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  1. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.99 | 251 points by satvikpendem 3 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change (82mhz.net)
    ×2.62 1 | 29 points by reallydontask 25 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.93 8 | 52 points by Rochus 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.21 2 | 56 points by evo_9 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    ×1.03 8 | 30 points by Kiboneu 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA (dylancastillo.co)
    ×1.58 11 | 42 points by dcastm 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.21 12 | 139 points by gukoff 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×1.02 27 | 4 points by shayonj 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) (alexanderwanyoike.github.io)
    ×1.00 23 | 5 points by mercutio93 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.23 10 | 438 points by seg6 17 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.82 15 | 52 points by Lammy 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
    ×0.96 19 | 125 points by BruceEel 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 222 points by jggonz 16 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.58 10 | 30 points by Thorondor 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×1.51 12 | 97 points by michaefe 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    ×2.71 11 | 18 points by jader201 59 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.35 19 | 481 points by groomlake 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.89 10 | 322 points by jmusall 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.25 10 | 320 points by bobbiechen 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue (github.com/uber)
    ×1.23 3 | 57 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×3.36 11 | 15 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won (jorypestorious.com)
    ×1.25 38 | 4 points by calmhive 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony (historytoday.com)
    ×1.14 28 | 5 points by benbreen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×3.60 14 | 7 points by Klaster_1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×1.34 37 | 4 points by dosinga 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.29 18 | 80 points by tremguy 4 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    ×2.54 7 | 298 points by adletbalzhanov 17 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.71 30 | 22 points by login588 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
    ×0.96 21 | 55 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×1.06 37 | 77 points by frozenseven 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.38 30 | 151 points by hakkikonu 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.68 11 | 185 points by doubletwoyou 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
    ×0.96 31 | 79 points by davidbarker 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    ×1.49 22 | 185 points by MarcoDewey 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.43 46 | 95 points by tchalla 17 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
    ×2.33 20 | 74 points by ashurandi 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.92 12 | 49 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.53 46 | 204 points by electricant 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic (youtube.com)
    ×3.76 24 | 48 points by johnbarron 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness (antigma.ai)
    ×1.72 64 | 12 points by ubermon 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)
    ×0.98 56 | 100 points by robinpdev 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Tale of Dynamic Programming (iagoleal.com)
    ×2.13 2 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
    ×0.63 57 | 65 points by fagnerbrack 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp (unherd.com)
    ×0.95 11 | 33 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.16 27 | 284 points by minimaxir 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.81 48 | 142 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Relying on Go (antonz.org)
    ×2.32 4 | 4 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
    ×2.06 7 | 163 points by bohaska 15 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)
    ×2.97 19 | 76 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Dynamics of the Egg (the-hinternet.com)
    ×0.48 29 | 10 points by Caiero 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Computer maker Framework notifies 'all customers' of a data breach (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.79 12 | 3 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.22 28 | 820 points by senko 1 day ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.04 8 | 424 points by shaunpud 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Datalog Disassembly (github.com/GrammaTech)
    ×0.84 52 | 58 points by aboardRat4 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What Happened: OpenAI and Hugging Face (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×1.83 18 | 3 points by maxutility 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. PEP 784 – Adding Zstandard to the standard library (python.org)
    ×1.87 18 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
    ×1.06 39 | 49 points by robin_reala 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.35 1 | 427 points by bhavansig 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
    ×0.74 56 | 63 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    ×0.77 48 | 50 points by hyperific 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.80 9 | 405 points by 882542F3884314B 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.88 50 | 115 points by rfarley04 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    ×3.46 38 | 599 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    ×0.72 55 | 60 points by skibz 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019) (rajivprab.com)
    ×0.71 56 | 29 points by whack 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.72 54 | 85 points by rahen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.22 1 | 1030 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 1255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    ×0.76 59 | 74 points by kkgupta 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.14 3 | 778 points by tosh 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.64 28 | 146 points by bkudria 14 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Everything You Do Is Being Recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.74 65 | 106 points by ike_usawa 4 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
    ×2.71 39 | 284 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.31 13 | 432 points by aanet 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    ×1.80 4 | 203 points by gumby 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×3.56 39 | 237 points by allenc 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.50 2 | 296 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.03 41 | 85 points by mmoogle 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
    ×1.41 60 | 23 points by divingstar 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×0.68 64 | 71 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.50 8 | 37 points by 1659447091 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Assert(): A Modern How To (fiberfs.io)
    ×0.46 43 | 17 points by nyc_pizzadev 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.48 46 | 165 points by zdw 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.12 24 | 796 points by boplicity 2 days ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (stanford.edu)
    ×3.72 62 | 40 points by Doriell 5 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.29 52 | 215 points by m3h 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML (hivekit.io)
    ×1.69 39 | 39 points by wolframhempel 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.94 15 | 348 points by moelf 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    ×0.99 43 | 46 points by bgpdude 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
    ×4.17 6 | 202 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (njit.edu)
    ×1.04 35 | 41 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???