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  1. Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)
    ×1.78 1 | 43 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.39 3 | 457 points by ent101 9 hours ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Slow Formation of Durable Software (dancohen.org)
    ×1.49 4 | 103 points by benbreen 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Telnet BBS Guide (telnetbbsguide.com)
    ×1.10 4 | 41 points by kmstout 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
    ×2.44 4 | 154 points by stared 2 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claude Haiku 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×3.68 3 | 963 points by sfkgtbor 20 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com)
    ×2.26 3 | 243 points by shahidhussain 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers (github.com/openai)
    ×4.46 2 | 223 points by theemathas 6 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Time Travel in Braid (2015) (qntm.org)
    ×1.36 6 | 34 points by Ariarule 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
    ×2.06 6 | 295 points by Muhammad523 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Margaret Hamilton has died (mit.edu)
    ×10.13 8 | 1870 points by muglug 17 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
    ×3.31 5 | 698 points by joshuawright11 20 hours ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't (science.org)
    ×1.59 16 | 239 points by pavel_lishin 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (theguardian.com)
    ×2.70 10 | 74 points by sonabinu 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (404media.co)
    ×1.57 17 | 209 points by gumby 15 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×3.04 15 | 314 points by 6bitquant 18 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (pkh.me)
    ×0.87 10 | 13 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Cleo (Mathematician) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.76 7 | 206 points by djoldman 14 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    ×2.99 4 | 589 points by SpeakingOfBrad 22 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Bloody Cavemen (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.55 43 | 26 points by Thevet 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.96 17 | 1297 points by OfficialTurkey 1 day ago | 1476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols (dat-ecosystem.org)
    ×0.58 34 | 32 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (nytimes.com)
    ×1.22 28 | 131 points by gumby 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents (ahmath.org)
    ×1.61 6 | 29 points by kkoncevicius 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' (theguardian.com)
    ×2.15 13 | 17 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Docker Agent (github.com/docker)
    ×1.60 18 | 274 points by saikatsg 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)
    ×0.61 28 | 34 points by Bluestein 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser (treylorswift.github.io)
    ×1.95 15 | 127 points by adunk 8 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
    ×1.13 33 | 168 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
    ×2.25 10 | 409 points by turrini 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.88 39 | 200 points by karakoram 23 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com/pingdotgg)
    ×1.59 21 | 94 points by jcbhmr 13 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser (pavel-krivanek.github.io)
    ×0.61 36 | 35 points by adamnemecek 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.48 15 | 9 points by danny00 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
    ×1.65 19 | 202 points by glinscott 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (readingchronicle.co.uk)
    ×1.64 36 | 218 points by librasteve 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
    ×2.26 10 | 329 points by nill0 23 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU (carette.xyz)
    ×1.13 26 | 98 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Calling a function in C without naming it (wiro.world)
    ×2.39 18 | 6 points by birdculture 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×2.28 18 | 299 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 (letsencrypt.org)
    ×2.46 47 | 17 points by allddd 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
    ×1.35 43 | 151 points by acossta 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Wood Tape (2004) (gamesbyemail.com)
    ×1.40 30 | 193 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (github.com/snuri00)
    ×1.90 33 | 208 points by sn001 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Will AI kill us all (virev.ai)
    ×1.18 42 | 17 points by krenerd 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The art of defusing a second world war bomb (theguardian.com)
    ×1.19 56 | 136 points by sandebert 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Brownian Motion (gregorygundersen.com)
    ×0.67 50 | 60 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
    ×1.12 43 | 121 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (chrome.com)
    ×2.33 10 | 556 points by AshleysBrain 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees (classaction.org)
    ×3.28 26 | 567 points by DeepLogin 23 hours ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.78 32 | 65 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here (tidesdb.com)
    ×0.86 34 | 59 points by alexpadula 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×7.38 17 | 2020 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 1204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The OLED Burn-In Test: 30-Month Update (techspot.com)
    ×2.13 21 | 19 points by baal80spam 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom)
    ×0.87 38 | 116 points by bluepeter 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (rswebsols.com)
    ×3.25 28 | 355 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools (agent.reviews)
    ×0.79 43 | 63 points by screm 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese (fiveminutesforward.com)
    ×0.74 54 | 92 points by Theory42 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines (mit.edu)
    ×0.83 45 | 73 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Clojure in the Age of Language Models (yogthos.net)
    ×1.09 39 | 13 points by silcoon 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. As We Become Cameras (2016) (thebrowser.com)
    ×0.46 37 | 9 points by rathertrue 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rust's derive often implies inline (yossarian.net)
    ×1.09 44 | 117 points by woodruffw 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.32 46 | 49 points by philipfweiss 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×3.07 15 | 550 points by IvanK_net 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ENIAC Programmers (2011) (columbia.edu)
    ×0.36 52 | 15 points by adunk 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com/szabadkai)
    ×1.96 6 | 395 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DuckDB Ducklake (github.com/duckdb)
    ×1.32 51 | 48 points by saikatsg 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.81 40 | 76 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing (flinders.edu.au)
    ×1.11 9 | 5 points by geox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artfrompixels.com)
    ×1.35 12 | 160 points by jasontr 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains (icann.org)
    ×0.77 54 | 37 points by ChrisArchitect 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Open source 160 sound visualization experiments (kagan.in)
    ×0.79 47 | 56 points by kaganin 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware (github.com/AL-255)
    ×0.94 40 | 68 points by 0bytes 23 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com/M-Abozaid)
    ×1.44 37 | 189 points by jayhoon 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×4.15 49 | 58 points by pyduan 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.62 5 | 297 points by sasvari 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. It's Probably Time to Start Worrying About the 4G LTE Shutdown Bricking Cars (thedrive.com)
    ×3.47 28 | 6 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mallet Head Angle (2011) (timberframe-tools.com)
    ×0.73 48 | 64 points by frogulis 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute (github.com/TerseAI)
    ×0.50 51 | 41 points by thomask1995 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew (github.com/zerobrewhq)
    ×1.80 43 | 96 points by cachebag 11 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What is Codemode (pocoo.org)
    ×1.23 42 | 151 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round) (creolened.com)
    ×3.68 50 | 28 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (sicpers.info)
    ×1.92 44 | 75 points by signa11 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Book Recommendations from Hacker News? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×1.57 40 | 31 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens (astrohelm.app)
    ×0.91 35 | 93 points by HeavenFox 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS (amazon.com)
    ×0.68 42 | 42 points by acronpolis 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mumsnet denies using AI for content after prompt appears on message board (theguardian.com)
    ×1.78 13 | 11 points by sp8 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The cost of lies: A Mineserver story (jeremyreimer.com)
    ×1.50 27 | 182 points by luu 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Pacer – will your AI coding subscription last until the reset? (github.com/dkremsa)
    ×0.72 46 | 9 points by dkremsa 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zed Editor, Docker Agent, ACP, but in a sandbox: running the agent with sbx (k33g.org)
    ×0.85 64 | 21 points by speckx 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???