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  1. The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code (techtrenches.dev)
    ×4.65 | 294 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.75 | 365 points by pr337h4m 7 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.62 4 | 220 points by chiefalchemist 9 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
    ×1.53 9 | 66 points by zdkaster 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] (catgirl.cloud)
    ×1.13 14 | 13 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.15 3 | 314 points by gwerbret 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.93 3 | 21 points by subset 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×3.23 3 | 260 points by _-x-_ 8 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    ×1.59 3 | 88 points by iamwil 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
    ×1.32 8 | 26 points by gurjeet 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com)
    ×1.31 4 | 12 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.71 13 | 30 points by jger15 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    ×2.04 3 | 167 points by Nrbelex 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
    ×2.12 | 208 points by tanelpoder 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    ×1.73 5 | 313 points by robinhouston 18 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.48 14 | 166 points by gasull 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.19 5 | 269 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (npmjs.com)
    ×1.32 37 | 4 points by okovooo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.92 5 | 171 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.30 16 | 110 points by sleepyguy 13 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.63 9 | 105 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Rediscovering the Handcart (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.94 1 | 22 points by jgrodziski 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
    ×1.06 14 | 53 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.29 25 | 107 points by srean 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
    ×0.58 22 | 23 points by wakamoleguy 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.63 5 | 53 points by offbyone42 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.70 11 | 146 points by thehappyfellow 16 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Knight Programming Language (github.com/knight-lang)
    ×1.66 28 | 4 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)
    ×2.54 24 | 67 points by pabs3 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010) (media-culture.org.au)
    ×0.24 33 | 4 points by theletterf 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.51 11 | 49 points by mji 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.98 11 | 203 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×0.96 11 | 37 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (eternal-flame.org)
    ×0.96 12 | 29 points by xeonmc 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.21 17 | 94 points by varjag 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON) (github.com/PearsonZero)
    ×0.20 47 | 7 points by PearsonZero 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.61 18 | 581 points by stephen-hill 21 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (sebastianwick.net)
    ×1.08 16 | 77 points by ffin 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.53 25 | 158 points by adunk 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. iOS 18.7.3-18.7.6 were withheld from most devices; iOS 18.7.7 is enabled for all (apple.com)
    ×1.29 48 | 7 points by seam_carver 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.27 9 | 146 points by Murfalo 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning (github.com/agzam)
    ×0.61 24 | 9 points by iLemming 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (luau.org)
    ×1.31 14 | 81 points by vrn-sn 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Peter Thiel Flees to Argentina (thenerdreich.com)
    ×5.54 37 | 18 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.52 16 | 580 points by calcifer 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com/MartinGalway)
    ×1.11 13 | 174 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com/nakagami)
    ×1.04 24 | 125 points by mariuz 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Simple Sabotage of Agents (alexschroeder.ch)
    ×1.65 30 | 6 points by Tallain 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
    ×3.09 23 | 98 points by terminalbraid 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What the FCC router ban means for FOSS (sfconservancy.org)
    ×2.45 27 | 30 points by pabs3 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
    ×0.65 39 | 57 points by jxmorris12 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.53 57 | 51 points by wslh 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast? (mcgill.ca)
    ×1.91 73 | 11 points by amichail 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.10 21 | 2042 points by impact_sy 2 days ago | 1556 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)
    ×1.72 20 | 59 points by danso 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (wordpress.com)
    ×0.89 44 | 76 points by keepamovin 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Paraloid B-72 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.62 16 | 262 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The mail sent to a video game publisher (gamefile.news)
    ×1.33 33 | 141 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
    ×0.69 15 | 50 points by neo2006 14 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)
    ×2.25 33 | 141 points by jstrieb 13 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI (victortaelin.github.io)
    ×1.19 6 | 136 points by marvinborner 22 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Education must go beyond the mere production of words (ncregister.com)
    ×1.23 49 | 141 points by signor_bosco 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Enterprises Are Rethinking Kubernetes (infoworld.com)
    ×2.18 31 | 9 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I have officially retired from Emacs (nullprogram.com)
    ×2.15 64 | 6 points by Fudgel 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Mise-En-Place (jdx.dev)
    ×2.15 22 | 21 points by dotmanish 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do (alash3al.github.io)
    ×1.91 30 | 171 points by alash3al 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×5.85 9 | 1561 points by rd 2 days ago | 1041 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (clad.you)
    ×0.87 34 | 128 points by arkadiuss 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)
    ×4.00 37 | 24 points by annjose 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification (programmablemutter.com)
    ×1.88 22 | 6 points by hackandthink 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements (phoronix.com)
    ×2.59 37 | 19 points by shpat 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. North American Millets Alliance (milletsalliance.org)
    ×0.50 65 | 17 points by num42 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Work with the garage door up (2024) (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.26 40 | 190 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Panipat: The rise of the Mughals (historytoday.com)
    ×0.85 41 | 60 points by Thevet 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Commenting and approving pull requests (jakeworth.com)
    ×1.15 7 | 87 points by jwworth 21 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (blender.org)
    ×1.14 45 | 106 points by shankysingh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. HEALPix (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.77 33 | 52 points by hyperific 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How to Implement an FPS Counter (vplesko.com)
    ×1.10 7 | 125 points by vplesko 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live (flowtriq.com)
    ×0.99 61 | 6 points by jacob_masse 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Prediction Market Accuracy: Crowd Wisdom or Informed Minority? (ssrn.com)
    ×1.44 53 | 16 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.87 30 | 235 points by najmuzzaman 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)
    ×1.68 10 | 260 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CO operating system age-verification open-source exemption doesn't include Linux (twitter.com/LundukeJournal)
    ×1.53 21 | 6 points by gasull 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations (gigazine.net)
    ×1.06 48 | 140 points by gslin 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×7.93 10 | 2288 points by Kaibeezy 3 days ago | 775 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.04 30 | 85 points by mailyk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (aresluna.org)
    ×1.96 19 | 294 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Does internet advertising work? (2020) (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.45 23 | 20 points by hackthemack 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (kevinlynagh.com)
    ×2.08 20 | 519 points by alcazar 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???