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  1. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao (wordpress.com)
    ×2.28 1 | 47 points by subset 39 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.67 4 | 36 points by signa11 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.71 5 | 129 points by compiler-guy 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.19 3 | 91 points by cosmtrek 6 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (elpais.com)
    ×5.30 4 | 57 points by RetroTechie 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.60 5 | 276 points by tionis 13 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.41 7 | 67 points by ming13 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
    ×0.71 49 | 8 points by davikr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
    ×2.02 3 | 177 points by jamiebeach 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×1.15 22 | 29 points by dmit 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×1.69 6 | 286 points by theMackabu 16 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.06 14 | 287 points by adletbalzhanov 19 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/Wren6991)
    ×1.38 15 | 159 points by mariuz 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.05 13 | 59 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
    ×0.99 30 | 80 points by c-c-c-c-c 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France (theguardian.com)
    ×2.18 11 | 20 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (nature.com)
    ×0.98 33 | 12 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×0.99 23 | 48 points by rellem 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.85 25 | 206 points by prtk25 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×0.99 38 | 55 points by hydrogen7800 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 34 | 108 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.91 21 | 208 points by downwithdisease 19 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.29 24 | 219 points by saisrirampur 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.90 53 | 124 points by wolfi1 20 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×2.74 15 | 114 points by nradov 8 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.21 7 | 90 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.30 4 | 307 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.42 56 | 25 points by lioeters 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)
    ×1.12 27 | 139 points by jacobobryant 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (uscap.org)
    ×3.58 10 | 85 points by thenerdhead 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.72 34 | 179 points by acley 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.95 11 | 96 points by Anon84 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Optimization Solver as a Service (quicopt.com)
    ×0.81 54 | 46 points by paddi91 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
    ×3.54 19 | 202 points by downbad_ 13 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
    ×1.21 62 | 82 points by _superposition_ 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (davidobando.github.io)
    ×2.70 62 | 32 points by mashally 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.37 63 | 125 points by xlmnxp 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.03 51 | 80 points by lukas9 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×0.90 70 | 52 points by targetbridge 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.88 70 | 35 points by tejusarora 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.50 39 | 85 points by cbrewster 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.40 52 | 901 points by vforno 2 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)
    ×2.36 8 | 88 points by daniel_iversen 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later (mattmichie.com)
    ×1.23 80 | 17 points by influx 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)
    ×3.43 21 | 300 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)
    ×1.36 17 | 97 points by guenchi 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.79 75 | 92 points by poupeaua 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.81 68 | 45 points by modinfo 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Your code is fast if you're lucky (tiki.li)
    ×1.66 43 | 129 points by chrka 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.81 13 | 736 points by speckx 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.90 68 | 65 points by achairapart 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.18 41 | 1130 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI (github.com/cereblab)
    ×5.84 50 | 294 points by jhoho 11 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.71 25 | 394 points by hhs 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Growing list of countries move to ban social media for children (france24.com)
    ×3.34 34 | 17 points by geox 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)
    ×3.49 14 | 221 points by justswim 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.26 70 | 195 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)
    ×1.79 | 131 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War with AI (wsj.com)
    ×4.38 1 | 7 points by thm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Lost and Found (walzr.com)
    ×0.60 45 | 57 points by walz 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? (ft.com)
    ×2.88 14 | 15 points by jweir 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.78 11 | 1545 points by logickkk1 2 days ago | 1095 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.17 18 | 1619 points by rapnie 3 days ago | 849 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.21 68 | 170 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×0.99 70 | 77 points by rowbin 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.94 70 | 115 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
    ×1.70 7 | 11 points by enz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL (hakibenita.com)
    ×0.33 76 | 10 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I built TradingSpy: local, privacy-first AI trading assistant(First Open Source) (github.com/mrhustlex)
    ×2.34 51 | 25 points by mrhustlex 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.23 4 | 632 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rubber ducking is a mirror that says nothing (pilgrima.ge)
    ×1.47 68 | 15 points by momentmaker 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.14 62 | 105 points by chrwn 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
    ×1.94 5 | 60 points by marzukia 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×8.33 56 | 1611 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 920 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.68 46 | 238 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.12 4 | 107 points by jason_s 19 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.19 23 | 1387 points by djoldman 3 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024) (jude-doyle.ghost.io)
    ×1.09 19 | 17 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.36 46 | 183 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×2.12 11 | 345 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.98 3 | 520 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.61 60 | 217 points by tosh 2 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further (igropyr.com)
    ×1.57 32 | 61 points by guenchi 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (jamesdrandall.com)
    ×0.78 24 | 52 points by msephton 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) (vfxblog.com)
    ×0.62 73 | 15 points by fabiensanglard 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.20 1 | 205 points by mvdtnz 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.06 58 | 138 points by Gedxx 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×2.90 41 | 198 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.24 12 | 306 points by CrankyBear 1 day ago | 1154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???