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  1. I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)
    ×1.35 | 152 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (wordpress.com)
    ×2.62 1 | 149 points by moultano 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Data Compression Explained (2012) (mattmahoney.net)
    ×1.07 8 | 136 points by mtdewcmu 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. There are no instances in ATProto (overreacted.io)
    ×2.06 11 | 459 points by danabramov 20 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Can you see three trees? (not-ship.com)
    ×2.02 13 | 131 points by Pamar 11 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (ibm.com)
    ×0.94 18 | 61 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
    ×4.92 22 | 204 points by oshrimpton 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.01 22 | 118 points by KraftyOne 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.49 24 | 34 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    ×4.28 6 | 839 points by ck2 18 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How many of the 170k English words do you know? (us-west1.run.app)
    ×2.94 10 | 386 points by abnry 21 hours ago | 479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (reuters.com)
    ×3.87 10 | 691 points by ilreb 15 hours ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (jvm-weekly.com)
    ×2.45 12 | 598 points by philonoist 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years (arcadeheroes.com)
    ×0.65 33 | 20 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (legacy.com)
    ×3.42 9 | 387 points by pgrote 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (space.com)
    ×2.08 11 | 92 points by y1n0 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)
    ×1.14 21 | 83 points by EvgeniyZh 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)
    ×1.45 40 | 87 points by jwilk 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Egyptian Fractions (2006) (plover.com)
    ×0.99 32 | 98 points by luu 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Visiting the History of Computing and Play (arbesman.substack.com)
    ×0.59 43 | 5 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×2.45 47 | 23 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research (jxmo.io)
    ×1.46 35 | 261 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. John Jumper to join Anthropic (twitter.com/JohnJumperSci)
    ×1.82 13 | 142 points by artninja1988 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk (dfdxlabs.com)
    ×1.19 61 | 151 points by mplappert 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Court Records Should Be Free (eff.org)
    ×4.02 13 | 383 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets (metiq.space)
    ×1.01 26 | 127 points by rakeda 20 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Telescope Ranchers (kottke.org)
    ×0.98 29 | 126 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (digitalorientalist.com)
    ×1.03 20 | 58 points by a_t48 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ten years of ClickHouse in open source (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.98 12 | 310 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)
    ×2.85 19 | 419 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 724 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Big Banana Car (bigbananacar.com)
    ×1.78 | 156 points by Bender 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers (github.com/ascorbic)
    ×1.24 51 | 22 points by gurjeet 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.53 10 | 115 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)
    ×1.85 18 | 204 points by Bender 14 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Designing a backyard deck for my house (cosmin.cloud)
    ×1.06 9 | 18 points by spycraft 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.88 43 | 409 points by ksec 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.42 43 | 272 points by niyikiza 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (kentbeck.com)
    ×2.55 31 | 175 points by rrvsh 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How to feed a dictator (theguardian.com)
    ×1.54 30 | 142 points by Michelangelo11 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart (arun.is)
    ×1.14 52 | 183 points by ddrmaxgt37 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)
    ×0.82 23 | 24 points by adrianhon 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access (fromprod.com)
    ×4.23 32 | 487 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks (thinkwright.ai)
    ×1.64 60 | 34 points by oceanwaves 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech (eff.org)
    ×2.65 27 | 281 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Zenzizenzizenzic (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.66 17 | 105 points by gyosifov 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.67 4 | 953 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DuckDB Internals Part 1 (greybeam.ai)
    ×2.11 8 | 452 points by marklit 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty (elenarossini.com)
    ×1.26 51 | 262 points by nemoniac 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.46 55 | 213 points by realmofthemad 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How Alberta Eradicated Rats (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.38 59 | 196 points by tzury 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Midjourney Medical (midjourney.com)
    ×5.33 6 | 1344 points by ricochet11 2 days ago | 869 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents (eff.org)
    ×2.63 12 | 73 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy (wired.com)
    ×1.07 60 | 138 points by dstala 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We built a lab to evaluate data agents – Hex (hex.tech)
    ×0.88 54 | 11 points by haritha1313 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.09 43 | 146 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.68 69 | 125 points by okwasniewski 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems (americanexpress.io)
    ×0.93 49 | 149 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science (elizabethginexi.substack.com)
    ×4.39 21 | 65 points by tacomonstrous 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? (dancemagazine.com)
    ×1.01 61 | 8 points by onemind 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand (flexport.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018) (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 40 | 51 points by kioku 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.87 49 | 97 points by mfornet 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)
    ×4.52 4 | 1254 points by regnerba 2 days ago | 676 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hide Secrets from AI Agents and NPM install using Airgap (sauleau.com)
    ×0.79 46 | 19 points by netgusto 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×0.44 57 | 29 points by amaldavid 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.48 11 | 448 points by turtlesoup 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets (ft.com)
    ×2.79 33 | 114 points by fandorin 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git (nelson.cloud)
    ×3.07 1 | 576 points by FergusArgyll 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly (windowslatest.com)
    ×5.11 19 | 732 points by Adam-Hincu 1 day ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI (twitter.com/NoamShazeer)
    ×2.14 7 | 352 points by lukasgross 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I hate compilers (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.16 58 | 172 points by xena 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (cornell.edu)
    ×2.09 10 | 439 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.76 63 | 224 points by trymas 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How to lose a war in three easy steps (ft.com)
    ×3.35 39 | 29 points by Alien1Being 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK (mroczek.dev)
    ×0.96 49 | 115 points by lackoftactics 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/Adam-CAD)
    ×0.99 66 | 211 points by zachdive 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle (mameworld.info)
    ×1.11 56 | 143 points by ingve 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (agenticresourcediscovery.org)
    ×0.68 63 | 74 points by damick 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reinventing the Renaissance (drb.ie)
    ×0.64 35 | 38 points by Petiver 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia (dpolakovic.space)
    ×0.90 46 | 88 points by dpola 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Aikido Code Audit (aikido.dev)
    ×0.83 20 | 34 points by ilreb 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×2.21 6 | 461 points by frou_dh 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×3.72 24 | 460 points by speckx 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? (nyu.edu)
    ×0.54 39 | 11 points by hhs 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
    ×5.49 4 | 1568 points by jfb 3 days ago | 601 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall (elastic.co)
    ×0.91 52 | 113 points by showmypost 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Glassblowing #2: Making a tungsten lamp and (bad) vacuum diode (maurycyz.com)
    ×0.83 43 | 10 points by thomasjb 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost (kcl.ac.uk)
    ×1.49 8 | 338 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (alexellis.io)
    ×2.63 6 | 481 points by alphabettsy 2 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. DeepSeek Introduces Vision (deepseek.com)
    ×2.63 3 | 492 points by RIshabh235 2 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???