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  1. Road to Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org)
    ×2.85 | 87 points by wolfadex 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network (signalbox.io)
    ×2.22 | 219 points by scrlk 3 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Workers Cache (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.69 2 | 13 points by ilreb 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution (surrey.ac.uk)
    ×0.85 15 | 12 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×1.92 5 | 346 points by mfiguiere 11 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Introduction to Genomics for Engineers (learngenomics.dev)
    ×1.72 2 | 92 points by yreg 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (breef.com)
    ×2.58 14 | 6 points by hasudon7171 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Has_not_been_viewed_much (iamwillwang.com)
    ×2.47 3 | 369 points by wxw 13 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (theregister.com)
    ×2.64 6 | 57 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped (uncommonapps.nyc)
    ×2.59 5 | 214 points by dabluck 10 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty (ieee.org)
    ×1.42 4 | 39 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.68 10 | 594 points by popcar2 22 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide (joshuaclifton.com)
    ×1.18 3 | 31 points by mrauha 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. "Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005) (archive.org)
    ×2.50 10 | 39 points by abrbhat 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.38 11 | 66 points by Semkas 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenPrinter (opentools.studio)
    ×4.80 10 | 982 points by bouh 16 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.) (earth.tattoo)
    ×0.56 24 | 10 points by earth-tattoo 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study (arxiv.org)
    ×1.62 16 | 160 points by softwaredoug 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. X402, a static blog monetization excercise (shtein.me)
    ×0.54 30 | 8 points by morty28 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My quest to see all of Tetris (antithesis.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 37 points by wwilson 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
    ×1.34 10 | 198 points by homegamesjoseph 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected (reuters.com)
    ×3.09 25 | 287 points by cwwc 22 hours ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Private Capture of Public Genius (wysr.xyz)
    ×1.75 12 | 141 points by martialg 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Starring the Computer (starringthecomputer.com)
    ×1.62 16 | 257 points by gitowiec 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Completing a computer science degree on Coursera (notesbylex.com)
    ×1.92 2 | 236 points by lexandstuff 16 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)
    ×2.52 2 | 364 points by croes 19 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI (arxiv.org)
    ×2.12 15 | 19 points by jonbaer 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×4.37 16 | 1073 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (bbc.com)
    ×1.01 47 | 5 points by msadowski 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)
    ×1.63 15 | 201 points by jfil 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Vacuum at the Page Level (boringsql.com)
    ×0.60 40 | 6 points by radimm 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (uu.nl)
    ×1.10 21 | 170 points by jonahbard 18 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)
    ×1.67 26 | 143 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30 (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.41 17 | 6 points by bookofjoe 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
    ×1.21 27 | 102 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×1.76 25 | 201 points by thm 21 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Sneakerweb (sneakerweb.org)
    ×1.27 9 | 78 points by GalaxyNova 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming (geastack.com)
    ×1.13 5 | 88 points by arbayi 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Modernizing a 25-year-old minimal C++ unit testing framework (Part 2) (freshsources.com)
    ×0.48 48 | 21 points by chuckallison 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
    ×0.90 48 | 121 points by jandeboevrie 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.18 26 | 99 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world (github.com/514-labs)
    ×0.95 28 | 74 points by Callicles 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG (dhilst.github.io)
    ×0.82 30 | 72 points by SchwKatze 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. You need a webring (shub.club)
    ×0.97 33 | 89 points by forthwall 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What we learned when a user tried to load a 1 GB GML file in a browser (geodataviewer.com)
    ×1.10 31 | 18 points by twainyoung 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Defeat air-gapped systems by exfiltrating data using Apple Find My network (github.com/HouzuoGuo)
    ×1.46 51 | 8 points by austinallegro 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. South Korea's hottest new bachelors are chip workers (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.15 18 | 10 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×2.05 48 | 94 points by neilfrndes 22 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.62 7 | 4 points by melvinroest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History (brennan.day)
    ×0.99 25 | 51 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.26 42 | 111 points by kiyanwang 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Veteran Coder, Modern Delivery: The Hunt for the Perfect Technical TPM Role (mariusb.net)
    ×0.88 75 | 5 points by mariusb16 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D (modelmap.tech)
    ×0.52 31 | 15 points by afunk 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (cerast-intelligence.com)
    ×0.68 52 | 45 points by PatchRequest 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)
    ×0.98 56 | 67 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership (lethain.com)
    ×0.94 87 | 5 points by kiyanwang 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown (qount25.dev)
    ×0.93 32 | 27 points by usrbinenv 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Inventor, Mother, Creator: Grace Hopper (2025) (planetmainframe.com)
    ×1.16 64 | 26 points by stmw 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
    ×0.73 50 | 90 points by hyperific 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)
    ×1.09 72 | 39 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS (arp242.net)
    ×0.85 33 | 53 points by mrngm 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day (laphamsquarterly.org)
    ×0.61 50 | 19 points by tintinnabula 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.01 42 | 141 points by enz 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978) (kamprint.com)
    ×1.34 39 | 34 points by iamnothere 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)
    ×0.98 55 | 91 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (adexchanger.com)
    ×1.14 57 | 44 points by WaitWaitWha 18 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Split Personality (pgedge.com)
    ×0.45 97 | 3 points by rellem 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects (stephendiehl.com)
    ×1.16 57 | 29 points by azkalam 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.96 5 | 671 points by asronline 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills (readtheline.ca)
    ×1.96 42 | 157 points by ClearwayLaw 13 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
    ×1.89 16 | 304 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
    ×0.89 46 | 139 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)
    ×1.03 35 | 100 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Android is almost dead – OSnews (osnews.com)
    ×4.43 37 | 48 points by abdelhousni 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×1.40 16 | 180 points by cenazoic 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.22 16 | 567 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
    ×1.31 25 | 145 points by ustad 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×1.55 41 | 113 points by enz 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Platonic Hydrocarbons (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 28 | 16 points by chriskw 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
    ×0.69 54 | 51 points by matteocontrini 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)
    ×6.26 43 | 449 points by stavros 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The AI Compass Quiz (bambamramfan.github.io)
    ×1.31 18 | 35 points by ai_critic 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Forlorn Hope of Fortran Modernisation (amenzwa.github.io)
    ×0.82 26 | 26 points by Elzair 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Lean Software Scaling Laws (gwern.net)
    ×1.06 45 | 23 points by gmays 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)
    ×1.17 14 | 53 points by bryanrasmussen 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Moby Dick Workout (2022) (hogbaysoftware.com)
    ×1.08 51 | 106 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×0.75 81 | 11 points by rowbin 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Connections in Math: the two kinds of random (stillthinking.net)
    ×0.70 7 | 47 points by pcael 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.24 54 | 109 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???