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  1. Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)
    ×2.30 | 110 points by dbushell 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.56 1 | 104 points by codetheweb 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
    ×1.75 7 | 288 points by personjerry 11 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers (gptzero.me)
    ×3.15 3 | 823 points by segmenta 17 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC (cannoneyed.com)
    ×4.06 1 | 887 points by cannoneyed 15 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware (wordpress.com)
    ×0.70 11 | 27 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? (eieio.games)
    ×2.79 2 | 438 points by eieio 13 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? (hugodaniel.com)
    ×3.68 | 511 points by hugodan 14 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation (qwen.ai)
    ×2.82 6 | 569 points by Palmik 18 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Bugs Apple Loves (bugsappleloves.com)
    ×7.01 8 | 548 points by nhod 6 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
    ×2.64 7 | 160 points by mustaphah 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes" (shreevatsa.net)
    ×2.83 8 | 430 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A gaming success story: how Warhammer became one of Britain's biggest companies (theguardian.com)
    ×1.29 15 | 20 points by GeoAtreides 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
    ×1.25 8 | 104 points by marklit 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
    ×1.30 6 | 103 points by timsneath 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Your app subscription is now my weekend project (rselbach.com)
    ×3.12 3 | 329 points by robteix 16 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters (github.com/malvarezcastillo)
    ×0.62 9 | 13 points by tsanummy 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)
    ×0.79 12 | 24 points by blenderob 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking (philipotoole.com)
    ×2.08 14 | 110 points by otoolep 4 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stunnel (stunnel.org)
    ×1.22 7 | 65 points by firesteelrain 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.82 10 | 132 points by BoorishBears 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. CSS Optical Illusions (alvaromontoro.com)
    ×1.25 10 | 176 points by ulrischa 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance
    ×0.35 73 | 39 points by kmajid 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
    ×1.59 10 | 119 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.06 27 | 77 points by schopra909 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.08 18 | 104 points by mikhael 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (science.org)
    ×1.15 15 | 129 points by colincooke 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels (yale.edu)
    ×3.96 15 | 590 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser (github.com/browseros-ai)
    ×0.88 40 | 63 points by felarof 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era (walters.app)
    ×0.72 20 | 52 points by zerf 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Design Thinking Books (2024) (designorate.com)
    ×1.53 10 | 283 points by rrm1977 20 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?
    ×0.38 44 | 8 points by siddhibansal9 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers (lambdaland.org)
    ×1.53 1 | 236 points by ashton314 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Keeping 20k GPUs healthy (modal.com)
    ×1.37 12 | 112 points by jxmorris12 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss (pdfa.org)
    ×1.23 31 | 152 points by whizzx 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 30 Years of ReactOS (reactos.org)
    ×2.15 17 | 250 points by Mark_Jansen 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing (zuernerd.github.io)
    ×1.23 9 | 63 points by Eduard 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce (adafruit.com)
    ×2.79 10 | 22 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.60 18 | 272 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market (pillser.com)
    ×1.92 46 | 65 points by lilouartz 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself (thomasunise.com)
    ×2.12 15 | 15 points by eeko_systems 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update (valueaddedresource.net)
    ×2.26 46 | 313 points by bdcravens 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives (anthropic.com)
    ×0.99 5 | 80 points by malshe 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×2.31 22 | 286 points by nickswalker 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Cscript Style Guide – CScript is the standard C (github.com/domenukk)
    ×1.08 3 | 16 points by domenukk 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills (mintlify.com)
    ×1.10 50 | 41 points by skeptrune 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story (wsj.com)
    ×3.43 32 | 24 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Captive Wi-Fi (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.09 9 | 24 points by nomilk 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter (projectlumen.app)
    ×0.95 48 | 79 points by anticlickwise 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?) (ilanbigio.com)
    ×1.11 8 | 63 points by ibigio 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 31 | 59 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Finland sets tougher guidelines: No social media or smartphones for under-13s (yle.fi)
    ×2.85 29 | 13 points by brylie 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Vibe a Guitar Pedal (polyend.com)
    ×1.23 1 | 29 points by mulhoon 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models (github.com/21st-dev)
    ×0.61 36 | 38 points by SerafimKorablev 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. United States Completes WHO Withdrawal (hhs.gov)
    ×7.97 52 | 86 points by Swizec 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake (space.com)
    ×1.81 74 | 61 points by thread_id 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans (bbc.com)
    ×1.85 36 | 102 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Miami, your Waymo ride is ready (waymo.com)
    ×2.22 11 | 76 points by ChrisArchitect 16 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker (visualnoise.ca)
    ×0.64 50 | 33 points by tevans3 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems (charap.co)
    ×0.67 43 | 14 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI" (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.99 6 | 119 points by marcyb5st 19 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: CLI for working with Apple Core ML models (github.com/schappim)
    ×0.87 17 | 42 points by schappim 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. In Praise of APL (1977) (jsoftware.com)
    ×0.71 43 | 94 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. FIPS dependencies and prebuilt binaries (docker.com)
    ×0.70 25 | 23 points by LaurentGoderre 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown (kentik.com)
    ×1.29 39 | 154 points by oavioklein 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bootstrapping Bun (walters.app)
    ×1.16 10 | 54 points by zerf 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant (mit.edu)
    ×4.34 23 | 666 points by misswaterfairy 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. City Weather Explorer (3D comparison) (awjuliani.github.io)
    ×1.17 31 | 33 points by emot 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.95 25 | 29 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 50 | 45 points by kerim-ca 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Lix – universal version control system for binary files (lix.dev)
    ×1.33 40 | 136 points by onecommit 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew (biblexica.com)
    ×1.85 42 | 39 points by epsteingpt 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete (huggingface.co)
    ×2.44 31 | 517 points by williamzeng0 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab (nytimes.com)
    ×1.30 33 | 29 points by philip1209 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source (adguard-vpn.com)
    ×1.54 41 | 194 points by kumrayu 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I'm writing an alternative to Lutris (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.98 61 | 13 points by death_eternal 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. JPEG XL Test Page (tildeweb.nl)
    ×1.52 36 | 237 points by roywashere 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off (eff.org)
    ×3.42 28 | 31 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Can you slim macOS down? (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.75 42 | 250 points by ingve 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
    ×0.69 6 | 15 points by everybodyknows 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal (github.com/davidbeesley)
    ×2.05 76 | 184 points by behnamoh 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The US national debt will soon be growing faster than the economy itself (fortune.com)
    ×3.99 46 | 13 points by testing22321 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
    ×0.62 2 | 5 points by xinbenlv 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How LLM agents solve the table merging problem (futuresearch.ai)
    ×1.21 33 | 24 points by ddp26 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households (apolloacademy.com)
    ×2.88 37 | 50 points by helsinkiandrew 20 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Figr – AI that thinks through product problems before designing (figr.design)
    ×0.77 66 | 10 points by Mokshgarg003 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Are you sure you want to leave YouTube? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×3.49 4 | 52 points by aendruk 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nested code fences in Markdown (susam.net)
    ×1.45 31 | 253 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying (karllorey.com)
    ×1.67 49 | 189 points by lorey 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???