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  1. Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure (tboteproject.com)
    ×3.31 | 222 points by rurban 2 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×2.92 3 | 589 points by armanified 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain (mining.com)
    ×3.42 | 239 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Gemma 4 on iPhone (apple.com)
    ×2.84 4 | 693 points by janandonly 17 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)
    ×3.51 11 | 555 points by naves 19 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon (moonrf.com)
    ×1.30 9 | 138 points by hillcrestenigma 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Intelligence Failure in Iran (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.76 3 | 27 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)
    ×1.80 2 | 131 points by karimf 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes (twitter.com/exQUIZitely)
    ×1.82 5 | 154 points by keepamovin 9 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
    ×0.99 11 | 56 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua (github.com/love2d)
    ×1.61 16 | 329 points by cl3misch 18 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
    ×1.67 1 | 257 points by nevernothing 12 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair (drop.com)
    ×1.27 22 | 50 points by stevebmark 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3) (lalitm.com)
    ×2.12 8 | 47 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal (github.com/maaslalani)
    ×1.33 17 | 103 points by _____k 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? (dw.com)
    ×3.85 14 | 122 points by KnuthIsGod 1 hour ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code (georgeliu.com)
    ×1.85 16 | 304 points by vbtechguy 19 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Signals, the push-pull based algorithm (willybrauner.com)
    ×1.11 11 | 72 points by mpweiher 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
    ×1.12 20 | 99 points by ikessler 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tiny Corp's Exabox (twitter.com/__tinygrad__)
    ×2.59 13 | 15 points by macleginn 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices? (ben.page)
    ×1.00 33 | 42 points by jer0me 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com/kdave)
    ×1.17 12 | 79 points by salt4034 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
    ×0.94 4 | 5 points by elC0mpa 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (sschueller.github.io)
    ×5.02 12 | 564 points by sschueller 18 hours ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net)
    ×1.94 11 | 228 points by merusame 18 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
    ×0.84 27 | 65 points by mohshomis 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Usenet Archives (usenetarchives.com)
    ×1.26 15 | 66 points by myth_drannon 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)
    ×3.27 17 | 275 points by thisislife2 12 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust (mattkeeter.com)
    ×1.02 28 | 173 points by g0xA52A2A 21 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com)
    ×3.51 13 | 821 points by brilee 23 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick (github.com/JuliusBrussee)
    ×3.09 7 | 790 points by tosh 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025) (umich.edu)
    ×1.04 30 | 153 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (bbc.com)
    ×1.92 5 | 491 points by mooreds 22 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs (github.com/salmanmohammadi)
    ×1.43 21 | 192 points by desideratum 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice (github.com/mikf)
    ×2.09 26 | 167 points by MoltenMonster 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stamp It: All programs must report their version (stapelberg.ch)
    ×0.50 66 | 18 points by gurjeet 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf] (github.com/Votuko)
    ×1.03 23 | 82 points by Ariarule 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5 (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.75 62 | 13 points by classichasclass 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network (friendi.ca)
    ×1.09 45 | 152 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.50 9 | 176 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenJDK: Panama (openjdk.org)
    ×1.15 51 | 59 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters (varun.ch)
    ×2.03 56 | 36 points by varun_ch 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NIMBY Rails (steampowered.com)
    ×1.97 17 | 21 points by altilunium 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (ergosphere.blog)
    ×4.60 26 | 887 points by zaikunzhang 1 day ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Baby's Second Garbage Collector (matheusmoreira.com)
    ×0.54 65 | 62 points by matheusmoreira 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (jaso1024.com)
    ×2.74 2 | 921 points by Jaso1024 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses (tandfonline.com)
    ×2.24 10 | 362 points by Growtika 23 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time (livescience.com)
    ×1.38 19 | 40 points by 01-_- 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022) (intelligentliving.co)
    ×0.88 58 | 117 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Women were never meant to give birth on their backs (bbc.com)
    ×1.97 40 | 47 points by ilt 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF (sazak.io)
    ×0.83 53 | 78 points by darccio 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic (latimes.com)
    ×3.75 30 | 174 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon (github.com/MidstallSoftware)
    ×1.19 47 | 139 points by rosscomputerguy 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter (newclawtimes.com)
    ×2.33 44 | 53 points by alvivanco 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI (github.com/sumant1122)
    ×0.58 59 | 51 points by paperplaneflyr 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function (opencode.de)
    ×3.01 2 | 554 points by DyslexicAtheist 1 day ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024) (kavliprize.org)
    ×0.35 60 | 36 points by everbody 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs (twitter.com/__tinygrad__)
    ×2.65 20 | 507 points by naves 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation (documentfoundation.org)
    ×2.09 19 | 184 points by eisa01 18 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OsintRadar – Curated directory for osint tools (osintradar.com)
    ×0.69 67 | 72 points by lexalizer 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rendering arbitrary-scale emojis using the Slug algorithm (leduyquang753.name.vn)
    ×0.53 35 | 15 points by leduyquang753 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go (lisette.run)
    ×1.39 7 | 260 points by jspdown 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown (laszlokorte.de)
    ×1.41 55 | 165 points by laszlokorte 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Spath and Splan (sumato.ai)
    ×0.38 76 | 11 points by jasonmoo 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input (contrapunk.com)
    ×0.86 48 | 112 points by waveywaves 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The end of password pain: building frictionless authentication at the Guardian (theguardian.engineering)
    ×1.39 19 | 6 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.79 74 | 114 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.34 8 | 1079 points by firloop 2 days ago | 818 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New Copilot for Windows 11 includes a full Microsoft Edge package, uses more RAM (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.20 2 | 33 points by aaronsung 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. My Google Workspace account suspension (zencapital.substack.com)
    ×3.04 31 | 355 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation (arxiv.org)
    ×2.14 10 | 643 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Shared mutable state in Rust (2022) (ryhl.io)
    ×0.57 59 | 46 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth (bbc.com)
    ×3.63 11 | 1062 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging – and how to stop it (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.51 3 | 16 points by mikhael 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rubysyn: Clarifying Ruby's Syntax and Semantics (github.com/squadette)
    ×0.53 60 | 71 points by petalmind 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy (phoronix.com)
    ×2.97 4 | 392 points by crcastle 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anthropic has a blacklist on the word "OpenClaw" (iili.io)
    ×1.98 11 | 17 points by benn67 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Make Humans Analog Again (bhave.sh)
    ×0.65 74 | 6 points by muunbo 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I stopped hitting Claude's usage limits – things I changed (twitter.com/0x_kaize)
    ×1.79 14 | 9 points by taubek 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.53 1 | 40 points by mikhael 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Endian wars and anti-portability: this again? (dalmatian.life)
    ×0.83 11 | 44 points by awilfox 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops (aomedia.org)
    ×0.63 66 | 54 points by breve 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google releases Gemma 4 open models (deepmind.google)
    ×6.12 12 | 1798 points by jeffmcjunkin 3 days ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf] (composerprogrammer.com)
    ×0.98 8 | 225 points by luu 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer (Hierarchical Spreadsheet) (strlen.com)
    ×1.30 57 | 12 points by n3t 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.96 50 | 377 points by m_km 23 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition (bbc.com)
    ×1.48 13 | 12 points by tmoravec 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (thenation.com)
    ×0.44 51 | 23 points by samclemens 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz (japantoday.com)
    ×2.25 25 | 153 points by vrganj 22 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???