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  1. MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes (github.com/interpiduser5)
    ×3.17 2 | 53 points by interpidused 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward (theshamblog.com)
    ×4.25 | 18 points by scottshambaugh 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
    ×2.99 4 | 573 points by MallocVoidstar 11 hours ago | 723 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel, powered by Pi (github.com/tmustier)
    ×1.20 9 | 13 points by rahimnathwani 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review (sour.coffee)
    ×0.89 11 | 19 points by neelc 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
    ×2.35 3 | 471 points by cpcloud 11 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (zgp.org)
    ×0.97 13 | 123 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (governance.fyi)
    ×1.48 18 | 235 points by guardianbob 12 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (reuters.com)
    ×3.39 19 | 197 points by c420 11 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com/Veirt)
    ×1.31 12 | 172 points by forinti 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years (cep.dev)
    ×3.76 3 | 66 points by Meetvelde 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
    ×1.98 15 | 331 points by SteveHawk27 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A beginner's guide to split keyboards (justinmklam.com)
    ×1.60 24 | 43 points by thehaikuza 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.74 21 | 87 points by bryanrasmussen 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Pebble Production: February Update (repebble.com)
    ×1.43 16 | 269 points by smig0 14 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza (technologizer.com)
    ×1.07 24 | 73 points by vontzy 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications (github.com/manaflow-ai)
    ×1.31 2 | 95 points by lawrencechen 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia (cormullion.github.io)
    ×0.87 30 | 10 points by WillMorr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) (borischerny.com)
    ×0.92 23 | 106 points by simonebrunozzi 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.03 23 | 186 points by benbreen 16 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.31 67 | 12 points by chunkles 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (anthropic.com)
    ×0.81 41 | 86 points by jbredeche 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 | 27 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (kasava.dev)
    ×2.81 12 | 167 points by benbeingbin 7 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)
    ×0.86 36 | 14 points by lowsun 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)
    ×5.10 25 | 333 points by mitchbob 6 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (hankgreen.com)
    ×1.88 10 | 116 points by ZeroGravitas 6 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)
    ×1.16 21 | 164 points by simondanisch 16 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) (planetscale.com)
    ×0.95 30 | 88 points by Ozzie_osman 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus (bbc.com)
    ×3.40 24 | 139 points by dabinat 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app (github.com/fjrevoredo)
    ×0.75 39 | 113 points by holyknight 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression (economist.com)
    ×1.62 8 | 65 points by vinni2 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025) (kodiak64.co.uk)
    ×0.99 21 | 129 points by atan2 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Voith Schneider Propeller (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.07 56 | 122 points by Luc 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial (wsj.com)
    ×2.37 5 | 179 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban (oban.pro)
    ×0.95 33 | 125 points by sorentwo 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)
    ×5.66 33 | 561 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals (bbc.com)
    ×2.28 | 4 points by 1659447091 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
    ×0.91 69 | 96 points by exvi 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Farewell, Rust for web (yieldcode.blog)
    ×1.96 15 | 122 points by skwee357 8 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Level of Detail (phinze.com)
    ×1.00 10 | 35 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
    ×3.29 1 | 796 points by zdw 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.74 61 | 66 points by sammy0910 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves (adafruit.com)
    ×3.43 36 | 263 points by fortran77 8 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was malware (twitter.com/chiefofautism)
    ×3.92 11 | 29 points by Umofomia 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Netbase: A port of the NetBSD utilities for Linux (github.com/littlefly365)
    ×0.93 79 | 16 points by jaypatelani 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
    ×1.10 69 | 110 points by muzzy19 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Can random experimental choice lead to better theories? (sagepub.com)
    ×0.44 64 | 37 points by paraschopra 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (claude.com)
    ×4.25 13 | 620 points by theahura 1 day ago | 740 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)
    ×0.99 67 | 134 points by thunderseethe 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)
    ×2.16 21 | 442 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security engineer to harden healthcare infra (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (texastribune.org)
    ×3.33 14 | 48 points by bhouston 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift (semafor.com)
    ×2.66 4 | 36 points by everybodyknows 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked (404media.co)
    ×2.35 2 | 43 points by latexr 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
    ×2.22 65 | 126 points by ellieh 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (zyedidia.github.io)
    ×0.83 69 | 73 points by userbinator 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.76 9 | 32 points by lisper 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)
    ×1.11 69 | 108 points by mirawelner 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Famous Signatures Through History (signatory.app)
    ×0.67 46 | 45 points by elliotbnvl 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
    ×2.00 19 | 452 points by jfantl 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France (historytoday.com)
    ×0.97 30 | 94 points by Thevet 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
    ×4.46 14 | 886 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (stepfun.com)
    ×1.63 29 | 215 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (theregister.com)
    ×5.06 55 | 234 points by freitasm 8 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.83 23 | 1329 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 1209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. 15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
    ×1.22 30 | 197 points by fp64enjoyer 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (pcmag.com)
    ×1.77 3 | 33 points by ripe 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.74 60 | 65 points by neogoose 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.66 70 | 93 points by tosh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C (llvm.org)
    ×1.17 3 | 102 points by thefilmore 14 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.83 73 | 88 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
    ×2.09 37 | 163 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
    ×2.03 11 | 462 points by sz4kerto 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Indonesia bans elephant riding in landmark welfare move (worldanimalprotection.org)
    ×3.09 20 | 10 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
    ×0.15 74 | 7 points by acarminati 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Dishonest People Self-Select into Public Service (In China) [pdf] (uchicago.edu)
    ×4.66 21 | 7 points by marojejian 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way (phys.org)
    ×0.82 57 | 40 points by bikenaga 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Trump orders agencies to identify and release government files on aliens (reuters.com)
    ×5.23 61 | 7 points by rock57 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)
    ×1.84 19 | 372 points by idoxer 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges (jacobin.com)
    ×1.83 21 | 30 points by wahnfrieden 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up (techoversight.org)
    ×3.15 16 | 49 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple Watch or Don't Bother (mataroa.blog)
    ×2.85 17 | 21 points by samtheDamned 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software (modular.com)
    ×2.13 8 | 11 points by dnw 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (github.com/a11ce)
    ×1.13 37 | 78 points by a11ce 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I traced 3,177 API calls to see what 4 AI coding tools put in the context window (theredbeard.io)
    ×3.32 55 | 19 points by theredbeard 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
    ×1.04 47 | 105 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ChatGPT ads are appearing on the first prompt, not after conversations (searchengineland.com)
    ×2.21 9 | 23 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.85 14 | 312 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash (inquirer.com)
    ×2.55 6 | 51 points by coloneltcb 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???