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  1. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×6.92 | 1582 points by kibae 11 hours ago | 1348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×6.57 | 1588 points by pavel_lishin 15 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.44 1 | 509 points by altertable 11 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
    ×1.74 1 | 54 points by johntfella 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (gwern.net)
    ×1.07 4 | 56 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools (agentconnect.md)
    ×2.02 3 | 48 points by kaonashi-tyc-01 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.91 6 | 251 points by feb 11 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (mit.edu)
    ×1.70 2 | 60 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
    ×0.43 27 | 16 points by Sniffnoy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (discoverwildlife.com)
    ×1.58 12 | 208 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly (babyloniantwins.com)
    ×1.60 9 | 244 points by rabahs 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.41 18 | 158 points by thread_id 12 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models (ifm.ai)
    ×1.44 8 | 280 points by karimf 14 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out (armature.tech)
    ×1.87 2 | 158 points by screm 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
    ×2.81 7 | 535 points by thinkingemote 15 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
    ×0.63 27 | 12 points by fedecaccia 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×0.81 20 | 39 points by sukit 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)
    ×2.42 9 | 244 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys (vrypan.net)
    ×1.11 14 | 10 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Xanadu was waiting for agents (zed.dev)
    ×1.14 24 | 106 points by nsm 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Inside Colombia's Cocaine Factories (economist.com)
    ×0.39 79 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (cbc.ca)
    ×1.85 11 | 95 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (tasklet.ai)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom (jactl.io)
    ×0.61 35 | 20 points by jaccomo 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.81 7 | 96 points by gumby 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Unusual Suspects (neal.fun)
    ×1.38 | 140 points by beeperboy95 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.24 26 | 118 points by yurivish 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md)
    ×1.27 17 | 61 points by thekevintang 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The asteroid currently hitting front end web development (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.69 4 | 124 points by codechicago277 10 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions (yalereview.org)
    ×0.64 39 | 65 points by lermontov 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The browser's main thread is expensive (kciter.so)
    ×2.09 16 | 388 points by kciter 22 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How to get a free .arpa domain (hawksley.dev)
    ×1.36 30 | 132 points by ethanhawksley 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.26 17 | 191 points by vignesh_warar 10 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.09 17 | 357 points by halcdev 14 hours ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Static Allocation, Constant Work (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.95 23 | 113 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.95 46 | 88 points by jjgreen 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What I learned from my mom (1941-2026) (experimentalliving.substack.com)
    ×1.82 26 | 256 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Unified Arabic (worksthatwork.com)
    ×1.11 37 | 71 points by spacebuffer 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Invisible Companies (colossus.com)
    ×1.22 29 | 171 points by ltononro 19 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face (cnbc.com)
    ×2.62 9 | 307 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. VC isn't VC anymore (anildash.com)
    ×3.71 26 | 258 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014) (yahoo.com)
    ×1.26 51 | 153 points by DamonHD 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
    ×0.38 59 | 13 points by busymom0 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dextroproporphan: An Analogue for a Better Dextromethorphan? (monfak.top)
    ×0.60 48 | 32 points by znano 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. “We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy” (aresluna.org)
    ×0.64 42 | 56 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Working to Make Python Lazy (iscinumpy.dev)
    ×0.87 27 | 37 points by js2 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Audacity 4.0 (github.com/audacity)
    ×4.61 41 | 1089 points by ClydeN 19 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. LLMs and self-referentiality (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.14 94 | 73 points by mavdol04 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
    ×0.72 96 | 115 points by lloydarmbrust 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Parque Arqueológico do Solstício (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 72 | 57 points by nycdatasci 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary (zcu.cz)
    ×0.43 78 | 27 points by nairboon 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×2.26 11 | 307 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Intrusive linked lists (2019) (data-structures-in-practice.com)
    ×0.68 50 | 81 points by tripdout 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.70 15 | 49 points by Animats 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×1.81 5 | 387 points by komape 23 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. ITA Controlled English (CE) (github.com/ce-store)
    ×0.31 71 | 10 points by teleforce 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food (lithub.com)
    ×0.81 48 | 94 points by mooreds 21 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. My practical approach to surfing the web safely (molily.de)
    ×0.51 77 | 20 points by ethanhawksley 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Chinese Espionage Threat: Suspected Spy Drone Caught over Sensitive U.S. Missile (theyeshivaworld.com)
    ×2.31 25 | 9 points by pir8life4me 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Models Don't Go Rogue (cyberneticforests.com)
    ×1.01 37 | 17 points by cdrnsf 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×4.07 10 | 1143 points by bratao 1 day ago | 655 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade (nyc.gov)
    ×2.99 10 | 37 points by DeepLogin 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Computer Museum of America reclamation project (computer-museum.org)
    ×0.80 61 | 111 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom (tuta.com)
    ×4.53 24 | 118 points by krunck 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.97 96 | 91 points by JulianPGough 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB (smallrun.net)
    ×0.36 80 | 19 points by LouDNL 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.43 7 | 680 points by bvaldivielso 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (ssrn.com)
    ×2.53 60 | 15 points by Karrot_Kream 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't (ploum.net)
    ×3.36 49 | 242 points by speckx 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Move in C++ without a std:move (andreasfertig.com)
    ×0.65 63 | 39 points by dalvrosa 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Wikimedia Workers Overwhelmingly Win Union with 93% Yes Vote (wired.com)
    ×5.51 16 | 20 points by taftfartley 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel (nytimes.com)
    ×2.23 16 | 14 points by telotortium 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Claude for Commerce Agents (claude.com)
    ×1.26 59 | 60 points by ashazal 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Word42, a wordprocessor inspired by MS Word and Abiword (word42.org)
    ×1.87 10 | 4 points by roschdal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform (werwolv.net)
    ×0.84 64 | 20 points by WerWolv 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×2.80 13 | 17 points by throwaway_30yo 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 56 | 115 points by MrOrelliOReilly 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
    ×2.25 12 | 504 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.80 76 | 7 points by softwarewright 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal (newsguild.org)
    ×2.41 51 | 254 points by ChrisArchitect 16 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked) (worldofmatthew.com)
    ×0.44 68 | 22 points by worldofmatthew 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.63 69 | 8 points by fastest963 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)
    ×0.93 75 | 143 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×1.56 72 | 191 points by amunozo 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond (reason.com)
    ×5.66 57 | 244 points by softwaredoug 15 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.19 7 | 1405 points by denysvitali 2 days ago | 1372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.10 66 | 134 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Google WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
    ×1.13 66 | 19 points by matthieu_bl 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra (cnbc.com)
    ×4.52 75 | 256 points by maskil 11 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hugging Face open-sources Funes, a local-first memory layer for coding agents (huggingface.co)
    ×3.15 52 | 10 points by fourfire 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???