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  1. MCP is dead. Long live the CLI (ejholmes.github.io)
    ×3.04 1 | 50 points by ejholmes 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
    ×2.54 1 | 282 points by oli5679 6 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×6.00 4 | 1384 points by tambourine_man 16 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×2.97 3 | 332 points by saikatsg 4 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why XML Tags Are So Fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
    ×1.40 4 | 61 points by glth 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
    ×2.66 2 | 286 points by nickk81 6 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
    ×2.14 5 | 272 points by mschnell 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×3.32 10 | 703 points by golfer 20 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ape Coding (rsaksida.com)
    ×2.27 3 | 123 points by rmsaksida 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Flightradar24 for Ships (flexport.com)
    ×1.42 11 | 79 points by chromy 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (gimp.org)
    ×1.13 12 | 69 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (sciencedaily.com)
    ×3.02 7 | 82 points by gradus_ad 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.27 9 | 156 points by vismit2000 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference (pyrefly.org)
    ×0.66 27 | 7 points by ocamoss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (acs.org)
    ×1.04 2 | 49 points by keepamovin 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
    ×4.04 8 | 422 points by doener 10 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)
    ×0.95 19 | 60 points by jpineman 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
    ×1.13 6 | 94 points by joelsiks 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
    ×0.42 23 | 10 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
    ×1.11 10 | 99 points by evakhoury 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.19 14 | 541 points by adilmoujahid 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 6 Practices that turned AI from prototyper to workhorse (106 PRs in 14 days)
    ×1.19 3 | 7 points by waleedk 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (googleblog.com)
    ×0.96 20 | 74 points by tptacek 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
    ×1.08 30 | 59 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.37 53 | 19 points by LukeB42 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days (matthewphillips.info)
    ×1.34 13 | 12 points by MatthewPhillips 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
    ×2.84 1 | 591 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.70 56 | 4 points by stevehiehn 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×0.65 40 | 35 points by herbertl 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)
    ×3.26 31 | 518 points by mksglu 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
    ×1.04 33 | 87 points by rmoff 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (inconspicuous.info)
    ×1.04 34 | 124 points by mrngm 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.49 37 | 315 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)
    ×1.74 | 329 points by ksec 19 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×0.93 33 | 89 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.38 43 | 268 points by jbdamask 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×1.09 45 | 248 points by RyanShook 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more (servo.org)
    ×2.04 19 | 3 points by birdculture 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Long Range E-Bike (jacquesmattheij.com)
    ×2.28 28 | 45 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” Alerts (robservatory.com)
    ×1.90 18 | 293 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×2.87 2 | 349 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×1.63 49 | 308 points by dinvlad 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.05 37 | 203 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
    ×6.99 17 | 397 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 742 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.82 53 | 137 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.58 17 | 432 points by lostmsu 21 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.44 27 | 903 points by guilamu 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart (vox.com)
    ×1.33 2 | 9 points by stared 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.04 45 | 161 points by cckolon 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (threejs.org)
    ×0.55 62 | 38 points by ryker2000 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.13 44 | 228 points by tosh 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) (acm.org)
    ×0.82 51 | 44 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.75 61 | 78 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.78 22 | 1154 points by lavp 1 day ago | 2523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.56 56 | 84 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)
    ×1.51 40 | 33 points by bariumbitmap 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.41 24 | 1377 points by eoskx 1 day ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Deterministic Programming with LLMs (mcherm.com)
    ×0.74 49 | 62 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)
    ×0.59 45 | 68 points by kelseyfrog 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.37 45 | 264 points by zdw 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
    ×3.33 51 | 90 points by beabetterdev 4 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
    ×1.10 48 | 140 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.11 52 | 240 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 4,500 Physicians Agree (About Bacon) (machielreyneke.com)
    ×3.58 17 | 41 points by machielrey 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
    ×1.11 36 | 142 points by simedw 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
    ×2.70 11 | 156 points by pabs3 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
    ×0.59 52 | 77 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.31 19 | 802 points by WalterSobchak 2 days ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dutch Tax Authority hands US software company control over VAT system (techzine.eu)
    ×1.66 17 | 18 points by bramhaag 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×9.43 51 | 2588 points by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago | 824 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 'Can't sell house' searches are higher now than during the 2008 housing crisis (morningstar.com)
    ×3.41 7 | 9 points by DocFeind 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Don't go to the shoe shop to buy plates (naomialderman.substack.com)
    ×0.79 23 | 5 points by hairofadog 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)
    ×1.35 73 | 5 points by evolve2k 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Cathode Ray Tube site (crtsite.com)
    ×0.96 89 | 3 points by joebig 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI Safety Farce (seanpedersen.github.io)
    ×1.32 37 | 20 points by sean_pedersen 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.30 41 | 163 points by JuniperMesos 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)
    ×2.54 3 | 504 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
    ×0.82 54 | 114 points by mrtedbear 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.61 61 | 115 points by ppnpm 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.20 47 | 224 points by shad42 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
    ×0.66 47 | 112 points by zdw 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (wired.com)
    ×2.32 7 | 285 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.23 37 | 254 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×5.61 39 | 1152 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it (mataroa.blog)
    ×1.38 45 | 48 points by zdw 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet (kuber.studio)
    ×0.51 1 | 22 points by kuberwastaken 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.08 5 | 558 points by zlatkov 2 days ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×1.42 3 | 25 points by adlrocha 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Jack Dorsey's 4k Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.44 76 | 10 points by pinewurst 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???