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  1. Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (usgs.gov)
    ×1.61 | 152 points by Bender 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×4.10 1 | 1005 points by erdaltoprak 14 hours ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 271 points by vslira 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
    ×1.83 12 | 9 points by rdl 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead) (michelebologna.net)
    ×2.12 9 | 18 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
    ×1.30 3 | 71 points by big_toast 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (blog.google)
    ×2.25 8 | 332 points by u1hcw9nx 13 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. eigendrum (eigendrum.com)
    ×1.85 10 | 85 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.79 16 | 16 points by oneounceman 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (arxiv.org)
    ×1.37 2 | 63 points by E-Reverance 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)
    ×1.50 9 | 251 points by rustdesk 13 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (pcworld.com)
    ×9.52 10 | 668 points by DemiGuru 10 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (maprva.org)
    ×0.88 23 | 16 points by uneekname 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
    ×1.55 19 | 59 points by bbayles 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (ieee.org)
    ×0.94 13 | 32 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI by Hand (byhand.ai)
    ×1.98 6 | 246 points by sans_souse 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Super Mario Derivations (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.23 10 | 81 points by domenkozar 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone (heyjonny.dev)
    ×1.22 21 | 168 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 166 points by twapi 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Introducing Toast 1 (mixedbread.com)
    ×1.17 11 | 190 points by mplappert 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ultraviolet Bird Photography (uvbirds.com)
    ×1.08 24 | 129 points by EndXA 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (hansotten.com)
    ×0.86 38 | 85 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.30 10 | 1062 points by pella 1 day ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×4.35 14 | 820 points by numeri 19 hours ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.91 38 | 53 points by privong 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)
    ×1.10 12 | 81 points by carpdiem 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.68 29 | 58 points by lajosdeme 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)
    ×1.74 11 | 326 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 30 | 43 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)
    ×0.98 21 | 87 points by adius 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×1.45 24 | 154 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Every Fucking Website (2020) (lxe.github.io)
    ×4.51 27 | 768 points by doubletwoyou 14 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s treasures (2025) (cnn.com)
    ×0.76 41 | 64 points by dude250711 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (chiply.dev)
    ×1.14 33 | 90 points by JNRowe 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123 (iafisher.com)
    ×0.68 31 | 36 points by evakhoury 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial (marc-b-reynolds.github.io)
    ×0.61 47 | 44 points by matt_d 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant (getsmall.xyz)
    ×2.43 26 | 100 points by trezm 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels (arxiv.org)
    ×0.61 57 | 40 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.63 16 | 9 points by jdkee 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph (cosmograph.app)
    ×0.69 58 | 56 points by bj-rn 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Differential Heuristics (redblobgames.com)
    ×1.09 51 | 124 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Open WireGuard Endpoints (proxylity.com)
    ×0.73 47 | 32 points by mlhpdx 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Earth.nullschool.net (nullschool.net)
    ×1.22 35 | 73 points by TremendousJudge 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Game Developers Conference – Royalty Free Sound Effects (sonniss.com)
    ×1.43 25 | 21 points by hyperific 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead (apnews.com)
    ×3.17 19 | 27 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile (ntfy.sh)
    ×1.66 51 | 88 points by Fake4d 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness (ft.com)
    ×4.14 40 | 113 points by bobstax 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gemini 3.7 Flash (blog.google)
    ×3.27 6 | 949 points by thisisauserid 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ICTP Announces 2026 Dirac Medal Recipients (Physics) (ictp.it)
    ×0.31 79 | 13 points by rramadass 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. We're not done with point clouds (claytonwramsey.com)
    ×0.81 69 | 75 points by claytonwramsey 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU (hashagent.pages.dev)
    ×0.56 66 | 49 points by masonhsu 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS (kukuroo.cc)
    ×0.83 30 | 64 points by saiday 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table (github.com/adanil-code)
    ×0.93 65 | 20 points by adanil_ 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s (reuters.com)
    ×2.87 30 | 213 points by BlueBerry2001 13 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Don't classify, hallucinate (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.45 11 | 226 points by softwaredoug 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices (yale.edu)
    ×2.77 35 | 329 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI productivity gains drive net CO₂ increase in global energy–economy model (nature.com)
    ×1.85 3 | 11 points by littlexsparkee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.05 56 | 108 points by am-gm 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The American sports plutocracy (derekthompson.org)
    ×1.60 11 | 65 points by momentmaker 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Every fucking website: 2026 edition (tngl.io)
    ×3.84 2 | 62 points by nerdypepper 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do (whatcable.uk)
    ×1.32 29 | 90 points by mikecarlton 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.95 12 | 699 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. RISC-V: They should have known better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.59 57 | 154 points by kaycebasques 6 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (elttam.com)
    ×0.86 69 | 74 points by pentestercrab 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Synthetic Market (kenwea.com)
    ×0.73 69 | 6 points by Myzura 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. destruction-certificate.txt (stallman.org)
    ×1.48 18 | 3 points by lr0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Flownie – Open and Visual Data Workflow Platform with AI Agent Assistance (flownie.com)
    ×0.90 58 | 7 points by savhascelik 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tron (Hacker) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.02 20 | 3 points by lr0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers (phys.org)
    ×0.78 35 | 10 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.88 70 | 71 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ontario Launches Data Centre Playbook (ontario.ca)
    ×1.56 78 | 11 points by ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DeepSeek Harness developer preview (deepseek.com)
    ×2.85 8 | 721 points by bjin 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard (getmocktail.com)
    ×1.02 96 | 6 points by hhaluk 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever (nautil.us)
    ×1.66 65 | 16 points by anarbadalov 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Protect Your Relays (iroh.computer)
    ×0.59 61 | 47 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Backtesting Congress members stock trades by the disclosure date (investingpaths.com)
    ×1.34 85 | 4 points by ProdRatSuperior 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Spaghettifying DRAM (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.90 16 | 694 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (netlify.com)
    ×1.39 59 | 216 points by toddmorey 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (atg.science)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hello, me. It's been a while (themech.net)
    ×2.32 15 | 363 points by somesoftdev 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Talking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.92 98 | 4 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Blog about things you don't understand yet (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.70 38 | 157 points by gfysfm 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent (codewithbullet.com)
    ×0.90 81 | 107 points by adi1 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
    ×0.87 111 | 159 points by advaith08 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What an improv stage can teach you about leading cross-cultural teams in Tokyo (tokyodev.com)
    ×0.83 59 | 53 points by pwim 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.82 65 | 141 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified (phys.org)
    ×2.52 56 | 294 points by wglb 2 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. CAKE: Compiler-Agent Co-Design for Frontier Kernel Evolution (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 74 | 8 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Neuroscientists have underestimated brain cells' computing power (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.89 40 | 6 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)
    ×1.24 48 | 196 points by stevehipwell 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???