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  1. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.84 | 239 points by asronline 3 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.95 | 44 points by maille 52 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×2.94 | 420 points by javxfps 5 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.50 | 263 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×2.06 3 | 44 points by leemoore 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.71 4 | 260 points by chatmasta 8 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Verizon is About to Break our Watches (jefftk.com)
    ×1.62 2 | 109 points by jefftk 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.72 4 | 358 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×2.79 7 | 96 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
    ×1.41 5 | 60 points by wrxd 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×1.04 14 | 79 points by msephton 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
    ×1.37 6 | 32 points by SVI 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes? (experimentlog.com)
    ×0.60 57 | 4 points by iweczek 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.23 13 | 179 points by jnord 13 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.92 8 | 206 points by sensanaty 5 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.53 15 | 40 points by toilet 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Vespa at 80 (cbc.ca)
    ×1.42 17 | 130 points by cf100clunk 12 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.87 14 | 41 points by tobr 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 41 | 5 points by logickkk1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (endbasic.dev)
    ×0.63 27 | 21 points by jmmv 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.75 1 | 43 points by liffik 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.89 16 | 50 points by rtolkachev 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)
    ×1.36 17 | 156 points by andrenotgiant 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.06 12 | 76 points by yyyk 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
    ×3.57 4 | 69 points by adamraudonis 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)
    ×1.73 9 | 80 points by ohjeez 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The .join() that should be a bug (kronotop.com)
    ×0.30 40 | 13 points by mastabadtomm 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)
    ×4.24 14 | 729 points by gslin 16 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
    ×1.19 27 | 163 points by clmul 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 12 | 84 points by gverrilla 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (mattgreer.dev)
    ×0.88 17 | 20 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Plein Air (joonas.wtf)
    ×1.17 10 | 51 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com/FossPrime)
    ×1.05 38 | 194 points by zdw 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.00 8 | 404 points by tylerdane 19 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×1.22 37 | 41 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×4.00 15 | 62 points by AlexeyBrin 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
    ×0.85 41 | 137 points by MrBruh 21 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.35 77 | 6 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment
    ×1.31 16 | 12 points by gl9 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.94 53 | 129 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    ×2.19 21 | 240 points by stock_toaster 23 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists (theregister.com)
    ×1.49 9 | 17 points by Bender 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth (2025) (bbc.com)
    ×1.02 73 | 12 points by taubek 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation (abc.net.au)
    ×2.75 16 | 5 points by phs318u 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.11 57 | 108 points by wslh 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.11 8 | 160 points by gm678 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.81 3 | 535 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)
    ×1.83 24 | 53 points by jruohonen 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.07 19 | 141 points by azhenley 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.37 6 | 346 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.73 43 | 320 points by indy 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.59 14 | 355 points by programLyrique 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×1.79 57 | 129 points by djoldman 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Possible evidence of literal prompt injection by Anthropic (reddit.com)
    ×2.69 9 | 7 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.45 37 | 123 points by ciconia 9 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history (reddit.com)
    ×2.75 22 | 24 points by jjbinx007 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Official US Time (time.gov)
    ×0.51 91 | 3 points by Bender 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How working memory could give rise to consciousness (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.74 16 | 46 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth (eso.org)
    ×2.55 47 | 104 points by Breadmaker 5 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (irishtimes.com)
    ×0.50 59 | 22 points by austinallegro 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)
    ×1.06 46 | 186 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
    ×5.67 33 | 1329 points by weli 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Liquid transforms into an energy-rich gel that stores power for months (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.33 13 | 12 points by geox 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenScience: Workbench for scientific research using custom LLMs (github.com/synthetic-sciences)
    ×0.65 72 | 4 points by ignoramous 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (rookandpossum.com)
    ×0.78 43 | 35 points by kouosi 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×1.11 8 | 258 points by hhs 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×1.94 79 | 129 points by MegagramEnjoyer 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste (nytimes.com)
    ×2.17 11 | 32 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
    ×2.98 29 | 409 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fly for Less (erranta.com)
    ×1.31 67 | 9 points by vasie 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    ×1.58 40 | 181 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.47 44 | 182 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (fide.com)
    ×1.51 29 | 164 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)
    ×1.07 24 | 59 points by networked 16 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com/jamesob)
    ×1.69 12 | 396 points by livestyle 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Declaration of Independence (acoup.blog)
    ×2.02 51 | 15 points by cesidio 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    ×1.11 10 | 121 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.47 48 | 32 points by dataviz1000 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
    ×0.46 63 | 26 points by davidslv 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)
    ×1.18 8 | 190 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (irishtimes.com)
    ×4.32 76 | 105 points by 01-_- 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (science.org)
    ×1.75 51 | 87 points by digital55 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×1.98 14 | 130 points by faza 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Rare things become common at scale (2014) (asmartbear.com)
    ×1.33 24 | 5 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Study reveals what people see when they read lips (ku.edu)
    ×0.63 53 | 24 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.56 42 | 43 points by Rochus 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.50 35 | 40 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×4.01 37 | 584 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
    ×6.62 17 | 1701 points by drewfax 2 days ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???