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  1. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
    ×3.12 | 381 points by jonbaer 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (plav.in)
    ×2.30 1 | 198 points by aplavin 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS (beyondloom.com)
    ×1.48 3 | 277 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×2.18 5 | 99 points by maxloh 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (france24.com)
    ×2.61 2 | 277 points by saaaaaam 12 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (techspot.com)
    ×8.22 4 | 491 points by eecc 7 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)
    ×1.60 3 | 136 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.40 5 | 72 points by lee_ars 7 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy (htmx.org)
    ×3.01 3 | 406 points by rcy 18 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf] (gamedevs.org)
    ×1.25 8 | 149 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Design is compromise (stephango.com)
    ×1.37 5 | 226 points by ankitg12 14 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg (github.com/AARomanov1985)
    ×1.33 7 | 104 points by xterminal 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used (fontsinuse.com)
    ×0.89 14 | 38 points by open_ 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs (github.com/gmrandazzo)
    ×0.84 25 | 122 points by zeldone 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (lsu.edu)
    ×1.10 14 | 50 points by jxmorris12 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to write English prose (2023) (thelampmagazine.com)
    ×1.07 19 | 106 points by geneticdrifts 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team (go.dev)
    ×1.26 21 | 195 points by AbuAssar 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The relay market powering token resellers and fraud (vectoral.com)
    ×1.55 8 | 180 points by mlenhard 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper (sunflowersgame.com)
    ×1.93 18 | 185 points by pompomsheep 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.58 33 | 21 points by cwbuilds 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough (rickmanelius.com)
    ×1.77 15 | 186 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Teaching Kids Forth (gracefulliberty.com)
    ×0.88 1 | 72 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth (ieee.org)
    ×0.67 19 | 53 points by marc__1 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Kill The Cookie Banner (killthecookiebanner.eu)
    ×6.47 19 | 914 points by rapnie 18 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How to Block Some of the Bots (nochan.net)
    ×1.15 7 | 94 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (pentaton.app)
    ×1.57 14 | 191 points by interfeco 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why care about programming languages (ebellani.github.io)
    ×1.33 5 | 11 points by b-man 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
    ×1.69 40 | 147 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (practical.engineering)
    ×1.77 16 | 178 points by sohkamyung 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (pement.org)
    ×0.74 27 | 61 points by TMWNN 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (popsci.com)
    ×1.10 16 | 115 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
    ×2.20 27 | 116 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service (aerospaceglobalnews.com)
    ×1.67 19 | 275 points by agotterer 15 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers (theguardian.com)
    ×2.95 19 | 27 points by rectang 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. It's not empowering to hand off the details (davidnicholaswilliams.com)
    ×2.79 24 | 192 points by davnicwil 12 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)
    ×2.55 31 | 257 points by pod_krad 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Strongest El Niño Ever (theclimatebrink.com)
    ×4.37 29 | 241 points by ndsipa_pomu 11 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building the Grace Cathedral experience (playcanvas.com)
    ×0.57 40 | 31 points by ovenchips 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai) (wolframphysics.org)
    ×0.57 35 | 21 points by marysminefnuf 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.67 7 | 402 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How the Atmos clock functions (atmos-atelier.de)
    ×0.85 20 | 12 points by r3trohack3r 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sand battery: Finland's answer to a renewable energy headache (cnbc.com)
    ×2.59 22 | 9 points by coderintherye 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (seti.org)
    ×1.58 39 | 169 points by spzx 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.59 20 | 32 points by thinkcontext 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra (theregister.com)
    ×2.04 1 | 6 points by NordStreamYacht 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Visualizing the Artemis II Mission (foxglove.dev)
    ×0.80 30 | 11 points by intrepidsoldier 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Systemd Linger (coker.com.au)
    ×1.18 49 | 61 points by edward 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents (github.com/faizannraza)
    ×0.31 72 | 5 points by faizanraza03 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×1.06 54 | 76 points by ingve 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jacobian Conjecture for Baby (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×3.25 46 | 83 points by porphyra 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake (wsj.com)
    ×3.13 34 | 318 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history (tangled.org)
    ×1.17 36 | 120 points by nerdypepper 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I mapped every US golf course (golfcoursebrowser.com)
    ×1.38 12 | 203 points by rickmf 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Android may soon restrict on-device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
    ×4.01 3 | 981 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59 (astral.sh)
    ×1.97 27 | 339 points by vismit2000 21 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Simple HIIT timer for efficient workouts (hiitmeup.fit)
    ×1.32 66 | 4 points by takee 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (refp.se)
    ×2.22 13 | 386 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bullwhip Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.49 9 | 6 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes (science.org)
    ×1.12 41 | 138 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites (phys.org)
    ×0.52 53 | 10 points by jnord 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
    ×2.38 7 | 444 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rethinking legal education in the AI era (uchicago.edu)
    ×1.32 8 | 146 points by jjwiseman 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Git rebase -i is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×1.30 42 | 110 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sum of Cubes via Difference Tables (leancrew.com)
    ×0.51 44 | 20 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
    ×1.54 42 | 246 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another (epatel.github.io)
    ×0.84 32 | 11 points by epatel99 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.10 42 | 129 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Bitchat is now on Radicle (radicle.network)
    ×1.76 27 | 257 points by h1watt 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)
    ×1.79 28 | 86 points by herrington_d 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (mit.edu)
    ×1.76 58 | 289 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun (thedailywtf.com)
    ×1.33 14 | 25 points by jjgreen 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Paper – A Journaling CLI for Developers (rewrlution.com)
    ×1.68 60 | 4 points by dmsehuang 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Physicists build a computer from 400 particles orbiting in liquid (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.45 4 | 3 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70k (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.86 24 | 19 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Memory safety absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×1.50 38 | 131 points by drogus 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Elevated Errors for Opus 5 (claude.com)
    ×1.16 2 | 93 points by TimCTRL 20 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk (ktz.me)
    ×1.61 23 | 260 points by alexktz 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
    ×1.10 27 | 57 points by antigizmo 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.46 11 | 400 points by tknaup 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What does GitHub's security team even do? (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.37 58 | 99 points by theorchid 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Systems and Delays (janiczek.cz)
    ×0.77 36 | 79 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SP/1.0: deterministic, reproducible verdicts for AI-agent decisions (github.com/Fame510)
    ×0.57 64 | 8 points by shacklepro 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)
    ×1.40 3 | 200 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Anyclaude-SDK – Claude Code-Style SDK for OpenAI/Anthropic Endpoints (github.com/pipilot-dev)
    ×1.33 77 | 3 points by hansade 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)
    ×1.81 20 | 246 points by oliculipolicula 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Quebec scraps AI and automation projects in the public sector (ctvnews.ca)
    ×1.25 4 | 9 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs (vimuser.org)
    ×1.58 26 | 14 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×1.52 17 | 203 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory (mapn.ro)
    ×2.46 59 | 225 points by _tk_ 18 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???