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  1. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×2.63 2 | 539 points by cbeuw 12 hours ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. List animals until failure (rose.systems)
    ×2.49 1 | 72 points by l1n 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.10 6 | 24 points by marojejian 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/DataDog)
    ×1.31 7 | 21 points by tanelpoder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
    ×1.91 10 | 103 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
    ×1.29 6 | 112 points by ColinWright 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Sparse File LRU Cache (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
    ×0.89 40 | 10 points by paladin314159 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
    ×1.16 10 | 43 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.36 2 | 171 points by CrossVR 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.56 4 | 110 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
    ×1.47 17 | 76 points by behnamoh 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 29 | 67 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)
    ×1.22 7 | 103 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M (rrauction.com)
    ×1.66 8 | 43 points by qingcharles 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×0.94 18 | 81 points by ritvikarya98 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? (webkit.org)
    ×1.29 21 | 12 points by feross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)
    ×1.65 9 | 120 points by Antibabelic 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)
    ×5.69 14 | 555 points by Teever 12 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×3.25 2 | 170 points by schlichtm 23 hours ago | 816 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.84 29 | 126 points by qmr 14 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×2.00 42 | 5 points by merelysounds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.05 8 | 66 points by zaptrem 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ferrari vs. Markets (enigmatechnologies.dev)
    ×0.97 25 | 49 points by merinid 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
    ×0.63 33 | 10 points by 1970-01-01 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) (nmn.sh)
    ×2.47 24 | 255 points by behnamoh 7 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (apple.com)
    ×2.15 8 | 150 points by pieterr 13 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)
    ×1.13 29 | 51 points by doener 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. CPython Internals Explained (github.com/zpoint)
    ×1.49 10 | 184 points by yufiz 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Browser Agent Benchmark: Comparing LLM models for web automation (browser-use.com)
    ×0.65 51 | 4 points by MagMueller 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)
    ×1.65 36 | 149 points by csmantle 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I dropped my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro from 6th floor balcony to the street (ercanermis.com)
    ×3.76 4 | 10 points by ermis 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Best of Moltbook (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.20 10 | 34 points by feross 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. History of the browser user-agent string (2008) (webaim.org)
    ×0.55 30 | 15 points by smushy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Automatic Programming (antirez.com)
    ×2.83 16 | 209 points by dvrp 19 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.22 23 | 159 points by verzali 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.39 23 | 165 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications (github.com/bootlin)
    ×1.70 27 | 17 points by transpute 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS (genode.org)
    ×0.89 5 | 112 points by doener 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)
    ×2.00 15 | 105 points by novaRom 10 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die (corememory.com)
    ×1.53 21 | 40 points by trothamel 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pre-Steal This Book (seths.blog)
    ×1.15 74 | 3 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.60 26 | 173 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles (cnbc.com)
    ×3.58 46 | 264 points by pera 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
    ×0.88 59 | 88 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: An extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications (github.com/narwhal-io)
    ×0.70 38 | 36 points by ortuman 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev (somehowmanage.com)
    ×1.32 32 | 144 points by Ozzie_osman 22 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×2.05 16 | 106 points by andylizf 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) (archaeologyworlds.com)
    ×0.95 31 | 139 points by griffzhowl 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency (globalping.io)
    ×1.35 3 | 211 points by jimaek 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)
    ×1.44 11 | 80 points by teej 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SQLite Is a Self Contained System (sqlite.org)
    ×1.97 54 | 24 points by whatisabcdefgh 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones (simedw.com)
    ×2.10 2 | 439 points by simedw 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) (jaisenmathai.com)
    ×2.07 7 | 268 points by jmathai 23 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)
    ×2.56 39 | 97 points by breve 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Phage Explorer (phage-explorer.org)
    ×0.90 40 | 116 points by eigenvalue 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit (twitter.com/PimDeWitte)
    ×1.26 73 | 24 points by lebek 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Does JIT Go Brrr? (doesjitgobrrr.com)
    ×0.78 79 | 4 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023) (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×1.20 42 | 115 points by OgsyedIE 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.97 13 | 140 points by zeristor 19 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native (theregister.com)
    ×6.24 53 | 726 points by jamesblonde 19 hours ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE (404media.co)
    ×4.18 24 | 22 points by juujian 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. This Year in LLVM (2025) (npopov.com)
    ×1.61 7 | 36 points by asb 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.73 41 | 11 points by feross 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Direct Current Data Centers (wordpress.com)
    ×1.09 43 | 62 points by jk_tech 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation (wordpress.com)
    ×1.49 65 | 5 points by vermaden 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Secure erase for Samsung PM951 NVMe drive (2024) (peterbabic.dev)
    ×1.15 77 | 4 points by transpute 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Synth Town (synth.town)
    ×1.19 50 | 14 points by count_zero 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The hunt for Benchmark Modula-2 (2018) (amigasourcepres.gitlab.io)
    ×0.31 64 | 5 points by archargelod 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings (antirender.com)
    ×6.38 60 | 1795 points by iambateman 1 day ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) (mvdirona.com)
    ×0.60 61 | 78 points by onurkanbkrc 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. HTTP Cats (http.cat)
    ×3.06 4 | 561 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Coding is when we're least productive (wordpress.com)
    ×1.52 50 | 75 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Post-a-molt: Post to Moltbook directly using the public REST API (github.com/shash42)
    ×1.96 14 | 21 points by shash42 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Moltbook is exposing their database to the public (twitter.com/theonejvo)
    ×4.86 29 | 14 points by taytus 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site (404media.co)
    ×3.36 2 | 14 points by 8ig8 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent (peerweb.lol)
    ×1.64 1 | 363 points by dtj1123 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×3.91 9 | 503 points by Wilsoniumite 1 day ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Self Driving Car Insurance (lemonade.com)
    ×1.07 48 | 141 points by KellyCriterion 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenClaw security assessment [pdf] (zeroleaks.ai)
    ×1.96 75 | 58 points by nreece 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ingress Nginx: Statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Committees (kubernetes.io)
    ×2.16 9 | 16 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. High-res nanoimprint patterning of quantum-dot LEDs via capillary self-assembly (nature.com)
    ×1.66 9 | 5 points by westurner 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice (wsj.com)
    ×3.22 13 | 346 points by pixelesque 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.77 51 | 86 points by tzury 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents (github.com/amlalabs)
    ×0.72 44 | 143 points by souvik1997 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ashcan Comic (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.54 42 | 53 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Film students who can no longer sit through films (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.09 43 | 116 points by haunter 13 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares (reddit.com)
    ×2.14 22 | 22 points by dcu 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.37 12 | 720 points by franczesko 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×1.85 5 | 370 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???