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  1. Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor (deadlime.hu)
    ×1.02 1 | 67 points by MBCook 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? (github.com/mandel-macaque)
    ×1.90 3 | 158 points by mandel_x 6 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation (motorolanews.com)
    ×5.88 | 12 points by km 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity (bbc.com)
    ×0.67 7 | 14 points by ggm 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)
    ×1.65 1 | 254 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (wltx.com)
    ×3.79 5 | 164 points by aranaur 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python (github.com/kossisoroyce)
    ×1.39 | 105 points by kossisoroyce 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice (ellanew.com)
    ×1.36 11 | 21 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU (github.com/AlexsJones)
    ×2.15 8 | 99 points by bilsbie 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (growingswe.com)
    ×1.42 21 | 6 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com/cosmiciron)
    ×1.76 3 | 61 points by cosmiciron 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
    ×3.09 2 | 695 points by oli5679 19 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023) (tovejansson.com)
    ×1.55 2 | 146 points by abelanger 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers (frankensqlite.com)
    ×1.25 2 | 38 points by rahimnathwani 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Have your cake and decompress it too (spiraldb.com)
    ×0.61 45 | 10 points by emschwartz 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why does C have the best file API (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.32 25 | 101 points by maurycyz 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Enable CORS for Your Blog (blogsareback.com)
    ×1.38 40 | 14 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Little Free Library (littlefreelibrary.org)
    ×1.29 4 | 106 points by TigerUniversity 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right (variantsystems.io)
    ×1.93 28 | 7 points by linkdd 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
    ×2.61 7 | 357 points by ejholmes 14 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
    ×2.38 9 | 462 points by mschnell 22 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.96 16 | 59 points by korrz 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. You don't have to (scottsmitelli.com)
    ×3.27 10 | 82 points by marginalia_nu 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)
    ×1.36 24 | 150 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Microgpt explained interactively (growingswe.com)
    ×2.26 11 | 255 points by growingswe 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models (github.com/ierror)
    ×1.16 9 | 49 points by burrnii 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ape Coding [fiction] (rsaksida.com)
    ×1.87 23 | 166 points by rmsaksida 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The inner workings of TCP zero-copy (tohojo.dk)
    ×1.65 30 | 6 points by mfrw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. C64 Copy Protection (commodoregames.net)
    ×1.24 5 | 42 points by snvzz 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Running Neural Amp Modeler on embedded hardware (tone3000.com)
    ×0.70 24 | 25 points by woodybury 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)
    ×1.46 30 | 139 points by bariumbitmap 16 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
    ×1.34 8 | 192 points by glth 16 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Flightradar24 for Ships (flexport.com)
    ×1.56 23 | 215 points by chromy 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×6.94 25 | 1787 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 33 | 57 points by fnands 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
    ×3.27 18 | 532 points by nickk81 19 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Floor113.com – A Scarcity-Driven Dating System Built on Deterministic Access (floor113.com)
    ×1.09 75 | 5 points by chainbuilder 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (gimp.org)
    ×1.01 37 | 131 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Logira – eBPF runtime auditing for AI agent runs (github.com/melonattacker)
    ×0.80 55 | 16 points by melonattacker 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.45 27 | 242 points by vismit2000 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Programming in K (github.com/JohnEarnest)
    ×1.03 24 | 54 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.99 16 | 279 points by gradus_ad 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.64 50 | 55 points by stevehiehn 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×3.47 | 797 points by golfer 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (amazon.com)
    ×2.18 25 | 186 points by earthboundkid 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (googleblog.com)
    ×0.99 54 | 113 points by tptacek 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
    ×1.13 39 | 142 points by evakhoury 23 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Secure LLM Scripting. Finally (mlld.ai)
    ×0.47 102 | 3 points by dahjelle 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (acs.org)
    ×0.82 42 | 78 points by keepamovin 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)
    ×0.95 49 | 95 points by jpineman 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Gzpeek: Tool to Parse Gzip Metadata (evanhahn.com)
    ×0.66 39 | 41 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga (axios.com)
    ×5.74 | 88 points by doener 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013) (eff.org)
    ×1.95 19 | 96 points by doener 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
    ×1.03 33 | 122 points by joelsiks 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (inconspicuous.info)
    ×1.04 66 | 142 points by mrngm 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
    ×0.48 64 | 38 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
    ×4.20 29 | 550 points by doener 23 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
    ×3.42 9 | 175 points by beabetterdev 17 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
    ×0.88 64 | 74 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
    ×0.97 69 | 101 points by rmoff 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. South Korea's tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto (theregister.com)
    ×2.01 13 | 8 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Waymo robotaxi blocks EMS responding to Austin mass shooting (axios.com)
    ×2.85 3 | 23 points by mikhael 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×0.88 68 | 97 points by zdw 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.41 83 | 32 points by LukeB42 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)
    ×1.75 12 | 344 points by ksec 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×0.67 71 | 52 points by herbertl 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How Dada enables internal references (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.34 68 | 22 points by vrnvu 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.04 58 | 207 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.25 2 | 572 points by adilmoujahid 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store (apple.com)
    ×7.90 18 | 249 points by byincugnito 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Reverse-Engineering the Wetware: Spiking Networks and the End of Matrix Math (metaduck.com)
    ×0.51 85 | 6 points by pgte 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.13 66 | 236 points by tosh 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.68 9 | 1179 points by lavp 2 days ago | 2592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.40 66 | 275 points by zdw 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.35 13 | 1389 points by eoskx 2 days ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict (morningstar.com)
    ×2.53 51 | 86 points by paulpauper 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×2.76 4 | 362 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.43 32 | 955 points by guilamu 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more (servo.org)
    ×1.41 | 56 points by birdculture 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.06 59 | 170 points by cckolon 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FCaptcha – A modern CAPTCHA system designed to detect everything (github.com/WebDecoy)
    ×1.03 51 | 9 points by cport1 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.81 61 | 140 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
    ×6.40 14 | 444 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 856 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.12 64 | 244 points by ks2048 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.47 12 | 449 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Photos show China's low-cost lifestyle in semiabandoned housing complexes (apnews.com)
    ×5.79 59 | 17 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.56 68 | 86 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. "All Lawful Use": More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.87 12 | 37 points by pchristensen 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.75 68 | 83 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.32 54 | 82 points by wjb3 9 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???