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  1. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (microsoft.com)
    ×2.58 | 106 points by luu 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.31 | 825 points by rvz 14 hours ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×2.15 | 182 points by mayoff 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×3.07 | 612 points by database64128 13 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.86 1 | 129 points by gavide 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.40 3 | 507 points by Animux 14 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.52 12 | 123 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
    ×4.00 4 | 880 points by kareiva 21 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
    ×1.43 17 | 200 points by 1e1a 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.64 11 | 254 points by jonesy827 13 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.96 11 | 156 points by jumploops 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Casio F-B100W-1A (casio.com)
    ×2.63 11 | 361 points by __fst__ 16 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.50 | 240 points by fg137 11 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (snarky.ca)
    ×0.91 18 | 11 points by Ravencentric 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (os8088.com)
    ×1.00 24 | 84 points by jggonz 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (yassa9.github.io)
    ×2.16 9 | 469 points by yassa9 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
    ×2.27 31 | 254 points by handfuloflight 21 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.22 11 | 48 points by tybulewicz 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.29 28 | 161 points by jonbaer 17 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. PostgreSQL for Everything (raphaelbauer.com:443)
    ×2.16 9 | 355 points by karlmush 19 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Rewriting in Rust (jetbrains.com)
    ×2.12 6 | 54 points by worik 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (github.com/cesarblum)
    ×0.71 41 | 20 points by sigalor 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era (theverge.com)
    ×1.02 48 | 60 points by animalcule 12 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Chauffeur Problem (uh.edu)
    ×1.04 50 | 4 points by leowoo91 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)
    ×0.93 11 | 80 points by tobr 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The little-known winstart.bat batch file (microsoft.com)
    ×1.12 16 | 111 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.58 53 | 75 points by guyb3 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs (jeremymorrell.dev)
    ×1.13 15 | 148 points by coloneltcb 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (bizibah.com)
    ×1.48 17 | 271 points by gurov 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.26 56 | 148 points by j4mie 23 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement (ornith.ai)
    ×1.25 9 | 193 points by CommonGuy 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Simulacra and Simulation (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.39 1 | 65 points by soupspaces 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel (inco.ai)
    ×1.05 8 | 87 points by mike-the-brain 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (colorado.edu)
    ×4.51 23 | 567 points by downbad_ 16 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
    ×6.25 20 | 1548 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.51 30 | 396 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 30 | 28 points by E-Reverance 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Pressed Penny Machine Map (pennypresses.net)
    ×0.85 24 | 63 points by willmeyers 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma (twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan)
    ×4.08 23 | 553 points by heydenberk 18 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) (kolja.rs)
    ×1.82 17 | 210 points by nk_kolja 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. IDE Nostalgia (2022) (davidsmaynard.com)
    ×1.11 28 | 50 points by dmaynard 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025) (ludens.cl)
    ×0.74 42 | 46 points by crorella 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com/ofdryads)
    ×1.78 48 | 7 points by ashenke 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5 (github.com/vixhal-baraiya)
    ×1.21 20 | 128 points by dhorthy 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 40 | 244 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Aluminum Frame PC Fan Corsi-Rosenthal Build (2023) (itsairborne.com)
    ×0.79 53 | 26 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.97 27 | 603 points by exceptione 20 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite (phys.org)
    ×0.98 52 | 126 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Kubernetes Probes Work (ngrok.com)
    ×1.27 5 | 125 points by cyndunlop 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
    ×1.47 31 | 173 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.28 7 | 69 points by ErenayDev 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code (wired.com)
    ×2.51 28 | 10 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×2.11 68 | 319 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library (github.com/DioxusLabs)
    ×1.04 34 | 109 points by robin_reala 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo (fetzu.ch)
    ×1.29 23 | 22 points by fetzu 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.01 49 | 178 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated (abc.net.au)
    ×3.33 52 | 138 points by ahonhn 6 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 35 | 61 points by florianherrengt 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How do payments work in the US, China, and Brazil? (andrewacomb.substack.com)
    ×2.07 24 | 37 points by acombandrew 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
    ×5.44 23 | 1363 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 684 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good? (tipiirai.com)
    ×4.88 45 | 139 points by tipiirai 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI usage patterns in software teams (linear.app)
    ×1.40 60 | 187 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
    ×4.50 25 | 912 points by nichochar 1 day ago | 719 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
    ×1.53 48 | 113 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices (mit.edu)
    ×0.62 61 | 34 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (reuters.com)
    ×6.60 56 | 63 points by thm 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.75 58 | 31 points by albertpedersen 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/RyanCodrai)
    ×1.35 42 | 293 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Introducing MicroLighter (daverupert.com)
    ×0.68 29 | 44 points by tobr 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.16 10 | 457 points by sunils34 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×2.12 47 | 281 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector (bram.us)
    ×1.24 24 | 22 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rules of good social skills (2025) (liamrosen.com)
    ×1.84 28 | 106 points by bilsbie 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.69 69 | 310 points by sharts 2 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Digital Immortality (dogdogfish.com)
    ×1.16 36 | 30 points by matthewsharpe3 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Two Factions of C++ (2024) (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×1.01 60 | 66 points by signa11 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com/katiahayati)
    ×1.29 43 | 149 points by wkfauna 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (acm.org)
    ×0.81 52 | 88 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ADHD charity complains about Channel 4 documentary (bbc.com)
    ×1.13 68 | 6 points by choult 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 43 | 26 points by Luc 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (arxiv.org)
    ×1.50 64 | 36 points by nunodonato 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
    ×1.46 52 | 264 points by andrewjanke 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (signalbloom.ai)
    ×1.49 54 | 33 points by GodelNumbering 17 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
    ×1.29 64 | 170 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Rick Scott Walked Away from $1.7B Health Care Fraud Case, Then Got a Senate Seat (uncensoredobjection.com)
    ×6.23 34 | 49 points by petethomas 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (yale.edu)
    ×5.49 11 | 885 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 952 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents (frugaltokens.com)
    ×0.63 40 | 32 points by dpc94 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/DenisSergeevitch)
    ×1.73 9 | 373 points by phoenix120 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cuisenaire Rods (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.39 6 | 4 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.83 42 | 37 points by encyclopedism 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???