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  1. I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)
    ×4.62 | 872 points by jernestomg 10 hours ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
    ×4.24 2 | 801 points by ajyoon 18 hours ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (brandon.wang)
    ×1.06 28 | 7 points by brdd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product (simonberens.com)
    ×3.15 2 | 679 points by sberens 17 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering (github.com/bethington)
    ×1.78 2 | 139 points by xerzes 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map (trapiche.cloud)
    ×1.14 4 | 39 points by acfilho 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
    ×2.72 2 | 426 points by deofoo 15 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers (adafruit.com)
    ×3.95 8 | 525 points by ptorrone 22 hours ago | 594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (ucr.edu)
    ×0.97 8 | 51 points by u1hcw9nx 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Deno Sandbox (deno.com)
    ×2.23 4 | 482 points by johnspurlock 20 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
    ×2.11 11 | 487 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)
    ×0.73 25 | 53 points by jnord 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input (utoronto.ca)
    ×2.58 11 | 24 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.42 21 | 245 points by baotiao 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode (apple.com)
    ×1.82 8 | 334 points by davidbarker 20 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)
    ×4.77 26 | 452 points by vikaveri 1 day ago | 891 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile (spritely.institute)
    ×1.26 16 | 73 points by alhazrod 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.91 31 | 17 points by RebelPotato 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps (oldinsurancemaps.net)
    ×0.67 46 | 4 points by lapetitejort 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)
    ×0.89 25 | 58 points by Agreed3750 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 221 Cannon is Not For Sale (fredbenenson.com)
    ×2.09 15 | 275 points by mecredis 21 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The fax numbers of the beast, and other mathematical sports (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×0.06 64 | 3 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com/j178)
    ×1.50 20 | 264 points by fortuitous-frog 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.73 30 | 41 points by viraptor 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
    ×1.45 4 | 145 points by banteg 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How watercolor brushes are made (2015) (handprint.com)
    ×0.88 2 | 45 points by YeGoblynQueenne 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bunny Database (bunny.net)
    ×1.88 24 | 309 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (cnn.com)
    ×1.21 24 | 120 points by breve 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Speculative Sampling Explained (saibo-creator.github.io)
    ×0.76 59 | 5 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US (apnews.com)
    ×6.88 25 | 1062 points by AareyBaba 21 hours ago | 539 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
    ×2.85 19 | 690 points by danielhanchen 22 hours ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins (fortune.com)
    ×1.32 31 | 139 points by shscs911 19 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention (acm.org)
    ×0.76 29 | 103 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
    ×3.21 21 | 329 points by natebc 15 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 (pugetsystems.com)
    ×1.14 33 | 129 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (thedrive.com)
    ×1.25 12 | 116 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% (science.org)
    ×1.05 41 | 166 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid's Toy (itresit.es)
    ×1.20 37 | 13 points by Yippee-Ki-Yay 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
    ×0.49 62 | 69 points by eduardpi 22 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)
    ×1.07 42 | 102 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)
    ×1.81 21 | 58 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Flying Around the World in under 80 Days (pinchito.es)
    ×0.46 61 | 56 points by alexfernandez 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (ingebrigtsen.no)
    ×2.95 19 | 638 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.48 37 | 58 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (rbby.dev)
    ×0.40 66 | 60 points by rbbydotdev 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.02 38 | 126 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (ieee.org)
    ×1.63 10 | 137 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too (igalia.com)
    ×0.24 83 | 14 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.10 46 | 81 points by at1as 22 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines
    ×0.33 42 | 7 points by DenisDolya 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.53 55 | 56 points by crimsoneer 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (tadpolehq.com)
    ×0.68 56 | 55 points by zachperkitny 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.08 26 | 343 points by geox 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines (aiaa.org)
    ×1.35 39 | 85 points by CGMthrowaway 22 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.47 31 | 181 points by tinuviel 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly (github.com/mavdol)
    ×0.65 48 | 75 points by mavdol04 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up (marketwatch.com)
    ×2.74 11 | 29 points by zerosizedweasle 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×1.97 41 | 174 points by jinhkuan 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux (senko.net)
    ×1.56 19 | 106 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×0.72 47 | 61 points by ambonvik 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
    ×2.34 39 | 123 points by p0nce 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.11 50 | 137 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city (harpers.org)
    ×0.54 53 | 35 points by jfil 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting in 2027 (apnews.com)
    ×4.59 54 | 8 points by bobwaycott 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 58 | 39 points by rachitnigam 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Underrated ways to change the world, part II (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.41 68 | 33 points by disgruntledphd2 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.19 8 | 790 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×1.17 20 | 241 points by GalaxySnail 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
    ×0.57 58 | 36 points by techstuff123 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (openpetition.de)
    ×3.33 64 | 186 points by numeri 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left (twitter.com/davidmarcus)
    ×2.41 15 | 27 points by latchkey 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    ×2.90 11 | 351 points by gyrovague-com 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder (mtlynch.io)
    ×1.65 5 | 11 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.97 2 | 590 points by wodniok 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up (acm.org)
    ×2.58 1 | 100 points by Beeroness 18 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.78 7 | 556 points by trms 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.11 47 | 123 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Crazy German Tax Law: Fünftelregelung (or how to pay 116% in income tax) (vormals.substack.com)
    ×2.76 60 | 4 points by vormals 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.95 57 | 167 points by defrost 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.82 66 | 104 points by dbgrman 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Ec – a terminal Git conflict resolver inspired by IntelliJ (github.com/chojs23)
    ×1.64 66 | 10 points by neozz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Latex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects (piwheels.org)
    ×0.19 80 | 9 points by sethbarrettAU 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.65 31 | 167 points by ashergill 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×0.95 58 | 95 points by mci 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't (github.com/sheeki03)
    ×2.48 60 | 32 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.82 53 | 134 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.33 67 | 16 points by aragoss 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI and Trust (2023) (schneier.com)
    ×2.15 17 | 90 points by insuranceguru 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×0.98 51 | 117 points by tromp 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???