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  1. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.27 | 135 points by chatmasta 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (peteris.rocks)
    ×3.36 | 178 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.96 1 | 52 points by ciconia 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×2.16 18 | 3 points by toilet 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.24 1 | 126 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.24 3 | 297 points by tylerdane 12 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)
    ×1.51 10 | 113 points by andrenotgiant 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)
    ×4.16 5 | 598 points by gslin 9 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Vespa at 80: Why the Italian scooter remains the coolest thing on 2 wheels (cbc.ca)
    ×1.62 1 | 89 points by cf100clunk 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.46 15 | 312 points by latchkey 18 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.33 | 30 points by yyyk 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.80 17 | 493 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.63 10 | 311 points by programLyrique 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.28 2 | 48 points by gverrilla 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
    ×1.24 12 | 133 points by clmul 12 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×1.21 12 | 244 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com/FossPrime)
    ×1.12 21 | 177 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How working memory could give rise to consciousness (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.70 13 | 24 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com/jamesob)
    ×1.69 17 | 383 points by livestyle 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)
    ×1.22 36 | 176 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
    ×0.95 18 | 126 points by MrBruh 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.17 12 | 128 points by azhenley 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.77 16 | 23 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com/searxng)
    ×1.30 11 | 251 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.99 33 | 119 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.13 8 | 148 points by gm678 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (irishtimes.com)
    ×0.65 22 | 21 points by austinallegro 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste (nytimes.com)
    ×2.55 15 | 11 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)
    ×1.26 26 | 142 points by cubefox 19 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    ×2.22 1 | 215 points by stock_toaster 16 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×2.10 22 | 12 points by taubek 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.08 38 | 95 points by wslh 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (rookandpossum.com)
    ×0.78 27 | 29 points by kouosi 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)
    ×1.06 18 | 48 points by networked 9 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (ucr.edu)
    ×1.17 27 | 135 points by measurablefunc 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)
    ×1.58 15 | 265 points by arbesman 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×1.99 42 | 123 points by djoldman 22 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+ (ubuntu.com)
    ×1.44 29 | 225 points by peterparker204 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.54 52 | 31 points by dataviz1000 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.72 32 | 308 points by indy 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    ×1.19 3 | 116 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
    ×3.07 23 | 400 points by ledoge 19 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×14.75 34 | 41 points by AlexeyBrin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)
    ×1.06 36 | 181 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
    ×0.44 67 | 23 points by davidslv 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Study reveals what people see when they read lips (ku.edu)
    ×0.65 59 | 21 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
    ×5.61 34 | 1303 points by weli 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)
    ×2.35 30 | 122 points by gregsadetsky 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (fide.com)
    ×1.54 26 | 158 points by DarkContinent 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    ×1.65 33 | 180 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.70 50 | 42 points by Rochus 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×2.10 73 | 124 points by MegagramEnjoyer 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.54 46 | 166 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card (gitfut.com)
    ×0.72 44 | 60 points by redbell 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models (chenliu-1996.github.io)
    ×0.72 56 | 40 points by E-Reverance 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (science.org)
    ×1.77 58 | 80 points by digital55 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×4.04 28 | 574 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×1.46 13 | 107 points by faza 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Africans Are Turning to Starlink (economist.com)
    ×2.60 20 | 195 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)
    ×3.71 13 | 220 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.73 55 | 12 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
    ×1.63 48 | 85 points by SuperUserDone 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×0.53 59 | 26 points by bit_economist 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
    ×1.55 45 | 163 points by mortenjorck 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Protect your right to run local AI (righttointelligence.org)
    ×2.63 5 | 530 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
    ×6.62 13 | 1696 points by drewfax 2 days ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The circuit that lets your brain think and see (columbia.edu)
    ×0.97 10 | 81 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition (catf.us)
    ×0.65 53 | 8 points by bryanrasmussen 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) (github.com/kerlenton)
    ×0.56 48 | 58 points by kerlenton 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We put a Redis server inside our runtime (encore.dev)
    ×0.89 50 | 33 points by eandre 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It (oztalking.com)
    ×2.21 26 | 21 points by haebom 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.30 24 | 146 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce (rollingstone.com)
    ×1.51 20 | 3 points by maxerickson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Holes (xkcd.com)
    ×4.27 28 | 234 points by caminanteblanco 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (dbos.dev)
    ×1.44 44 | 221 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CarPlay Is Additive (caseyliss.com)
    ×2.86 14 | 564 points by sprawl_ 1 day ago | 701 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The pandemic of incomplete OpenSSL error handling (jak-linux.org)
    ×1.92 13 | 5 points by teddyh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Best Simple System for Now (2025) (dannorth.net)
    ×0.86 30 | 84 points by daan-k 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Last Gasp of 2D: The Cave CV1000 (2022) (nicole.express)
    ×0.97 83 | 3 points by tropicalfruit 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com/Chocobozzz)
    ×3.19 8 | 664 points by doener 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.02 11 | 531 points by IngoBlechschmid 2 days ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel (nature.com)
    ×0.97 52 | 97 points by gscott 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Trans-America Trail Guide (transamtrail.com)
    ×0.65 66 | 14 points by e-dant 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Great Salt Lake Tracker (growtheflowutah.org)
    ×1.05 60 | 129 points by cfowles 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (arxiv.org)
    ×0.74 54 | 51 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The fall of the theorem economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
    ×1.54 42 | 280 points by varjag 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
    ×0.71 50 | 69 points by hans_castorp 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)
    ×3.62 6 | 79 points by njrc 18 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LibreCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
    ×0.84 70 | 94 points by devttyeu 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???