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  1. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (raymyers.org)
    ×5.08 | 750 points by crowdhailer 5 hours ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
    ×1.67 1 | 99 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Control the Ideas, Not the Code (antirez.com)
    ×2.97 1 | 75 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) (github.com/floodtide)
    ×0.88 4 | 32 points by fishbone 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.41 4 | 139 points by coinfused 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.39 6 | 139 points by dmit 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
    ×3.76 5 | 90 points by ExMachina73 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
    ×0.98 11 | 95 points by kiyanwang 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.53 6 | 332 points by ranger_danger 17 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (wired.com)
    ×3.39 5 | 50 points by nozzlegear 1 hour ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
    ×1.45 12 | 241 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.60 12 | 80 points by mariuz 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.59 12 | 297 points by naves 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News (lyrebirddreaming.com)
    ×4.75 4 | 248 points by rakel_rakel 8 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
    ×1.81 12 | 270 points by azhenley 16 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    ×2.98 12 | 443 points by silcoon 21 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
    ×1.08 21 | 138 points by tadasv 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation (frieve-a.github.io)
    ×0.69 11 | 36 points by XzetaU8 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.40 13 | 183 points by david927 16 hours ago | 612 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
    ×2.12 17 | 282 points by BerislavLopac 20 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally (bbc.com)
    ×0.33 30 | 7 points by austinallegro 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.24 16 | 813 points by levkk 12 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.83 44 | 335 points by compiler-guy 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
    ×1.67 17 | 224 points by brryant 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sam Neill has died (theguardian.com)
    ×5.35 18 | 287 points by j4mie 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    ×0.94 28 | 103 points by iNic 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
    ×0.63 26 | 47 points by forthwall 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    ×3.58 12 | 645 points by systima 19 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×1.18 27 | 156 points by raahelb 20 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.54 16 | 191 points by softwaredoug 20 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (cbc.ca)
    ×0.51 38 | 38 points by curmudgeon22 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
    ×1.43 15 | 165 points by georgex7 19 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel (yeet.cx)
    ×1.66 15 | 39 points by ok_major_9889 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 31 | 126 points by root-parent 20 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.09 24 | 286 points by signa11 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×2.48 22 | 83 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (engadget.com)
    ×1.06 6 | 62 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×2.31 42 | 143 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
    ×1.02 27 | 114 points by supo 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.69 19 | 444 points by therepanic 19 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second (dkryaklin.com)
    ×0.72 16 | 32 points by dkryaklin 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
    ×1.03 26 | 108 points by adunk 19 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (wordpress.com)
    ×2.01 3 | 438 points by subset 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels (nanduruganesh.github.io)
    ×0.56 52 | 37 points by rawsh 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
    ×2.24 1 | 250 points by saikatsg 22 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Metallurgist's Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes (centauri-dreams.org)
    ×1.96 26 | 23 points by EA-3167 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data (laxmena.com)
    ×0.82 34 | 45 points by laxmena 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.71 1 | 205 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)
    ×3.11 46 | 218 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)
    ×2.25 17 | 152 points by guseyn 14 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Gleam for Python Programmers (third-bit.com)
    ×0.79 54 | 10 points by TheWiggles 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains (theregister.com)
    ×1.47 7 | 8 points by manarth 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    ×0.62 40 | 51 points by jxmorris12 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.24 43 | 136 points by ming13 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Loot Raiders – an ARC Raiders-inspired inventory game in Svelte (loot-raiders.vercel.app)
    ×0.40 48 | 6 points by refrigerator-12 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.80 34 | 72 points by mb1699 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (github.com/cereblab)
    ×4.03 9 | 499 points by jhoho 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com/schollz)
    ×1.02 54 | 47 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×0.89 42 | 80 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The State of MCP Security [pdf] (canopii.dev)
    ×0.76 40 | 34 points by mavzer 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.09 30 | 157 points by cosmtrek 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (calculix.de)
    ×0.51 40 | 20 points by joebig 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EU will seek to limit children's access to social media (rte.ie)
    ×0.99 11 | 8 points by austinallegro 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (ieee.org)
    ×1.47 6 | 150 points by zaikunzhang 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Proportional Web (owickstrom.github.io)
    ×1.79 4 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art (github.com/unable12)
    ×0.77 43 | 24 points by unable0 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
    ×1.03 9 | 38 points by craigkerstiens 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×2.00 30 | 270 points by downwithdisease 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.59 62 | 32 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.25 4 | 156 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs in Mathematics (chrishayduk.com)
    ×1.10 51 | 6 points by rfv6723 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.50 65 | 32 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Architecture Description Languages [pdf] (uci.edu)
    ×0.64 20 | 30 points by ascent817 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.46 40 | 920 points by vforno 3 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    ×0.49 56 | 19 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
    ×2.52 60 | 408 points by joahnn_s 16 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.70 1 | 341 points by tionis 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS (github.com/cabeen)
    ×0.78 39 | 26 points by cafebeen 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com/hasenj)
    ×1.01 1 | 86 points by hsn915 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.14 2 | 365 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MacSurf 2.0 – Netsurf for Mac OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×0.89 53 | 14 points by mplsllc 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Llambda.lisp (funcall.blogspot.com)
    ×0.85 59 | 8 points by lemonberry 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)
    ×2.28 22 | 98 points by Tomte 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.61 54 | 44 points by dmit 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Analysis: Popular Chrome Extension ModHeader Exfiltrates User Data (aydinnyunus.github.io)
    ×0.69 55 | 12 points by runtimepanic 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Some Monsters Are Real (climatecasino.substack.com)
    ×4.43 65 | 19 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market (disruptionbanking.com)
    ×2.64 75 | 79 points by emsidisii 5 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. PC Emulator PCem Makes It to WebAssembly (github.com/va3jfl)
    ×0.60 64 | 5 points by JoelLagace 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.53 39 | 35 points by fagnerbrack 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???