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  1. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×3.06 | 286 points by tambourine_man 2 hours ago | 382 comments | ??? ???
  2. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
    ×2.24 1 | 104 points by chizhik-pyzhik 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  3. The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×3.08 10 | 21 points by dxs 38 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  4. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×2.39 8 | 184 points by nilirl 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  5. The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
    ×2.06 4 | 176 points by xz18r 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.78 5 | 57 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  7. Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
    ×1.85 3 | 326 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  8. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
    ×3.03 9 | 42 points by aduffy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  9. Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
    ×0.81 11 | 35 points by fedek_ 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  10. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×5.96 8 | 839 points by rubenbe 5 hours ago | 295 comments | ??? ???
  11. Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.22 7 | 456 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  12. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.34 7 | 63 points by luispa 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
    ×0.59 12 | 28 points by sai18 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  14. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
    ×2.07 6 | 163 points by Cider9986 3 hours ago | 144 comments | ??? ???
  15. We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
    ×1.40 28 | 10 points by amr_shawky 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
    ×0.63 17 | 24 points by namanyayg 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×0.76 13 | 23 points by azurewraith 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  18. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
    ×3.12 3 | 588 points by adunk 14 hours ago | 303 comments | ??? ???
  19. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.06 7 | 1037 points by varunsharma07 22 hours ago | 433 comments | ??? ???
  20. The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
    ×0.54 20 | 13 points by jxmorris12 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  21. Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
    ×3.45 15 | 93 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  22. Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.41 16 | 29 points by ttpost 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  24. Testing UPS Output Waveforms (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 27 points by LabsLucas 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  25. The Real Story of Troy (storica.club)
    ×0.63 12 | 31 points by cemsakarya 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  26. They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
    ×2.84 6 | 511 points by tokenburner 19 hours ago | 166 comments | ??? ???
  27. Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams (claude.com)
    ×1.94 35 | 6 points by Nrbelex 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  28. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.60 23 | 46 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  29. If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com)
    ×4.24 2 | 817 points by indigodaddy 23 hours ago | 867 comments | ??? ???
  30. eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.24 23 | 192 points by voisin 4 hours ago | 179 comments | ??? ???
  31. Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (python.org)
    ×0.80 10 | 78 points by djoldman 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  32. SQL: Incorrect by Construction (chreke.com)
    ×1.71 59 | 5 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  33. UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025) (ucla.edu)
    ×2.02 40 | 425 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  34. Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)
    ×0.81 22 | 71 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  35. EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
    ×3.66 21 | 439 points by thm 8 hours ago | 387 comments | ??? ???
  36. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
    ×1.60 25 | 189 points by pinewurst 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  37. Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
    ×1.48 34 | 188 points by aragonite 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  38. Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.78 33 | 185 points by Bender 3 hours ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  39. Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
    ×0.46 37 | 30 points by jxmorris12 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  40. FairyFuse: Multiplication-Free LLM Inference on CPUs via Fused Ternary Kernels (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 78 | 3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
    ×1.37 29 | 212 points by matrixhelix 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  42. I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night (martin.sh)
    ×1.72 45 | 259 points by showmypost 22 hours ago | 273 comments | ??? ???
  43. Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM (bogomolov.work)
    ×1.29 29 | 65 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  44. Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
    ×1.71 29 | 53 points by devhouse 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  45. UnDUNE II (itch.io)
    ×2.28 22 | 145 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  46. I hate soldering (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.01 54 | 222 points by James72689 23 hours ago | 191 comments | ??? ???
  47. Coursera and Udemy are now one company (coursera.org)
    ×2.06 20 | 173 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  48. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (newscientist.com)
    ×1.10 62 | 88 points by emot 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  49. Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw (nytimes.com)
    ×1.41 47 | 232 points by donohoe 23 hours ago | 171 comments | ??? ???
  50. Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com/pion)
    ×0.84 47 | 79 points by nateb2022 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  51. Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)
    ×1.50 50 | 316 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  52. Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×2.48 26 | 308 points by smhx 23 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  53. Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (pietschsoft.com)
    ×0.66 50 | 52 points by pabs3 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers (andreaturchet.github.io)
    ×1.22 59 | 172 points by ciwrl 1 day ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  55. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (gitlab.com)
    ×4.40 17 | 656 points by AnonGitLabEmpl 23 hours ago | 636 comments | ??? ???
  56. Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory (github.com/mamba-studio)
    ×0.88 50 | 159 points by joe_mwangi 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  57. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)
    ×7.63 2 | 2142 points by ChuckMcM 2 days ago | 740 comments | ??? ???
  58. A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005) (codinghorror.com)
    ×1.04 5 | 12 points by washingupliquid 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  59. Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.43 5 | 13 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.96 44 | 111 points by tsiry 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  61. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (cocoawithlove.com)
    ×1.27 47 | 252 points by zdw 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  62. Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
    ×0.68 50 | 63 points by AlexeyBrin 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  63. Where Are All the Data Centers? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.66 18 | 19 points by MattRogish 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  64. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×7.09 3 | 1836 points by cylo 2 days ago | 729 comments | ??? ???
  65. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
    ×0.84 57 | 70 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  66. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)
    ×1.08 50 | 158 points by yoeven 1 day ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  67. The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.13 9 | 14 points by rwmj 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  68. The rise and fall of snake oil (historytoday.com)
    ×0.73 65 | 77 points by samizdis 23 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  69. AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs (duarteocarmo.com)
    ×0.90 58 | 140 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  70. Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message (privacyguides.net)
    ×3.23 23 | 613 points by negura 1 day ago | 491 comments | ??? ???
  71. Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone (gorillafund.org)
    ×0.83 61 | 73 points by alex000kim 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  72. Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs (theverge.com)
    ×1.59 6 | 12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  73. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics (ratty-term.org)
    ×2.63 9 | 655 points by orhunp_ 1 day ago | 232 comments | ??? ???
  74. Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (imtomt.github.io)
    ×0.90 64 | 126 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  75. Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer (tautme.github.io)
    ×1.06 66 | 169 points by adm4 1 day ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  76. Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS (github.com/jameslockman)
    ×0.84 49 | 79 points by classichasclass 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  77. CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler (nvlabs.github.io)
    ×2.29 8 | 415 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 116 comments | ??? ???
  78. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (github.com/ab-613)
    ×1.05 42 | 100 points by ab613 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  79. I'm going back to writing code by hand (k10s.dev)
    ×4.59 7 | 984 points by dropbox_miner 1 day ago | 600 comments | ??? ???
  80. Abstract Machines for Logic Programs (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.85 59 | 52 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  81. When semiconductor materials misbehave (semiengineering.com)
    ×0.37 71 | 20 points by PaulHoule 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  82. The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet (binj.news)
    ×0.79 62 | 77 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  83. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (seangoedecke.com)
    ×4.06 1 | 465 points by movis 1 day ago | 729 comments | ??? ???
  84. A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken (mvh.dev)
    ×1.61 70 | 39 points by PaulHoule 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  85. W – The European social network for verified humans (wsocial.news)
    ×1.35 79 | 35 points by layer8 1 day ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  86. Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
    ×2.39 38 | 147 points by skm 12 hours ago | 125 comments | ??? ???
  87. HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×1.94 1 | 60 points by WithinReason 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  88. What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue (devas.life)
    ×1.49 73 | 80 points by marksully 1 day ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  89. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (wordpress.com)
    ×2.85 68 | 719 points by _alternator_ 3 days ago | 524 comments | ??? ???
  90. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory (jola.dev)
    ×2.66 19 | 559 points by shintoist 1 day ago | 172 comments | ??? ???