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  1. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.89 3 | 40 points by mariuz 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.49 3 | 225 points by ranger_danger 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
    ×1.35 6 | 157 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.44 7 | 216 points by naves 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
    ×1.73 8 | 181 points by azhenley 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.64 5 | 493 points by levkk 5 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
    ×1.17 9 | 94 points by tadasv 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (engadget.com)
    ×1.25 15 | 27 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
    ×0.70 17 | 20 points by forthwall 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.40 11 | 6 points by dmit 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    ×2.76 4 | 308 points by silcoon 15 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Count Binface (countbinface.com)
    ×6.56 10 | 186 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second (dkryaklin.com)
    ×1.13 5 | 15 points by dkryaklin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (cbc.ca)
    ×0.61 18 | 23 points by curmudgeon22 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.54 1 | 132 points by david927 9 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
    ×1.88 8 | 191 points by brryant 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    ×0.96 13 | 72 points by iNic 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
    ×2.19 1 | 220 points by BerislavLopac 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    ×3.45 12 | 548 points by systima 12 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
    ×0.26 56 | 3 points by kiyanwang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.46 7 | 144 points by softwaredoug 13 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×1.14 16 | 119 points by raahelb 14 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.86 25 | 302 points by compiler-guy 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
    ×1.43 3 | 130 points by georgex7 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sam Neill has died (theguardian.com)
    ×5.69 22 | 32 points by j4mie 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 16 | 112 points by root-parent 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)
    ×2.57 15 | 131 points by guseyn 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (github.com/cereblab)
    ×4.54 7 | 457 points by jhoho 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
    ×1.01 12 | 95 points by adunk 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
    ×1.05 9 | 101 points by supo 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.73 23 | 403 points by therepanic 12 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels (nanduruganesh.github.io)
    ×0.62 27 | 34 points by rawsh 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.17 7 | 275 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (wordpress.com)
    ×2.00 14 | 428 points by subset 19 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×2.60 27 | 127 points by thunderbong 20 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data (laxmena.com)
    ×0.86 13 | 38 points by laxmena 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (calculix.de)
    ×0.57 18 | 16 points by joebig 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
    ×2.27 13 | 233 points by saikatsg 15 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.82 24 | 67 points by mb1699 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    ×0.66 18 | 48 points by jxmorris12 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.72 12 | 192 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Architecture Description Languages [pdf] (uci.edu)
    ×0.71 9 | 29 points by ascent817 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The State of MCP Security [pdf] (canopii.dev)
    ×0.78 31 | 27 points by mavzer 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
    ×1.21 11 | 34 points by craigkerstiens 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.27 2 | 151 points by AlexeyBrin 19 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×0.95 33 | 78 points by MrBruh 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com/schollz)
    ×1.15 42 | 42 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art (github.com/unable12)
    ×0.69 39 | 15 points by unable0 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.28 33 | 131 points by ming13 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
    ×2.47 44 | 391 points by joahnn_s 10 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)
    ×3.28 35 | 198 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.10 23 | 152 points by cosmtrek 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (ieee.org)
    ×1.50 8 | 143 points by zaikunzhang 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017) (redblobgames.github.io)
    ×0.56 31 | 12 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    ×0.55 44 | 18 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS (github.com/cabeen)
    ×0.80 25 | 22 points by cafebeen 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com/hasenj)
    ×1.02 7 | 82 points by hsn915 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
    ×2.48 41 | 63 points by 383toast 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Analysis: Popular Chrome Extension ModHeader Exfiltrates User Data (aydinnyunus.github.io)
    ×0.88 57 | 11 points by runtimepanic 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.60 48 | 30 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)
    ×2.40 30 | 93 points by Tomte 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.49 63 | 30 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S. (cnbc.com)
    ×2.32 27 | 14 points by mattas 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×2.03 26 | 267 points by downwithdisease 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Defining new Jax types with hijax (jax.dev)
    ×0.45 49 | 14 points by fhchl 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. MacSurf 2.0 – Netsurf for Mac OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×1.00 43 | 11 points by mplsllc 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Llambda.lisp (funcall.blogspot.com)
    ×0.69 72 | 4 points by lemonberry 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)
    ×0.86 33 | 10 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Performant C/CUDA inference engine for Qwen 3.6 35B on RTX 5090 / Blackwell (github.com/ambud)
    ×0.64 56 | 5 points by ambuds 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.64 60 | 44 points by dmit 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.70 15 | 339 points by tionis 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tacit Knowledge (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.62 13 | 17 points by chistev 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.67 31 | 32 points by fagnerbrack 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
    ×0.60 67 | 18 points by tibordp 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. "A Clockwork Orange" Nadsat Dictionary (mattiavaccari.net)
    ×0.65 57 | 7 points by yubblegum 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. DVD-Audio (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.93 6 | 5 points by hdz 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.15 5 | 362 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument (apnews.com)
    ×0.76 55 | 7 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.43 26 | 913 points by vforno 3 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 34 | 129 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice (github.com/cyrusNuevoDia)
    ×1.04 48 | 8 points by knrz 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Agent-run – Run a coding agent in a sandboxed environment (github.com/sin-ack)
    ×1.10 57 | 7 points by trashburger 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Hologram, photo management and culling built with Tauri (github.com/ThatXliner)
    ×0.77 78 | 3 points by thatxliner 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.04 16 | 90 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.34 9 | 343 points by ingve 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)
    ×4.21 77 | 227 points by Bender 10 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Cpulse – See why your Docker Compose stack is stuck (github.com/hyturing)
    ×1.01 77 | 3 points by hyturing 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.40 61 | 14 points by sshwarts 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×0.97 34 | 75 points by hydrogen7800 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???