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  1. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.15 | 168 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.52 1 | 60 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×2.02 1 | 53 points by markus_zhang 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A Love Letter to Flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.35 3 | 70 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.87 4 | 237 points by dmonay 6 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice? (osgeo.org)
    ×2.40 | 33 points by jjgreen 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)
    ×1.56 9 | 86 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
    ×2.56 6 | 253 points by ScottWRobinson 4 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×1.20 5 | 29 points by jacobgraf 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.74 1 | 114 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×1.48 10 | 20 points by bdcravens 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)
    ×2.47 1 | 207 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.24 9 | 27 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.61 35 | 3 points by NaOH 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.13 13 | 90 points by Gedxx 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.35 14 | 138 points by kickingvegas 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.58 | 43 points by ethanpil 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.54 18 | 29 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×0.91 25 | 8 points by mytuny 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×3.48 13 | 16 points by CrankyBear 25 minutes ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.80 15 | 35 points by Uptrenda 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.74 47 | 47 points by pancomplex 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×3.11 12 | 201 points by jeroenhd 7 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)
    ×0.41 39 | 14 points by pncnmnp 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.67 26 | 174 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×1.47 3 | 5 points by thedebuglife 14 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)
    ×2.31 19 | 352 points by veqq 21 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.15 32 | 73 points by fanf2 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.69 15 | 1492 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 1050 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×3.05 11 | 236 points by smusamashah 10 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.10 5 | 1568 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 791 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.25 4 | 817 points by vforno 23 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
    ×0.50 47 | 16 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)
    ×4.16 4 | 799 points by oumua_don17 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ActivityPub over ATProto (berjon.com)
    ×1.62 13 | 49 points by albuic 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.36 55 | 132 points by catalinvoss 21 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.04 6 | 1070 points by pompomsheep 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate (carbonbrief.org)
    ×1.44 1 | 7 points by DamonHD 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.66 68 | 108 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk fines, EU tells Meta (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.16 | 4 points by OptionOfT 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.12 11 | 1353 points by djoldman 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues (proton.me)
    ×1.16 8 | 32 points by exploraz 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.93 23 | 161 points by hbcondo714 17 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)
    ×4.59 1 | 772 points by SweetSoftPillow 1 day ago | 674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.13 50 | 173 points by mrl5 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.16 3 | 288 points by jyunwai 20 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
    ×0.56 58 | 39 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control over Farming (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.23 16 | 8 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)
    ×0.80 50 | 61 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)
    ×1.88 9 | 56 points by ermantrout 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)
    ×0.91 42 | 91 points by Michelangelo11 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
    ×1.73 12 | 8 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) (paulbourke.net)
    ×0.80 51 | 64 points by nhatcher 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hy3 (tencent.com)
    ×2.64 7 | 539 points by andai 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (wired.com)
    ×2.80 4 | 370 points by PotatoNinja 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Patterncollider: Generate and explore quasiperiodic tiling patterns (github.com/aatishb)
    ×0.77 50 | 64 points by tobr 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.43 1 | 11 points by deadonarrival 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mit.edu)
    ×0.79 55 | 99 points by mckelveyf 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
    ×3.98 42 | 74 points by robtherobber 5 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.17 10 | 15 points by degoogled 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. My burner email blocklist blocked me (piouffle.com)
    ×1.33 37 | 43 points by betree 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration (lazypi.org)
    ×1.06 41 | 139 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn (pangram.com)
    ×2.33 20 | 231 points by mukmuk 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Almost Always Unsigned (graphitemaster.github.io)
    ×0.73 69 | 65 points by gavide 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Build your own vulnerability harness (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.93 33 | 61 points by ianrahman 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What's slowing down the AI buildout (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.90 72 | 78 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Steam sales reportedly topped $11B during H1 2026 due to shifting trends (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.10 34 | 12 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (westpoint.edu)
    ×2.36 3 | 441 points by baud147258 1 day ago | 605 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.07 1 | 4 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper (toot-books.pages.dev)
    ×1.92 5 | 218 points by adamkurkiewicz 23 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 21 | 323 points by ihsw 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Exit Chat Control (exitchatcontrol.org)
    ×6.16 6 | 93 points by mparramon 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
    ×1.86 4 | 281 points by silcoon 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip (proactiveinvestors.com)
    ×1.43 62 | 67 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet (nytimes.com)
    ×0.87 37 | 36 points by wglb 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep (theautopian.com)
    ×1.40 42 | 175 points by martey 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight (rte.ie)
    ×1.59 9 | 14 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Java 27: What's New? (loicmathieu.fr)
    ×1.81 25 | 49 points by loicmathieu 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule (debasishg.github.io)
    ×0.59 42 | 36 points by eigenBasis 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ChatGPT Work (openai.com)
    ×2.36 19 | 344 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas (tomesphere.com)
    ×0.87 36 | 77 points by leonickson 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.65 8 | 1472 points by speerer 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 (iers.org)
    ×1.48 7 | 305 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.50 75 | 38 points by jarodrh 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.22 4 | 13 points by philbo 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Analog Watch (analog.watch)
    ×0.86 28 | 97 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (crutchfield.com)
    ×0.64 21 | 29 points by ledoge 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.91 41 | 77 points by jack1689 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How to Start a Ruby Meetup (rubyevents.org)
    ×0.86 27 | 70 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???