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  1. Audacity 4.0 (github.com/audacity)
    ×4.37 2 | 714 points by ClydeN 5 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Sony makes bold claim about game ownership (aginggamer.net)
    ×2.35 7 | 38 points by speckx 27 minutes ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Grok Outage (x.ai)
    ×2.65 1 | 102 points by samaysharma 46 minutes ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.86 3 | 329 points by stacktrace 1 hour ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal (newsguild.org)
    ×2.67 11 | 54 points by ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×4.43 9 | 31 points by pavel_lishin 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open (ifm.ai)
    ×2.14 11 | 14 points by karimf 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Elevated Errors for Multiple Models (claude.com)
    ×2.15 | 185 points by __vivek 2 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×1.84 12 | 317 points by komape 9 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive (kciter.so)
    ×2.09 10 | 283 points by kciter 8 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory (medium.com)
    ×1.80 16 | 22 points by Mitchem 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
    ×2.26 2 | 72 points by thinkingemote 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Invisible Companies (colossus.com)
    ×1.23 11 | 108 points by ltononro 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down (macrumors.com)
    ×3.27 4 | 36 points by tosh 41 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026) (experimentalliving.substack.com)
    ×2.02 9 | 188 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Intrusive Linked Lists (data-structures-in-practice.com)
    ×0.84 14 | 57 points by tripdout 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Codex Is Down (github.com/openai)
    ×3.05 13 | 91 points by armcat 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×4.08 10 | 1124 points by bratao 1 day ago | 631 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.42 12 | 659 points by bvaldivielso 20 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face (nvidia.com)
    ×3.45 9 | 178 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.72 20 | 32 points by nycdatasci 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?
    ×3.40 16 | 73 points by halcdev 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
    ×2.27 33 | 492 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways (wusf.org)
    ×2.88 6 | 74 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Computer Museum of America reclamation project (computer-museum.org)
    ×0.79 39 | 87 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.42 5 | 38 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Holden's Lightning Flight (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.30 33 | 206 points by ColinWright 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (nytimes.com)
    ×2.13 21 | 449 points by donohoe 21 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food (lithub.com)
    ×1.00 11 | 73 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (mistral.ai)
    ×2.19 31 | 480 points by teekert 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com/PhiloLabs)
    ×1.96 23 | 314 points by surreal_ 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Anatomy of a Browser (medium.com)
    ×0.65 3 | 7 points by syumei 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex (werwolv.net)
    ×1.54 29 | 243 points by carlos-menezes 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016) (scienceblog.com)
    ×1.49 | 125 points by DamonHD 9 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (science.org)
    ×1.66 40 | 331 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.84 43 | 330 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
    ×0.60 64 | 80 points by lloydarmbrust 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wendell Berry has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.57 38 | 227 points by Curiositry 22 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)
    ×1.19 51 | 130 points by herobird 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic (ft.com)
    ×1.33 2 | 6 points by porridgeraisin 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Open AI X post on Astra (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×1.51 4 | 6 points by matthieu_bl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 29 | 104 points by MrOrelliOReilly 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat (linuxcompatible.org)
    ×1.12 80 | 4 points by qwertox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)
    ×1.65 37 | 293 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (medium.com)
    ×1.35 46 | 168 points by gumby 21 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux (chinaonchina.com)
    ×1.29 13 | 47 points by try-working 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×2.81 25 | 102 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards (clui.org)
    ×1.31 49 | 197 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond (reason.com)
    ×6.48 46 | 166 points by softwaredoug 1 hour ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)
    ×1.14 50 | 185 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)
    ×0.96 68 | 138 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say (theregister.com)
    ×1.97 16 | 18 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.20 49 | 131 points by torutofu 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022) (tweedegolf.nl)
    ×0.95 55 | 106 points by kooi 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×1.65 63 | 186 points by amunozo 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (gatesnotes.com)
    ×0.63 73 | 69 points by Eridanus2 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.32 51 | 41 points by EmiCorleone 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.32 38 | 5 points by asim 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai)
    ×1.49 33 | 117 points by ddp26 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.20 3 | 1401 points by denysvitali 1 day ago | 1361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex (openai.com)
    ×1.47 36 | 14 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)
    ×3.30 15 | 715 points by rwky 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini (lws.io)
    ×2.12 65 | 318 points by raybb 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
    ×1.79 63 | 253 points by Alephinitesimal 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero (aisle.com)
    ×1.62 38 | 175 points by goobreee 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.72 28 | 347 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway (qualityf2p.workers.dev)
    ×2.02 63 | 69 points by duck 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I wanna live an NPC life (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.95 9 | 275 points by conferza 20 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Paid Phones (thebaffler.com)
    ×1.34 | 7 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)
    ×0.89 71 | 89 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.02 35 | 409 points by tatersolid 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development (norirobotics.com)
    ×1.01 85 | 198 points by AntonioLi 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish? (404media.co)
    ×1.06 20 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas) (foaas.io)
    ×3.58 58 | 50 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. UN warns of 'supersized' El Niño as countries prepare for impact (bbc.com)
    ×2.79 2 | 9 points by blondie9x 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
    ×4.04 12 | 858 points by jatins 1 day ago | 1033 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Making the Internet Boring (cemrehancavdar.com)
    ×1.35 27 | 126 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods (nexusmods.com)
    ×1.37 42 | 122 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link (github.com/ankidroid)
    ×3.65 19 | 916 points by hexa555 2 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux (paint.net)
    ×2.23 7 | 203 points by judah 22 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (mozilla.org)
    ×3.10 34 | 580 points by HieronymusBosch 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Unified Arabic (worksthatwork.com)
    ×2.35 79 | 33 points by spacebuffer 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) (dougbarnesauthor.com)
    ×0.91 87 | 88 points by Vedor 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form (nooshu.com)
    ×0.74 75 | 38 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain (neuroai.science)
    ×0.96 67 | 52 points by pminimax 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.35 13 | 196 points by user_7832 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Check if a file was made with Claude (claude.com)
    ×1.81 20 | 180 points by frexs 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
    ×1.55 26 | 288 points by schmuhblaster 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence (worldlabs.ai)
    ×2.31 55 | 267 points by johnsutor 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???