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  1. Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage (idc.com)
    ×2.10 1 | 77 points by littlexsparkee 53 minutes ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×6.71 1 | 46 points by qwertox 20 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
    ×1.49 4 | 299 points by DamnInteresting 7 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
    ×8.29 3 | 195 points by mlex 1 hour ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.62 1 | 164 points by tin7in 4 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.84 9 | 81 points by sxmawl 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (technically.dev)
    ×2.39 2 | 252 points by itunpredictable 6 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.81 16 | 31 points by alexmolas 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hydroph0bia – a fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware based on Insyde H2O (coderush.me)
    ×0.81 31 | 5 points by transpute 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words (thecvf.com)
    ×0.66 22 | 24 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
    ×1.75 2 | 92 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
    ×1.25 11 | 52 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
    ×1.14 4 | 124 points by spiffytech 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life (theguardian.com)
    ×2.00 4 | 182 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
    ×1.03 10 | 65 points by flamestro 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×1.15 13 | 77 points by conesus 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.37 16 | 134 points by jasonpeacock 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Interns to Make Housing Affordable (workatastartup.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
    ×1.36 8 | 276 points by smalltorch 12 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
    ×3.63 15 | 444 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.50 26 | 36 points by Humanista75 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (combinatorprize.org)
    ×1.22 4 | 55 points by paraschopra 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.44 21 | 91 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (guidelabs.ai)
    ×0.69 29 | 36 points by luulinh90s 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google Street View in 2026 (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.47 11 | 119 points by marklit 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go (github.com/jayu)
    ×0.55 12 | 30 points by jayu_dev 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)
    ×3.95 22 | 519 points by pie_flavor 23 hours ago | 618 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
    ×2.14 16 | 189 points by kvinogradov 6 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.81 55 | 84 points by mikeayles 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.11 26 | 106 points by MindGods 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
    ×0.69 17 | 36 points by mst98 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.91 16 | 570 points by miki123211 13 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (scripps.edu)
    ×0.71 34 | 64 points by littlexsparkee 10 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.23 12 | 1191 points by hiisthisthingon 21 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
    ×2.99 24 | 114 points by Element_ 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)
    ×2.84 20 | 457 points by iamskeole 1 day ago | 626 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Ur-"Conspiracy": History of a Pseudoconcept (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.46 31 | 6 points by apollinaire 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.03 4 | 98 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (apple.com)
    ×2.42 20 | 84 points by throwfaraway4 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (apple.com)
    ×0.65 58 | 33 points by CharlesW 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. First Website (1992) (cern.ch)
    ×1.56 36 | 302 points by shrikaranhanda 23 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI (engadget.com)
    ×2.72 14 | 9 points by whynotmaybe 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog (anthropic.com)
    ×2.02 54 | 29 points by colinhb 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Making MCP cheaper via CLI (kanyilmaz.me)
    ×1.59 45 | 308 points by thellimist 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight (arxiv.org)
    ×0.79 63 | 63 points by Terretta 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer (simonbergerart.com)
    ×1.72 40 | 245 points by cs702 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.72 8 | 30 points by meisnerd 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Metacritic statement pledges to ban outlets that use AI-generated reviews (shacknews.com)
    ×1.21 10 | 3 points by cratermoon 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com/KryDotExe)
    ×6.41 28 | 85 points by josephcsible 4 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want – Tell It What Blocks You (platform.uno)
    ×0.61 84 | 6 points by e12e 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. You Just Need Postgres (youjustneedpostgres.com)
    ×2.34 39 | 17 points by olucasandrade 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (hillelwayne.com)
    ×0.77 48 | 36 points by azhenley 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)
    ×0.90 57 | 83 points by simplegeek 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Emacs Is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor (thecloudlet.github.io)
    ×1.09 78 | 8 points by spudlyo 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Code Review Gets Better When I Ask Models to Debate: Claude, Gemini, Codex (milvus.io)
    ×0.72 63 | 7 points by Fendy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (ieee.org)
    ×2.56 4 | 647 points by tintinnabula 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stardew Valley at 10: The pixel art farm game that became an unlikely phenomenon (cnn.com)
    ×2.03 12 | 29 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
    ×1.33 49 | 208 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.04 24 | 109 points by Ulf950 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
    ×2.42 27 | 330 points by nee1r 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Om Programming Language (om-language.com)
    ×1.53 38 | 293 points by tosh 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
    ×4.23 11 | 450 points by pseudolus 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)
    ×1.57 50 | 130 points by sech8420 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SynthID (deepmind.google)
    ×1.64 33 | 63 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
    ×2.57 18 | 85 points by bo0tzz 13 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.79 22 | 415 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away (wsj.com)
    ×1.08 3 | 6 points by apparent 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
    ×1.13 52 | 183 points by remywang 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Secure Snake Home (SSH) (eieio.games)
    ×2.12 56 | 9 points by modernerd 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
    ×1.43 61 | 134 points by speckx 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pentagon officials send Anthropic best and final offer for military use of AI (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.91 14 | 25 points by rob 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer (github.com/vangelov)
    ×0.38 65 | 25 points by vlad_angelov 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26) (norlinder.nu)
    ×0.92 54 | 111 points by jonasn 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
    ×2.10 55 | 552 points by wordglyph 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (windows.com)
    ×1.83 18 | 347 points by andreynering 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (teamout.com)
    ×0.37 88 | 54 points by vincentalbouy 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
    ×4.12 8 | 823 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Never buy a .online domain (0xsid.com)
    ×3.35 17 | 761 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel (collabora.com)
    ×1.50 74 | 62 points by losgehts 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.62 42 | 255 points by avh3 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments (linum.ai)
    ×1.06 43 | 125 points by schopra909 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
    ×1.13 46 | 213 points by __cayenne__ 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Misuses of the University (publicbooks.org)
    ×1.15 40 | 158 points by ubasu 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale (tailscale.com)
    ×1.15 65 | 22 points by calcifer 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Specs Should Be Equations, Not Essays (fromanengineersight.substack.com)
    ×1.40 12 | 8 points by ben8t 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 100M-Row Challenge with PHP (github.com/tempestphp)
    ×1.25 50 | 180 points by brentroose 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over SSH (eieio.games)
    ×2.96 25 | 13 points by modernerd 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.07 38 | 372 points by jnord 20 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com)
    ×1.75 7 | 339 points by DalasNoin 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Text-Based Google Directions (telae.net)
    ×0.77 61 | 80 points by TigerUniversity 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???