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  1. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×2.03 1 | 165 points by faza 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 10 points by saisrirampur 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.57 12 | 326 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)
    ×1.78 2 | 98 points by chrka 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.62 9 | 664 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (theverge.com)
    ×1.02 15 | 55 points by herbertl 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×1.62 2 | 33 points by zetalyrae 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×7.96 4 | 1338 points by stock_toaster 18 hours ago | 722 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.91 16 | 64 points by poupeaua 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.40 26 | 30 points by xlmnxp 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
    ×2.90 4 | 59 points by reaperducer 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×1.93 16 | 266 points by chmaynard 20 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.28 20 | 144 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.17 24 | 245 points by CrankyBear 21 hours ago | 856 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)
    ×4.08 6 | 82 points by justswim 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.82 5 | 78 points by helsinkiandrew 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×1.07 31 | 51 points by rowbin 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)
    ×2.76 16 | 499 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.14 31 | 341 points by kschaul 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.31 8 | 168 points by mvdtnz 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.96 18 | 399 points by dmonay 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.85 63 | 7 points by achairapart 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×1.36 22 | 240 points by markus_zhang 22 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.20 32 | 86 points by chrwn 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.51 43 | 181 points by ethanpil 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.43 27 | 212 points by mytuny 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    ×1.91 38 | 192 points by aviaviavi 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.29 24 | 216 points by simonebrunozzi 23 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.97 34 | 105 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)
    ×3.10 7 | 32 points by sakshyampatro 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.36 20 | 880 points by vforno 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.23 19 | 584 points by randycupertino 21 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.24 33 | 176 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.97 18 | 495 points by scrlk 21 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.18 41 | 153 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive (html-drive.com)
    ×1.02 9 | 19 points by debamitro 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.41 17 | 178 points by NaOH 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.14 15 | 1114 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.68 21 | 226 points by speckx 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.43 37 | 89 points by djfergus 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    ×0.68 54 | 43 points by mpweiher 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch (windowslatest.com)
    ×6.53 35 | 13 points by GBiT 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.75 15 | 1532 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 1088 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers (windowscentral.com)
    ×3.35 14 | 30 points by pjmlp 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.08 48 | 134 points by Gedxx 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)
    ×0.75 43 | 77 points by dicroce 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.05 28 | 180 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
    ×0.94 26 | 28 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.14 13 | 1605 points by rapnie 2 days ago | 837 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.60 44 | 78 points by Asmod4n 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.75 56 | 85 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.62 46 | 210 points by tosh 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.58 57 | 63 points by jarodrh 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (expressnews.com)
    ×7.10 54 | 51 points by gscott 54 minutes ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)
    ×1.43 17 | 201 points by Bender 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
    ×2.30 16 | 218 points by imustachyou 20 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.85 29 | 41 points by dado3212 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.18 8 | 1380 points by djoldman 2 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)
    ×4.16 3 | 839 points by oumua_don17 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.57 42 | 54 points by jacobgraf 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
    ×0.99 38 | 61 points by handfuloflight 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Lindy effect in software (clemsau.com)
    ×0.88 19 | 31 points by ankitg12 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.05 55 | 95 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Dotenv-Diff v3.0.0 (github.com/Chrilleweb)
    ×0.53 45 | 8 points by chrillemn 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com/Cpp2Rust)
    ×1.20 40 | 55 points by signa11 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.08 45 | 65 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.69 1 | 246 points by kickingvegas 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. El Niño Is Wreaking Havoc on Pacific Fisheries (wired.com)
    ×2.96 10 | 14 points by beardyw 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Gary Kildall's Death Investigation (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.76 47 | 26 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×0.83 45 | 51 points by bdcravens 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.68 69 | 117 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)
    ×4.56 3 | 801 points by SweetSoftPillow 2 days ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ofcom Wants American Police to Collect Its Speech Fine (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.38 34 | 12 points by delichon 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Postgres locks do not scale (recall.ai)
    ×0.92 50 | 23 points by timetoogo 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.31 45 | 144 points by catalinvoss 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window (abralo.com)
    ×0.53 69 | 34 points by cwbuilds 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×2.91 4 | 281 points by smusamashah 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.12 45 | 181 points by mrl5 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.61 62 | 5 points by BerislavLopac 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×2.84 19 | 267 points by jeroenhd 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure (simpleflying.com)
    ×2.32 31 | 70 points by amelius 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Phobos – A tiny scale-free kernel language with tile-DAG support (joa-ebert.com)
    ×0.66 50 | 10 points by joajoa 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.63 42 | 46 points by Uptrenda 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.80 20 | 171 points by hbcondo714 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding (sxp.studio)
    ×0.78 46 | 23 points by tasoeur 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (economist.com)
    ×2.93 63 | 42 points by nlpnerd 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.15 4 | 321 points by jyunwai 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.65 5 | 1479 points by speerer 3 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hy3 (tencent.com)
    ×2.67 10 | 556 points by andai 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???