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  1. NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (space.com)
    ×2.53 1 | 96 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  2. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.78 1 | 182 points by Meleagris 3 hours ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  3. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.75 | 527 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 314 comments | ??? ???
  4. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×2.54 1 | 159 points by moelf 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  5. Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night (runnersworld.com)
    ×3.30 3 | 39 points by aanet 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  6. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.91 5 | 283 points by piotrgrabowski 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  7. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×3.28 5 | 61 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  8. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.50 8 | 175 points by aagha 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  9. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×4.77 5 | 504 points by RickJWagner 15 hours ago | 590 comments | ??? ???
  10. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
    ×2.45 5 | 194 points by moonikakiss 10 hours ago | 184 comments | ??? ???
  11. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.19 10 | 168 points by artninja1988 12 hours ago | 169 comments | ??? ???
  12. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.00 6 | 420 points by delduca 11 hours ago | 289 comments | ??? ???
  13. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
    ×1.00 15 | 152 points by MarcoDewey 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  14. Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)
    ×3.49 10 | 18 points by dnnehgf 59 minutes ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  15. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.87 20 | 288 points by inigyou 20 hours ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  16. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.77 8 | 123 points by cckolon 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  17. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×2.92 7 | 153 points by Bender 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  18. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×2.14 18 | 15 points by allenc 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  19. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.86 20 | 58 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  20. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.97 9 | 264 points by poly2it 17 hours ago | 127 comments | ??? ???
  21. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.88 17 | 58 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  22. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.33 19 | 175 points by m3h 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  23. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.41 25 | 115 points by jnord 15 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.23 21 | 153 points by stagas 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  25. Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.81 25 | 21 points by peterkelly 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  26. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.09 | 742 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 398 comments | ??? ???
  27. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.69 32 | 61 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.19 6 | 182 points by v0id_isgood 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  29. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    ×0.69 43 | 36 points by 4pkjai 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  30. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
    ×3.02 17 | 399 points by petercooper 13 hours ago | 366 comments | ??? ???
  31. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
    ×2.01 6 | 26 points by yk 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  32. Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
    ×0.65 44 | 57 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  33. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.85 2 | 896 points by itvision 1 day ago | 671 comments | ??? ???
  34. Curlese, Five Years Later (hypertesto.me)
    ×0.62 31 | 16 points by rovr138 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.88 56 | 5 points by sunrisepeak 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  36. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.46 56 | 26 points by geerlingguy 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.81 60 | 229 points by willcarkner 1 day ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  38. Building community out of strangers (2023) (tracydurnell.com)
    ×0.52 49 | 37 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  39. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
    ×0.84 31 | 69 points by rramadass 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  40. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (stackdump.com)
    ×0.75 22 | 67 points by m_kos 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  41. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.11 38 | 210 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  42. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.12 38 | 133 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  43. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.42 6 | 1143 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 165 comments | ??? ???
  44. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.57 51 | 56 points by jasim 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  45. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×0.88 45 | 97 points by rogix 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  46. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.94 3 | 656 points by tsak 1 day ago | 518 comments | ??? ???
  47. The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.85 62 | 76 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  48. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.22 48 | 144 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 55 comments | ??? ???
  49. Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader (ma-r-s.com)
    ×1.65 57 | 7 points by ma-r-s 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×0.67 104 | 3 points by Wilsoniumite 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.03 4 | 337 points by rmason 1 day ago | 120 comments | ??? ???
  52. A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 42 | 76 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  53. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.70 75 | 88 points by indyjo 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  54. I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store (abeautifulsite.net)
    ×1.77 22 | 10 points by claviska 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  55. Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
    ×0.86 71 | 56 points by martinhath 1 day ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  56. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.32 49 | 296 points by _da_ 9 hours ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  57. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.19 12 | 300 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  58. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.10 26 | 203 points by Audiophilip 1 day ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  59. I watched 13 legal pages for two weeks, three of them changed (indiehackers.com)
    ×1.31 4 | 4 points by antoniustyo 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  60. Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? (economist.com)
    ×2.31 43 | 40 points by reasonableklout 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  61. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.88 8 | 401 points by dsubburam 1 day ago | 193 comments | ??? ???
  62. Jujutsu 0.44.0 (jj-vcs.dev)
    ×3.04 68 | 14 points by tosh 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.48 6 | 496 points by Footkerchief 1 day ago | 406 comments | ??? ???
  64. "It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)
    ×1.75 67 | 59 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  65. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.05 62 | 110 points by bschne 1 day ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  66. Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.35 48 | 17 points by benbreen 11 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.29 70 | 180 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  68. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.58 9 | 310 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 257 comments | ??? ???
  69. USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.34 42 | 186 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ??? ???
  70. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.28 66 | 126 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  71. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.16 37 | 143 points by sebg 1 day ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  72. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×0.95 57 | 72 points by champagnepapi 1 day ago | 117 comments | ??? ???
  73. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.64 5 | 688 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  74. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.76 70 | 91 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  75. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.81 1 | 254 points by baranul 1 day ago | 247 comments | ??? ???
  76. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.69 63 | 44 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  77. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.87 1 | 938 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 591 comments | ??? ???
  78. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
    ×5.13 69 | 862 points by defrost 18 hours ago | 825 comments | ??? ???
  79. This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.88 33 | 74 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  80. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.06 3 | 849 points by colesantiago 2 days ago | 922 comments | ??? ???
  81. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.92 67 | 95 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  82. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.50 7 | 330 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 244 comments | ??? ???
  83. How to Not Write Parsers (crtschin.com)
    ×1.27 76 | 13 points by Thom2503 17 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.98 3 | 486 points by atan2 1 day ago | 248 comments | ??? ???
  85. Target Is Slicing Open Pokémon Card Boxes Before They're Sold to Deter Scalpers (ign.com)
    ×2.76 19 | 13 points by TMWNN 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  86. How the Underground (of Seattle) Came to Be (undergroundtour.com)
    ×0.71 88 | 4 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  87. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.47 12 | 274 points by collinmanderson 1 day ago | 184 comments | ??? ???
  88. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.11 75 | 449 points by pmg101 4 days ago | 442 comments | ??? ???
  89. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
    ×2.18 22 | 402 points by yusyd 1 day ago | 415 comments | ??? ???
  90. Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode (twitter.com/ClaudeDevs)
    ×1.67 5 | 19 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???