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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×4.02 | 298 points by paveworld 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why don't more developers "use the platform"? (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.50 2 | 38 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×2.84 4 | 108 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.19 2 | 328 points by elffjs 5 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.46 5 | 205 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.44 5 | 134 points by CosmoWenman 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.54 2 | 263 points by trwhite 11 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
    ×1.99 9 | 108 points by kmeh 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (whec.com)
    ×1.48 12 | 174 points by gscott 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.56 2 | 129 points by citelao 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
    ×3.56 5 | 557 points by bastitx 19 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
    ×0.98 11 | 40 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 24 | 24 points by bobajeff 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×0.65 20 | 19 points by effects 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The characters of plastics (2024) (yarchive.net)
    ×0.40 14 | 12 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
    ×1.22 9 | 161 points by romac 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.75 37 | 43 points by Gorsefound 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken (theatlantic.com)
    ×8.59 23 | 136 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.40 28 | 35 points by rkagerer 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
    ×1.21 12 | 60 points by simonjgreen 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (runescape.com)
    ×1.57 6 | 12 points by droidjj 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.92 16 | 85 points by edverma2 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (darbiansphotography.com)
    ×1.00 21 | 134 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
    ×0.93 15 | 52 points by computerbuster 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. New York City should carefully measure a new tree (willmeye.rs)
    ×1.06 3 | 64 points by willmeyers 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (recoil.org)
    ×0.72 31 | 30 points by avsm 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.99 24 | 388 points by sbulaev 7 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com/andreasfertig)
    ×1.25 27 | 151 points by rramadass 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    ×0.87 27 | 48 points by KomoD 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to hack time, with C2PA (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×0.73 27 | 29 points by Retr0id 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Softmax function and its derivative (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.77 29 | 23 points by costco 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×2.43 27 | 55 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.59 46 | 17 points by shannadige 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.09 31 | 73 points by nor-and-or-not 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
    ×2.25 23 | 197 points by saikatsg 11 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.50 17 | 112 points by geoffbp 10 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.55 37 | 18 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version (github.com/google)
    ×0.78 21 | 27 points by xnx 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.49 28 | 190 points by est 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul (twitter.com/robertvaradan)
    ×1.86 17 | 9 points by robertvaradan 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Holes (1996-2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.88 46 | 47 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (red5.net)
    ×0.76 44 | 37 points by mondainx 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos (nature.com)
    ×0.54 46 | 39 points by bryanrasmussen 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Haunted by the ghosts of materialism (coredump.cx)
    ×0.88 20 | 22 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.41 23 | 25 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (apple.com)
    ×2.39 29 | 294 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com/graphene-data)
    ×0.65 37 | 28 points by kcmarr 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
    ×2.28 15 | 196 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (eff.org)
    ×3.20 1 | 782 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. To grieve, or not to grieve? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.28 78 | 160 points by stabbles 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (newgrounds.com)
    ×2.20 10 | 440 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Muse Gadgets (muse.ai)
    ×1.66 31 | 241 points by anant 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Robert X Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.52 9 | 9 points by JMiao 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows (kagi.com)
    ×1.70 8 | 181 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tiny Brutalism (itch.io)
    ×1.97 55 | 191 points by abetusk 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (nytimes.com)
    ×3.41 11 | 654 points by CoryOndrejka 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
    ×1.19 5 | 66 points by elffjs 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
    ×1.59 53 | 305 points by pietroppeter 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    ×2.84 24 | 88 points by Anon84 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.43 10 | 44 points by TeaVMFan 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Extra Big Ass Intelligence (extrabigassintelligence.com)
    ×4.12 31 | 490 points by 34679 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business (thebulletin.org)
    ×1.86 13 | 7 points by paimapi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple Pass Designer (apple.com)
    ×2.39 12 | 546 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (behindthecode.ca)
    ×1.20 49 | 76 points by paulgerhardt 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
    ×2.12 23 | 58 points by samch 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
    ×2.05 5 | 394 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) (yuka.dev)
    ×1.59 4 | 260 points by signa11 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)
    ×1.28 39 | 145 points by antelocnova 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
    ×2.04 3 | 359 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's (christies.com)
    ×0.97 61 | 84 points by peter_hansteen 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
    ×0.92 52 | 91 points by schonfinkel 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (2025) (jaredpalmer.com)
    ×2.05 22 | 22 points by ilreb 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.54 52 | 33 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Billions of triangles redux (zeux.io)
    ×0.70 61 | 51 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
    ×2.41 2 | 428 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers (agostbiro.net)
    ×1.27 40 | 125 points by abiro 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
    ×0.91 55 | 79 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings (github.com/networkx)
    ×0.83 66 | 4 points by adsharma 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology (oki.com)
    ×0.92 51 | 53 points by luu 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.69 57 | 47 points by sdko 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. On building a worm detector (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.58 38 | 33 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.93 6 | 328 points by usernomdeguerre 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. F.02 Decommission (figure.ai)
    ×1.09 44 | 88 points by ad_hockey 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com/kitao)
    ×1.13 42 | 95 points by kitao 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster (reddit.com)
    ×3.23 51 | 24 points by thunderbong 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×6.38 6 | 1695 points by bradleyg223 3 days ago | 1180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 (dwarfstar.sh)
    ×2.22 18 | 345 points by fibo 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
    ×1.90 29 | 386 points by razin 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
    ×2.25 8 | 374 points by alstonite 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???