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  1. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×4.57 | 1122 points by haunter 11 hours ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
    ×1.43 | 57 points by ks2048 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×3.94 1 | 775 points by diebillionaires 10 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.50 19 | 9 points by andsoitis 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.50 15 | 18 points by LabsLucas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.06 4 | 435 points by e12e 12 hours ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
    ×1.42 10 | 215 points by stevekrouse 9 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (google.com)
    ×1.94 7 | 223 points by unforgivenpasta 9 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.11 27 | 28 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×2.22 31 | 37 points by whatisabcdefgh 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
    ×4.26 8 | 139 points by jeromechoo 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.91 20 | 162 points by bstrama 10 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
    ×0.63 40 | 30 points by zeech 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.09 19 | 106 points by benanne 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×0.96 28 | 130 points by ozkatz 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.01 24 | 56 points by dmos62 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.43 13 | 137 points by elonlit 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
    ×2.90 13 | 231 points by s1291 7 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.95 9 | 238 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.90 26 | 107 points by oahmadov 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.87 64 | 44 points by jonbaer 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens (noetik.blog)
    ×0.28 72 | 6 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.77 33 | 36 points by asmodios 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.49 2 | 525 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×0.75 49 | 128 points by jandeboevrie 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×1.85 25 | 17 points by BiraIgnacio 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×5.52 20 | 403 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion (therecord.media)
    ×1.87 1 | 27 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.79 83 | 83 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
    ×0.75 36 | 85 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.66 11 | 628 points by rolph 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×3.08 12 | 647 points by signa11 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×1.00 63 | 123 points by ksymph 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis (harpers.org)
    ×1.61 26 | 45 points by Caiero 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition (theguardian.com)
    ×1.75 1 | 49 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.41 12 | 1656 points by john-doe 1 day ago | 1096 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.37 9 | 454 points by hakonjdjohnsen 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google tools for customizing searches (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
    ×0.84 33 | 68 points by maxutility 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)
    ×2.75 15 | 171 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results (nytimes.com)
    ×1.49 26 | 3 points by lxm 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (sciencehistory.org)
    ×0.51 71 | 54 points by benbreen 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works (kevinwebber.ca)
    ×1.06 90 | 17 points by kw3b 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
    ×1.98 18 | 66 points by iristenteije 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ads on Apple Maps (apple.com)
    ×0.95 136 | 3 points by Vortigaunt 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
    ×2.55 12 | 334 points by cheeaun 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.77 2 | 430 points by ColinEberhardt 22 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Proton Meet (proton.me)
    ×2.57 13 | 109 points by Einenlum 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.78 127 | 139 points by mtricot 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.52 20 | 228 points by notsentient 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.84 11 | 21 points by epistasis 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Following the Text Gradient at Scale (2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.50 64 | 8 points by bearseascape 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.03 1 | 732 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.66 17 | 660 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
    ×1.03 92 | 120 points by omarsar 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.41 13 | 210 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
    ×1.62 24 | 250 points by neilfrndes 23 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.18 18 | 325 points by veeti 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it (theguardian.com)
    ×1.49 16 | 13 points by embedding-shape 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. RFK Jr. clears path for minors to use tanning beds, much to dermatologist dismay (latimes.com)
    ×3.27 5 | 57 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.10 1 | 130 points by cainxinth 14 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.45 15 | 12 points by koolba 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Building the deployment tool I wish I had (ruuda.nl)
    ×0.90 82 | 34 points by ruuda 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.65 33 | 228 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.20 27 | 477 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
    ×2.05 23 | 364 points by nohell 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Visualize Any Hugging Face Model (hfviewer.com)
    ×1.09 100 | 34 points by rippeltippel 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Life During Class Wartime (tbray.org)
    ×3.78 44 | 194 points by AndrewDucker 10 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.14 84 | 66 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
    ×2.20 21 | 525 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×0.96 112 | 133 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.28 18 | 41 points by speckx 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him (usatoday.com)
    ×3.97 55 | 49 points by randycupertino 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
    ×2.79 25 | 372 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens (latimes.com)
    ×2.13 37 | 124 points by PaulHoule 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.58 84 | 258 points by ingve 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 37 | 323 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.33 101 | 223 points by jollyjerry 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.12 32 | 419 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
    ×4.41 8 | 466 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade (sfstandard.com)
    ×1.58 31 | 41 points by littlexsparkee 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
    ×3.30 22 | 472 points by adrianmsmith 1 day ago | 753 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google to sell TPU chips to select customers (yahoo.com)
    ×2.64 12 | 23 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Make some art with your phone sensors (tautme.github.io)
    ×0.98 66 | 88 points by adm4 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing (bmmagazine.co.uk)
    ×2.23 77 | 79 points by OgsyedIE 4 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)
    ×6.02 14 | 1511 points by thitran 2 days ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph (mohibulsblog.netlify.app)
    ×0.75 98 | 68 points by celurian92 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (stripes.com)
    ×4.01 23 | 333 points by petethomas 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Judge Halts Colorado AI Law After xAI First Amendment Challenge (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×1.63 13 | 11 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (microsoft.com)
    ×2.53 11 | 380 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???