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  1. Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)
    ×2.41 1 | 335 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)
    ×2.64 2 | 216 points by felineflock 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.37 5 | 62 points by stared 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
    ×2.15 2 | 335 points by jemoka 13 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.66 2 | 263 points by auraham 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.79 21 | 16 points by rznicolet 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. typ.ing (typ.ing)
    ×2.38 4 | 206 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)
    ×1.69 7 | 162 points by gregsadetsky 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.66 9 | 125 points by olalonde 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A Friendly Introduction to Racket (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.57 4 | 206 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
    ×1.80 6 | 126 points by grappler 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.12 2 | 103 points by gnyeki 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)
    ×0.47 27 | 10 points by hakkikonu 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
    ×3.21 5 | 87 points by pjacotg 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (nappertime.com)
    ×3.47 20 | 9 points by cocacola1 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×7.03 4 | 533 points by tartoran 21 hours ago | 1301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
    ×1.70 9 | 260 points by simonpure 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×2.15 32 | 148 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
    ×1.86 18 | 70 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.39 15 | 170 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com)
    ×1.50 40 | 116 points by vismit2000 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)
    ×1.06 8 | 66 points by danielochoa0620 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Conway's Game of Life in real life (coredump.cx)
    ×1.08 14 | 42 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)
    ×1.46 12 | 83 points by paulpauper 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)
    ×0.87 23 | 122 points by asdefghyk 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)
    ×0.87 47 | 81 points by dariusmonsef 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×2.18 11 | 406 points by matklad 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.61 8 | 178 points by pentagrama 14 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary (vetto.ai)
    ×0.65 13 | 27 points by rigelbm 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
    ×1.75 17 | 202 points by altmanaltman 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
    ×0.94 15 | 61 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.54 21 | 384 points by underdeserver 1 day ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
    ×1.05 11 | 45 points by rznicolet 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)
    ×0.52 13 | 10 points by sebg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×1.70 1 | 83 points by robpruzan 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com/ofdryads)
    ×0.71 23 | 39 points by ashenke 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (mythic.ai)
    ×0.89 14 | 48 points by janandonly 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (soverybright.com)
    ×1.66 5 | 52 points by telecuda 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
    ×1.38 29 | 254 points by NKosmatos 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com/argofowl)
    ×3.81 31 | 171 points by matthieu_bl 10 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.30 30 | 147 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.12 13 | 370 points by dash2 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)
    ×1.86 17 | 219 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×1.04 28 | 38 points by mikeysight 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)
    ×3.56 24 | 621 points by Jach 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection (laszlokorte.de)
    ×0.79 12 | 54 points by laszlokorte 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Creation of Abulafia (veitheller.de)
    ×0.64 15 | 27 points by saulpw 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.26 47 | 138 points by gmays 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI has failed to win people's trust. Its makers? less trusted (euronews.com)
    ×4.10 26 | 22 points by billybuckwheat 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.78 17 | 121 points by karakoram 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
    ×1.15 30 | 169 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum?
    ×0.59 17 | 3 points by zhuchaokn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.34 21 | 822 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)
    ×1.35 5 | 79 points by hakkikonu 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (gingerbill.org)
    ×1.45 24 | 147 points by adamrezich 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.60 29 | 21 points by jardy 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.47 28 | 1058 points by floathub 1 day ago | 1292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked (sgoedecke.github.io)
    ×1.33 42 | 65 points by gfysfm 7 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com/omarfakih1)
    ×0.51 38 | 16 points by omarfakih 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.56 21 | 641 points by thepoet 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.93 33 | 14 points by silverpiranha 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.16 21 | 166 points by toebee 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.69 3 | 611 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 892 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.67 72 | 298 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.17 33 | 133 points by ra7 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) (zeux.io)
    ×0.71 27 | 61 points by corysama 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week (theguardian.com)
    ×2.88 44 | 205 points by sbulaev 15 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×3.09 24 | 654 points by gavide 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)
    ×1.56 5 | 207 points by tdullien 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.85 32 | 75 points by albertpedersen 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×1.27 18 | 147 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (cnn.com)
    ×2.25 51 | 100 points by MilnerRoute 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
    ×0.96 44 | 87 points by vicek22 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
    ×0.95 32 | 72 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.49 63 | 61 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.64 11 | 237 points by marcomezzavilla 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Apple degrades privacy and encryption of iMessage with AI integrations (twitter.com/stevemoraco)
    ×2.48 26 | 4 points by daniel_iversen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×4.84 54 | 1238 points by speckx 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes (docker.com)
    ×1.24 22 | 53 points by mfranzon 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.50 6 | 267 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.19 25 | 494 points by dares2573 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×1.17 25 | 116 points by jakelsaunders94 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
    ×0.85 44 | 62 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.48 11 | 140 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Embedded AI (nostarch.com)
    ×1.09 18 | 35 points by 0x54MUR41 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.04 26 | 110 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. QEMU, now with almost full NeXT Black/M68K hardware support (github.com/blanham)
    ×1.15 23 | 7 points by wmlive 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.98 19 | 1025 points by emctech 2 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.50 70 | 61 points by yousefh409 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???