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  1. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.77 1 | 67 points by chiefalchemist 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.11 1 | 170 points by gwerbret 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    ×1.80 9 | 275 points by robinhouston 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch (nytimes.com)
    ×1.88 2 | 38 points by danso 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.54 6 | 526 points by stephen-hill 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
    ×2.10 1 | 97 points by tanelpoder 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    ×1.97 9 | 41 points by Nrbelex 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.14 6 | 184 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.57 11 | 69 points by sleepyguy 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.71 7 | 84 points by pavel_lishin 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.45 15 | 37 points by signa11 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
    ×1.74 3 | 18 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.48 9 | 547 points by calcifer 20 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.73 11 | 96 points by thehappyfellow 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.23 32 | 6 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (sebastianwick.net)
    ×1.28 12 | 63 points by ffin 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.33 12 | 73 points by varjag 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×2.02 12 | 164 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Desmond Morris has died (bbc.com)
    ×1.30 16 | 107 points by martey 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com/MartinGalway)
    ×1.16 21 | 160 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.29 10 | 130 points by Murfalo 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
    ×0.80 15 | 45 points by neo2006 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.69 19 | 148 points by adunk 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (luau.org)
    ×1.35 10 | 62 points by vrn-sn 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
    ×3.71 17 | 49 points by terminalbraid 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)
    ×2.13 17 | 107 points by jstrieb 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (feldera.com)
    ×2.16 22 | 36 points by gz09 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
    ×0.67 29 | 51 points by jxmorris12 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com/nakagami)
    ×1.02 21 | 113 points by mariuz 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.57 48 | 50 points by wslh 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (aresluna.org)
    ×1.93 24 | 277 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (github.com/yuvadm)
    ×2.42 16 | 343 points by pigeons 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (kevinlynagh.com)
    ×2.08 29 | 515 points by alcazar 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)
    ×11.74 33 | 375 points by skullone 3 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.50 8 | 93 points by srean 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (wordpress.com)
    ×0.90 41 | 70 points by keepamovin 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI (victortaelin.github.io)
    ×1.24 8 | 135 points by marvinborner 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default (hhh.hn)
    ×1.56 34 | 310 points by hhh 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Commenting and approving pull requests (jakeworth.com)
    ×1.17 17 | 83 points by jwworth 13 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.44 46 | 241 points by wise_blood 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×1.53 20 | 9 points by _-x-_ 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The mail sent to a video game publisher (gamefile.news)
    ×1.37 39 | 136 points by colinprince 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Humpback whales are forming super-groups (bbc.com)
    ×1.33 39 | 197 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Paraloid B-72 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.66 14 | 261 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Panipat: The rise of the Mughals (historytoday.com)
    ×0.86 50 | 57 points by Thevet 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (clad.you)
    ×0.90 38 | 128 points by arkadiuss 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.27 15 | 795 points by elffjs 1 day ago | 794 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. North American Millets Alliance (milletsalliance.org)
    ×0.39 69 | 11 points by num42 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.11 13 | 2034 points by impact_sy 1 day ago | 1548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Education must go beyond the mere production of words (ncregister.com)
    ×1.24 49 | 136 points by signor_bosco 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
    ×2.43 22 | 339 points by jamie-simon 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. HEALPix (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.81 27 | 51 points by hyperific 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. EFF Challenges Secrecy in Eastern District of Texas Patent Case (eff.org)
    ×2.23 7 | 10 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do (alash3al.github.io)
    ×1.89 33 | 160 points by alash3al 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Work with the garage door up (2024) (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.25 49 | 186 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.85 16 | 225 points by najmuzzaman 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×5.85 3 | 1558 points by rd 2 days ago | 1038 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to Implement an FPS Counter (vplesko.com)
    ×1.09 10 | 121 points by vplesko 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions (github.com/rockcat)
    ×2.10 5 | 25 points by rockcat12 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (blender.org)
    ×1.16 48 | 104 points by shankysingh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.06 37 | 84 points by mailyk 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)
    ×1.69 26 | 258 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Prediction Market Accuracy: Crowd Wisdom or Informed Minority? (ssrn.com)
    ×1.14 48 | 9 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com/niri-wm)
    ×3.18 51 | 219 points by nickjj 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations (gigazine.net)
    ×1.08 62 | 139 points by gslin 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)
    ×2.97 39 | 8 points by annjose 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
    ×4.57 24 | 377 points by nreece 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port (github.com/magiblot)
    ×1.97 8 | 191 points by andsoitis 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.52 28 | 169 points by Zta77 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×7.92 13 | 2284 points by Kaibeezy 3 days ago | 775 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. You don't want long-lived keys (argemma.com)
    ×1.06 65 | 77 points by kkl 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I'm done making desktop applications (2009) (kalzumeus.com)
    ×1.41 38 | 196 points by claxo 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be (craigmod.com)
    ×3.03 42 | 308 points by jen729w 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid (cnn.com)
    ×3.72 19 | 680 points by nkrisc 2 days ago | 736 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I Went to Jail (lincolnquirk.substack.com)
    ×2.97 22 | 8 points by Cider9986 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.35 10 | 17 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support (nickyreinert.de)
    ×5.91 38 | 936 points by y42 1 day ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)
    ×0.99 55 | 117 points by gregpr07 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hear your agent suffer through your code (github.com/AndrewVos)
    ×1.72 41 | 210 points by AndrewVos 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.97 28 | 28 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Email could have been X.400 times better (buttondown.com)
    ×1.44 35 | 229 points by maguay 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign (socket.dev)
    ×3.27 14 | 861 points by tosh 2 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower (eff.org)
    ×2.71 16 | 25 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. SDL Now Supports DOS (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×1.95 6 | 279 points by Jayschwa 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using the internet like it's 1999 (joshblais.com)
    ×1.49 56 | 253 points by joshuablais 2 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. $8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children (science.org)
    ×1.49 66 | 51 points by gmays 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.83 2 | 931 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in (2025) (politico.eu)
    ×3.67 78 | 20 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code (github.com/delta-hq)
    ×0.74 67 | 66 points by tejpalv 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The U.K. Smoking Ban Is Illiberal (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.71 21 | 15 points by JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???