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  1. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
    ×2.52 | 156 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
    ×2.48 | 36 points by berlianta 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
    ×2.45 1 | 72 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
    ×2.53 3 | 22 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I Want to Live Like Costco People (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.34 10 | 5 points by speckx 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
    ×1.13 2 | 81 points by atilimcetin 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (itsnicethat.com)
    ×1.11 5 | 85 points by sahar_builds 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×5.84 1 | 1623 points by haunter 23 hours ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
    ×1.30 7 | 115 points by suoken 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×3.22 7 | 456 points by whatisabcdefgh 17 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×5.73 1 | 1424 points by diebillionaires 23 hours ago | 569 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) (cardor.dev)
    ×0.80 2 | 52 points by enmanuelmag 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×5.79 11 | 292 points by Qem 4 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van (thedrive.com)
    ×0.98 14 | 47 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape (iop.org)
    ×0.45 42 | 11 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow (github.com/alikamp)
    ×0.77 3 | 12 points by kauai1 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.21 12 | 145 points by stereo-highway 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)
    ×3.39 14 | 146 points by robin_reala 4 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.47 1 | 212 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×1.16 20 | 65 points by TMWNN 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.47 3 | 692 points by e12e 1 day ago | 776 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
    ×1.38 8 | 106 points by mindcrime 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.25 10 | 196 points by SpyCoder77 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 26 | 103 points by jonbaer 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (google.com)
    ×2.18 22 | 364 points by unforgivenpasta 21 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.76 46 | 46 points by darkrishabh 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.66 9 | 95 points by segmenta 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (aresluna.org)
    ×1.43 5 | 97 points by frizlab 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
    ×1.46 34 | 282 points by stevekrouse 22 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.95 52 | 78 points by petethomas 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.21 62 | 135 points by dmos62 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.35 14 | 74 points by wojtczyk 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.92 38 | 268 points by bstrama 22 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.08 68 | 187 points by ozkatz 23 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×2.15 64 | 92 points by BiraIgnacio 16 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis (harpers.org)
    ×1.64 60 | 84 points by Caiero 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.32 32 | 42 points by mobeigi 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.89 46 | 64 points by isaacfrond 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.17 74 | 66 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.62 38 | 215 points by elonlit 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.09 60 | 147 points by benanne 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.88 34 | 282 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
    ×0.74 73 | 71 points by zeech 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
    ×1.59 98 | 23 points by gregsadetsky 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×0.76 86 | 139 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.36 12 | 11 points by tonyonodi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.39 28 | 1690 points by john-doe 2 days ago | 1111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.99 61 | 141 points by oahmadov 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
    ×2.99 7 | 332 points by s1291 19 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 642 points by rolph 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.73 96 | 89 points by gmays 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.96 65 | 78 points by asmodios 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade (sfstandard.com)
    ×1.49 83 | 53 points by littlexsparkee 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math (firethering.com)
    ×1.58 32 | 57 points by steveharing1 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×3.07 24 | 664 points by signa11 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
    ×1.62 21 | 174 points by ks2048 14 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×5.13 25 | 485 points by meetpateltech 23 hours ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
    ×0.83 70 | 106 points by zdw 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.57 3 | 564 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.35 38 | 463 points by hakonjdjohnsen 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×1.00 78 | 135 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.84 46 | 56 points by LabsLucas 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cursed Browser: Rendering Engine Using Visual-LLMs (github.com/scosman)
    ×1.34 106 | 4 points by throawayonthe 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens (noetik.blog)
    ×0.35 86 | 21 points by crescit_eundo 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.58 62 | 23 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.77 98 | 142 points by mtricot 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
    ×5.56 42 | 445 points by jeromechoo 20 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.70 39 | 677 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.03 25 | 742 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
    ×1.03 84 | 129 points by omarsar 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
    ×2.52 35 | 354 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. An HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC (alexsci.com)
    ×1.69 11 | 11 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.83 19 | 461 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. SQLite Archive Files (sqlite.org)
    ×1.35 84 | 10 points by tehlike 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (sciencehistory.org)
    ×0.51 78 | 59 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.53 46 | 239 points by notsentient 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google tools for customizing searches (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
    ×0.81 64 | 75 points by maxutility 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
    ×1.62 48 | 258 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.16 39 | 332 points by veeti 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)
    ×2.64 5 | 195 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.47 40 | 225 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.21 41 | 483 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×0.99 85 | 140 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.57 71 | 262 points by ingve 2 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition (theguardian.com)
    ×1.95 29 | 79 points by Cider9986 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Upper Middle Class Trap (ofdollarsanddata.com)
    ×3.08 76 | 48 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.14 48 | 428 points by alentodorov 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.31 75 | 223 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
    ×2.04 36 | 369 points by nohell 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???