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  1. I Fixed Windows Native Development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×2.85 2 | 336 points by deevus 5 hours ago | 172 comments | ??? ???
  2. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
    ×1.06 3 | 21 points by PaulHoule 56 minutes ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  3. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    ×3.63 6 | 727 points by panic 15 hours ago | 122 comments | ??? ???
  4. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
    ×1.71 7 | 239 points by helloplanets 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  5. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×4.04 1 | 24 points by magoghm 29 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  6. Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
    ×6.41 5 | 333 points by mikece 4 hours ago | 211 comments | ??? ???
  7. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×1.02 8 | 47 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  8. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.46 5 | 113 points by swah 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  9. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library (oat.ink)
    ×3.28 2 | 258 points by twapi 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  10. RynnBrain (github.com/alibaba-damo-academy)
    ×0.92 14 | 38 points by jsemrau 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  11. How Is Data Stored? (makingsoftware.com)
    ×1.53 3 | 42 points by tzury 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  12. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.22 14 | 538 points by minimalthinker 1 day ago | 231 comments | ??? ???
  13. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (stargazingbuddy.com)
    ×1.24 10 | 87 points by constantinum 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  14. Build Gaussian Splat Experiences with SuperSplat Studio (playcanvas.com)
    ×0.66 41 | 9 points by ovenchips 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  15. Constraint Propagation for Fun (eli.li)
    ×0.64 29 | 29 points by rickcarlino 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  16. Inner-Platform Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.05 6 | 18 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  17. Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.20 30 | 191 points by dvrp 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  18. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction (note.com)
    ×0.96 30 | 74 points by uolmir 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  19. Instagram's URL Blackhole (medium.com)
    ×1.82 13 | 270 points by tkp-415 19 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  20. The seam through the center of things (usefulfictions.substack.com)
    ×0.61 79 | 3 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  21. uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts (github.com/i5heu)
    ×4.99 9 | 1037 points by i5heu 23 hours ago | 307 comments | ??? ???
  22. 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools (ncl.ac.uk)
    ×1.07 40 | 147 points by geox 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  23. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.23 18 | 37 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  24. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.98 33 | 77 points by bpierre 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  25. Amsterdam Compiler Kit (github.com/davidgiven)
    ×0.91 46 | 149 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  26. A Visual Source for Shakespeare's 'Tempest' (profadamroberts.substack.com)
    ×0.53 55 | 26 points by seegodanddie 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  27. News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.27 9 | 536 points by ninjagoo 22 hours ago | 338 comments | ??? ???
  28. OpenAI should build Slack (latent.space)
    ×1.94 18 | 222 points by swyx 20 hours ago | 269 comments | ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python (github.com/Nonannet)
    ×0.94 13 | 38 points by Saloc 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  30. Breaking the spell of vibe coding (fast.ai)
    ×3.28 5 | 359 points by arjunbanker 20 hours ago | 287 comments | ??? ???
  31. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? (usatoday.com)
    ×1.24 34 | 139 points by brandonb 20 hours ago | 213 comments | ??? ???
  32. Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you (ooh.directory)
    ×2.45 2 | 560 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago | 135 comments | ??? ???
  33. 2025 Shkreli Awards – Lown Institute (lowninstitute.org)
    ×2.24 14 | 6 points by TigerUniversity 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  34. Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm (kotaku.com)
    ×3.58 18 | 167 points by thisislife2 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ??? ???
  35. A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) (microscopy-uk.org.uk)
    ×0.78 59 | 97 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  36. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.98 41 | 103 points by bigwheels 20 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  37. MDST Engine: run GGUF models in the browser with WebGPU/WASM (mdst.app)
    ×0.46 63 | 27 points by vmirnv 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  38. Descent, ported to the web (mrdoob.github.io)
    ×2.61 5 | 286 points by memalign 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  39. A Pokémon of a Different Color (verive.me)
    ×1.61 19 | 43 points by Risse 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  40. Why Amazon is full of crap [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.76 20 | 3 points by eitau_1 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. Evolving Git for the Next Decade (lwn.net)
    ×2.28 47 | 62 points by AndrewDucker 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  42. NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed (newpipe.net)
    ×2.97 25 | 303 points by nvader 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  43. Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook (computernewb.com)
    ×1.31 32 | 135 points by markus_zhang 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  44. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    ×3.01 42 | 69 points by informal007 1 hour ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  45. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (yossarian.net)
    ×0.90 56 | 104 points by tosh 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  46. Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×3.04 40 | 14 points by chunkles 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  47. The three year myth (spacedino.net)
    ×1.25 61 | 147 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  48. Vim 9.2 (vim.org)
    ×3.46 13 | 400 points by tapanjk 1 day ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  49. An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened (theshamblog.com)
    ×4.98 9 | 710 points by scottshambaugh 1 day ago | 591 comments | ??? ???
  50. A header-only C vector database library (github.com/abdimoallim)
    ×0.72 47 | 80 points by abdimoalim 23 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  51. Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications (sao.dev)
    ×0.56 56 | 47 points by stuartaxelowen 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  52. Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.47 53 | 36 points by wglb 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  53. Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle (robinsloan.com)
    ×0.98 26 | 90 points by tobr 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  54. Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  55. Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations (janestreet.com)
    ×0.90 49 | 77 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  56. Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed (ziglang.org)
    ×1.76 8 | 363 points by Retro_Dev 1 day ago | 280 comments | ??? ???
  57. Shades of Halftone (maximeheckel.com)
    ×1.17 30 | 126 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  58. Unicorn Jelly (unicornjelly.com)
    ×0.84 44 | 62 points by avaer 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  59. Seeing Theory (brown.edu)
    ×1.58 28 | 52 points by Tomte 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar (github.com/Geek-1001)
    ×1.03 36 | 86 points by ahmed_sulajman 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  61. The Bastard Operator from Hell (bjash.com)
    ×1.41 21 | 6 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  62. IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption (fortune.com)
    ×3.25 24 | 357 points by WhatsTheBigIdea 1 day ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  63. Launching Interop 2026 (mozilla.org)
    ×0.79 35 | 64 points by linolevan 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  64. Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves (github.com/crux-ecosystem)
    ×0.49 49 | 37 points by MouneshK 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  65. You can't trust the internet anymore (nicole.express)
    ×3.25 16 | 209 points by panic 20 hours ago | 159 comments | ??? ???
  66. Kimi Claw (kimi.com)
    ×2.12 60 | 57 points by pretext 3 hours ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  67. Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube (cordcuttersnews.com)
    ×4.22 6 | 624 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 329 comments | ??? ???
  68. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
    ×2.81 55 | 432 points by ryanhn 2 days ago | 452 comments | ??? ???
  69. YouTube as Storage (github.com/PulseBeat02)
    ×1.64 14 | 204 points by saswatms 1 day ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB (github.com/datavorous)
    ×1.28 2 | 223 points by datavorous_ 1 day ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  71. Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh (metachris.dev)
    ×0.83 60 | 30 points by metachris 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  72. WolfSSL sucks too, so now what? (feld.me)
    ×1.11 71 | 143 points by thomasjb 2 days ago | 122 comments | ??? ???
  73. 4chan for Clankers (4claw.org)
    ×1.52 61 | 56 points by kekqqq 1 day ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  74. C# implementation of state machine declared using fluent syntax (github.com/leeoades)
    ×1.72 52 | 12 points by olvy0 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  75. Inspecting the Source of Go Modules (filippo.io)
    ×0.84 25 | 38 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  76. Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android (ios-countdown.win)
    ×7.74 37 | 1596 points by ozzyphantom 2 days ago | 773 comments | ??? ???
  77. The mathematics of compression in database systems (bitsxpages.com)
    ×0.76 56 | 61 points by agavra 1 day ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  78. Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don't Want to Be in the Family Business (wsj.com)
    ×2.70 25 | 8 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  79. The Perfect Device (sometimes.digital)
    ×0.53 43 | 21 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  80. NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry (npmx.dev)
    ×0.94 37 | 151 points by slymax 1 day ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  81. A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
    ×2.66 58 | 33 points by zdw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  82. GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics (openai.com)
    ×2.42 10 | 567 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 395 comments | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.56 63 | 19 points by arjunchint 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL (github.com/mickamy)
    ×1.21 9 | 223 points by mickamy 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  85. The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (politico.eu)
    ×5.15 24 | 761 points by danso 1 day ago | 905 comments | ??? ???
  86. Linear Representations and Superposition (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
    ×0.62 29 | 16 points by paladin314159 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  87. 7zip.com Is Serving Malware (malwarebytes.com)
    ×3.00 17 | 176 points by Alifatisk 1 day ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  88. Discord: A case study in performance optimization (fullstack.zip)
    ×0.98 2 | 73 points by tylerdane 20 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  89. How did the Maya survive? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.18 48 | 157 points by speckx 2 days ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files (vouchbook.dev)
    ×0.53 54 | 18 points by rosslazer 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???