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  1. OBS Studio 33 (github.com/obsproject)
    ×1.97 | 85 points by pentagrama 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (kimi.ai)
    ×3.51 1 | 876 points by Jowsey 15 hours ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Twelve years of distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
    ×2.04 3 | 169 points by otoolep 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (calif.io)
    ×4.04 | 851 points by pavel_lishin 15 hours ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
    ×1.78 | 82 points by stmonty 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Apple Music 404 Not Found (apple.com)
    ×3.90 1 | 737 points by frizlab 15 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
    ×5.17 7 | 1359 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
    ×1.81 4 | 64 points by westsmith 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech (block.xyz)
    ×2.79 1 | 366 points by dsr12 12 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
    ×2.26 6 | 130 points by Ravencentric 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. CVE Tracker (0xosprey.com)
    ×1.62 8 | 165 points by Group_B 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (eff.org)
    ×2.93 11 | 402 points by hn_acker 20 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Real Kevin Bacon (pudding.cool)
    ×1.87 9 | 294 points by xnx 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 11 | 15 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
    ×2.18 5 | 38 points by motionlessveloc 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
    ×2.73 8 | 96 points by klaussilveira 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Apple Security Research Device (apple.com)
    ×2.90 4 | 39 points by neom 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (reddit.com)
    ×7.52 16 | 51 points by testing22321 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
    ×1.49 5 | 67 points by martz 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.21 74 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.87 6 | 27 points by Teever 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (jefftk.com)
    ×1.51 22 | 116 points by luu 14 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
    ×1.13 12 | 76 points by eiopa 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.84 29 | 30 points by civicpivot 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.79 36 | 39 points by gmays 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
    ×1.13 14 | 140 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How is music possible (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.30 18 | 128 points by rafaelc 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (ediblegeography.com)
    ×0.08 80 | 3 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.74 18 | 94 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.31 36 | 166 points by drewsberry 20 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (yale.edu)
    ×0.70 43 | 45 points by throwaway2037 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
    ×2.03 19 | 157 points by cowlevel 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.67 58 | 58 points by KraftyOne 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    ×2.58 66 | 621 points by alphax314 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.42 96 | 7 points by privacyishuman 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
    ×0.66 61 | 39 points by Bender 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
    ×3.27 11 | 20 points by adityaathalye 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
    ×0.79 38 | 52 points by ernestrc 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) (quantum5.ca)
    ×0.74 36 | 45 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (impossiblemachines.xyz)
    ×0.70 48 | 75 points by bhaprayan 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Reforming English Spelling (oup.com)
    ×0.62 64 | 38 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
    ×1.67 6 | 102 points by pretext 12 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
    ×0.79 41 | 70 points by webtjb096 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.99 15 | 37 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.44 15 | 839 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
    ×0.78 70 | 5 points by ankitg12 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. No Source Code? No Problem (acm.org)
    ×0.89 23 | 47 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.20 42 | 199 points by gmays 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. HumanLayer is now Open Source (hlyr.dev)
    ×2.36 55 | 21 points by dhorthy 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LISP Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
    ×0.64 43 | 67 points by so-cal-schemer 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy (bottlecapai.com)
    ×1.45 13 | 114 points by armcat 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025) (isaacmarovitz.com)
    ×0.61 40 | 61 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. This I Believe (1952) (awakin.org)
    ×1.02 59 | 150 points by ctoth 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' (courthousenews.com)
    ×1.97 11 | 55 points by rdmuser 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.37 55 | 180 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.32 6 | 613 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 684 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know (rentes.github.io)
    ×1.52 84 | 26 points by jcbhmr 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com/anubhavmalhotra)
    ×0.85 62 | 97 points by animalhot 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats (cyberinsider.com)
    ×3.89 11 | 56 points by DeepLogin 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-Ups (adweek.com)
    ×1.53 13 | 7 points by thm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (modelcompare.ai)
    ×3.07 7 | 627 points by rakannimer 1 day ago | 601 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A visual introduction to information theory (arxiv.org)
    ×0.60 102 | 3 points by nill0 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (utexas.edu)
    ×1.95 6 | 367 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We have traits at home (axelmagn.com)
    ×0.52 62 | 49 points by Ygg2 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Color Names (color.pizza)
    ×1.10 73 | 109 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Time Nuts (2005) (leapsecond.com)
    ×0.42 47 | 36 points by jacquesm 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Total Historian (theideasletter.org)
    ×0.25 79 | 22 points by benbreen 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com/dsmurrell)
    ×1.38 18 | 220 points by dsmurrell 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×2.10 12 | 493 points by niemandhier 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Jailbreaking the Switch 2 (pepsipu.com)
    ×3.90 8 | 821 points by ledoge 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.39 43 | 132 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×1.73 8 | 188 points by f311a 23 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Job loss and cortisone mania (tilschuenemann.de)
    ×1.29 8 | 176 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company (symby.com)
    ×8.10 59 | 30 points by Alien1Being 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com/oosexgang)
    ×2.28 8 | 518 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Railpass (samismith.com)
    ×1.16 58 | 133 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Brotli vulnerability affects curl and Git (github.com/advisories)
    ×1.85 73 | 31 points by bmitch3020 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.62 7 | 55 points by njx 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (storagebits.workers.dev)
    ×0.82 75 | 121 points by storagebits 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.50 2 | 724 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I reverse engineered a board game (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.73 56 | 77 points by wuemeli 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.83 75 | 135 points by wffurr 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault (cio.com)
    ×4.65 26 | 14 points by wyclif 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx (categorica.io)
    ×0.58 78 | 9 points by foxhill 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial (chrome.com)
    ×0.90 30 | 118 points by andrewstuart 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (computerworld.com)
    ×3.01 27 | 43 points by mikelgan 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany (taler.net)
    ×1.65 12 | 357 points by dewey 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (anthropic.com)
    ×2.41 26 | 448 points by johnbender 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. John Snow Cholera Data (rtwilson.com)
    ×0.67 43 | 14 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea (rumple.github.io)
    ×1.40 63 | 224 points by jimauthors 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???