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  1. After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (ericgoldman.org)
    ×1.89 | 100 points by datadrivenangel 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute (anthropic.com)
    ×2.64 2 | 119 points by l1n 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
    ×1.36 2 | 225 points by MattHart88 5 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×10.74 5 | 825 points by adrianhon 14 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents (freestyle.sh)
    ×0.94 14 | 201 points by benswerd 9 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (filippo.io)
    ×1.98 8 | 323 points by thadt 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)
    ×1.52 11 | 211 points by player_piano 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.28 15 | 259 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Porting Go's strings package to C (antonz.org)
    ×1.35 12 | 25 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)
    ×0.84 10 | 46 points by kitfunso 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Solod – A Subset of Go That Translates to C (github.com/solod-dev)
    ×1.48 25 | 5 points by TheWiggles 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Netflix Void Model: Video Object and Interaction Deletion (github.com/Netflix)
    ×1.74 37 | 7 points by bobsoap 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.59 6 | 746 points by StanAngeloff 11 hours ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What being ripped off taught me (belief.horse)
    ×1.73 8 | 328 points by doctorhandshake 12 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (stephendiehl.com)
    ×1.27 10 | 206 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)
    ×1.87 20 | 100 points by flinner 9 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome (shapemachine.xyz)
    ×0.93 14 | 46 points by factorialboy 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V (github.com/roscopeco)
    ×0.55 27 | 19 points by noone_youknow 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go (github.com/anzellai)
    ×1.14 13 | 127 points by whalesalad 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok (bramcohen.com)
    ×3.37 19 | 469 points by drob518 7 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Agent Reading Test (agentreadingtest.com)
    ×0.59 19 | 46 points by kaycebasques 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game (wesnoth.org)
    ×2.19 17 | 386 points by akyuu 7 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting (github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7)
    ×0.61 20 | 24 points by 4RH1T3CT0R 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
    ×1.64 15 | 152 points by coinfused 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.61 9 | 52 points by lazarkap 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? (nxdomain.no)
    ×0.57 23 | 51 points by jruohonen 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines (som-st.github.io)
    ×0.64 38 | 24 points by tosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python (docking.cc)
    ×0.37 35 | 22 points by edumucelli 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign (newyorker.com)
    ×1.95 22 | 89 points by tantalor 11 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (osnews.com)
    ×2.88 21 | 240 points by rglullis 7 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days (photon.codes)
    ×2.03 21 | 117 points by RyanZhuuuu 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company" (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.54 21 | 37 points by chermanowicz 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. France pulls last gold held in US (mining.com)
    ×3.34 10 | 563 points by teleforce 17 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Reducto releases Deep Extract (reducto.ai)
    ×0.55 27 | 45 points by raunakchowdhuri 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes (twitter.com/exQUIZitely)
    ×1.72 23 | 275 points by keepamovin 22 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok (0xsid.com)
    ×4.59 34 | 820 points by ssiddharth 11 hours ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Signals, the push-pull based algorithm (willybrauner.com)
    ×1.10 38 | 152 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)
    ×1.69 17 | 263 points by karimf 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×3.31 11 | 841 points by armanified 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool (github.com/maaslalani)
    ×1.34 38 | 182 points by _____k 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair (drop.com)
    ×1.05 43 | 120 points by stevebmark 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Weird Clocks (specr.net)
    ×1.29 53 | 23 points by vunderba 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
    ×0.82 40 | 106 points by gmays 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)
    ×3.55 3 | 772 points by naves 1 day ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
    ×1.03 52 | 143 points by ikessler 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Gemma 4 on iPhone (apple.com)
    ×3.05 4 | 839 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Bitwarden Is Down (bitwarden.com)
    ×2.37 5 | 11 points by zhan_eg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (sschueller.github.io)
    ×4.95 4 | 753 points by sschueller 1 day ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong (wsj.com)
    ×2.05 8 | 26 points by dsr12 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon (moonrf.com)
    ×1.39 10 | 246 points by hillcrestenigma 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others (psypost.org)
    ×2.35 25 | 93 points by 01-_- 7 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone (twitter.com/Suzierizzo1)
    ×4.30 45 | 333 points by josephcsible 9 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made (monyatwu.com)
    ×2.36 20 | 67 points by 1whizkid1 7 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick (github.com/JuliusBrussee)
    ×3.19 10 | 854 points by tosh 1 day ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
    ×1.62 11 | 303 points by nevernothing 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com/kdave)
    ×1.00 42 | 115 points by salt4034 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com)
    ×3.65 4 | 914 points by brilee 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. NY Yankees' torpedo bat is the same as regular bat (wsu.edu)
    ×0.89 21 | 3 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)
    ×3.37 9 | 423 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×3.21 1 | 52 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Meta-agent: self-improving agent harnesses from live traces (github.com/canvas-org)
    ×0.91 49 | 7 points by essamsleiman 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025) (umich.edu)
    ×1.05 46 | 175 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters (varun.ch)
    ×1.80 54 | 89 points by varun_ch 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua (github.com/love2d)
    ×1.68 5 | 406 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
    ×0.81 44 | 93 points by mohshomis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (bbc.com)
    ×1.95 5 | 514 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Miracle – A hackable window manager for Linux (github.com/miracle-wm-org)
    ×1.12 57 | 5 points by matthewkosarek 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.26 44 | 85 points by tinchox6 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs (github.com/salmanmohammadi)
    ×1.34 35 | 204 points by desideratum 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network (friendi.ca)
    ×1.03 50 | 161 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code (georgeliu.com)
    ×1.92 1 | 389 points by vbtechguy 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stamp It: All programs must report their version (stapelberg.ch)
    ×0.49 72 | 29 points by gurjeet 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (jaso1024.com)
    ×2.78 12 | 945 points by Jaso1024 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net)
    ×2.05 2 | 332 points by merusame 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenJDK: Panama (openjdk.org)
    ×0.97 57 | 69 points by tosh 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ReverseCam – See yourself as others see you (reversecam.com)
    ×0.75 58 | 7 points by ilamparithi 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (ergosphere.blog)
    ×4.57 21 | 948 points by zaikunzhang 1 day ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I just built a MCP Server that connects Claude to all your wearables (pacetraining.co)
    ×0.74 59 | 15 points by anton_salcher 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022) (intelligentliving.co)
    ×0.87 57 | 125 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3) (lalitm.com)
    ×1.54 13 | 117 points by thunderbong 15 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Women were never meant to give birth on their backs (bbc.com)
    ×1.77 44 | 74 points by ilt 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf] (github.com/Votuko)
    ×0.92 36 | 90 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Peptides: where to begin? (science.org)
    ×3.07 71 | 77 points by A_D_E_P_T 4 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Baby's Second Garbage Collector (matheusmoreira.com)
    ×0.52 62 | 66 points by matheusmoreira 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Artemis II astronauts officially set record for human's distance from Earth (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.07 3 | 10 points by heresie-dabord 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon (github.com/MidstallSoftware)
    ×1.12 45 | 145 points by rosscomputerguy 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal (github.com/andmarti1424)
    ×0.94 50 | 94 points by m-hodges 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5 (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.57 59 | 22 points by classichasclass 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. No on-site doctor: Dental student died in ICU overseen by remote tele-health MD (lawandcrime.com)
    ×3.11 15 | 19 points by randycupertino 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???