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  1. VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)
    ×0.88 3 | 33 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.37 | 510 points by paveworld 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.47 2 | 162 points by vinhnx 7 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×2.84 3 | 275 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.54 7 | 318 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.68 7 | 215 points by CosmoWenman 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
    ×2.27 11 | 207 points by kmeh 15 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer (github.com/mikesart)
    ×0.91 17 | 12 points by luu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.59 6 | 302 points by trwhite 17 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (runescape.com)
    ×1.80 6 | 85 points by droidjj 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.45 8 | 463 points by elffjs 11 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (whec.com)
    ×1.43 12 | 201 points by gscott 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    ×3.22 17 | 168 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.48 6 | 161 points by citelao 14 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults (energytransition.org)
    ×4.06 14 | 99 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.53 12 | 141 points by geoffbp 16 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×1.89 3 | 87 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.25 29 | 12 points by knuckleheads 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 31 | 47 points by bobajeff 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken (theatlantic.com)
    ×6.31 6 | 264 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How to hack time, with C2PA (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×0.70 22 | 43 points by Retr0id 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.78 16 | 6 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
    ×1.01 12 | 67 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.33 25 | 67 points by rkagerer 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
    ×1.20 9 | 178 points by romac 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
    ×1.32 32 | 55 points by young_mete 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) (play.date)
    ×1.01 2 | 21 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×0.62 26 | 35 points by effects 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 (radical-elements.com)
    ×1.91 10 | 139 points by lexx 19 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
    ×1.23 6 | 86 points by simonjgreen 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (darbiansphotography.com)
    ×0.99 22 | 143 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI? (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.51 59 | 4 points by 6bitquant 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.84 23 | 67 points by Gorsefound 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.95 18 | 101 points by edverma2 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com/andreasfertig)
    ×1.24 24 | 160 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (recoil.org)
    ×0.75 36 | 42 points by avsm 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.79 26 | 53 points by latein 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
    ×3.72 21 | 621 points by bastitx 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
    ×0.87 22 | 59 points by computerbuster 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family (aboutamazon.com)
    ×1.45 19 | 37 points by seam_carver 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group (europa.eu)
    ×1.52 20 | 7 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. New York City should carefully measure a new tree (willmeye.rs)
    ×1.00 3 | 72 points by willmeyers 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
    ×0.94 2 | 35 points by luu 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    ×0.93 19 | 60 points by KomoD 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.08 40 | 80 points by nor-and-or-not 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Softmax function and its derivative (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.90 37 | 35 points by costco 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.47 34 | 195 points by est 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The characters of plastics (2024) (yarchive.net)
    ×0.46 20 | 20 points by thelastgallon 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version (github.com/google)
    ×0.83 39 | 34 points by xnx 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.09 45 | 437 points by sbulaev 13 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.71 48 | 25 points by shannadige 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Holes (1996-2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.90 56 | 53 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (apple.com)
    ×2.40 27 | 306 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (eff.org)
    ×3.21 11 | 787 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
    ×2.27 17 | 206 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. To grieve, or not to grieve? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.26 78 | 162 points by stabbles 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (red5.net)
    ×0.70 60 | 38 points by mondainx 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos (nature.com)
    ×0.58 55 | 44 points by bryanrasmussen 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Muse Gadgets (muse.ai)
    ×1.65 34 | 244 points by anant 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tiny Brutalism (itch.io)
    ×2.03 55 | 203 points by abetusk 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (newgrounds.com)
    ×2.22 25 | 448 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] (cambridge.org)
    ×3.49 42 | 218 points by skeptical1884 17 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.44 34 | 31 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
    ×1.59 52 | 307 points by pietroppeter 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.61 40 | 23 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (nytimes.com)
    ×3.41 26 | 658 points by CoryOndrejka 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase (neowin.net)
    ×3.83 23 | 106 points by bundie 17 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com/graphene-data)
    ×0.63 50 | 30 points by kcmarr 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
    ×2.40 51 | 220 points by saikatsg 17 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows (kagi.com)
    ×1.68 5 | 183 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Apple Pass Designer (apple.com)
    ×2.41 21 | 552 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Extra Big Ass Intelligence (extrabigassintelligence.com)
    ×4.08 40 | 496 points by 34679 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul (twitter.com/robertvaradan)
    ×1.82 8 | 17 points by robertvaradan 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
    ×2.05 7 | 397 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (behindthecode.ca)
    ×1.19 53 | 78 points by paulgerhardt 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
    ×2.05 3 | 363 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Haunted by the ghosts of materialism (coredump.cx)
    ×0.83 27 | 24 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's (christies.com)
    ×0.95 63 | 84 points by peter_hansteen 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.27 43 | 146 points by antelocnova 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
    ×0.90 57 | 91 points by schonfinkel 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) (yuka.dev)
    ×1.59 1 | 262 points by signa11 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×6.38 4 | 1696 points by bradleyg223 3 days ago | 1180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
    ×2.41 7 | 431 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
    ×1.19 14 | 69 points by elffjs 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
    ×1.91 44 | 390 points by razin 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable (404media.co)
    ×1.16 9 | 9 points by saikatsg 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster (reddit.com)
    ×2.84 57 | 28 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
    ×0.90 54 | 80 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.75 27 | 58 points by TeaVMFan 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???