booster (asus.com)
    ×2.96 15 | 617 points by wiradikusuma 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.71 69 | 82 points by johnsillings 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    ×1.66 15 | 275 points by pdet 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×1.12 13 | 77 points by karakoram 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 88 | 55 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 33 | 192 points by lentil_soup 15 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.58 25 | 268 points by felixbraun 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
    ×0.84 71 | 68 points by xalfotis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Nobody Knows Anything (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×1.08 59 | 8 points by gtirloni 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.93 57 | 176 points by ropbear 9 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.44 31 | 291 points by gmays 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.46 26 | 1156 points by pella 3 days ago | 573 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)
    ×2.10 2 | 485 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub secure open source fund (sniffnet.app)
    ×0.25 91 | 16 points by dmit 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.27 19 | 448 points by tosh 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×1.10 82 | 9 points by bosmarcel 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.83 16 | 16 points by gradus_ad 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (github.com/cesarblum)
    ×1.01 111 | 5 points by sigalor 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.15 44 | 88 points by ghuntley 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
    ×2.60 | 330 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.03 32 | 112 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Health benefits of Tai Chi (harvard.edu)
    ×1.67 59 | 42 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
    ×1.23 28 | 184 points by AnodicElegy 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter (cnbc.com)
    ×2.43 1 | 42 points by johnbarron 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.30 3 | 383 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
    ×0.45 87 | 29 points by adm4 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com/wmww)
    ×1.06 57 | 84 points by schmorptron 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. An image can overflow (master.dev)
    ×0.90 67 | 60 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Octopuses could help us conceptualize a different form of intelligence (cbc.ca)
    ×1.79 5 | 9 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Connecting my Illumos box to a Japanese ISP (skalski.dev)
    ×1.37 84 | 20 points by mskalski 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×4.56 8 | 969 points by numeri 2 days ago | 858 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)
    ×0.69 57 | 56 points by turtushig22 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records (treasury.gov)
    ×2.67 8 | 43 points by Jimmc414 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.42 86 | 10 points by kajm 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???