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  1. The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) (destroyallsoftware.com)
    ×1.63 | 68 points by subset 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Firewood Splitting Simulator (screen.toys)
    ×3.97 2 | 106 points by memalign 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded (sqltoerdiagram.com)
    ×2.54 3 | 263 points by robhati 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Honda Civics and the Evil Valet (juniperspring.org)
    ×2.11 5 | 335 points by librick 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GLM 5.2 Is Out (twitter.com/jietang)
    ×3.68 9 | 677 points by aloknnikhil 21 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How to Earn a Billion Dollars (paulgraham.com)
    ×5.26 4 | 87 points by kingstoned 2 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets? (arcadeblogger.com)
    ×0.84 1 | 11 points by msephton 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau (desfontain.es)
    ×3.30 5 | 854 points by nl 1 day ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change (phys.org)
    ×1.14 10 | 55 points by indynz 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    ×3.71 10 | 788 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later (medium.com)
    ×1.21 4 | 33 points by jhack 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It (digitalgrease.dev)
    ×1.99 15 | 7 points by rmadriz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Lisp's Influence on Ruby (tacoda.dev)
    ×0.69 10 | 64 points by tacoda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times (economist.com)
    ×1.94 22 | 403 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Don't trust large context windows (garrit.xyz)
    ×2.45 10 | 173 points by computersuck 8 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Pac-Man, but you're the ghost (garrit.xyz)
    ×2.24 4 | 148 points by mindracer 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution (tribblix.org)
    ×0.74 13 | 58 points by naturalmovement 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language (github.com/kekcleader)
    ×1.23 22 | 118 points by peter_d_sherman 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Codex for open source (openai.com)
    ×1.97 30 | 253 points by EvgeniyZh 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.04 34 | 68 points by eatonphil 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI (pyodide.org)
    ×1.16 29 | 150 points by agriyakhetarpal 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Building a serial and VGA "everything console" (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.66 47 | 46 points by classichasclass 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones (research.google)
    ×1.47 44 | 307 points by vikas-sharma 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Making Claude a Chemist (anthropic.com)
    ×1.51 21 | 62 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Phoenix LiveView 1.2 (phoenixframework.org)
    ×2.07 15 | 156 points by ksec 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models (wsj.com)
    ×5.38 15 | 738 points by ls612 21 hours ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. GameBoy Workboy (tcrf.net)
    ×1.27 19 | 200 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. LaserWriter seeds (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
    ×0.95 28 | 34 points by frizlab 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 (imil.net)
    ×1.94 42 | 267 points by iMil 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch (chrisdevblog.com)
    ×0.75 51 | 104 points by rasz 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words (replicated.wiki)
    ×0.48 39 | 22 points by gritzko 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt (lr0.org)
    ×1.71 30 | 260 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Appreciating Exif (brentfitzgerald.com)
    ×1.16 40 | 173 points by burnto 23 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (phoronix.com)
    ×3.28 18 | 259 points by jeditobe 14 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip (righto.com)
    ×1.04 47 | 123 points by pwg 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes (reuters.com)
    ×6.36 5 | 673 points by pera 1 day ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Raress96/Dolby-Atmos-encoder: PoC Dolby Atmos encoder (github.com/raress96)
    ×0.90 4 | 18 points by xbmcuser 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases (sky.com)
    ×3.96 16 | 347 points by austinallegro 18 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Orthodox C++ (2016) (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×0.91 65 | 98 points by signa11 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed (github.com/tensorzero)
    ×1.57 23 | 269 points by hek2sch 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Software Architecture Guide (2019) (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.85 16 | 78 points by laxmena 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apt Encounters of the Third Kind (2021) (igor-blue.github.io)
    ×0.73 54 | 27 points by ogurechny 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Human Routers of Machine Words (borretti.me)
    ×1.39 43 | 65 points by zx321 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire (roman-names.com)
    ×1.48 32 | 185 points by metiscus 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration (github.com/Paca-AI)
    ×1.08 48 | 158 points by pikann22 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.75 60 | 35 points by hhs 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The state of building user interfaces in Rust (areweguiyet.com)
    ×1.30 40 | 190 points by mahirsaid 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Automating myself out of development (thoughtfultechnologist.com)
    ×1.08 72 | 111 points by nisabek 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI coding at home without going broke (bochinski.dev)
    ×2.69 15 | 314 points by sbochins 21 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Bastion – isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents (bastion.computer)
    ×1.20 55 | 21 points by almostlit 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
    ×3.58 9 | 974 points by gmays 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Difference Between Rest and Idleness (idle.news)
    ×1.93 56 | 26 points by vinhnx 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Half-Life able to run on ReactOS (xcancel.com)
    ×1.17 70 | 13 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Resurrecting a soaked, corroded, and damaged Commodore SX‑64 (2025) (jerrylparker.com)
    ×0.50 68 | 27 points by hggh 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reinventing Control Theory One Feature at a Time: The Fallacy of Agentic Loops (medium.com)
    ×1.68 9 | 6 points by oddish-tv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
    ×2.86 3 | 694 points by bestouff 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Neat Little Vehicles That Run a Cemetery (thedrive.com)
    ×0.51 57 | 13 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×6.61 8 | 1704 points by jjfoooo4 2 days ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    ×1.16 8 | 60 points by rohanat 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
    ×0.29 109 | 55 points by arcb 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. (Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf] (github.com/AnalogCyberNuke)
    ×0.60 31 | 23 points by not_a9 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A whale necropolis has been found (nature.com)
    ×1.68 10 | 60 points by tigerlily 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence (foreignaffairs.com)
    ×1.91 21 | 8 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved (npr.org)
    ×2.42 20 | 88 points by mikhael 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages (phoronix.com)
    ×2.76 12 | 305 points by qwertox 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.42 63 | 54 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. C47/R47 Calculators (47calc.com)
    ×0.49 59 | 29 points by helterskelter 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Leaving Mozilla (unitedheroes.net)
    ×2.67 16 | 486 points by martey 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3 (RISC-V vector compute) (taoofmac.com)
    ×0.56 55 | 37 points by rcarmo 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game (ha.com)
    ×1.01 73 | 23 points by HelloUsername 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×12.61 64 | 3095 points by Dylan1312 1 day ago | 2257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object (2024) (thoughtforms.life)
    ×0.52 61 | 34 points by atombender 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Naismith's Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.64 2 | 11 points by samuel2 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×3.07 19 | 476 points by theahura 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)
    ×1.23 55 | 182 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)
    ×2.21 12 | 488 points by kkm 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU (github.com/ayushh0110)
    ×3.70 39 | 27 points by skye0110 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI (nytimes.com)
    ×1.94 4 | 61 points by donohoe 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf] (rhawa.org)
    ×1.37 40 | 72 points by luu 11 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Doing nothing at work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.94 58 | 480 points by Sukram21 3 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine (tectonic-typesetting.github.io)
    ×0.74 60 | 88 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×3.17 16 | 771 points by sam_bristow 2 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (twitter.com/jsrailton)
    ×2.09 7 | 454 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The computer science degree isn’t dead (ieee.org)
    ×1.64 13 | 251 points by jnord 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Does MSG Make Food Taste Better? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.01 8 | 4 points by Cider9986 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering (github.com/entGriff)
    ×0.71 57 | 72 points by ent1c3d 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support (torproject.org)
    ×0.74 46 | 10 points by Cider9986 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery (hallucinate.site)
    ×0.65 30 | 71 points by stagas 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.28 6 | 1446 points by mikemcquaid 2 days ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???