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  1. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×2.38 | 245 points by laurentiurad 3 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Hacker's Renaissance (phrack.org)
    ×1.52 8 | 41 points by yu3zhou4 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×1.92 10 | 39 points by mef 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.94 10 | 28 points by berghoffer 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.30 4 | 139 points by david927 5 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.79 1 | 515 points by satvikpendem 9 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
    ×1.61 8 | 46 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.62 15 | 146 points by Klaster_1 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    ×2.32 13 | 127 points by jader201 7 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.06 21 | 15 points by jackdoe 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×0.89 16 | 12 points by smartmic 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.32 7 | 85 points by hexomancer 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×2.08 13 | 32 points by gregsadetsky 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.65 26 | 25 points by tintinnabula 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    ×1.09 14 | 109 points by Kiboneu 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones (github.com/yegors)
    ×1.43 8 | 48 points by campuscodi 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.39 15 | 158 points by ike_usawa 11 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.99 24 | 21 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.23 87 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.56 13 | 287 points by akyuu 7 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.80 18 | 98 points by Rochus 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices (raed.dev)
    ×1.00 31 | 11 points by Raed667 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (science.org)
    ×1.41 33 | 7 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Crickets as pets (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.11 11 | 68 points by Michelangelo11 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.23 19 | 104 points by tremguy 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.15 26 | 176 points by gukoff 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager (theregister.com)
    ×2.06 16 | 61 points by joebuckwilliams 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    ×0.82 5 | 13 points by johnchinjew 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
    ×0.70 28 | 39 points by eighttrigrams 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
    ×1.01 39 | 158 points by BruceEel 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance (arks.org)
    ×0.23 76 | 3 points by cxr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.76 42 | 73 points by Lammy 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. If experience is the goal, then you always win (startingfromnix.com)
    ×1.69 12 | 47 points by jger15 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.55 16 | 188 points by Thorondor 7 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)
    ×2.55 11 | 11 points by chirau 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)
    ×2.70 34 | 70 points by Lyngbakr 1 hour ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.84 | 54 points by shayonj 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.26 21 | 176 points by iamnothere 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com/nMaroulis)
    ×0.38 56 | 12 points by nmaroulis21 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes (nytimes.com)
    ×2.94 10 | 5 points by mooreds 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (euronews.com)
    ×5.96 38 | 93 points by andrewstetsenko 2 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (wordpress.com)
    ×0.62 52 | 25 points by ijustlovemath 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. CRT-TV-Emulator (github.com/AARomanov1985)
    ×0.68 66 | 4 points by xterminal 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite (github.com/nsrht)
    ×0.99 10 | 21 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.09 33 | 220 points by evo_9 7 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.91 20 | 65 points by johnbarron 10 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×1.32 23 | 121 points by michaefe 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account (unyolo.io)
    ×0.50 60 | 12 points by hosolmaz 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s (npr.org)
    ×1.98 11 | 4 points by mooreds 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×0.62 43 | 24 points by dosinga 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Cross-compilation with Wails (2025) (chriswheeler.dev)
    ×0.13 87 | 5 points by auraham 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 (ilmarilauhakangas.fi)
    ×1.63 11 | 10 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards (nytimes.com)
    ×2.52 37 | 63 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.32 9 | 481 points by seg6 23 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.41 8 | 11 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×1.01 58 | 88 points by frozenseven 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.36 62 | 108 points by tchalla 23 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.12 65 | 73 points by Eloissssss 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lawyers using "AI" could face sanctions including costs for fake citations (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.00 14 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.58 56 | 33 points by login588 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Romania Extends Nuclear Reactor Output by Nine Days After Danube Blasts (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.34 10 | 6 points by alephnerd 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.50 13 | 242 points by jggonz 22 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.37 73 | 41 points by 1659447091 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Kill Switch (X-Files episode) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.27 14 | 5 points by theopsimist 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.36 6 | 493 points by groomlake 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 (2024, video) (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 18 | 4 points by Velocifyer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.38 47 | 100 points by f-serif 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.62 6 | 193 points by doubletwoyou 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.78 9 | 353 points by jmusall 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness (antigma.ai)
    ×1.36 65 | 25 points by ubermon 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×3.59 11 | 49 points by Doriell 11 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.71 60 | 148 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.96 26 | 7 points by ripe 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.16 25 | 854 points by senko 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
    ×2.06 10 | 87 points by ashurandi 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (cbc.ca)
    ×1.63 13 | 4 points by empressplay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.03 8 | 427 points by shaunpud 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NoRecognition: AI Adversarial Clothing (norecognition.org)
    ×0.47 74 | 4 points by windyVector 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Literary Sins (thedial.world)
    ×0.75 1 | 23 points by lermontov 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.96 37 | 315 points by minimaxir 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp (unherd.com)
    ×0.84 44 | 37 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.34 16 | 432 points by bhavansig 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Relying on Go (antonz.org)
    ×2.26 6 | 26 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why are German heat pumps more expensive? (janrosenow.substack.com)
    ×2.05 5 | 14 points by DamonHD 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost (404media.co)
    ×2.72 5 | 89 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Emacs for NvChads (qlain.online)
    ×0.76 61 | 7 points by etoql 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.37 20 | 65 points by johnbarron 10 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
    ×1.99 1 | 169 points by bohaska 21 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon (frequal.com)
    ×1.28 61 | 48 points by TeaVMFan 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.26 11 | 1045 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 1281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???