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  1. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
    ×2.91 | 427 points by klaussilveira 6 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
    ×3.53 1 | 778 points by xnx 11 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
    ×2.87 20 | 15 points by matheusalmeida 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox (github.com/valdanylchuk)
    ×1.46 5 | 145 points by isitcontent 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com/pydantic)
    ×1.86 5 | 135 points by dmpetrov 6 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Dark Alley Mathematics (szczepan.org)
    ×1.51 11 | 41 points by quibono 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.84 4 | 74 points by jnord 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use (vecti.com)
    ×1.82 | 250 points by vecti 8 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.64 10 | 314 points by aktau 12 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)
    ×2.29 4 | 180 points by eljojo 9 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info (sheldonbrown.com)
    ×2.29 4 | 311 points by ostacke 12 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hackers (1995) Animated Experience (hackers-1995.vercel.app)
    ×2.90 6 | 397 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. An Update on Heroku (heroku.com)
    ×3.98 3 | 325 points by lstoll 12 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety (github.com/Deso-PK)
    ×1.71 36 | 3 points by DesoPK 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×0.95 18 | 14 points by kmm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.77 14 | 48 points by phreda4 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing (infisical.com)
    ×1.53 8 | 109 points by vmatsiiako 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How to effectively write quality code with AI (heidenstedt.org)
    ×2.20 5 | 187 points by i5heu 9 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)
    ×1.71 7 | 236 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams (kirkville.com)
    ×5.04 15 | 977 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Learning from context is harder than we thought (tencent.com)
    ×1.43 6 | 144 points by limoce 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (si.edu)
    ×2.02 32 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (googleblog.com)
    ×1.40 19 | 17 points by gfortaine 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. FORTH? Really!? (rescrv.net)
    ×0.99 13 | 41 points by rescrv 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor (andrewjrod.substack.com)
    ×3.72 19 | 49 points by ray__ 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days (anthropic.com)
    ×0.85 15 | 36 points by lebovic 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why I Joined OpenAI (brendangregg.com)
    ×3.77 23 | 56 points by SerCe 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents (smooth.sh)
    ×0.73 17 | 77 points by antves 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.57 29 | 19 points by MarlonPro 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×1.01 8 | 40 points by nwparker 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Planetary Roller Screws (humanityslastmachine.com)
    ×0.71 41 | 36 points by everlier 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Evolution of car door handles over the decades (newatlas.com)
    ×0.62 54 | 40 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How virtual textures work (shlom.dev)
    ×0.63 19 | 25 points by betamark 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Beauty of Slag (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.82 10 | 31 points by sohkamyung 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content (niemanlab.org)
    ×3.13 11 | 516 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.09 16 | 2272 points by HellsMaddy 1 day ago | 979 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal (depthfirst.com)
    ×0.61 32 | 30 points by bmit 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy (caltech.edu)
    ×0.94 30 | 138 points by dagurp 17 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Claude Composer (josh.ing)
    ×2.07 18 | 110 points by coloneltcb 7 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved (bhusalmanish.com.np)
    ×1.27 33 | 136 points by okchildhood 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)
    ×1.45 37 | 170 points by EvgeniyZh 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe (nytimes.com)
    ×4.61 30 | 607 points by thm 15 hours ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The mystery of the mole playing rough (2019) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.32 57 | 11 points by archagon 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ultima IX (filfre.net)
    ×1.76 43 | 11 points by doppp 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Gigacode – Use OpenCode's UI with Claude Code/Codex/Amp (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.35 55 | 11 points by NathanFlurry 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. GPT-5.3-Codex (openai.com)
    ×5.66 18 | 1484 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing (yimbyaction.org)
    ×3.00 13 | 141 points by toomuchtodo 12 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Monad Called Free (sigfpe.com)
    ×0.69 29 | 57 points by romes 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust (github.com/artifact-keeper)
    ×1.13 36 | 147 points by bsgeraci 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Plasma Effect (2016) (4rknova.com)
    ×0.76 52 | 83 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007) (pa3fwm.nl)
    ×0.66 45 | 57 points by jacquesm 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Product and design are the new bottlenecks (jampa.dev)
    ×1.07 32 | 62 points by jampa 14 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis (eletric-vehicles.com)
    ×4.22 17 | 48 points by anigbrowl 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers (alperenkeles.com)
    ×1.10 5 | 110 points by alpaylan 14 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs (batsov.com)
    ×1.71 53 | 29 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. My AI Adoption Journey (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.96 16 | 889 points by anurag 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Horizons – OSS agent execution engine (github.com/synth-laboratories)
    ×0.87 3 | 23 points by JoshPurtell 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
    ×1.09 16 | 70 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique (kizu.dev)
    ×0.41 64 | 35 points by spiros 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes (bitsaboutmoney.com)
    ×2.30 31 | 140 points by dangrossman 10 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight? (phys.org)
    ×1.85 5 | 5 points by bookmtn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations (stormatics.tech)
    ×0.81 62 | 91 points by camille_134 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) (newworker.org)
    ×1.36 38 | 198 points by doruk101 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025) (bbc.com)
    ×1.25 43 | 102 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Things Unix can do atomically (2010) (rcrowley.org)
    ×1.40 4 | 245 points by onurkanbkrc 22 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler (anthropic.com)
    ×3.22 23 | 700 points by modeless 1 day ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site) (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.94 58 | 78 points by sbuttgereit 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Don't rent the cloud, own instead (comma.ai)
    ×4.53 12 | 1175 points by Torq_boi 1 day ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Falcon's Eye (isometric NetHack) running in the browser via WebAssembly (rahuljaguste.github.io)
    ×0.81 77 | 4 points by rahuljaguste 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.83 75 | 87 points by mkmccjr 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Systems Thinking (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
    ×1.65 17 | 261 points by r4um 22 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments (neosmart.net)
    ×2.71 20 | 516 points by ComputerGuru 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped (educationnext.org)
    ×3.40 43 | 55 points by grantpitt 6 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Early Christian Writings (earlychristianwritings.com)
    ×3.77 68 | 146 points by dsego 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI (theguardian.com)
    ×2.26 56 | 102 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded (vespalec.com)
    ×1.00 39 | 104 points by svespalec 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fallout 4 – The Mushroom Case (simonschreibt.de)
    ×1.99 72 | 6 points by klaussilveira 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions (github.com/toborrm9)
    ×0.38 63 | 13 points by toborrm9 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Coding Agents and Use Cases (justsitandgrin.im)
    ×0.70 41 | 45 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.94 46 | 12 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023) (janestreet.com)
    ×1.10 54 | 104 points by ryanhn 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.92 3 | 370 points by pfdietz 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements (biotradingarena.com)
    ×0.63 1 | 23 points by dchu17 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.59 63 | 12 points by thomasjb 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Animated Knots (animatedknots.com)
    ×2.20 10 | 328 points by ostacke 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Software engineer mental health crisis (twitter.com/tomdale)
    ×2.52 17 | 10 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The RCE that AMD won't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×2.84 17 | 359 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Gnome Village: Treads fight, gnomes cooperate (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×0.04 84 | 5 points by rapnie 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reality is losing the deepfake war (theverge.com)
    ×2.68 3 | 7 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???