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  1. Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification (linuxstans.com)
    ×3.34 16 | 9 points by speckx 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (meta.ai)
    ×3.97 1 | 914 points by riordan 10 hours ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Sonic Pi v5 (patreon.com)
    ×2.21 1 | 215 points by samaaron 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rust SIMD on the GPU (vectorware.com)
    ×2.12 2 | 53 points by sagacity 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)
    ×3.24 3 | 215 points by root-parent 6 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 18 | 37 points by simonebrunozzi 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (stoaexchange.com)
    ×0.70 14 | 55 points by erenberke 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.80 7 | 26 points by prathamtharwani 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.11 3 | 90 points by WhiteDawn 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×3.06 8 | 581 points by etoxin 14 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)
    ×1.33 11 | 175 points by fniephaus 8 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.13 11 | 95 points by BoxOfRain 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)
    ×1.22 3 | 107 points by ubermon 4 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 (murata.com)
    ×1.23 15 | 47 points by peter_d_sherman 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×0.94 67 | 5 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
    ×2.26 17 | 78 points by kuberwastaken 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (usgs.gov)
    ×1.61 10 | 132 points by Bender 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” (uspto.gov)
    ×1.90 5 | 177 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
    ×1.24 11 | 67 points by hackerBanana 6 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word (medium.com)
    ×0.48 78 | 4 points by extralongdivisi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
    ×1.44 13 | 143 points by xeonmc 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
    ×1.28 3 | 65 points by jmintz 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (sshh.io)
    ×1.37 14 | 59 points by sshh12 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
    ×0.95 16 | 102 points by prakashqwerty 9 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)
    ×5.18 20 | 459 points by colesantiago 8 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (bbc.com)
    ×2.75 23 | 245 points by RickJWagner 5 hours ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016) (jackschaedler.github.io)
    ×0.55 26 | 25 points by at1as 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×1.05 1 | 136 points by jonathanmkeegan 7 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox (alphatheta.com)
    ×0.68 18 | 12 points by butterknife 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (neurology.org)
    ×1.33 10 | 70 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints (wcax.com)
    ×1.89 17 | 119 points by kotaKat 5 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words (stochastic.blog)
    ×0.38 40 | 14 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022) (thetrek.co)
    ×0.93 25 | 34 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com/shinyquagsire23)
    ×1.17 43 | 162 points by LorenDB 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×3.21 33 | 119 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Claude moves bound of the Riemann Hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2% (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×3.26 10 | 28 points by tevlon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/f Noise (2007) (dsprelated.com)
    ×0.97 48 | 108 points by q7m 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)
    ×1.36 31 | 187 points by MrRowTheBoat 17 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.02 44 | 81 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record (gtai.de)
    ×1.85 70 | 27 points by eigenspace 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)
    ×1.36 25 | 96 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com/ben-z)
    ×0.86 48 | 50 points by helsinkiandrew 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Signal is working on a paid option to create an account without a phone number (aboutsignal.com)
    ×2.08 41 | 31 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×2.02 55 | 29 points by mikeayles 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power (ai-updates.net)
    ×1.25 36 | 28 points by ashurandi 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
    ×2.10 30 | 14 points by chaychoong 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout (thenextweb.com)
    ×2.02 8 | 8 points by berkeleyjunk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
    ×0.88 38 | 77 points by amatheus 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I Benchmarked Local LLMs on the Laptop I Have (mamonas.dev)
    ×1.34 77 | 17 points by konmam 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.08 47 | 137 points by craigkerstiens 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AI Boot Camps Surge as Workers Race to Learn New Skills (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.23 24 | 10 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300 (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.34 2 | 30 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
    ×1.40 48 | 132 points by LelouBil 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree (yahoo.com)
    ×3.41 43 | 105 points by metadat 4 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Self-Hosted Inference for Agents (github.com/superlinked)
    ×0.41 93 | 7 points by rafaepta 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What Happened to HackerOne? (teknogeek.io)
    ×2.03 15 | 362 points by hipparchus 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week (bbc.com)
    ×3.46 74 | 20 points by dijksterhuis 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PicPocket – Dedicated 'chats' for photo-sharing (share to organize) (picpocket.io)
    ×0.75 111 | 3 points by amr_shawky 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk (wired.com)
    ×1.78 8 | 20 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
    ×0.90 34 | 17 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.10 3 | 6 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (science.org)
    ×0.81 65 | 11 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I've vibe coded an application to see what it's like (rz01.org)
    ×0.90 67 | 11 points by exitnode 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Humanity renamed genes because of Excel (davidemornatta.it)
    ×1.40 70 | 12 points by kegenaar 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ChatGPT Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches (suganthan.com)
    ×1.73 81 | 13 points by aworks 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. When Agentic Glue Melts: Exploiting Cloudflare Code Mode and Workers (checkpoint.com)
    ×1.25 53 | 15 points by shahartal 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.92 53 | 127 points by berghoffer 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded (bbc.com)
    ×3.65 3 | 61 points by blondie9x 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4 (github.com/mrblakessinger-rgb)
    ×0.29 88 | 8 points by Pachanoi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.35 44 | 175 points by hexomancer 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.39 71 | 26 points by parksb 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Venaya – A financial wellness platform that adapts to your life stage (venaya.app)
    ×0.99 79 | 9 points by victoriaeast 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.47 10 | 623 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
    ×0.61 61 | 46 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Don't Build Mindreading (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.68 18 | 19 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: 100% native Swift harness (NOT Electron) (github.com/Lore-Hex)
    ×1.30 61 | 9 points by ljlolel 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    ×2.29 12 | 366 points by jader201 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LLM Rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python (github.com/omacom-io)
    ×0.53 87 | 6 points by m-novikov 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Ambition Project (betonit.ai)
    ×0.87 66 | 58 points by herbertl 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service (designshippers.com)
    ×0.79 63 | 9 points by krm01 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.19 57 | 155 points by tremguy 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.68 26 | 158 points by mef 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars (nasa.gov)
    ×1.35 3 | 5 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Neolabs.fyi – 100 new AI labs by research area, valuation, and more (neolabs.fyi)
    ×0.85 69 | 6 points by polyphilz 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FlyPath: QGIS plugin for planning drone mapping missions (github.com/dronnix-io)
    ×0.55 100 | 3 points by marklit 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.73 64 | 118 points by Rochus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.99 77 | 15 points by runningmike 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. John Crowley Has Died (programmablemutter.com)
    ×1.77 3 | 10 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.46 3 | 300 points by david927 1 day ago | 1067 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. In AI, the 41% Depends on the -59% (apollo.com)
    ×1.69 16 | 12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???