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  1. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)
    ×2.83 | 256 points by Jach 4 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.50 6 | 71 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.04 1 | 610 points by colinprince 14 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.19 1 | 480 points by thepoet 13 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×1.89 1 | 103 points by matklad 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.34 1 | 678 points by floathub 16 hours ago | 822 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)
    ×1.59 7 | 101 points by tdullien 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×4.51 5 | 1070 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
    ×1.30 10 | 176 points by NKosmatos 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it) (matduggan.com)
    ×1.87 10 | 76 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.23 15 | 35 points by chilipepperhott 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×2.88 | 490 points by gavide 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.13 3 | 276 points by dash2 13 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
    ×1.21 24 | 116 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)
    ×1.03 8 | 60 points by dariusmonsef 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
    ×1.09 18 | 35 points by adletbalzhanov 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.18 19 | 129 points by toebee 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
    ×2.32 10 | 236 points by aakil 15 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.47 54 | 69 points by underdeserver 13 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.82 15 | 226 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.36 43 | 69 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (gingerbill.org)
    ×1.50 9 | 63 points by adamrezich 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves (science.org)
    ×0.72 25 | 16 points by gumby 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.36 16 | 117 points by ra7 12 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
    ×3.24 3 | 322 points by rcymerys 18 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)
    ×0.38 48 | 13 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.95 16 | 181 points by neom 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
    ×1.06 20 | 70 points by vicek22 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.78 16 | 45 points by jonemi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×1.33 8 | 127 points by colinprince 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com)
    ×2.31 7 | 54 points by vismit2000 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.66 37 | 18 points by peterkelly 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.54 63 | 59 points by cainxinth 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
    ×0.89 36 | 48 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.17 14 | 105 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Giving an LLM your prod database is easy. Taking access away is the hard part (deepsql.ai)
    ×1.25 76 | 3 points by venkat971 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×1.16 16 | 94 points by jakelsaunders94 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Never Be Angry at Work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.05 24 | 6 points by vismit2000 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.84 2 | 550 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 852 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Run 290B+ frontier MoE models locally on your gaming PC (github.com/FlashML-org)
    ×1.93 51 | 18 points by shenli3514 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.51 15 | 255 points by spankibalt 22 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.16 22 | 473 points by dares2573 19 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 24 | 103 points by pppone 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.62 8 | 213 points by marcomezzavilla 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
    ×0.82 57 | 62 points by karma_daemon 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.86 20 | 83 points by rhgraysonii 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.82 30 | 68 points by eatonphil 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
    ×2.98 39 | 54 points by walrus01 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com/aravpanwar)
    ×0.79 38 | 49 points by unprovable 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
    ×1.09 44 | 111 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (plos.org)
    ×0.43 69 | 27 points by Ariarule 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
    ×0.69 56 | 69 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.71 48 | 29 points by karakoram 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.86 51 | 47 points by baruchel 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×5.82 47 | 654 points by throw7 16 hours ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.67 26 | 83 points by ankitg12 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.72 83 | 288 points by nunodonato 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Kids (nytimes.com)
    ×2.44 19 | 4 points by paulpauper 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Size of the World Wide Web (worldwidewebsize.com)
    ×0.42 38 | 22 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.66 33 | 21 points by domenkozar 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: EchoVault, an app that interviews you and answers as you after death (apple.com)
    ×1.70 80 | 4 points by kingbillion1 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.81 26 | 231 points by mtokmak06 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (eth.limo)
    ×0.59 60 | 30 points by fbrusch 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.51 49 | 123 points by osnium123 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
    ×0.53 52 | 27 points by gus_massa 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (cnn.com)
    ×1.30 1 | 86 points by jader201 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20% (reuters.com)
    ×4.06 41 | 30 points by joshuawright11 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×1.86 36 | 86 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.49 101 | 58 points by yousefh409 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him (wsvn.com)
    ×1.72 40 | 30 points by madihaa 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content (tuigroup.com)
    ×2.42 70 | 33 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Remotely unlocking electric scooters (henriemategui.com)
    ×1.11 8 | 32 points by henriemategui 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why Elasticsearch is becoming a columnar database (elastic.co)
    ×3.20 8 | 14 points by shivanshuag 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.96 16 | 1012 points by emctech 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. S&P 500 CEO median pay hits $17.3M, widening CEO-worker ratio to 312-to-1 (yahoo.com)
    ×4.53 46 | 16 points by newsomix9xl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com/proliferate-ai)
    ×0.80 24 | 38 points by pablo24602 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.47 51 | 205 points by speckx 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.23 28 | 984 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.69 32 | 286 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.31 26 | 849 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
    ×1.07 10 | 45 points by garo-pro 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I Just Want to Search (0xsid.com)
    ×2.08 31 | 103 points by ssiddharth 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.65 28 | 630 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 737 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.12 2 | 143 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LFM2.5-DSpark: Up to 3.2x Faster Inference from H100 to MacB (liquid.ai)
    ×1.10 52 | 15 points by Alephinitesimal 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.28 45 | 10 points by blueshoess 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.98 45 | 55 points by olexsmir 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×1.01 37 | 79 points by wise_blood 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding (duke.edu)
    ×2.54 73 | 67 points by zaik 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???