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  1. Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
    ×2.65 | 185 points by danielhanchen 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
    ×1.74 3 | 200 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com/j178)
    ×1.81 3 | 43 points by fortuitous-frog 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (ingebrigtsen.no)
    ×2.73 3 | 443 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% (science.org)
    ×1.33 8 | 77 points by XzetaU8 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US (apnews.com)
    ×8.63 2 | 57 points by AareyBaba 55 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bunny Database (bunny.net)
    ×2.66 4 | 126 points by dabinat 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.36 4 | 23 points by at1as 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.66 20 | 5 points by rachitnigam 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
    ×0.34 16 | 12 points by eduardpi 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.32 4 | 37 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes (waspdev.com)
    ×1.14 26 | 5 points by surprisetalk 41 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) (github.com/oug-t)
    ×0.66 10 | 35 points by oug-t 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly (github.com/mavdol)
    ×0.68 4 | 32 points by mavdol04 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.71 24 | 4 points by crimsoneer 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×1.01 41 | 5 points by ambonvik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×1.16 14 | 213 points by GalaxySnail 13 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (rbby.dev)
    ×0.53 2 | 28 points by rbbydotdev 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants (wired.com)
    ×1.80 10 | 50 points by achristmascarl 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (tadpolehq.com)
    ×0.71 54 | 3 points by zachperkitny 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.43 20 | 237 points by geox 15 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.17 7 | 764 points by meetpateltech 23 hours ago | 575 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (2000) (goddess-athena.org)
    ×0.84 21 | 11 points by joebig 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.77 9 | 516 points by trms 20 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.62 1 | 129 points by tinuviel 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×3.01 14 | 568 points by wodniok 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    ×3.08 15 | 291 points by gyrovague-com 17 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (anthropic.com)
    ×1.29 24 | 228 points by salkahfi 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.23 33 | 121 points by Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.47 27 | 254 points by bhouston 20 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (malwarebytes.com)
    ×1.20 12 | 29 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.62 24 | 94 points by blenderob 3 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. (github.com/KrystianJonca)
    ×0.79 20 | 60 points by iamkrystian17 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. xAI joins SpaceX (spacex.com)
    ×4.61 19 | 854 points by g-mork 19 hours ago | 1893 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hacking Moltbook (wiz.io)
    ×2.19 25 | 379 points by galnagli 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (frommers.com)
    ×5.13 10 | 569 points by donohoe 18 hours ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.77 42 | 208 points by cf100clunk 23 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
    ×0.97 42 | 110 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why The Jetsons still matters (2012) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.68 37 | 35 points by fortran77 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    ×3.07 21 | 331 points by ingve 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.22 32 | 114 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic is Down (updog.ai)
    ×4.95 41 | 120 points by ersiees 1 hour ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.32 13 | 457 points by ck2 18 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century (livescience.com)
    ×1.68 23 | 16 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com/whispem)
    ×1.02 13 | 57 points by whispem 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.82 21 | 155 points by ashergill 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. X offices raided French prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes (apnews.com)
    ×3.26 29 | 13 points by labrador 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. You Shouldn't Use Google's Chrome "Auto Browse" Agentic AI, or Any Others (vortex.com)
    ×1.75 9 | 5 points by speckx 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.86 62 | 97 points by dbgrman 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×0.95 54 | 83 points by mci 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.50 59 | 29 points by tobr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com/BenjaminPoilve)
    ×1.22 33 | 40 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hexagonal Grids (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.98 60 | 5 points by elisaado 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.95 48 | 158 points by defrost 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why Focus Still Matters in a Distracted World (talkflow.substack.com)
    ×1.31 | 4 points by moss98 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×1.01 49 | 111 points by tromp 23 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.93 51 | 125 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions (bentsukun.ch)
    ×1.03 70 | 21 points by jaypatelani 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.84 7 | 51 points by speedylight 10 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Signal Outage [Ongoing] (archive.org)
    ×1.40 14 | 6 points by itdaniher 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Signal Is Down
    ×4.46 54 | 33 points by Daniel_sk 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.66 14 | 6 points by jaredwiener 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    ×1.20 54 | 111 points by Technolithic 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 4 | 296 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. U.S. Federal Data Is Disappearing (notus.org)
    ×5.10 6 | 38 points by giuliomagnifico 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.08 50 | 114 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
    ×0.98 32 | 129 points by salkahfi 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (science.org)
    ×0.50 52 | 22 points by noleary 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (sdan.io)
    ×0.68 53 | 42 points by sdan 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem (bpe.xyz)
    ×0.91 23 | 48 points by shoes_for_thee 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.89 1 | 364 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (macrumors.com)
    ×2.99 14 | 191 points by stalfosknight 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×0.94 41 | 146 points by noelwelsh 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×2.08 18 | 251 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.33 | 841 points by zdw 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer (adafruit.com)
    ×5.44 74 | 103 points by ptorrone 1 hour ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    ×1.24 11 | 266 points by yz-yu 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
    ×1.29 43 | 135 points by tontony 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why software stocks are getting pummelled (economist.com)
    ×1.92 8 | 172 points by petethomas 23 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (theverge.com)
    ×3.27 9 | 384 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Vanilla Web Is Wonderful (benjaminsmallwood.com)
    ×1.07 74 | 10 points by bensmallwood 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com/orgs)
    ×3.20 10 | 120 points by aofeisheng 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com/stelviodev)
    ×0.51 55 | 35 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NASA Enables Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration (nasa.gov)
    ×0.88 17 | 5 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×2.22 42 | 157 points by jinhkuan 13 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ratchets in software development (2021) (qntm.org)
    ×0.98 46 | 113 points by nvader 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. U.K. physics community braces for deep funding cuts (science.org)
    ×1.36 5 | 15 points by sega_sai 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)
    ×0.61 46 | 40 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×0.84 51 | 103 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???