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  1. AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator (github.com/aws)
    ×3.40 | 390 points by super_linear 2 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tim Peters has died (python.org)
    ×4.70 1 | 544 points by ayhanfuat 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter (bacarella.com)
    ×2.19 1 | 298 points by mbac32768 4 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why are we still working this hard? (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×4.86 2 | 105 points by Wilsoniumite 48 minutes ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code (allthingsdistributed.com)
    ×1.44 4 | 80 points by drbm 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund (termsheetplease.com)
    ×2.04 1 | 84 points by bolau 1 hour ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble (lpeproject.org)
    ×2.70 | 82 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Gemini Decisions API (blog.google)
    ×4.37 | 79 points by iamdelirium 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.24 3 | 95 points by zerop 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Emacs in the Age of Magic (commandlinesystems.com)
    ×1.75 11 | 8 points by ggcr 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h (pietromiotti.com)
    ×4.39 5 | 859 points by eyvindn 8 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (ibm.com)
    ×1.14 5 | 16 points by gok 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2 (av.github.io)
    ×2.35 1 | 238 points by everlier 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.72 2 | 112 points by brownrout 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (atuin.sh)
    ×1.28 3 | 152 points by linsomniac 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.43 4 | 209 points by emschwartz 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents (pomerado.ai)
    ×0.55 14 | 33 points by alanjm23 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×1.38 15 | 6 points by thefox96 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The tiny transmitter tracking monarch butterflies' migration, Canada to Mexico (begiant.ca)
    ×0.59 20 | 16 points by upofadown 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card (kate.land)
    ×1.74 3 | 228 points by lae 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
    ×1.78 6 | 86 points by azhenley 4 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly (massimo-nocentini.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 107 points by xkriva11 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We need more goat sacrifices (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.72 4 | 156 points by iamnothere 8 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (cmu.edu)
    ×0.98 11 | 49 points by num42 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.99 11 | 90 points by 0xdeadf1sh 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.91 7 | 37 points by Rochus 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation (apple.com)
    ×1.03 18 | 59 points by zerop 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models (github.com/OpenTSLM)
    ×1.03 1 | 40 points by rjakob 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you (theverge.com)
    ×3.65 20 | 317 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com/klad-app)
    ×1.18 6 | 64 points by ambewas 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Power and Legacy of Virginia Tech's Mac-Based Supercomputers (512pixels.net)
    ×1.41 4 | 32 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std:sort (tiki.li)
    ×1.01 2 | 31 points by signa11 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer (github.com/popvax)
    ×3.97 21 | 36 points by AsDivyansh 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week (theverge.com)
    ×3.51 24 | 252 points by saikatsg 6 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.72 11 | 498 points by linolevan 23 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery (github.com/lukks)
    ×1.09 8 | 67 points by LuKks 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. EventSourcingDB 1.3.0 Is Available (eventfoundation.io)
    ×0.61 22 | 39 points by goloroden 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in danfoss sm-800A (midnightblue.nl)
    ×0.59 33 | 16 points by rros 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hayabusa2 Is Chasing the mysterious object 1998 KY26 (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.05 17 | 15 points by gumby 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.70 13 | 57 points by artrax 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Gemini Decision 1 is Free on Google AI Studio (google.com)
    ×1.79 10 | 8 points by dvaplima 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hooked on Tuna (theconversation.com)
    ×0.66 7 | 46 points by dnetesn 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) (jmis.org)
    ×1.20 2 | 30 points by Rochus 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.38 35 | 13 points by adec314 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Brazil's Serra Verde starts shipping heavy rare earths to US under 15-year deal (usare.com)
    ×1.05 39 | 15 points by dvaplima 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.73 27 | 130 points by adrbn 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs (yaksoy.github.io)
    ×1.06 10 | 60 points by summarity 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (moertel.com)
    ×1.74 6 | 249 points by palsecam 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A Brain Teaser of an Obituary (nytimes.com)
    ×0.43 43 | 11 points by droidjj 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×0.88 27 | 113 points by d3Xt3r 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×1.83 9 | 180 points by zenincognito 17 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint (mozilla.org)
    ×2.81 27 | 149 points by Vinnl 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Laser-armed AI submarine robots patrol Norwegian salmon farms, killing sea lice (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.15 25 | 18 points by bko 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave (gatezh.com)
    ×1.82 17 | 369 points by js2 16 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×4.63 16 | 1125 points by skittleson 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×1.17 40 | 18 points by sethops1 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives (cpcwiki.eu)
    ×1.16 32 | 84 points by Skyfall106 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. JSON vs. jsonb in Postgres: size and speed, measured (now-next.nl)
    ×1.13 45 | 22 points by plaur782 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
    ×2.32 27 | 275 points by Yorothegoat 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.53 18 | 915 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic says a key AI safety alarm has been triggered, days before its IPO (yahoo.com)
    ×1.75 18 | 13 points by healsdata 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Make this forward pass as fast as possible (ianbarber.blog)
    ×0.65 23 | 31 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (vulncheck.com)
    ×2.55 16 | 444 points by panic 22 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×2.57 16 | 549 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (p0pcycle.com)
    ×1.34 35 | 141 points by moooooky 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CVE-2026-119618 (critical): mod_HTTP2: heap corruption and RCE in assign_headers (apache.org)
    ×1.77 24 | 19 points by klaas- 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.54 20 | 1239 points by vismit2000 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Zellij 0.46: built-in terminal, attention inbox, session previews (zellij.dev)
    ×1.67 30 | 25 points by worble 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Lunch with Alan Kay: how to become educated enough to invent the future (2019) (stevekrouse.com)
    ×0.68 53 | 10 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.63 21 | 259 points by pixelpoet 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress (ctinsider.com)
    ×3.19 4 | 34 points by heresie-dabord 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. $30M Raised to Redo the CPU (tendrils.co)
    ×1.76 30 | 135 points by shioyama 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100 (wincon.dev)
    ×1.21 35 | 90 points by fairestvalue 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.71 27 | 244 points by leugim 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A ZIP-style Prolog VM for trilog (github.com/no382001)
    ×0.72 43 | 35 points by triska 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Simon Winchester has died (nytimes.com)
    ×0.89 57 | 104 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I deleted all my SSH keys (infected.systems)
    ×2.46 17 | 275 points by speckx 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses (messynessychic.com)
    ×1.02 17 | 71 points by ohjeez 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.28 28 | 266 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. KaiT2en, Linux on T2 MacBook pros (kait2en.org)
    ×0.75 61 | 10 points by B4uler5 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker (theguardian.com)
    ×1.54 46 | 164 points by sorokod 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Six Math Essentials (teorth.github.io)
    ×1.90 15 | 323 points by digital55 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. VW drops 'Gamechanger' production at main plant, risking escalation with workers (reuters.com)
    ×1.55 32 | 8 points by frank_clover 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Prompting Claude Fable 5.2 (claude.com)
    ×1.61 35 | 9 points by waximabbax 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.19 35 | 207 points by rustyhancock 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are (fingerprinting.study)
    ×1.22 25 | 129 points by tomrittervg 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
    ×3.13 32 | 497 points by robertjfclarke 1 day ago | 565 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
    ×2.44 30 | 477 points by speckx 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA (science.org)
    ×1.46 13 | 153 points by Metacelsus 17 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???