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  1. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
    ×2.08 2 | 81 points by tokyobreakfast 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.78 9 | 69 points by waihtis 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why Is the Sky Blue? (explainers.blog)
    ×1.92 6 | 63 points by udit99 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 6 | 120 points by ananas-dev 3 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    ×1.13 7 | 112 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. It's not you; GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
    ×5.64 4 | 172 points by MattIPv4 1 hour ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.88 10 | 262 points by tombh 7 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.99 14 | 36 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    ×2.15 37 | 3 points by aleyan 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.70 11 | 40 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.98 19 | 16 points by IgorPartola 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
    ×2.54 4 | 129 points by redman25 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×2.60 15 | 523 points by linolevan 17 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    ×1.40 19 | 69 points by znah 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×4.07 16 | 1008 points by chwtutha 1 day ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.97 1 | 75 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×2.39 1 | 19 points by paulpauper 55 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×2.41 20 | 170 points by azhenley 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (durham.ac.uk)
    ×0.85 28 | 52 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×1.17 1 | 97 points by pul 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.92 20 | 36 points by bookman10 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months (rte.ie)
    ×7.29 16 | 35 points by cauliflower99 38 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
    ×1.93 | 138 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. GitHub Is Down (github.com/)
    ×7.96 23 | 243 points by albelfio 1 hour ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
    ×2.48 9 | 165 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
    ×0.78 36 | 89 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ice Kid Prisons (propublica.org)
    ×1.83 15 | 3 points by marysminefnuf 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×1.13 38 | 145 points by bobbiechen 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    ×1.39 27 | 161 points by muggermuch 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers (github.com/vhscom)
    ×0.49 19 | 28 points by vhsdev 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×2.06 45 | 192 points by aaronng91 23 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tessellation Kit (2016) (sciencevsmagic.net)
    ×0.62 37 | 41 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.72 34 | 283 points by ariaalam 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.37 26 | 211 points by david927 20 hours ago | 743 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
    ×1.08 39 | 121 points by gtsnexp 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)
    ×1.13 37 | 163 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance (senate.gov)
    ×6.66 24 | 20 points by Swizec 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
    ×0.82 44 | 77 points by jimbauwens 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.86 12 | 258 points by kristianp 20 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (hbr.org)
    ×4.99 36 | 160 points by swolpers 2 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
    ×1.73 33 | 287 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.85 53 | 129 points by pocksuppet 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×1.00 42 | 159 points by nullcathedral 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)
    ×1.19 47 | 196 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.52 6 | 9 points by gdad 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.79 41 | 106 points by mattst88 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×4.56 16 | 469 points by weaksauce 18 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit (haproxy.com)
    ×1.09 4 | 5 points by owenthejumper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries (reuters.com)
    ×2.78 11 | 31 points by nis0s 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.47 31 | 769 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 834 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×1.03 55 | 133 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.93 46 | 154 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Advogato (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.30 4 | 13 points by simonebrunozzi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.82 46 | 93 points by nwparker 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 212 points by HelloUsername 20 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.25 4 | 324 points by adunk 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Thought-Terminating Cliché (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.81 29 | 105 points by walterbell 7 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) (cleancoder.com)
    ×0.78 20 | 36 points by andrewjf 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×1.78 58 | 271 points by valyala 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail (bbc.com)
    ×5.53 57 | 148 points by tartoran 2 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.84 3 | 204 points by vinnyglennon 19 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)
    ×2.62 2 | 295 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Using light-based computing to tackle complex challenges (queensu.ca)
    ×0.91 7 | 8 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally (discord.com)
    ×4.03 52 | 75 points by dm 2 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down (wsj.com)
    ×2.19 12 | 83 points by KnuthIsGod 12 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.91 23 | 259 points by ingve 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)
    ×1.03 47 | 142 points by jingkai_he 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia (nature.com)
    ×1.45 11 | 3 points by mudil 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods (reallyeli.com)
    ×0.74 59 | 16 points by reallyeli 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
    ×1.99 13 | 180 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
    ×0.68 53 | 89 points by pacod 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
    ×2.56 22 | 303 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
    ×2.64 6 | 403 points by awaaz 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height (jamanetwork.com)
    ×0.98 65 | 21 points by wjb3 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)
    ×2.98 41 | 213 points by dev_tty01 12 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
    ×3.85 7 | 385 points by Ezhik 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.64 52 | 27 points by bhouston 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor (github.com/smyrgeorge)
    ×0.41 59 | 22 points by smyrgeorge 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
    ×1.37 40 | 127 points by molszanski 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Emergent – Artificial life simulation in a single HTML file (emergent-ivory.vercel.app)
    ×1.37 62 | 16 points by usernameis42 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) (rogerebert.com)
    ×1.36 46 | 102 points by monero-xmr 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev)
    ×2.91 11 | 144 points by frizlab 19 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Never Work with Bad People (arseniy.wtf)
    ×1.42 3 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dave Farber has died (nanog.org)
    ×1.74 | 275 points by vitplister 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
    ×3.77 19 | 980 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster (insideevs.com)
    ×2.31 4 | 165 points by andrewjneumann 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
    ×4.28 18 | 1146 points by xnx 3 days ago | 651 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? (newyorker.com)
    ×2.20 69 | 51 points by adrianhon 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.26 10 | 2338 points by HellsMaddy 3 days ago | 1022 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???