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  1. Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
    ×4.28 | 716 points by ibraheemdev 4 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com/KittenML)
    ×1.64 5 | 59 points by rohan_joshi 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
    ×0.94 10 | 108 points by defrost 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019) (consequence.net)
    ×1.32 6 | 153 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Shape of Inequalities (andreinc.net)
    ×0.78 11 | 41 points by nomemory 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (github.com/adamamyl)
    ×3.21 4 | 138 points by adamamyl 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Prompt Injecting Contributing.md (glama.ai)
    ×2.21 15 | 13 points by statements 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.72 9 | 51 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
    ×0.74 42 | 3 points by wweissbluth 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)
    ×6.19 7 | 841 points by antonymoose 7 hours ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com/traccar)
    ×0.88 13 | 25 points by tananaev 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
    ×0.35 32 | 6 points by Visweshyc 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata (hanseungwook.github.io)
    ×0.82 18 | 73 points by shmublu 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.56 14 | 278 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence (ramtrack.eu)
    ×1.42 22 | 31 points by nu11r0ut3 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (nytimes.com)
    ×4.20 12 | 348 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. World Happiness Report 2026 (worldhappiness.report)
    ×0.89 67 | 3 points by ChrisArchitect 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe (gitlab.com)
    ×2.16 23 | 445 points by mmastrac 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What if Python was natively distributable? (medium.com)
    ×0.51 35 | 9 points by bzurak 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 (ieee.org)
    ×0.91 41 | 87 points by baruchel 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Gluon: Explicit Performance (lei.chat)
    ×0.30 56 | 14 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
    ×1.49 7 | 87 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)
    ×3.75 4 | 725 points by matthest 16 hours ago | 865 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews (icml.cc)
    ×1.35 6 | 169 points by sergdigon 6 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. LotusNotes (computer.rip)
    ×1.28 39 | 157 points by TMWNN 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence (uni.lu)
    ×2.46 4 | 5 points by teleforce 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Preview of Coalton 0.2 (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.21 7 | 35 points by varjag 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Mavera – Predict audience response with GANs, not LLM sentiment (mavera.io)
    ×0.27 64 | 4 points by jaxline506 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com/alainnothere)
    ×1.73 26 | 211 points by xlayn 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)
    ×3.34 9 | 535 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf] (cwi.nl)
    ×0.66 25 | 69 points by ivanbelenky 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (susam.net)
    ×1.70 36 | 338 points by susam 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets (politico.com)
    ×1.15 7 | 47 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.90 45 | 360 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.56 46 | 193 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 'Your Frustration Is the Product' (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.31 25 | 246 points by llm_nerd 5 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)
    ×2.42 43 | 350 points by visiwig 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com/iliazintchenko)
    ×1.11 38 | 156 points by chaisan 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenRocket (openrocket.info)
    ×2.85 7 | 675 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)
    ×1.83 6 | 265 points by staticvar 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
    ×1.62 42 | 258 points by bblcla 23 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Twelve-Tone Composition (johndcook.com)
    ×0.47 47 | 25 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)
    ×2.81 8 | 218 points by adrianwaj 13 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Social media makes people unhappy – World Happiness Report (dw.com)
    ×1.36 1 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.87 51 | 70 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (unc.edu)
    ×3.67 1 | 950 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps (borderhold.io)
    ×0.65 56 | 48 points by sgolem 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks (mlbenchmarks.org)
    ×0.97 52 | 136 points by jxmorris12 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves (panoit.com)
    ×0.62 49 | 36 points by uelbably 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead (ndea.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)
    ×2.17 13 | 469 points by Stwerner 20 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.91 | 6 points by mywacaday 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)
    ×1.23 73 | 135 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. RX – a new random-access JSON alternative (github.com/creationix)
    ×1.24 31 | 128 points by creationix 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)
    ×1.25 40 | 187 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)
    ×1.45 68 | 128 points by jgalt212 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m (huggingface.co)
    ×2.81 21 | 400 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI Isn't Killing Developers–It's Creating a $10T Maintenance Crisis (rakiabensassi.substack.com)
    ×3.10 18 | 14 points by rakiabensassi 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (qualys.com)
    ×1.11 48 | 141 points by askl 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Canada slips in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use (cbc.ca)
    ×1.42 3 | 22 points by Fricken 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.50 75 | 36 points by dcre 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SereneDB's C++ search engine is the fastest on search benchmarks (serenedb.com)
    ×3.86 | 26 points by gnusi 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A comprehensive database of categories and their properties (catdat.app)
    ×1.09 75 | 34 points by mathgenius 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Ripl – A unified 2D/3D engine for Canvas, SVG, WebGPU, and the Terminal (ripl.rocks)
    ×0.65 79 | 5 points by andrewcourtice 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What 81,000 people want from AI (anthropic.com)
    ×2.75 29 | 173 points by dsr12 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 2025 Turing award given for quantum information science (acm.org)
    ×0.88 42 | 125 points by srvmshr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends (github.com/ndroo)
    ×0.70 53 | 81 points by verelo 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)
    ×3.16 2 | 470 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (reuters.com)
    ×3.43 55 | 221 points by geox 5 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer (nightingale.cafe)
    ×2.81 12 | 562 points by rzzzzru 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Top AI models underperform in languages other than English (economist.com)
    ×1.50 3 | 17 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TigerFS – A Filesystem Backed by PostgreSQL (tigerfs.io)
    ×1.24 83 | 40 points by hahahacorn 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen (xda-developers.com)
    ×1.84 24 | 19 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)
    ×1.52 61 | 169 points by apitman 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why Cloudflare rule order matters? (brzozowski.io)
    ×1.11 5 | 61 points by redfr0g 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A BEAM-native personal autonomous AI agent built on Elixir/OTP (github.com/thatsme)
    ×1.22 81 | 29 points by ahamez 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 74 | 190 points by aanet 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Using calculus to do number theory (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×1.08 52 | 129 points by cpp_frog 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mistral AI Releases Forge (mistral.ai)
    ×3.49 11 | 717 points by pember 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 4Chan attorney replies to UK Ofcom fine with picture of giant hamster (twitter.com/prestonjbyrne)
    ×5.73 53 | 18 points by timr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source (github.com/joaoh82)
    ×1.00 53 | 100 points by joaoh82 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.18 12 | 791 points by crtasm 2 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE (thijsverreck.com)
    ×0.81 45 | 83 points by thijsverreck 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) (om.co)
    ×2.14 13 | 255 points by aamederen 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Composer 2 (cursor.com)
    ×14.50 73 | 25 points by meetpateltech 43 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)
    ×2.42 15 | 399 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video] (twitter.com/toddsaunders)
    ×1.11 74 | 28 points by mighty-fine 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. FastAPI-compatible Python framework with Zig HTTP core; 7x faster (github.com/justrach)
    ×0.82 76 | 20 points by vaibhav3002 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel (rovarma.com)
    ×1.22 63 | 161 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A Decade of Slug (terathon.com)
    ×2.87 1 | 738 points by mwkaufma 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???