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  1. DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf] (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×5.45 | 464 points by aurenvale 3 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fintech Engineering Handbook (pitula.me)
    ×2.55 | 122 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenRA (openra.net)
    ×2.29 | 23 points by tosh 50 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It (dervis.de)
    ×4.68 | 28 points by cemdervis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Beer CSS – Build material design in record time (beercss.com)
    ×1.84 1 | 61 points by Seb-C 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    ×3.92 1 | 1033 points by minimaxir 19 hours ago | 655 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (economist.com)
    ×1.17 5 | 70 points by edward 5 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (fosslinux.com)
    ×1.52 5 | 92 points by tapanjk 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (sfwriter.com)
    ×1.17 7 | 114 points by droidjj 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II (flutetunes.com)
    ×1.35 11 | 32 points by tomcam 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.94 4 | 273 points by ProxyTracer 14 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 (medium.com)
    ×0.75 23 | 27 points by snikolaev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Task Failed Successfully: Saturating NIC and Disk Bandwidth (mrcroxx.com)
    ×0.27 64 | 3 points by MrCroxx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cultures of Making and Relating (khinsen.net)
    ×0.66 36 | 7 points by akkartik 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (semafor.com)
    ×3.79 6 | 479 points by bobrenjc93 14 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (amazon.com)
    ×1.62 17 | 344 points by justincormack 22 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser) (howtotestfrontend.com)
    ×0.72 22 | 18 points by howToTestFE 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (openttd.org)
    ×2.17 10 | 192 points by untilted 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI in mathematics is forcing big questions (ieee.org)
    ×1.57 10 | 152 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
    ×1.38 7 | 92 points by efrecon 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
    ×1.77 4 | 83 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (korins.ky)
    ×1.01 18 | 73 points by zX41ZdbW 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)
    ×6.15 19 | 1074 points by alain94040 18 hours ago | 1133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research (utexas.edu)
    ×2.00 13 | 101 points by hhs 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.74 7 | 45 points by userbinator 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.79 3 | 235 points by kkm 15 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.57 17 | 293 points by rossant 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.93 10 | 82 points by PaybackTony 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Om (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.92 19 | 429 points by throw0101a 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (eff.org)
    ×4.16 18 | 435 points by hn_acker 15 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com/workweave)
    ×1.01 17 | 180 points by adchurch 20 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
    ×1.11 24 | 134 points by Eridanus2 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.93 22 | 68 points by KraftyOne 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing (github.com/Tessil)
    ×0.65 19 | 98 points by gjvc 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
    ×0.46 29 | 20 points by luu 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
    ×1.30 27 | 99 points by jfoucher 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Software Is Becoming Marketing (terezatizkova.com)
    ×2.21 29 | 30 points by tylerdane 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels (healeycodes.com)
    ×0.71 41 | 49 points by healeycodes 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
    ×0.93 39 | 68 points by EndEntire 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.06 41 | 197 points by speckx 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum (svpow.com)
    ×0.70 44 | 75 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (foster77.co.uk)
    ×0.85 26 | 42 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×6.00 15 | 1660 points by verditelabs 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial (evmar.github.io)
    ×2.16 42 | 50 points by joecobb 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Om Malik has died (om.co)
    ×5.05 19 | 1318 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (swiftlatex.com)
    ×1.05 47 | 105 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release (factorio.com)
    ×2.65 33 | 14 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    ×3.99 28 | 282 points by ortusdux 16 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
    ×0.78 41 | 75 points by crowwork 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×0.85 49 | 122 points by amichail 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
    ×0.94 21 | 82 points by mwheeler 18 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.70 59 | 91 points by ddecoene 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.36 75 | 24 points by leschak 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pixar's Believable People (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.30 6 | 6 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails (agent-kits.com)
    ×1.56 59 | 29 points by stoicstoic 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×2.46 66 | 168 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
    ×0.38 75 | 8 points by jupr 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×1.09 7 | 92 points by gcanyon 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
    ×2.46 13 | 455 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ornith-1.0: A family of open-source LLMs specialized for agentic coding (twitter.com/ornith_)
    ×2.10 8 | 5 points by jalopy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
    ×0.23 84 | 6 points by zahir777 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)
    ×3.92 40 | 556 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.61 77 | 196 points by ddxv 2 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Jolla Phone (October 2026) (jolla.com)
    ×2.78 28 | 297 points by mrbn100ful 22 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (science.org)
    ×2.33 34 | 376 points by adharmad 22 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)
    ×2.08 5 | 365 points by cuchoi 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Perry – compiles TypeScript to native GUI and CLI apps. No runtime / Electron (perryts.com)
    ×1.53 86 | 9 points by sanketpatrikar 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What is a Lithium-ion capacitor? (jtekt.co.jp)
    ×0.73 47 | 52 points by ksec 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.68 5 | 319 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.44 3 | 282 points by luu 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ukraine launches 40-day operation to push Russia to end the war (yacnews.com)
    ×3.27 53 | 7 points by ortr 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64) (github.com/skx)
    ×1.52 20 | 62 points by stevekemp 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Lippmann Photography (jonhilty.com)
    ×0.52 53 | 23 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Data centers trigger voter backlash (newsweek.com)
    ×2.69 33 | 188 points by randycupertino 19 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
    ×1.43 58 | 174 points by mektrik 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com/plbrault)
    ×1.95 7 | 361 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (fire.org)
    ×5.27 43 | 1118 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.78 61 | 79 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File (sqlite.org)
    ×1.11 58 | 22 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
    ×0.84 55 | 118 points by Athas 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths (outsideonline.com)
    ×3.27 36 | 112 points by LostMyLogin 15 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies (science.org)
    ×1.19 62 | 179 points by rndsignals 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients (github.com/tau-org)
    ×0.64 66 | 14 points by modinfo 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.49 5 | 796 points by htrp 2 days ago | 1296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works (github.com/naver)
    ×1.22 12 | 101 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.60 74 | 85 points by doppioandante 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NLNet Labs LLM Policy (nlnetlabs.nl)
    ×1.69 3 | 8 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)
    ×1.36 10 | 231 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.71 5 | 387 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???