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  1. Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)
    ×4.00 | 364 points by cianmm 2 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.19 | 97 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×1.31 1 | 43 points by jandeboevrie 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.34 1 | 437 points by rolph 10 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×2.94 | 459 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.34 | 256 points by hakonjdjohnsen 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.95 1 | 183 points by ColinEberhardt 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.43 3 | 91 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI-Native Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.86 2 | 105 points by notsentient 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.10 1 | 696 points by warpspin 17 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Simpler Parametrization for Modern Optimizers (jiha-kim.github.io)
    ×0.55 25 | 8 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×1.06 5 | 41 points by ksymph 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
    ×1.58 2 | 131 points by neilfrndes 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.58 | 607 points by amrrs 21 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.91 4 | 28 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.27 | 196 points by veeti 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
    ×3.08 4 | 126 points by cheeaun 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
    ×1.98 2 | 298 points by nohell 15 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.12 7 | 422 points by palashawas 20 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.59 23 | 301 points by brudgers 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
    ×2.09 4 | 476 points by blenderob 21 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.65 4 | 183 points by debo_ 11 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why most product tours get skipped (productonboarding.com)
    ×1.55 16 | 178 points by pancomplex 16 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Make some art with your phone sensors (tautme.github.io)
    ×1.09 14 | 69 points by adm4 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.41 13 | 1506 points by john-doe 1 day ago | 1015 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
    ×1.03 37 | 84 points by omarsar 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
    ×3.44 17 | 410 points by adrianmsmith 1 day ago | 626 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I'm scared about biological computing (kuber.studio)
    ×1.87 24 | 246 points by kuberwastaken 21 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.80 53 | 125 points by mtricot 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.38 10 | 43 points by mpweiher 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
    ×1.33 23 | 190 points by ouli 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)
    ×1.44 28 | 244 points by louiereederson 22 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 38 | 154 points by gmays 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (stripes.com)
    ×4.32 28 | 273 points by petethomas 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.23 12 | 4 points by cainxinth 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Visualize Any Hugging Face Model (hfviewer.com)
    ×1.88 50 | 5 points by rippeltippel 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
    ×2.99 9 | 351 points by littlexsparkee 19 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph (mohibulsblog.netlify.app)
    ×0.77 50 | 59 points by celurian92 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
    ×4.62 18 | 412 points by spankibalt 19 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.15 2 | 408 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×1.03 57 | 127 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (microsoft.com)
    ×2.54 13 | 358 points by SeenNotHeard 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.59 37 | 246 points by ingve 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.57 61 | 65 points by thedebuglife 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer (physicsworld.com)
    ×0.78 56 | 64 points by zeristor 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.33 51 | 213 points by jollyjerry 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Feds Fine Durham Energy Efficiency Co $722M (theassemblync.com)
    ×0.58 46 | 24 points by ChuckMcM 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)
    ×2.17 17 | 368 points by youngbrioche 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026? (distr.sh)
    ×2.04 12 | 401 points by pmig 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993 (lowendbox.com)
    ×1.16 68 | 35 points by bananamogul 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Farewell to a Giant of Botany (nautil.us)
    ×0.84 73 | 102 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)
    ×2.00 12 | 435 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
    ×6.00 2 | 1494 points by thitran 2 days ago | 744 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023) (oup.com)
    ×0.37 76 | 28 points by danny00 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto (nature.com)
    ×1.37 68 | 8 points by tobr 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (audubon.org)
    ×0.87 50 | 41 points by thunderbong 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SubQ: Sub-Quadratic LLM (subq.ai)
    ×1.33 64 | 11 points by nigelgutzmann 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com/angelos-p)
    ×2.85 14 | 452 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs (docker.com)
    ×1.00 35 | 125 points by neitsab 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)
    ×1.24 44 | 191 points by averi 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death (jamiesimon.io)
    ×0.69 38 | 30 points by jamie-simon 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership (dexerto.com)
    ×3.52 4 | 105 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020) (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
    ×0.70 50 | 57 points by luu 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023 (ferrari.com)
    ×1.32 36 | 36 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 6 | 26 points by rustoo 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.35 42 | 14 points by akkartik 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)
    ×1.76 10 | 320 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com/pyinfra-dev)
    ×1.68 46 | 300 points by wowi42 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023) (phsne.org)
    ×0.60 57 | 57 points by geuis 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.95 17 | 702 points by n1b0m 2 days ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
    ×2.13 8 | 498 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code (github.com/OxideAV)
    ×4.20 3 | 56 points by dmitrygr 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How Monero’s proof of work works (alcazarsec.com)
    ×1.80 39 | 310 points by alcazar 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
    ×1.48 42 | 203 points by r00k 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal (aresluna.org)
    ×1.06 45 | 94 points by zdw 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)
    ×0.84 67 | 134 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)
    ×1.43 48 | 119 points by unixfg 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.68 50 | 187 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×3.93 4 | 620 points by cft 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 2-D Mathematical Curves (2dcurves.com)
    ×1.02 53 | 91 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)
    ×2.47 4 | 515 points by remote-dev 1 day ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)
    ×4.74 55 | 528 points by Brajeshwar 23 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. When networking doesn't work (os2museum.com)
    ×0.85 53 | 96 points by kencausey 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC) (nsa.gov)
    ×0.61 31 | 45 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025) (nature.com)
    ×1.03 52 | 86 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.38 31 | 703 points by SergeAx 1 day ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev (zozo123.github.io)
    ×0.43 42 | 50 points by zozo123-IB 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×0.49 65 | 42 points by anujbans 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)
    ×1.35 51 | 218 points by o4c 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???