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  1. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×7.59 | 1312 points by qwertox 6 hours ago | 720 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.98 1 | 68 points by moultano 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×4.23 1 | 153 points by mikece 2 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.31 5 | 315 points by tin7in 10 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
    ×4.42 1 | 598 points by mlex 7 hours ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Move tests to closed source repo (github.com/tldraw)
    ×1.07 6 | 21 points by nilsbunger 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (technically.dev)
    ×2.16 8 | 351 points by itunpredictable 13 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
    ×1.44 8 | 334 points by DamnInteresting 13 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com/Frikallo)
    ×0.85 8 | 12 points by noahkay13 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.25 1 | 191 points by alexmolas 9 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.70 25 | 103 points by sxmawl 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.67 5 | 199 points by littlexsparkee 7 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (openculture.com)
    ×0.91 18 | 48 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)
    ×3.90 10 | 53 points by LostMyLogin 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025) (coderush.me)
    ×0.57 25 | 45 points by transpute 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life (theguardian.com)
    ×1.92 3 | 250 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
    ×1.24 10 | 129 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
    ×1.20 8 | 173 points by spiffytech 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Demystifying Debuggers, Part 5: Instruction-Level Stepping and Breakpoints (dgtlgrove.com)
    ×0.55 206 | 3 points by ibobev 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
    ×1.01 17 | 91 points by ohjeez 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hacking Tauri for Designer (yujonglee.com)
    ×0.70 25 | 23 points by yujonglee 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.68 21 | 44 points by valyala 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.24 24 | 162 points by jasonpeacock 15 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps (stanford.edu)
    ×0.52 32 | 14 points by starkparker 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words (thecvf.com)
    ×0.48 41 | 42 points by teleforce 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×0.95 24 | 104 points by conesus 12 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.53 50 | 57 points by Humanista75 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
    ×0.85 20 | 89 points by flamestro 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
    ×3.54 22 | 526 points by davidbarker 13 hours ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Bending the CLOS Mop for Java-Style Single Dispatch (atgreen.github.io)
    ×0.63 15 | 8 points by atgreen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.48 29 | 140 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (combinatorprize.org)
    ×1.01 19 | 82 points by paraschopra 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (guidelabs.ai)
    ×0.78 39 | 65 points by luulinh90s 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.42 60 | 104 points by mikeayles 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.25 14 | 1222 points by hiisthisthingon 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×4.39 27 | 101 points by atombender 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.69 17 | 613 points by miki123211 19 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (dropsitenews.com)
    ×4.62 33 | 111 points by mikece 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022) (instadeq.com)
    ×0.42 65 | 5 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
    ×2.06 18 | 222 points by kvinogradov 12 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (scripps.edu)
    ×0.68 61 | 69 points by littlexsparkee 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
    ×1.37 4 | 296 points by smalltorch 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs (github.com/antoniorodr)
    ×1.47 38 | 27 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
    ×0.60 51 | 40 points by mst98 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go (github.com/jayu)
    ×0.51 39 | 38 points by jayu_dev 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 (PwC survey, n=4,454) (aishortcutlab.com)
    ×2.74 15 | 24 points by harran 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Preserving the Web Is Not the Problem. Losing It Is (techdirt.com)
    ×2.55 19 | 8 points by the-mitr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. You Just Need Postgres (youjustneedpostgres.com)
    ×2.46 38 | 47 points by olucasandrade 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.02 25 | 107 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code (zdnet.com)
    ×2.07 9 | 17 points by CrankyBear 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 64 | 69 points by Terretta 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
    ×2.87 27 | 145 points by Element_ 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)
    ×3.90 | 575 points by pie_flavor 1 day ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google Street View in 2026 (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.42 20 | 134 points by marklit 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Longest Line of Sight (tombh.co.uk)
    ×1.21 59 | 6 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (ieee.org)
    ×2.56 2 | 652 points by tintinnabula 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (apple.com)
    ×0.55 64 | 34 points by CharlesW 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
    ×1.30 53 | 212 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.68 37 | 4 points by shineDaPoker 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)
    ×0.87 59 | 87 points by simplegeek 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pentagon Laser Shoots Down Customs Border Patrol Drone in Texas (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.02 38 | 17 points by c420 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ralph Wiggum Explained: Stop Telling AI What You Want – Tell It What Blocks You (platform.uno)
    ×0.90 67 | 17 points by e12e 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
    ×2.37 27 | 334 points by nee1r 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (hillelwayne.com)
    ×0.74 53 | 41 points by azhenley 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (apple.com)
    ×2.28 26 | 103 points by throwfaraway4 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)
    ×2.81 1 | 462 points by iamskeole 1 day ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Om Programming Language (om-language.com)
    ×1.52 40 | 295 points by tosh 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. More Americans Under 55 Are Dying of Heart Attacks (wsj.com)
    ×3.05 16 | 8 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Emacs Is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor (thecloudlet.github.io)
    ×1.18 68 | 16 points by spudlyo 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Code Review Gets Better When I Ask Models to Debate: Claude, Gemini, Codex (milvus.io)
    ×0.78 62 | 14 points by Fendy 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com/KryDotExe)
    ×5.48 38 | 124 points by josephcsible 10 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
    ×2.11 55 | 554 points by wordglyph 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
    ×4.25 12 | 468 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)
    ×1.54 44 | 133 points by sech8420 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.75 26 | 37 points by meisnerd 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.79 13 | 418 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 624 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
    ×1.12 48 | 183 points by remywang 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Metacritic statement pledges to ban outlets that use AI-generated reviews (shacknews.com)
    ×1.90 14 | 26 points by cratermoon 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
    ×1.38 55 | 134 points by speckx 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26) (norlinder.nu)
    ×0.91 53 | 112 points by jonasn 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (windows.com)
    ×1.82 19 | 349 points by andreynering 1 day ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.09 20 | 121 points by Ulf950 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras (abc.net.au)
    ×2.77 41 | 13 points by ahonhn 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
    ×4.10 8 | 827 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Never buy a .online domain (0xsid.com)
    ×3.36 15 | 767 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.61 40 | 257 points by avh3 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (teamout.com)
    ×0.36 78 | 54 points by vincentalbouy 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
    ×1.13 43 | 214 points by __cayenne__ 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. First Website (1992) (cern.ch)
    ×1.55 4 | 303 points by shrikaranhanda 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???