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  1. Internet Archive Switzerland (internetarchive.ch)
    ×2.19 | 143 points by hggh 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×5.16 3 | 1220 points by anonymousiam 19 hours ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
    ×1.18 7 | 27 points by smig0 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (wordpress.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 446 points by _alternator_ 10 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×2.02 1 | 253 points by pretext 9 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate (arxiv.org)
    ×3.02 6 | 60 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
    ×2.28 4 | 378 points by atgctg 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.88 7 | 230 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
    ×1.51 9 | 80 points by rawgabbit 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019) (byu.edu)
    ×0.95 17 | 38 points by d_tr 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)
    ×1.66 9 | 39 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.25 12 | 731 points by defrost 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
    ×1.15 12 | 27 points by tangus 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.45 8 | 107 points by Tomte 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Removing fsync from our local storage engine (fractalbits.com)
    ×2.16 1 | 14 points by zzsheng 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×2.29 10 | 291 points by homebrewer 17 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
    ×1.79 14 | 364 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.81 16 | 372 points by willmeyers 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
    ×1.75 22 | 239 points by christhecaribou 19 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×2.08 22 | 468 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.52 14 | 175 points by mufeedvh 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
    ×1.97 31 | 209 points by pretext 20 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.24 24 | 197 points by MrBruh 18 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Read Programming as Theory Building (codeutopia.net)
    ×1.51 16 | 10 points by birdculture 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
    ×1.06 36 | 101 points by mad 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
    ×1.13 37 | 233 points by xngbuilds 23 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
    ×0.97 46 | 88 points by geox 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.84 24 | 54 points by wrxd 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
    ×2.07 31 | 316 points by david-gpu 1 day ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Roadside Attraction (theoffingmag.com)
    ×0.41 51 | 30 points by aways 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.07 26 | 73 points by akkartik 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
    ×0.85 69 | 70 points by akkartik 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons (portalvr.io)
    ×0.61 56 | 29 points by gfodor 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.67 64 | 54 points by denismenace 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.31 10 | 111 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.74 26 | 376 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
    ×4.54 24 | 995 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 792 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
    ×3.64 16 | 290 points by tcp_handshaker 16 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.31 88 | 356 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.84 56 | 140 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.44 3 | 1307 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 949 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85% (pv-magazine.com)
    ×4.03 14 | 21 points by ndr42 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.38 82 | 147 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Looking at the data behind prediction markets (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.17 33 | 109 points by kqr 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (stroustrup.com)
    ×0.85 61 | 85 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service (probablydance.com)
    ×2.49 63 | 61 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push (cyberinsider.com)
    ×6.26 46 | 299 points by muse900 8 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)
    ×3.20 42 | 118 points by edent 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GeoJSON (geojson.org)
    ×1.11 55 | 159 points by tosh 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance (nytimes.com)
    ×4.63 42 | 28 points by susiecambria 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×2.70 63 | 356 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
    ×1.69 37 | 271 points by Borkdude 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×3.39 4 | 906 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 616 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
    ×0.95 48 | 128 points by ggpsv 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.58 43 | 1600 points by CliffStoll 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
    ×2.39 19 | 357 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
    ×0.70 75 | 78 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Apple May Drop Base $599 MacBook Neo as Chip, DRAM Costs Climb (macrumors.com)
    ×3.00 13 | 13 points by pjmlp 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×3.15 32 | 23 points by heldrida 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (pavementlink.ch)
    ×0.55 59 | 45 points by r1chk1t 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.69 60 | 28 points by ttouch 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
    ×3.47 12 | 831 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)
    ×0.60 50 | 47 points by mathewpregasen 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.97 51 | 206 points by gmays 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×3.18 4 | 803 points by flipped 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict (modal.com)
    ×0.38 65 | 13 points by jxmorris12 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
    ×0.99 62 | 91 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)
    ×0.42 62 | 35 points by nezaj 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Inventing Cyrillic (2024) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.54 79 | 47 points by lermontov 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Jetro – JSON query engine for Rust (jq-like DSL with compilation and VM) (github.com/mitghi)
    ×0.71 72 | 14 points by mitghi 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster (404media.co)
    ×2.63 13 | 170 points by danso 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal (reuters.com)
    ×2.52 21 | 223 points by scrlk 21 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×6.12 12 | 1727 points by haunter 2 days ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
    ×2.83 10 | 758 points by speckx 2 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hondurasgate: US, Israeli Plot to Destabilize Mexico, Latin America (elpais.com)
    ×5.02 43 | 39 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×4.87 6 | 818 points by thm 1 day ago | 707 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Dithering with CSS (ikesau.co)
    ×0.89 46 | 110 points by speckx 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Occupations with the Highest Divorce Rates (flowingdata.com)
    ×1.99 8 | 4 points by Willingham 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012) (blu-ray.com)
    ×0.56 60 | 7 points by susam 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
    ×0.97 55 | 126 points by foltik 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.11 57 | 139 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Human typing habits and token counts (pankajpipada.com)
    ×0.72 42 | 25 points by ppipada 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×0.98 70 | 156 points by wojtczyk 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.09 32 | 335 points by speckx 1 day ago | 712 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.02 43 | 146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? – by Julio Merino (blogsystem5.substack.com)
    ×1.54 23 | 6 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
    ×0.82 47 | 101 points by timvisee 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.89 45 | 101 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Your Computer Doesn't Belong to You Anymore (aquisthoughts.substack.com)
    ×2.21 34 | 10 points by ethanplant 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???