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  1. Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.51 3 | 43 points by rbanffy 35 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (derekthompson.org)
    ×3.38 1 | 239 points by barry-cotter 2 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
    ×2.54 2 | 219 points by damaru2 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.77 2 | 78 points by nicowaltz 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (theguardian.com)
    ×4.27 3 | 140 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Using any C++ library in Godot (conan.io)
    ×0.88 2 | 82 points by czoido 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Without the Hot Air (withouthotair.com)
    ×1.54 4 | 8 points by 0sake_rs 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.94 5 | 115 points by mywacaday 1 hour ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.22 6 | 179 points by evakhoury 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.55 3 | 110 points by doener 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The systems that no one will test (christianperone.com)
    ×1.08 5 | 100 points by perone 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)
    ×2.23 14 | 280 points by randycupertino 17 hours ago | 692 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
    ×1.03 11 | 49 points by airhangerf15 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (startup-nights.ch)
    ×1.07 14 | 33 points by sschueller 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com/EverMind-AI)
    ×0.73 19 | 14 points by cyfyifanchen 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
    ×2.54 3 | 632 points by piotrgrabowski 21 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
    ×0.64 31 | 21 points by luu 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tank Body Problem (jimsitu.com)
    ×1.41 11 | 139 points by jimbooonooo 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
    ×1.42 14 | 262 points by logicallee 18 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×1.85 3 | 7 points by colinprince 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines (phys.org)
    ×0.43 33 | 5 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com/Low-Zi-Hong)
    ×1.14 31 | 119 points by nkko 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World (evan-doorbell.com)
    ×0.83 29 | 14 points by mikecarlton 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
    ×0.97 27 | 153 points by yusufaytas 17 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com/firelex)
    ×2.51 13 | 531 points by firelex 16 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. New Cyber-OSINT model released (twitter.com/0x0SojalSec)
    ×1.16 16 | 31 points by soltanov 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com/AliAbunimah)
    ×8.07 9 | 730 points by slowin 21 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)
    ×0.30 39 | 7 points by dabinat 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)
    ×1.66 29 | 204 points by jonbaer 21 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)
    ×1.42 16 | 271 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.19 22 | 836 points by D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 19 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)
    ×2.98 7 | 445 points by simonpure 21 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×2.81 14 | 262 points by p-s-v 21 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.89 31 | 116 points by gumby 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second (4hiroshimas.info)
    ×2.07 3 | 5 points by blondie9x 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Simulating Airband AM Radios (bitbashing.io)
    ×1.01 13 | 54 points by shellpipe 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. World Labs is Joining AMD (worldlabs.ai)
    ×1.94 14 | 290 points by mfiguiere 17 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.44 17 | 198 points by mrborgen 21 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945) (ias.edu)
    ×0.16 72 | 4 points by georgecmu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.86 18 | 1911 points by sancho-panza 1 day ago | 1074 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.39 27 | 541 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.22 4 | 120 points by henrychannel 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×4.47 36 | 111 points by pranshuchittora 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Behold the pawpaw (cbc.ca)
    ×1.03 60 | 74 points by BiraIgnacio 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.05 3 | 71 points by thefourthchime 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.39 22 | 148 points by HugoDz 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.35 23 | 157 points by macleos 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance (sagepub.com)
    ×0.56 42 | 39 points by rustoo 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)
    ×3.88 22 | 509 points by firstSpeaker 23 hours ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)
    ×1.20 13 | 76 points by jamie-simon 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×0.81 22 | 27 points by rhl314 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The art forger who became a national hero (priceonomics.com)
    ×0.96 19 | 49 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
    ×1.16 32 | 173 points by nicocarsui 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators (benovermyer.com)
    ×0.58 44 | 81 points by bovermyer 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
    ×1.04 38 | 165 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What would a serious AI product look like? (glyph.im)
    ×1.84 24 | 161 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark (github.com/JoasASantos)
    ×1.36 13 | 34 points by soltanov 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.12 30 | 139 points by seamus_c 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    ×1.03 46 | 159 points by mroche 1 day ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)
    ×3.11 23 | 354 points by diek 22 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.36 38 | 125 points by sia_xi 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
    ×1.28 48 | 40 points by chmaynard 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    ×1.41 4 | 319 points by davidcollantes 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GDB 18.1 Released (sourceware.org)
    ×1.36 52 | 38 points by edelsohn 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National News (thedrive.com)
    ×3.06 26 | 19 points by Markoff 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GPT-6 Astra Is the Best Vision Model We Have Tested (roboflow.com)
    ×1.95 36 | 26 points by gmays 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (vespper.com)
    ×0.34 52 | 35 points by topaztee 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (plcred.org)
    ×0.61 27 | 52 points by embedding-shape 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? (wired.com)
    ×1.26 13 | 55 points by danielmorozoff 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 33 | 173 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (isfine.org)
    ×1.69 14 | 127 points by keeda 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.49 35 | 47 points by benbreen 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra (bluegraph.io)
    ×0.49 40 | 16 points by polytap 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Highlights from Git 2.56 (github.blog)
    ×1.10 53 | 10 points by soheilpro 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)
    ×0.64 43 | 24 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (newyorker.com)
    ×0.73 7 | 84 points by prismatic 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.39 3 | 582 points by gmays 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
    ×1.03 47 | 173 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.69 55 | 98 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Muse gives out your home address without telling you (theguardian.com)
    ×1.47 11 | 6 points by dsr_ 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
    ×3.44 41 | 250 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta's new AI agent built lists of people in vulnerable groups on request (hntrbrk.com)
    ×1.90 2 | 8 points by iamacyborg 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.80 14 | 311 points by safaelmali 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    ×0.35 52 | 24 points by luu 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Windows 11½ (definitelynotwindows.com)
    ×5.18 65 | 495 points by jjbinx007 19 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×0.94 40 | 125 points by bingden 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 41 | 65 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Sonnet 5.5 scores just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.87 55 | 7 points by spenvo 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.60 42 | 79 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
    ×4.91 59 | 1070 points by Eric_Gullichsen 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???