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  1. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.95 2 | 154 points by linolevan 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)
    ×3.13 3 | 18 points by unchar1 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×3.64 1 | 735 points by chwtutha 14 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)
    ×3.75 3 | 30 points by dev_tty01 57 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.88 16 | 75 points by mattst88 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
    ×1.05 17 | 24 points by jimbauwens 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)
    ×1.38 12 | 119 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
    ×1.09 16 | 54 points by gtsnexp 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×1.14 17 | 45 points by bobbiechen 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    ×1.65 1 | 57 points by muggermuch 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.61 2 | 137 points by kristianp 8 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Cooking with Glasses (macwright.com)
    ×1.10 26 | 10 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.34 5 | 106 points by david927 8 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.54 14 | 173 points by ariaalam 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×0.94 17 | 118 points by nullcathedral 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Stop Generating, Start Thinking (localghost.dev)
    ×2.72 9 | 75 points by frizlab 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×3.71 15 | 218 points by weaksauce 6 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.76 27 | 88 points by pocksuppet 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.97 12 | 159 points by vinnyglennon 7 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
    ×1.97 12 | 160 points by HelloUsername 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×1.90 37 | 60 points by aaronng91 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)
    ×1.17 21 | 159 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.86 17 | 68 points by nwparker 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Dave Farber has died (nanog.org)
    ×1.73 18 | 230 points by vitplister 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
    ×1.68 8 | 231 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×1.12 26 | 113 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
    ×2.52 28 | 269 points by novoreorx 23 hours ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.93 17 | 138 points by ipnon 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.22 16 | 286 points by adunk 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.23 25 | 28 points by spendy_clao 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way (theconversation.com)
    ×4.06 22 | 11 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Job Hunters Are So Desperate That They're Paying to Get Recruited (wsj.com)
    ×2.82 2 | 3 points by KnuthIsGod 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor (github.com/smyrgeorge)
    ×0.53 41 | 20 points by smyrgeorge 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.35 23 | 173 points by bryanrasmussen 19 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)
    ×2.67 20 | 259 points by brandonb 12 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Self-referential functions and the design of options (2014) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
    ×0.63 35 | 11 points by hambes 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.60 12 | 699 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
    ×2.14 12 | 164 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.96 1 | 244 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
    ×1.61 29 | 249 points by RebelPotato 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)
    ×1.06 29 | 135 points by jingkai_he 21 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.19 80 | 7 points by wjb3 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×1.82 48 | 254 points by valyala 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
    ×0.70 45 | 85 points by pacod 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster (insideevs.com)
    ×2.36 13 | 142 points by andrewjneumann 12 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.23 17 | 149 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.93 26 | 196 points by napolux 12 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
    ×3.89 18 | 345 points by Ezhik 19 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
    ×2.63 13 | 379 points by awaaz 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop (alfioemanuele.io)
    ×2.14 9 | 71 points by alfie42 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
    ×1.42 31 | 118 points by molszanski 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Microsoft Outlook thinks Microsoft Azure emails are spam (twitter.com/OrganicGPT)
    ×2.23 13 | 25 points by behnamoh 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) (rogerebert.com)
    ×1.40 47 | 92 points by monero-xmr 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×1.06 56 | 27 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) (ejpe.org)
    ×0.84 59 | 57 points by cainxinth 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes (phys.org)
    ×2.67 15 | 62 points by bookmtn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple Container 0.9.0 (github.com/apple)
    ×2.46 5 | 35 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (voidtools.com)
    ×2.47 44 | 120 points by idw 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
    ×3.73 16 | 966 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.95 68 | 83 points by Rygian 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Attention Media ≠ Social Media (susam.net)
    ×1.14 44 | 22 points by susam 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
    ×4.28 17 | 1142 points by xnx 2 days ago | 647 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses (jurist.org)
    ×1.32 66 | 42 points by voxadam 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Canadian startups need to stop playing slow (bcbusiness.ca)
    ×1.64 60 | 12 points by ClearwayLaw 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.25 12 | 2334 points by HellsMaddy 3 days ago | 1016 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Corporations Don't Have to Maximize Profits (2015) (nytimes.com)
    ×2.23 2 | 31 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) (xorvoid.com)
    ×1.86 9 | 375 points by valyala 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. C and Undefined Behaviour (lelanthran.com)
    ×1.52 65 | 12 points by lelanthran 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)
    ×1.68 6 | 318 points by yi_wang 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)
    ×1.70 22 | 194 points by zhyan7109 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tauri (tauri.app)
    ×2.43 63 | 12 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stop Using Face ID (pcmag.com)
    ×2.64 11 | 61 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Software factories and the agentic moment (strongdm.ai)
    ×1.71 23 | 278 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
    ×1.14 58 | 170 points by matheusalmeida 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs (arcan-fe.com)
    ×1.00 50 | 37 points by walterbell 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Everyone should play more games offline – Gabriel Cornish (gabrielcornish.com)
    ×1.77 66 | 9 points by el3ctron 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The F Word (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.34 40 | 130 points by zdw 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    ×1.23 71 | 8 points by znah 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 80386 Barrel Shifter (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.57 72 | 14 points by jamesbowman 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks (dosdays.co.uk)
    ×1.43 64 | 49 points by TheCraiggers 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)
    ×0.97 49 | 130 points by onurkanbkrc 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)
    ×2.52 13 | 412 points by jesperordrup 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)
    ×0.84 43 | 119 points by thelok 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. When 20 Watts Beats 20 Megawatts: Rethinking Computer Design (smarterarticles.co.uk)
    ×1.73 63 | 9 points by dxs 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding (cyber-omelette.com)
    ×0.96 53 | 20 points by birdculture 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (spritely.institute)
    ×1.18 25 | 229 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing (infisical.com)
    ×1.40 48 | 187 points by vmatsiiako 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GPT-5.3-Codex (openai.com)
    ×5.72 6 | 1522 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 600 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects (phoronix.com)
    ×1.82 4 | 22 points by pjmlp 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???