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  1. Om Malik has died (om.co)
    ×4.48 1 | 837 points by minimaxir 11 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    ×5.03 2 | 1256 points by verditelabs 16 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)
    ×1.63 3 | 119 points by luu 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together (akrites.org)
    ×1.61 4 | 40 points by dhruv3006 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.63 6 | 144 points by Alupis 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)
    ×2.39 4 | 121 points by cuchoi 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (fire.org)
    ×4.50 4 | 662 points by bilsbie 10 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)
    ×1.41 9 | 127 points by teleforce 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events (github.com/plbrault)
    ×1.72 10 | 187 points by exploraz 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour (oxide.computer)
    ×1.94 8 | 359 points by darthcloud 15 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why are we so obsessed with lawns? (gardensillustrated.com)
    ×1.51 20 | 23 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (ibm.com)
    ×1.61 9 | 309 points by porridgeraisin 16 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.56 6 | 239 points by scrlk 7 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Doing a masters while working in Spain (jan-herlyn.com)
    ×1.10 12 | 37 points by MHard 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)
    ×3.50 10 | 31 points by fauigerzigerk 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)
    ×1.02 7 | 143 points by babelfish 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.76 3 | 263 points by engomez 14 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.55 44 | 7 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (princechazz.com)
    ×2.00 5 | 280 points by cowboy_henk 16 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)
    ×1.27 20 | 105 points by rozumem 12 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery' (classicfm.com)
    ×1.90 24 | 30 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.03 15 | 106 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. OS9Map (yllan.org)
    ×1.52 13 | 221 points by LaSombra 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads (reuters.com)
    ×4.54 9 | 703 points by virgildotcodes 19 hours ago | 1010 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements (ziglang.org)
    ×1.19 13 | 232 points by kouosi 17 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (cornell.edu)
    ×0.39 46 | 20 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)
    ×0.81 19 | 82 points by Athas 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (twitter.com/mfts0)
    ×6.80 7 | 306 points by mmunj 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The last Romans are still around (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.08 21 | 83 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Record type inference for dummies (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.77 26 | 39 points by g0xA52A2A 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. You can't unit test for taste (karltryggvason.com)
    ×1.27 11 | 269 points by kalli 20 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup (pnsn.org)
    ×0.39 49 | 20 points by jmward01 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The disappearance of Japan's animators (economist.com)
    ×1.37 27 | 169 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11 (github.com/GloriousEggroll)
    ×1.05 24 | 82 points by d3Xt3r 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand (trakkr.ai)
    ×1.54 29 | 145 points by mektrik 19 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs (github.com/decrazyo)
    ×1.17 29 | 114 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The annotated PyTorch training loop (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.75 33 | 67 points by smaddrellmander 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (reddit.com)
    ×7.46 38 | 73 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.69 62 | 157 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking (pete.design)
    ×0.86 36 | 94 points by petekp 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×3.75 30 | 708 points by ytkimirti 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mixing Visual and Textual Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.62 79 | 77 points by doppioandante 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf] (epfl.ch)
    ×0.63 46 | 41 points by azhenley 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.47 20 | 496 points by mooreds 21 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.55 48 | 79 points by alder 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
    ×1.04 33 | 108 points by yathern 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Half-Life 2 in a Browser (slqnt.dev)
    ×2.88 21 | 650 points by panza 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Dark Sky Lighting? (savingourstars.org)
    ×1.26 66 | 35 points by alexandrehtrb 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies (science.org)
    ×1.20 53 | 160 points by rndsignals 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)
    ×3.45 10 | 760 points by htrp 1 day ago | 1233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I built a GPU back end for Emacs (andros.dev)
    ×1.69 19 | 186 points by andros 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How physicists track and trap the elusive neutrino (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.72 42 | 60 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×1.04 38 | 84 points by spidy__ 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.93 31 | 77 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus (nijho.lt)
    ×1.11 12 | 72 points by wasting_time 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What is the mechanical world picture? (edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
    ×0.59 43 | 17 points by danielam 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 52-hertz whale (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.51 11 | 109 points by brightbeige 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress (ziglang.org)
    ×2.74 57 | 15 points by Retro_Dev 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.08 8 | 809 points by jamdesk 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com/BohemiaInteractive)
    ×1.47 22 | 193 points by dewey 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)
    ×1.66 42 | 161 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How to get your first customers [video] (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.08 21 | 80 points by aurenvale 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision (iza.ac)
    ×0.57 33 | 35 points by infinitewalk 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion (markdy.com)
    ×1.09 44 | 116 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×1.77 4 | 139 points by jacksonastone 20 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.76 58 | 178 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OAuth for all (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.08 4 | 369 points by terryds 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions? (epfl.ch)
    ×0.46 56 | 47 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf] (group.softbank)
    ×0.84 36 | 63 points by dmmalam 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.59 57 | 199 points by tzs 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Blogging can just be stating the obvious (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.49 9 | 449 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero (nvidia.com)
    ×2.81 14 | 469 points by nitin_flanker 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. CAD vs. CAD Tournament (tootalltoby.com)
    ×0.55 62 | 10 points by dgellow 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.48 44 | 113 points by syntaxbush 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We’re making Bunny DNS free (bunny.net)
    ×3.58 9 | 908 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (neowin.net)
    ×2.91 49 | 232 points by bundie 16 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web (tedium.co)
    ×0.95 59 | 86 points by 1317 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.56 53 | 53 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stealing Is a Skill (ben-mini.com)
    ×1.62 37 | 258 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jailbreaking Isn't Theft (pluralistic.net)
    ×3.00 26 | 45 points by hn_acker 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? (natkr.com)
    ×0.86 70 | 105 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Write Like a Human (2020) (om.co)
    ×0.99 55 | 9 points by handfuloflight 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions (github.com/LuaJIT)
    ×1.27 9 | 228 points by phreddypharkus 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents (interconnects.ai)
    ×2.30 6 | 356 points by vantareed 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT) (github.com/runtypelabs)
    ×1.20 34 | 26 points by becomevocal 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming (thomaswc.com)
    ×0.99 37 | 12 points by thomaswc 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks (questdb.com)
    ×0.65 41 | 55 points by eigenBasis 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO (nytimes.com)
    ×3.16 59 | 113 points by mfiguiere 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.98 17 | 559 points by shadowtree 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???