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  1. AWS Acquires DuckDB (ducklabs.com)
    ×4.30 3 | 21 points by onderkalaci 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.85 5 | 179 points by j0selit0 4 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×1.05 7 | 101 points by altilunium 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×1.78 8 | 10 points by ilamont 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues (happyfellow.dev)
    ×4.08 4 | 175 points by arn3n 50 minutes ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (qwen.ai)
    ×3.20 7 | 8 points by tosh 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.82 26 | 4 points by crescit_eundo 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.88 7 | 215 points by garo-pro 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×4.46 10 | 1218 points by interpol_p 1 day ago | 1172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence (var0.xyz)
    ×1.28 4 | 38 points by tuxie_ 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy (johan-sjolen.github.io)
    ×0.91 6 | 51 points by lichtenberger 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
    ×3.51 7 | 130 points by mobilio 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.48 8 | 153 points by zoenolan 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (fda.gov)
    ×1.96 13 | 452 points by sunnynagra 18 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
    ×2.30 10 | 250 points by rguiscard 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.68 13 | 530 points by bmulholland 19 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (apple.com)
    ×3.14 11 | 791 points by interpol_p 1 day ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) (rupertlinacre.com)
    ×0.97 5 | 65 points by RobinL 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project (theregister.com)
    ×4.08 15 | 34 points by giamma 42 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War (ieee.org)
    ×0.81 25 | 58 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda (theguardian.com)
    ×5.37 13 | 30 points by n1b0m 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Black hole singularity is a surface not a point (arxiv.org)
    ×1.44 31 | 279 points by raattgift 20 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (apple.com)
    ×2.47 18 | 513 points by runako 23 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com/runetes)
    ×0.92 48 | 97 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.18 37 | 150 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com)
    ×2.23 24 | 377 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (github.com/zedeus)
    ×6.23 14 | 1036 points by Banditoz 20 hours ago | 859 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs (yale.edu)
    ×1.76 27 | 333 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month (wallyjones.com)
    ×1.21 41 | 183 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it (master.dev)
    ×1.48 38 | 200 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 27 | 69 points by gdad 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Don't Wordle (dontwordle.com)
    ×1.89 32 | 365 points by Hbruz0 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer (hbs.edu)
    ×3.27 54 | 211 points by conbrian 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases (github.com/jeffhajewski)
    ×1.20 44 | 165 points by smiths1999 20 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.95 33 | 106 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.07 35 | 105 points by swimmingbrain 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)
    ×4.00 11 | 591 points by sarreph 20 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Dolly Parton has died (theguardian.com)
    ×11.60 28 | 1499 points by helsinkiandrew 19 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×1.51 24 | 172 points by Retr0id 17 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Visualizing Binary Files (movq.de)
    ×1.02 55 | 120 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (google.com)
    ×3.64 7 | 399 points by yboris 19 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements (documentfoundation.org)
    ×1.39 5 | 4 points by DemiGuru 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data (france24.com)
    ×1.80 21 | 35 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines (itch.io)
    ×1.07 73 | 144 points by Gorsefound 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958) (archive.org)
    ×1.33 21 | 20 points by irdc 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation (zakpodmore.substack.com)
    ×0.87 50 | 64 points by CGMthrowaway 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tracking Costco gas prices (jack.bio)
    ×1.14 38 | 118 points by lafond 19 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SiFive's First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.95 73 | 138 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (psu.edu)
    ×1.88 29 | 119 points by giuliomagnifico 7 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
    ×1.48 61 | 211 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler (kurz.net)
    ×0.77 57 | 69 points by crowdhailer 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers (andymasley.com)
    ×1.26 66 | 25 points by JuniperMesos 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What's new in Emacs 31.1 (masteringemacs.org)
    ×2.35 38 | 337 points by geospeck 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off (macrumors.com)
    ×2.88 14 | 7 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany (waymo.com)
    ×1.37 70 | 56 points by boulos 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021) (github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC)
    ×0.67 57 | 89 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)
    ×0.53 58 | 32 points by dt3ft 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Just say something people want (gkogan.co)
    ×0.63 19 | 4 points by gk1 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstacle (reuters.com)
    ×2.33 8 | 25 points by imadj 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com/leodeim)
    ×0.68 50 | 59 points by ygagaga 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
    ×3.28 18 | 848 points by ComputerGuru 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics (acm.org)
    ×0.50 75 | 43 points by coffeeaddict1 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.58 81 | 9 points by ryandotsmith 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. BSDnas – fork that continues TrueNAS CORE on current FreeBSD (bsdnas.com)
    ×1.00 76 | 23 points by NexRebular 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to Build a McKinsey-Style PowerPoint with AI: 8 Rules for Consulting Slides (medium.com)
    ×1.30 18 | 10 points by chenxi030826 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com/paulg)
    ×2.59 37 | 602 points by bilsbie 2 days ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant (judegomila.com)
    ×0.62 49 | 51 points by judegomila 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
    ×2.48 1 | 328 points by garo-pro 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×3.60 5 | 993 points by tosh 1 day ago | 725 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.60 42 | 130 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the first mobile CPU to reach 5GHz (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.07 68 | 15 points by afr0ck 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The choices we make about AI now are critical – Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)
    ×1.67 12 | 5 points by stareatgoats 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI (reuters.com)
    ×7.85 58 | 29 points by T-zex 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Memory Ordering in CPUs (wordpress.com)
    ×0.83 73 | 17 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance (ctgt.ai)
    ×0.60 49 | 40 points by cgorlla 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×5.53 10 | 1426 points by schlarpc 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I miss the old Claude Code (alexkras.com)
    ×2.48 16 | 28 points by akras14 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (archive.org)
    ×1.11 57 | 159 points by signor_bosco 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.47 59 | 42 points by samizdis 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (apple.com)
    ×2.45 | 597 points by K7PJP 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Try Omarchy as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac (github.com/themartiano)
    ×2.36 67 | 17 points by jbverschoor 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Wayland "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, but Not Necessarily More Efficient" (phoronix.com)
    ×1.66 16 | 8 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
    ×1.29 47 | 189 points by zdw 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (jstor.org)
    ×1.44 36 | 156 points by neom 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.19 48 | 131 points by subset 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
    ×2.48 50 | 394 points by pantelisk 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Revolut Joins Global Stablecoin Race with Euro-Backed Token (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.36 12 | 7 points by thm 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice (xcancel.com)
    ×3.99 | 80 points by bio-s 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
    ×6.55 33 | 1616 points by l-one-lone 2 days ago | 1011 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???