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  1. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×5.98 | 860 points by bradleyg223 3 hours ago | 575 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (thespacereview.com)
    ×2.01 | 94 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.99 5 | 105 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.24 | 128 points by iandinwoodie 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. EDG C++ Compiler is open source (github.com/edgcpp)
    ×1.55 13 | 13 points by zx2c4 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×3.33 6 | 145 points by rzk 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.88 9 | 119 points by anerli 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.75 2 | 54 points by AnodicElegy 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.96 5 | 64 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 100 points by jbott 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.90 6 | 56 points by luu 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.78 1 | 592 points by yarapavan 14 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.85 13 | 29 points by lashkari 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.13 9 | 37 points by pwim 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 4 | 209 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Coltrane's Tone Circle (jtomschroeder.com)
    ×0.98 20 | 19 points by jtomschroeder 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.42 24 | 36 points by leephillips 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.30 9 | 32 points by cobbzilla 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×0.99 10 | 19 points by thanouil1411 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×0.83 24 | 21 points by pminimax 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.13 | 238 points by luispa 11 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.74 13 | 131 points by b-man 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.02 7 | 166 points by megalomanu 10 hours ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.47 36 | 7 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.37 7 | 97 points by viraj_shah 8 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. pldb: programming languages papers (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.73 43 | 8 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.23 7 | 11 points by adunk 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
    ×0.92 15 | 9 points by adunk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×1.20 46 | 73 points by aureianimus 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.02 7 | 125 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
    ×2.79 24 | 81 points by ArchAndStarch 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.18 15 | 76 points by kmstout 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.85 28 | 73 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.65 25 | 60 points by porridgeraisin 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.17 15 | 104 points by yedhukrishnan 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
    ×0.51 52 | 17 points by Levitating 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.70 15 | 54 points by croes 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (schemescape.com)
    ×1.25 17 | 12 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.79 23 | 17 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.13 23 | 135 points by BurnerBurner 14 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×4.35 35 | 105 points by thoughtfullyso 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.52 38 | 15 points by OlympicMarmoto 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.95 29 | 10 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×1.01 2 | 69 points by mogrinz 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.17 19 | 74 points by dancablam 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.63 8 | 247 points by laurenth 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.84 20 | 120 points by gvuksic 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×0.76 52 | 7 points by cachrevolt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.94 33 | 69 points by systemerror 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.52 79 | 120 points by papa-whisky 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.85 86 | 4 points by sshah03 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka (tigrisdata.com)
    ×1.21 66 | 5 points by bootlegbilly 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.15 17 | 112 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.95 85 | 94 points by primitivesuave 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.59 30 | 114 points by Zeruxe 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.95 69 | 22 points by nill0 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×4.68 35 | 37 points by paimapi 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 83 | 340 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.66 28 | 877 points by bryan0 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (eia.gov)
    ×0.37 60 | 12 points by thelastgallon 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases (theregister.com)
    ×2.54 21 | 16 points by johnshades 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.23 38 | 19 points by PLenz 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.61 40 | 18 points by ajoski9 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.40 31 | 13 points by richardbarosky 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.67 43 | 201 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.80 56 | 59 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.42 25 | 427 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 831 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.15 38 | 122 points by Baljhin 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.25 27 | 26 points by turantekin 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.46 28 | 1048 points by crorella 1 day ago | 929 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.83 50 | 89 points by luu 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (amazon.com)
    ×1.64 11 | 12 points by daigoba66 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.25 44 | 146 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.52 41 | 156 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×1.00 48 | 76 points by seam_carver 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.00 20 | 13 points by merksittich 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Turbo Haskell (reddit.com)
    ×2.85 39 | 10 points by simonmic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.33 25 | 748 points by alvis 1 day ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.18 | 374 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bologna Bottle (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 4 | 12 points by _josh_meyer_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.32 68 | 46 points by danaris 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) (bbc.com)
    ×1.59 5 | 10 points by alentred 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 17 | 748 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.91 6 | 26 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.13 4 | 310 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.12 52 | 172 points by rossant 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 19 | 33 points by sdlkj- 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.26 56 | 161 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.17 2 | 376 points by wanick 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.26 7 | 276 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???