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  1. Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×1.31 10 | 95 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  2. I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
    ×1.28 15 | 183 points by tech4bot 7 hours ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  3. The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)
    ×0.91 10 | 65 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  4. Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
    ×1.22 16 | 107 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  5. Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
    ×2.25 4 | 333 points by dive 8 hours ago | 220 comments | ??? ???
  6. Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
    ×0.94 22 | 12 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  7. I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
    ×2.44 1 | 420 points by TheEdonian 8 hours ago | 301 comments | ??? ???
  8. Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan (hatsya.com)
    ×0.36 34 | 11 points by c1ccccc1 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  9. Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests (wiley.com)
    ×0.85 81 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  10. High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.03 20 | 82 points by leonidasrup 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  11. CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
    ×1.24 11 | 82 points by dariubs 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  12. Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com/ryangrim)
    ×3.74 9 | 162 points by bhouston 3 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  13. Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.37 13 | 522 points by gidellav 22 hours ago | 287 comments | ??? ???
  14. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.46 11 | 168 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)
    ×1.30 17 | 28 points by Bibabomas 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  16. Don’t Outsource the Learning (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.02 22 | 20 points by korecodes 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  17. AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.40 7 | 247 points by ch_sm 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  18. Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)
    ×2.69 4 | 89 points by laurex 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  19. Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.52 1 | 27 points by ndr42 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  20. XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone (xslang.org)
    ×1.22 3 | 47 points by yacin 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  21. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (mozilla.org)
    ×4.33 2 | 566 points by WithinReason 14 hours ago | 238 comments | ??? ???
  22. Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
    ×2.41 7 | 258 points by datadrivenangel 8 hours ago | 227 comments | ??? ???
  23. Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.43 25 | 197 points by doener 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  24. How diamonds are made (jaydip.me)
    ×1.01 32 | 70 points by lemonberry 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  25. A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.82 18 | 292 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  26. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens (openai.com)
    ×2.21 27 | 301 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 314 comments | ??? ???
  27. Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
    ×2.90 44 | 94 points by celsoazevedo 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  28. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
    ×2.06 36 | 172 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  29. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.43 17 | 214 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  30. Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust (github.com/akiomik)
    ×0.77 42 | 49 points by nateb2022 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  31. WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
    ×3.15 23 | 243 points by zzzeek 7 hours ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  32. SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (nvlabs.github.io)
    ×1.75 37 | 386 points by mjgil 1 day ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  33. Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails (github.com/ShurikenTrade)
    ×0.74 16 | 37 points by jgan0978 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  34. Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
    ×1.78 52 | 182 points by ScottWRobinson 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  35. Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
    ×1.13 42 | 95 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  36. Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)
    ×1.73 43 | 323 points by eamag 1 day ago | 185 comments | ??? ???
  37. Roman Letters (romanletters.org)
    ×1.37 30 | 91 points by diodorus 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  38. The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.51 47 | 137 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  39. Paul Erdos (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.58 4 | 5 points by cemsakarya 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD (bbc.com)
    ×0.96 1 | 55 points by bushwart 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  41. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)
    ×1.19 3 | 96 points by z303 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  42. La Machine (la-machine.fr)
    ×0.63 70 | 5 points by jgrahamc 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  43. Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.62 55 | 43 points by benbreen 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  44. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
    ×3.34 10 | 648 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 362 comments | ??? ???
  45. Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? (phys.org)
    ×0.61 64 | 41 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  46. AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
    ×3.20 39 | 347 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 351 comments | ??? ???
  47. MCP Hello Page (hybridlogic.co.uk)
    ×1.08 40 | 125 points by Dachande663 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  48. A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
    ×0.90 58 | 106 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  49. Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.82 51 | 74 points by Xcelerate 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  50. Kagi Snaps (daringfireball.net)
    ×2.39 8 | 7 points by Einenlum 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.81 17 | 27 points by greenburger 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
    ×0.89 61 | 104 points by tsiry 1 day ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  53. We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit (grumpywelshman.com)
    ×1.60 58 | 28 points by dave-x 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  54. The Protein Shortage Is Coming (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.52 17 | 15 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  55. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  56. We've made the world too complicated (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.38 18 | 430 points by James72689 1 day ago | 406 comments | ??? ???
  57. Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)
    ×1.13 59 | 138 points by ricochet11 1 day ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  58. The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.46 61 | 229 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 85 comments | ??? ???
  59. Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)
    ×1.08 65 | 135 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  60. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (gutenberg.org)
    ×4.32 6 | 1198 points by JSeiko 2 days ago | 275 comments | ??? ???
  61. Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×1.32 27 | 92 points by teleforce 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  62. A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.66 3 | 25 points by 0in 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. U.K. Economy Accelerates to Outpace U.S. as War Headwinds Loom (wsj.com)
    ×1.78 12 | 13 points by mmarian 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  64. Futhark by example (2020) (futhark-lang.org)
    ×0.80 62 | 118 points by tosh 1 day ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  65. EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data (osnews.com)
    ×3.42 61 | 119 points by abdelhousni 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  66. Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
    ×1.07 65 | 171 points by jibcage 1 day ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  67. Content-defined chunking added to Bazel (buildbuddy.io)
    ×0.75 54 | 57 points by siggi 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  68. Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.92 33 | 133 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  69. Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
    ×2.16 15 | 405 points by frays 1 day ago | 434 comments | ??? ???
  70. Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.03 54 | 90 points by LelouBil 4 hours ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  71. 3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend (bfeldman.me)
    ×1.47 34 | 114 points by b__feldman 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  72. Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations (github.com/AccelerateHS)
    ×0.78 58 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  73. Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) (refractor.io)
    ×3.20 16 | 313 points by breve 1 day ago | 217 comments | ??? ???
  74. At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)
    ×3.99 73 | 401 points by rolph 3 hours ago | 296 comments | ??? ???
  75. Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)
    ×1.10 62 | 121 points by ednaordinary 1 day ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  76. Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes (electrek.co)
    ×2.93 8 | 161 points by breve 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  77. δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 22 | 232 points by 44za12 1 day ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  78. Germany's spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir (politico.eu)
    ×2.19 4 | 11 points by rustoo 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  79. Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer (thestranger.com)
    ×1.76 4 | 5 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  80. Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×0.63 60 | 51 points by Caiero 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  81. 100 Best Novels of All Time (theguardian.com)
    ×1.85 20 | 17 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  82. Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (wordpress.com)
    ×0.80 63 | 127 points by lukeplato 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  83. How to Write to SSDs [pdf] (vldb.org)
    ×1.43 49 | 197 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  84. Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid (arkadiyt.com)
    ×3.92 20 | 1079 points by arkadiyt 3 days ago | 578 comments | ??? ???
  85. The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)
    ×1.33 44 | 196 points by tomjakubowski 1 day ago | 250 comments | ??? ???
  86. Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.79 6 | 591 points by Lihh27 2 days ago | 403 comments | ??? ???
  87. After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library (github.com/noahgolmant)
    ×0.99 46 | 85 points by noahgolmant 1 day ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.93 62 | 764 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 days ago | 210 comments | ??? ???
  89. DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.90 11 | 258 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  90. Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure (buttondown.com)
    ×1.22 46 | 82 points by danborn26 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???