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  1. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (github.com/imtomt)
    ×2.08 | 25 points by imtomt 28 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×2.70 | 452 points by heldrida 8 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
    ×2.51 5 | 557 points by hggh 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) (casio.com)
    ×2.40 11 | 14 points by dr_kiszonka 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)
    ×2.59 2 | 296 points by susam 11 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Rust but Lisp (github.com/ThatXliner)
    ×1.62 | 96 points by thatxliner 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.27 5 | 46 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Local privilege escalation via execve() (freebsd.org)
    ×1.74 2 | 101 points by Deeg9rie9usi 6 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Zed Editor Theme-Builder (zed.dev)
    ×1.75 2 | 171 points by cuechan 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 (righto.com)
    ×1.36 13 | 36 points by rsecora 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.76 2 | 110 points by marcingas 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.33 6 | 65 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)
    ×1.04 12 | 113 points by ggallas 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)
    ×2.87 3 | 223 points by LorenDB 12 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Serial TTL connector we deserve (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×1.11 1 | 56 points by kohlschuetter 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)
    ×2.79 8 | 366 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Surfel-based global illumination on the web (juretriglav.si)
    ×1.10 11 | 26 points by vmg12 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (wordpress.com)
    ×2.84 4 | 612 points by _alternator_ 23 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree (reidatcheson.com)
    ×1.15 14 | 6 points by selimthegrim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 1 | 100 points by abstrus 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
    ×3.01 5 | 277 points by ColinWright 13 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)
    ×6.17 5 | 422 points by muse900 21 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
    ×5.90 19 | 326 points by JumpCrisscross 8 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I caught the car (undecidability.net)
    ×0.88 6 | 41 points by holden_nelson 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×2.29 4 | 423 points by pretext 22 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. France moves to break encrypted messaging (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.02 21 | 103 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Trail of Jeremiah (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.32 67 | 4 points by samclemens 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
    ×2.06 11 | 357 points by ingve 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
    ×2.32 6 | 472 points by atgctg 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Getting arrested in Japan (sundaicity.com)
    ×5.22 27 | 168 points by bane 5 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.59 14 | 117 points by wrxd 15 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Random tie knots (2014) (tieknots.how)
    ×0.42 46 | 17 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×5.60 14 | 1450 points by anonymousiam 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
    ×1.36 26 | 161 points by rawgabbit 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.67 7 | 77 points by msephton 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)
    ×1.35 45 | 6 points by canergl 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.63 20 | 197 points by Tomte 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
    ×1.19 3 | 128 points by smig0 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×2.40 13 | 380 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)
    ×4.22 27 | 272 points by Georgelemental 13 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
    ×1.89 20 | 413 points by speckx 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.83 25 | 403 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Removing fsync from our local storage engine (fractalbits.com)
    ×1.07 37 | 59 points by zzsheng 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library (mochijs.com)
    ×0.77 52 | 38 points by ccheshirecat 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Coinbase steep first quarter loss after slide in crypto prices; shares fall 4% (cnbc.com)
    ×2.36 13 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look (writingball.blogspot.com)
    ×0.58 27 | 29 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
    ×1.93 48 | 250 points by pretext 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019) (byu.edu)
    ×0.97 42 | 79 points by d_tr 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
    ×1.62 37 | 260 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)
    ×1.09 38 | 79 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.52 28 | 213 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
    ×0.90 39 | 69 points by tangus 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.20 44 | 209 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.68 21 | 57 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Introduction to Beaver Triples (stoffelmpc.com)
    ×0.44 56 | 21 points by badcryptobitch 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 10 Trillion downloads are crushing open-source repositories (zdnet.com)
    ×2.29 20 | 18 points by gpi 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
    ×1.97 41 | 327 points by david-gpu 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
    ×1.15 46 | 246 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek V4-Pro select Buddhism as preferred religion (twitter.com/tszzl)
    ×1.04 22 | 4 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Create flashcards with Space CLI (getspace.app)
    ×0.68 42 | 18 points by friebetill 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
    ×1.27 68 | 10 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.25 23 | 848 points by defrost 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.28 84 | 374 points by rustoo 3 days ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
    ×1.03 50 | 118 points by mad 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. CAD and Cam Applications on HP-UX Unix Workstations (openpa.net)
    ×1.22 63 | 22 points by naves 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.61 26 | 427 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
    ×0.97 52 | 103 points by geox 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.44 14 | 1324 points by PriorityLeft 2 days ago | 974 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Visit a Mosque in video game format and learn things about Islam (itch.io)
    ×2.27 14 | 4 points by JSLegendDev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.42 78 | 162 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. macOS 26 adoption rate lower than prior macOS versions (macrumors.com)
    ×3.29 7 | 9 points by seam_carver 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service (probablydance.com)
    ×2.67 55 | 104 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
    ×4.57 40 | 1022 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 820 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nvidia Goes to Zero. – By JA Westenberg – Selfonomics (selfonomics.com)
    ×2.73 69 | 12 points by tambourine_man 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×2.68 55 | 371 points by HieronymusBosch 2 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.69 62 | 64 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)
    ×0.44 57 | 18 points by magikMaker 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
    ×0.81 58 | 77 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.08 38 | 89 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×2.13 11 | 500 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.34 25 | 127 points by zdw 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.83 44 | 142 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×3.40 13 | 913 points by stefanpie 2 days ago | 624 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A new hash table for Lwan (tia.mat.br)
    ×0.51 61 | 13 points by g0xA52A2A 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GeoJSON (geojson.org)
    ×1.12 46 | 167 points by tosh 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons (portalvr.io)
    ×0.72 49 | 43 points by gfodor 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure (politico.com)
    ×4.21 62 | 23 points by thehoff 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
    ×3.52 27 | 316 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring? (wholelottanothing.org)
    ×3.33 36 | 21 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???