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  1. 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev)
    ×1.78 5 | 234 points by zenincognito 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tim Peters has died (python.org)
    ×4.46 2 | 959 points by ayhanfuat 11 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AWS emulator (github.com/aws)
    ×3.22 | 740 points by super_linear 9 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server (wiz.io)
    ×1.99 5 | 33 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang (wsj.com)
    ×9.69 4 | 681 points by jbredeche 5 hours ago | 950 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Lock Your GitHub Actions (hugovk.dev)
    ×1.87 2 | 171 points by gslin 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.62 5 | 454 points by herpderperator 6 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter (bacarella.com)
    ×2.19 4 | 438 points by mbac32768 11 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Gemini Decisions API (blog.google)
    ×2.67 2 | 313 points by iamdelirium 9 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Did Life Begin in an RNA World? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.12 11 | 23 points by acossta 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Lean Grimoire (wordpress.com)
    ×1.16 8 | 12 points by smilelamp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs (github.com/tylertms)
    ×1.42 4 | 74 points by iceboundrock 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Emacs in the Age of Magic (commandlinesystems.com)
    ×1.64 1 | 166 points by ggcr 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Utah Teapot (utah.edu)
    ×1.27 14 | 96 points by cobbal 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Stingray Fish Laser (stingray.no)
    ×0.94 21 | 9 points by tptacek 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start (incoherency.co.uk)
    ×0.68 22 | 18 points by edward 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund (termsheetplease.com)
    ×1.53 2 | 196 points by bolau 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.28 8 | 174 points by zerop 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site? (pietromiotti.com)
    ×4.27 9 | 947 points by eyvindn 16 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2 (av.github.io)
    ×2.25 2 | 332 points by everlier 14 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him (nytimes.com)
    ×6.96 16 | 294 points by louiereederson 6 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.62 7 | 197 points by brownrout 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×0.80 8 | 70 points by thefox96 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.45 8 | 255 points by emschwartz 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Flying on Green: Why Farmers Are Turning to Drones for Cover Crop Seeding (agweb.com)
    ×0.78 16 | 53 points by rmason 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (atuin.sh)
    ×1.26 7 | 199 points by linsomniac 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Brief History of Sierra Online (2017) (retrofreakreviews.com)
    ×0.77 13 | 32 points by freshtake 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card (kate.land)
    ×1.71 7 | 277 points by lae 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents
    ×0.45 36 | 51 points by alanjm23 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The hardest notes to find on the guitar (gitori.com)
    ×0.70 25 | 59 points by udit99 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026 (apple.com)
    ×2.07 8 | 138 points by tech234a 9 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git (nayak.im)
    ×0.61 19 | 32 points by nayak 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We need more goat sacrifices (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.63 11 | 192 points by iamnothere 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tools for exploring the souls of large language models (oshea00.github.io)
    ×0.99 14 | 41 points by r00tanon 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (ibm.com)
    ×0.75 11 | 53 points by gok 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Making the Iron Giant Live (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×0.50 23 | 15 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.59 16 | 522 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly (massimo-nocentini.github.io)
    ×0.83 11 | 122 points by xkriva11 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The tiny transmitter tracking monarch butterflies' migration, Canada to Mexico (begiant.ca)
    ×0.63 27 | 40 points by upofadown 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
    ×1.59 1 | 110 points by azhenley 11 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation (apple.com)
    ×0.92 40 | 68 points by zerop 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I Accidentally Became a Millionaire (lyra.horse)
    ×4.17 26 | 55 points by OuterVale 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. History of Password Cracking (netmux.com)
    ×1.00 28 | 10 points by netmux 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (cmu.edu)
    ×0.98 17 | 70 points by num42 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.93 14 | 99 points by 0xdeadf1sh 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble (lpeproject.org)
    ×2.28 27 | 144 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you (theverge.com)
    ×3.39 30 | 343 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery (github.com/lukks)
    ×1.05 27 | 78 points by LuKks 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (moertel.com)
    ×1.75 20 | 266 points by palsecam 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com/klad-app)
    ×1.07 6 | 75 points by ambewas 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.90 14 | 54 points by Rochus 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Modern Web Guidance 1.0: The web platform expertise your coding agent is missing (chrome.com)
    ×1.15 19 | 27 points by qainsights 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×4.66 11 | 1148 points by skittleson 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. EventSourcingDB 1.3.0 Is Available (eventfoundation.io)
    ×0.56 53 | 43 points by goloroden 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Power and Legacy of Virginia Tech's Mac-Based Supercomputers (512pixels.net)
    ×1.09 21 | 40 points by CharlesW 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models (github.com/OpenTSLM)
    ×0.87 14 | 49 points by rjakob 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.63 32 | 143 points by adrbn 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp (github.com/jjba23)
    ×1.40 75 | 4 points by jjba23 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×1.79 21 | 192 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.67 32 | 62 points by artrax 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
    ×2.27 37 | 281 points by Yorothegoat 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×0.86 38 | 116 points by d3Xt3r 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hooked on Tuna (theconversation.com)
    ×0.65 28 | 52 points by dnetesn 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.54 18 | 922 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave (gatezh.com)
    ×1.86 17 | 385 points by js2 23 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.55 22 | 1247 points by vismit2000 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Brazil's Serra Verde starts shipping heavy rare earths to US under 15-year deal (usare.com)
    ×0.86 51 | 23 points by dvaplima 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. GitHub Incident with Webhooks, Actions, etc. (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.55 44 | 80 points by jbredeche 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones (nature.com)
    ×3.02 44 | 7 points by gumby 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer (github.com/popvax)
    ×3.28 32 | 74 points by AsDivyansh 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std:sort (tiki.li)
    ×0.81 16 | 35 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Adventures in Weight Space Programming (withbeaker.ai)
    ×1.37 50 | 6 points by VictorSh 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives (cpcwiki.eu)
    ×1.13 38 | 87 points by Skyfall106 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs (yaksoy.github.io)
    ×0.99 23 | 63 points by summarity 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in danfoss sm-800A (midnightblue.nl)
    ×0.47 48 | 18 points by rros 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×2.55 21 | 553 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (vulncheck.com)
    ×2.52 20 | 447 points by panic 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) (jmis.org)
    ×1.17 7 | 40 points by Rochus 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (p0pcycle.com)
    ×1.32 33 | 146 points by moooooky 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.61 25 | 261 points by pixelpoet 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times (makepad.github.io)
    ×1.57 53 | 6 points by adamnemecek 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.47 38 | 19 points by adec314 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.68 26 | 246 points by leugim 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint (mozilla.org)
    ×2.83 40 | 169 points by Vinnl 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. JR East to introduce touchless ticket gates in spring 2028 (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.77 3 | 4 points by e12e 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.27 30 | 272 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. $30M Raised to Redo the CPU (tendrils.co)
    ×1.73 27 | 140 points by shioyama 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I deleted all my SSH keys (infected.systems)
    ×2.43 18 | 279 points by speckx 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. JSON vs. jsonb in Postgres: size and speed, measured (now-next.nl)
    ×1.12 39 | 28 points by plaur782 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???