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  1. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    ×1.98 4 | 198 points by blutack 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 1 | 69 points by yu3zhou4 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (authorsguild.org)
    ×4.75 1 | 418 points by papergirl 7 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Does Georgism work? Five years later (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.61 3 | 411 points by silveraxe93 15 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    ×1.96 7 | 283 points by chmaynard 15 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com/InfinityLoop1308)
    ×2.04 10 | 455 points by Qision 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×1.00 20 | 10 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (sciencenews.org)
    ×1.24 5 | 42 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 8 | 281 points by shenli3514 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.64 8 | 55 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)
    ×2.14 4 | 344 points by jpwalsh234 20 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.58 21 | 347 points by MC995 1 day ago | 731 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.21 24 | 94 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (movingimagearchive.com)
    ×1.37 25 | 187 points by momentmaker 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    ×0.89 21 | 47 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
    ×2.10 6 | 414 points by ksec 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.79 7 | 123 points by apsec112 15 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Evolving programming languages in the AI era (dashbit.co)
    ×1.38 3 | 122 points by pjm331 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×2.33 55 | 7 points by ingve 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
    ×2.39 44 | 241 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (reddit.com)
    ×5.52 20 | 296 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    ×1.16 21 | 165 points by parasitid 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon (nostalgia.dev)
    ×0.55 4 | 19 points by stmonty 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (fu-berlin.de)
    ×1.11 31 | 76 points by geox 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling (quasiben.github.io)
    ×0.48 38 | 7 points by quasiben 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (haskell.org)
    ×2.68 18 | 271 points by signa11 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.54 1 | 113 points by flxflx 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.22 12 | 94 points by pwg 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×3.19 21 | 210 points by kspacewalk2 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (mesh.host)
    ×1.11 37 | 79 points by z-mach9 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.98 11 | 62 points by torutofu 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.25 34 | 182 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×1.06 15 | 49 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×0.97 28 | 76 points by bucket2015 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.28 62 | 263 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP (propublica.org)
    ×4.71 25 | 29 points by theblazehen 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU (jia.je)
    ×1.10 28 | 126 points by jiegec 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)
    ×0.72 54 | 38 points by ohjeez 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.55 55 | 259 points by mlaux 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.58 32 | 185 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
    ×3.38 27 | 670 points by ezst 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
    ×3.01 8 | 726 points by specked-citrus 1 day ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators (basin.la)
    ×1.36 14 | 103 points by big_toast 19 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (tuckerosman.com)
    ×1.60 38 | 157 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC (scrt.ch)
    ×1.36 31 | 60 points by tau255 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Bob Mackie dressed stars–if they were brave enough (economist.com)
    ×0.22 75 | 7 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Introducing Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact (casita.rs)
    ×1.00 80 | 8 points by domenkozar 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument (creativeboom.com)
    ×0.67 60 | 24 points by ChrisArchitect 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (allanrbo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.01 51 | 145 points by allanrbo 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own (stanford.edu)
    ×0.93 46 | 32 points by famouswaffles 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap (ericgoldman.org)
    ×1.02 8 | 49 points by hn_acker 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs (taghash.io)
    ×0.13 77 | 4 points by koolhead17 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first) (gptbeyond.com)
    ×0.49 63 | 35 points by kdautaj 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (wordpress.com)
    ×2.38 3 | 386 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Rise of Audio AR (2024) (dbreunig.com)
    ×0.51 63 | 33 points by dbreunig 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev)
    ×1.23 37 | 129 points by vira28 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Plan mode is dead (aymannadeem.com)
    ×3.25 12 | 566 points by jmvldz 1 day ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (economist.com)
    ×2.44 20 | 196 points by vinni2 22 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners (aljazeera.com)
    ×4.24 28 | 179 points by mikhael 20 hours ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (ollaya.dev)
    ×2.55 7 | 597 points by Ardakilic 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview (mgrebler.substack.com)
    ×1.73 20 | 60 points by fagnerbrack 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites (bbc.com)
    ×2.15 8 | 122 points by Betelbuddy 23 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    ×2.75 78 | 15 points by ClydeN 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.64 12 | 409 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites (apnews.com)
    ×2.79 33 | 13 points by ml-student 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×1.21 24 | 124 points by jjba23 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell (microsoft.com)
    ×2.16 19 | 264 points by luispa 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk (cnbc.com)
    ×3.13 3 | 492 points by cramer4next 1 day ago | 871 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.54 13 | 141 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia (priyan.in)
    ×0.68 33 | 62 points by msephton 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles (adekau.github.io)
    ×0.87 62 | 77 points by cebert 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.63 50 | 152 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin (ieee.org)
    ×0.79 72 | 68 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf] (osti.gov)
    ×0.54 66 | 36 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Scientists build most accurate atomic clock (phys.org)
    ×0.76 55 | 58 points by wglb 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.53 37 | 19 points by zeristor 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (codinghorror.com)
    ×5.14 71 | 190 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)
    ×10.34 68 | 536 points by minimaxir 20 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math (gmays.com)
    ×0.90 16 | 81 points by gmays 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop (wordpress.com)
    ×0.41 45 | 37 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris (mit.edu)
    ×0.92 26 | 107 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck (epestr.com)
    ×1.03 55 | 89 points by epestr 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A new world airport and its baggage (computer.rip)
    ×1.20 37 | 72 points by firloop 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Remembering Johannes Doerfert (llvm.org)
    ×1.19 35 | 118 points by sdko 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What even is an OS now? (sockpuppet.org)
    ×1.94 6 | 299 points by fratellobigio 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
    ×1.83 1 | 405 points by yurivish 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×2.16 48 | 546 points by avidly 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.80 13 | 287 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 42x faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
    ×1.57 63 | 12 points by pptadversary 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sousveillance (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.99 21 | 41 points by xeonmc 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???