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  1. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (vivienhenz.com)
    ×2.09 2 | 85 points by misterchocolat 3 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×1.93 3 | 386 points by Philpax 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (debugbear.com)
    ×1.75 3 | 160 points by jgx0 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
    ×2.59 | 281 points by outlier99 8 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.37 5 | 155 points by ishan0102 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    ×1.42 6 | 147 points by E-Reverance 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (princeton.edu)
    ×1.26 14 | 61 points by leecoursey 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    ×2.10 3 | 117 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (pipetogrep.org)
    ×1.39 7 | 17 points by thepipetogrep 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.43 10 | 518 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.83 28 | 22 points by ahmetomer 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×5.97 13 | 655 points by emptybits 1 day ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.75 10 | 168 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
    ×1.75 18 | 77 points by walrus01 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×0.93 23 | 10 points by stelabouras 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (niemanlab.org)
    ×3.64 14 | 368 points by rdmuser 7 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.95 30 | 40 points by stratts 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
    ×0.91 25 | 38 points by networked 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com/dfd-tud)
    ×0.97 33 | 51 points by greyface- 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales (blue-continuum.com)
    ×0.57 74 | 3 points by dnetesn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
    ×0.92 19 | 45 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.75 13 | 162 points by 01-_- 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×2.06 23 | 168 points by farslan 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (thedrive.com)
    ×4.24 16 | 102 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.97 30 | 147 points by Vosporos 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)
    ×1.33 10 | 89 points by hukl 9 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.90 29 | 236 points by maguay 19 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iop.org)
    ×0.29 55 | 6 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.05 44 | 186 points by 0xedb 22 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
    ×1.25 38 | 113 points by mkornaukhov 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×1.04 68 | 77 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com/eolix)
    ×4.02 25 | 96 points by montag 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment (edworkingpapers.com)
    ×1.05 15 | 60 points by bryan0 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
    ×1.25 16 | 39 points by ishan0102 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.52 47 | 131 points by lode 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    ×0.76 36 | 24 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.32 44 | 140 points by AlexeyBrin 20 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear (restofworld.org)
    ×3.65 23 | 10 points by jethronethro 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Unruly Folded Sheets (literaryreview.co.uk)
    ×0.23 67 | 7 points by Thevet 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×1.32 46 | 44 points by vinhnx 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.17 37 | 138 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.82 25 | 76 points by delphidolphin 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.08 49 | 101 points by tiagod 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.82 9 | 107 points by smilelamp 10 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.37 17 | 253 points by benbreen 15 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.61 17 | 474 points by clan 21 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.69 21 | 149 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.52 15 | 97 points by hising 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.39 20 | 309 points by Vaslo 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.97 69 | 23 points by abe94 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.61 61 | 47 points by andre15silva 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.78 61 | 72 points by pykello 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.75 58 | 112 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (techarp.com)
    ×0.34 64 | 18 points by userbinator 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DGX Station GB300 Cluster: Two 400G DACs, and Frontier Models (storagereview.com)
    ×1.29 35 | 3 points by pella 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.93 59 | 83 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.65 38 | 407 points by finnlab 16 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Iroh Global Content Discovery (iroh.computer)
    ×1.79 18 | 21 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick's links to Epstein dies (thebanker.com)
    ×5.81 29 | 51 points by gravisultra 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×0.93 67 | 20 points by linesofcode 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.33 53 | 233 points by r0r0 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.36 68 | 141 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.64 7 | 519 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)
    ×2.29 3 | 129 points by Tomte 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)
    ×2.33 17 | 235 points by roflcopter69 18 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.94 58 | 122 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple may soon track when Google promotes Chrome inside Safari (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 11 points by tech234a 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to a May outage (theverge.com)
    ×1.76 6 | 15 points by sbulaev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.65 52 | 34 points by adityamukho 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.52 68 | 139 points by zdw 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.21 37 | 329 points by dachworker 18 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.36 19 | 244 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.52 11 | 399 points by wiso 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.11 55 | 164 points by allenleee 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
    ×1.39 5 | 65 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (redhat.com)
    ×1.90 22 | 154 points by tomncooper 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
    ×0.68 54 | 55 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Turkey's 20B ponzi scheme collapsed (reuters.com)
    ×2.55 15 | 19 points by xkcd1963 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (scienceux.org)
    ×0.82 54 | 73 points by s4074433 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.31 56 | 148 points by knuckleheads 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (ft.com)
    ×2.59 39 | 101 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 50 | 99 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Toki Pona (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.44 20 | 12 points by sans_souse 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×3.91 71 | 269 points by brokensegue 11 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.25 58 | 123 points by rkagerer 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.65 54 | 61 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.67 2 | 929 points by paveworld 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is mathematics over, or just graduating? (google.com)
    ×1.42 34 | 37 points by nvtop 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Tao of Backup (taobackup.com)
    ×1.92 | 260 points by vntok 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Open Source as We Know It Is Dead (jross.me)
    ×4.78 89 | 75 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???