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  1. GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
    ×1.86 4 | 319 points by dagenix 12 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.61 9 | 75 points by jumploops 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
    ×2.19 6 | 82 points by ahalbert4 6 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
    ×1.70 21 | 368 points by tech4bot 20 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
    ×1.35 18 | 147 points by gaws 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes (ft.com)
    ×3.97 3 | 11 points by doener 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.91 14 | 143 points by DASD 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)
    ×2.76 10 | 328 points by Bibabomas 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Profunctor Equipment in Haskell (bartoszmilewski.com)
    ×0.90 33 | 21 points by g0xA52A2A 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
    ×2.68 6 | 138 points by HellMood 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
    ×1.16 13 | 142 points by RohanAdwankar 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. kharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C# (github.com/ERufian)
    ×1.12 25 | 21 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
    ×1.00 25 | 61 points by susam 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
    ×2.20 | 194 points by ChrisArchitect 12 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
    ×2.82 53 | 258 points by celsoazevedo 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
    ×1.20 27 | 116 points by walterbell 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The SGI Buyer's Guide (2003) (majix.org)
    ×0.85 43 | 30 points by uticus 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle (beeble.com)
    ×0.28 99 | 3 points by odysseyk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil (wired.com)
    ×0.98 44 | 13 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena? (reddit.com)
    ×2.60 16 | 18 points by tgrowazay 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
    ×1.56 28 | 196 points by dariubs 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
    ×1.43 25 | 202 points by crescit_eundo 20 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.61 30 | 255 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
    ×2.93 9 | 593 points by TheEdonian 21 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting (github.com/ABGEO)
    ×0.59 36 | 21 points by ABGEO 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.06 44 | 136 points by leonidasrup 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
    ×0.96 42 | 65 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
    ×0.88 62 | 95 points by bushwart 21 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.86 44 | 345 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.42 53 | 239 points by doener 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (mozilla.org)
    ×4.59 12 | 746 points by WithinReason 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
    ×1.44 3 | 154 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
    ×1.78 65 | 191 points by signa11 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×1.35 2 | 195 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 13 | 31 points by tzury 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.46 48 | 239 points by zdw 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.80 17 | 409 points by ch_sm 20 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations (jdhodges.com)
    ×1.44 6 | 100 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Microsoft admits Windows 11's dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows (windowscentral.com)
    ×4.78 31 | 9 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
    ×2.46 14 | 420 points by dive 22 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How diamonds are made (jaydip.me)
    ×1.01 62 | 93 points by lemonberry 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP (xca-attacks.github.io)
    ×0.82 13 | 50 points by negura 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
    ×2.38 9 | 316 points by datadrivenangel 21 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish (visualcapitalist.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 46 points by RyeCombinator 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.40 5 | 548 points by gidellav 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don’t Outsource the Learning (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.60 36 | 72 points by korecodes 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse (anarc.at)
    ×2.60 54 | 30 points by edward 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (imaginaryinstruments.org)
    ×1.01 71 | 9 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Where OpenClaw Security Is Heading (openclaw.ai)
    ×1.39 44 | 32 points by paulofeliciano 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid (github.com/open-energy-transition)
    ×1.88 17 | 85 points by lyoncy 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors (zanestjohn.com)
    ×3.92 3 | 43 points by 3abiton 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan (hatsya.com)
    ×0.38 66 | 26 points by c1ccccc1 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust (github.com/akiomik)
    ×0.74 68 | 60 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
    ×1.11 60 | 106 points by sebg 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview (cognitum.one)
    ×0.83 32 | 17 points by unixhero 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.49 56 | 153 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)
    ×1.01 5 | 113 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) (theverge.com)
    ×4.92 45 | 97 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading (theverge.com)
    ×4.69 3 | 83 points by latexr 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages (nytimes.com)
    ×5.95 53 | 12 points by johntfella 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Roman Letters (romanletters.org)
    ×1.28 50 | 101 points by diodorus 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why does Amazon have no Western rivals? (bbc.com)
    ×1.22 63 | 9 points by dabinat 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
    ×3.34 15 | 671 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails (github.com/ShurikenTrade)
    ×0.74 49 | 48 points by jgan0978 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (gutenberg.org)
    ×4.36 15 | 1210 points by JSeiko 2 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
    ×0.86 66 | 109 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
    ×3.33 37 | 303 points by zzzeek 20 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)
    ×0.87 66 | 111 points by tsiry 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We've made the world too complicated (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.35 27 | 448 points by James72689 2 days ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. MCP Hello Page (hybridlogic.co.uk)
    ×1.04 45 | 129 points by Dachande663 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens (openai.com)
    ×2.17 14 | 319 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)
    ×1.15 61 | 147 points by ricochet11 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)
    ×1.08 66 | 139 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.83 55 | 81 points by Xcelerate 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (nvlabs.github.io)
    ×1.76 18 | 393 points by mjgil 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? (phys.org)
    ×0.64 64 | 49 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests (wiley.com)
    ×0.75 10 | 41 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit (grumpywelshman.com)
    ×1.42 63 | 39 points by dave-x 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Futhark by example (2020) (futhark-lang.org)
    ×0.82 63 | 124 points by tosh 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)
    ×2.16 65 | 20 points by owickstrom 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 40 | 101 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
    ×1.08 61 | 175 points by jibcage 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.37 3 | 55 points by ndr42 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
    ×1.80 25 | 203 points by ScottWRobinson 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)
    ×1.20 13 | 107 points by z303 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.94 65 | 768 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)
    ×1.73 18 | 328 points by eamag 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
    ×2.17 15 | 412 points by frays 2 days ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kagi Snaps (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.02 10 | 39 points by Einenlum 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???