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  1. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (medium.com)
    ×3.67 9 | 55 points by ca98am79 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
    ×1.20 4 | 76 points by dd23 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
    ×2.98 2 | 112 points by berkeleyjunk 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.60 | 42 points by 1659447091 53 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.20 13 | 54 points by pwim 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
    ×2.85 4 | 161 points by koshyjohn 2 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.65 15 | 215 points by kmdupree 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) (github.com/sachitrafa)
    ×0.85 13 | 18 points by SachitRafa 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
    ×1.25 8 | 175 points by j0r0b0 6 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. MoQ Boy (moq.dev)
    ×1.18 16 | 14 points by mmcclure 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)
    ×1.00 25 | 14 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
    ×0.90 13 | 73 points by PLenz 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color (barwypowstania.pl)
    ×2.41 | 73 points by keiferski 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×3.64 11 | 461 points by jamesponddotco 5 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
    ×4.52 7 | 324 points by jeremyccrane 5 hours ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×0.99 14 | 82 points by 2DcAf 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
    ×1.53 12 | 263 points by sph 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.29 10 | 723 points by pr337h4m 20 hours ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On (bbc.com)
    ×1.63 26 | 12 points by reconnecting 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
    ×0.55 20 | 27 points by plow-tycoon 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.38 5 | 128 points by rodarima 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (macchaffee.com)
    ×2.14 19 | 55 points by Wingy 6 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.97 9 | 573 points by elisaado 11 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Sloppy Copies (markround.com)
    ×1.04 7 | 54 points by dev_hugepages 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.87 27 | 391 points by chiefalchemist 22 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal (franzai.com)
    ×1.16 9 | 17 points by franze 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.41 16 | 189 points by yak32 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×2.10 11 | 81 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds (mit.edu)
    ×1.54 9 | 70 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.80 8 | 514 points by _-x-_ 21 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them (road.cc)
    ×3.70 26 | 184 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.67 33 | 45 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
    ×3.04 15 | 216 points by luckman212 7 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
    ×1.22 35 | 160 points by zdkaster 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×0.94 13 | 97 points by Jach 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Neal Stephenson: The Real Threat Isn't AI, It's Us [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.42 5 | 8 points by mindcrime 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    ×1.91 31 | 276 points by Nrbelex 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    ×1.58 26 | 203 points by iamwil 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
    ×6.31 25 | 1056 points by milkglass 15 hours ago | 737 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American' (nytimes.com)
    ×3.45 30 | 30 points by mikhael 53 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sergey Brin Confronted Gavin Newsom (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.96 19 | 23 points by arunsivadasan 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
    ×1.85 28 | 285 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.74 39 | 80 points by subset 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive (shankwiler.com)
    ×2.62 11 | 41 points by iuvcaw 4 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.78 40 | 158 points by offbyone42 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
    ×0.70 35 | 57 points by t-3 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.72 55 | 74 points by jger15 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding (theregister.com)
    ×2.41 16 | 10 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.89 35 | 249 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.23 57 | 155 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is a Local LLM on Framework Desktop (phoronix.com)
    ×1.18 4 | 5 points by guerby 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.37 | 481 points by gwerbret 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.39 48 | 143 points by signa11 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.62 50 | 189 points by thehappyfellow 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.18 67 | 133 points by srean 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.37 13 | 324 points by gasull 18 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you (evalcode.com)
    ×3.27 49 | 80 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. My .config Ship of Theseus (shift1w.com)
    ×0.51 57 | 29 points by jacobwiseberg 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Remembering the 1984 Unix PC. Why did it fail so hard? (slashdot.org)
    ×1.02 16 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Maine's governor vetoes data center moratorium (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.77 11 | 23 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.98 48 | 240 points by zdw 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology (jumpstartsignal.com)
    ×0.68 59 | 26 points by irldexter 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment (passo.uno)
    ×1.02 57 | 22 points by theletterf 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.27 61 | 75 points by mji 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
    ×0.92 62 | 72 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Thermoacoustic heat pumps on the verge of commercial breakthrough (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.45 5 | 5 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeep (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.39 8 | 15 points by joozio 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.62 2 | 599 points by stephen-hill 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.32 54 | 127 points by varjag 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.08 7 | 350 points by speckx 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019) (cynthia.re)
    ×0.92 13 | 59 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.46 58 | 174 points by adunk 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com)
    ×0.78 43 | 41 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (edenai.co)
    ×2.14 17 | 124 points by muzzy19 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    ×1.77 1 | 372 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.08 2 | 2057 points by impact_sy 2 days ago | 1578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.54 6 | 599 points by calcifer 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.20 48 | 154 points by Murfalo 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×0.85 61 | 50 points by NaOH 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The disappearing AI middle class (thenewstack.io)
    ×0.99 | 11 points by nick217 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A populist wave is rising to end the 'captive' repair economy (cnbc.com)
    ×1.88 2 | 40 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com/nakagami)
    ×1.03 59 | 136 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (sebastianwick.net)
    ×1.06 51 | 90 points by ffin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (eternal-flame.org)
    ×0.90 58 | 43 points by xeonmc 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How OpenAI Kills Oracle (wheresyoured.at)
    ×3.24 40 | 10 points by napolux 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
    ×0.51 63 | 30 points by wakamoleguy 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com/MartinGalway)
    ×1.15 41 | 190 points by ingve 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (luau.org)
    ×1.22 49 | 92 points by vrn-sn 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×5.85 9 | 1565 points by rd 3 days ago | 1046 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???