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  1. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.26 2 | 632 points by bryan0 11 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)
    ×4.05 1 | 226 points by marjancek 3 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.47 3 | 76 points by laurenth 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Pi.dev: You Said No MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.30 5 | 5 points by yarapavan 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.33 2 | 626 points by alvis 17 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×1.87 12 | 203 points by devonnull 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.21 13 | 232 points by ilamont 14 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.28 4 | 568 points by plesiv 20 hours ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.16 5 | 172 points by ilamont 11 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.89 20 | 43 points by luu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.00 8 | 253 points by wanick 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.48 1 | 77 points by Baljhin 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Built Dental Scope (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.98 21 | 8 points by Zeruxe 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.24 2 | 525 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
    ×6.58 13 | 100 points by ragall 2 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (backblaze.com)
    ×2.24 27 | 196 points by HieronymusBosch 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.32 13 | 947 points by crorella 17 hours ago | 833 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.30 57 | 295 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) (retromash.com)
    ×0.77 2 | 17 points by robin_reala 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.43 15 | 108 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.82 28 | 8 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.65 17 | 125 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.39 21 | 89 points by thelastgallon 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.31 9 | 286 points by dan-bailey 19 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.05 2 | 312 points by therepanic 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.09 29 | 145 points by rossant 17 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×0.83 18 | 22 points by seam_carver 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
    ×2.23 18 | 269 points by amortize 21 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.35 43 | 40 points by papa-whisky 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.29 36 | 135 points by bketelsen 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×1.06 19 | 73 points by primitivesuave 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (theguardian.com)
    ×2.39 15 | 163 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.72 10 | 278 points by dmux 17 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com/Sparticle62ops)
    ×1.12 23 | 77 points by sparticle62 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Commodore 64: Mercenary (gamesexplained.com)
    ×0.73 46 | 49 points by a1r 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
    ×0.73 46 | 55 points by joebig 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ballmer Peak (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.30 13 | 61 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.19 45 | 56 points by ewpratten 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization (wired.com)
    ×1.87 3 | 6 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008) (withouthotair.com)
    ×0.91 33 | 143 points by 0sake_rs 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (pocoo.org)
    ×1.38 22 | 61 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
    ×1.94 2 | 417 points by damaru2 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×0.75 43 | 81 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (nytimes.com)
    ×0.81 32 | 92 points by gumby 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
    ×1.28 3 | 41 points by peter_d_sherman 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
    ×0.70 63 | 39 points by ianmcook 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper (wordpress.com)
    ×0.53 59 | 61 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.79 37 | 49 points by lostmsu 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    ×0.35 54 | 34 points by luu 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Postgres with QUIC (lupyd.com)
    ×2.05 22 | 17 points by tenesripranav 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.33 33 | 189 points by doener 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
    ×0.85 52 | 102 points by airhangerf15 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×2.47 6 | 261 points by colinprince 21 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.90 4 | 1973 points by sancho-panza 2 days ago | 1099 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. ChatGPT Pro 500 (openai.com)
    ×2.82 17 | 205 points by prodigycorp 16 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.10 52 | 15 points by dancablam 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×1.22 26 | 52 points by aureianimus 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Systems that no one will test (christianperone.com)
    ×1.01 35 | 148 points by perone 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.32 | 235 points by nicowaltz 23 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Galaxy Game (icm.museum)
    ×0.46 63 | 17 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×2.49 38 | 295 points by p-s-v 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.28 52 | 785 points by barry-cotter 23 hours ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (theregister.com)
    ×2.17 10 | 201 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
    ×0.49 64 | 47 points by luu 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Using any C++ library in Godot (conan.io)
    ×0.92 13 | 165 points by czoido 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say (reuters.com)
    ×1.54 4 | 15 points by EA-3167 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995) (calpoly.edu)
    ×1.55 62 | 13 points by robinpie 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Synthetic Sagas (scattered-thoughts.net)
    ×0.14 75 | 4 points by ffin 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
    ×0.70 38 | 63 points by tgluck 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)
    ×2.16 9 | 377 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 947 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.84 49 | 125 points by gumby 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)
    ×2.97 43 | 114 points by yakkomajuri 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mathematicians Harness Randomness to Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.37 78 | 4 points by tzury 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
    ×5.30 69 | 115 points by ciconia 5 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.36 37 | 210 points by mrborgen 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Climate Essay: The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Inconvenient Truth (2026) (brucemccabe.com)
    ×0.65 70 | 7 points by sceeene 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Behold the pawpaw (cbc.ca)
    ×0.93 71 | 84 points by BiraIgnacio 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Inspect: An open-source framework for large language model evaluations (aisi.org.uk)
    ×0.38 74 | 4 points by pkilgore 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
    ×1.41 8 | 94 points by polygot 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (theguardian.com)
    ×4.03 55 | 488 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots (cnn.com)
    ×2.59 45 | 3 points by jeffwass 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Someone Still Has to Buy Your Product (mayt.substack.com)
    ×1.65 13 | 11 points by maytc 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. World Labs is Joining AMD (worldlabs.ai)
    ×1.86 8 | 305 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Sarala – An open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor (solancer.com)
    ×1.37 42 | 16 points by solancer 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Its not just the f*cking sandbox (twitter.com/joedaroo)
    ×2.24 68 | 32 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)
    ×0.36 55 | 29 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.39 29 | 171 points by HugoDz 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.27 31 | 167 points by macleos 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.07 27 | 606 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    ×1.02 50 | 167 points by mroche 2 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???