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  1. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
    ×1.42 | 95 points by Ryan5453 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
    ×3.29 | 510 points by nonmaskable 8 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
    ×2.42 1 | 483 points by polyphilz 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.59 3 | 367 points by krackers 9 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×1.86 4 | 167 points by afilipovski 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
    ×1.56 12 | 74 points by Betelbuddy 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.38 1 | 470 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 4 | 176 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.13 13 | 28 points by paimapi 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
    ×3.77 6 | 326 points by berkeleyjunk 12 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
    ×1.00 35 | 8 points by egberts1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    ×1.66 1 | 114 points by etoxin 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
    ×2.16 3 | 165 points by johnjwang 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
    ×1.56 5 | 59 points by gumby 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.35 | 240 points by soheilpro 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
    ×1.91 9 | 87 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×7.47 14 | 2128 points by arnemunthekaas 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    ×1.53 3 | 60 points by jasonpeacock 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    ×1.77 4 | 176 points by jheitmann 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (bbc.com)
    ×0.96 22 | 22 points by marc__1 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    ×1.87 16 | 152 points by herbertl 12 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com/cloudflare)
    ×1.83 18 | 6 points by donk8r 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.55 48 | 125 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.90 38 | 8 points by rahimnathwani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
    ×1.65 16 | 109 points by rochansinha 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.org)
    ×0.51 42 | 14 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 22 | 191 points by bananaflag 16 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
    ×2.58 23 | 93 points by mfiguiere 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
    ×0.84 50 | 86 points by Agentlien 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (vanityfair.com)
    ×2.10 16 | 39 points by kamaraju 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (wired.com)
    ×3.95 14 | 510 points by driverdan 16 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.70 19 | 166 points by vertigoruntime 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.67 49 | 73 points by AndrewDucker 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×0.68 26 | 70 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.87 40 | 47 points by schopra909 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    ×2.32 4 | 284 points by whisper2020 15 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.18 11 | 89 points by qt31415926 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.95 35 | 48 points by spathak 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×6.70 16 | 1807 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    ×2.60 3 | 211 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.78 59 | 75 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    ×1.16 57 | 40 points by kserrec 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.26 16 | 166 points by mococa 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How big are factorials? (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.76 40 | 84 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (bbc.com)
    ×2.38 59 | 10 points by higginsniggins 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
    ×0.57 41 | 47 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
    ×2.02 13 | 347 points by inputmice 18 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pangram – AI detector for text and images (pangram.com)
    ×1.59 2 | 23 points by doodlesdev 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
    ×2.82 20 | 555 points by vertigoruntime 21 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.52 35 | 201 points by luu 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 43 | 162 points by pythonic_hell 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Salesforce Global Outage (salesforce.com)
    ×1.86 3 | 270 points by mabil 19 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
    ×0.80 24 | 30 points by oldmanrahul 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
    ×2.39 26 | 214 points by vertigoruntime 13 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)
    ×0.83 52 | 13 points by abidlabs 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.41 54 | 5 points by gtCameron 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.75 33 | 71 points by joozio 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.65 3 | 505 points by imwally 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
    ×0.41 55 | 18 points by zxcvbn4038 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×0.77 33 | 68 points by peterldowns 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.80 18 | 267 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (ploeh.dk)
    ×1.92 | 236 points by moneroloop2018 20 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Paramount 'Leaks' Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked (techdirt.com)
    ×2.94 11 | 28 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents (axios.com)
    ×2.72 10 | 23 points by toomuchtodo 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An update on Wayback Machine access (archive.org)
    ×2.87 1 | 667 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. William Buckland's Theology of Geology (historytoday.com)
    ×0.05 84 | 4 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (archive.org)
    ×0.89 45 | 117 points by bananaboy 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (vcfed.org)
    ×0.76 58 | 69 points by JPLeRouzic 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.15 47 | 132 points by marklit 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The US Gov Graph – a complete map of the federal government (civlab.org)
    ×1.71 54 | 6 points by m_adams 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (independent.co.uk)
    ×4.57 66 | 203 points by doener 7 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.03 19 | 136 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (columbia.edu)
    ×0.77 50 | 59 points by Tomte 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×4.70 3 | 1124 points by networked 1 day ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
    ×2.30 5 | 482 points by leumon 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI (fractalsofchange.substack.com)
    ×2.72 19 | 20 points by gz5 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Write Linters and Tools Before Code (cookie.engineer)
    ×0.98 42 | 10 points by cookiengineer 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
    ×1.19 56 | 93 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×2.72 19 | 426 points by rkotcher 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
    ×2.50 17 | 162 points by talhof8 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.34 34 | 177 points by Liogra123 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (st-andrews.ac.uk)
    ×1.08 38 | 147 points by jzox 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
    ×3.48 10 | 465 points by jaykru 1 day ago | 616 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Everybody's Lost Their Minds (netmeister.org)
    ×3.91 19 | 10 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Principles for a New Utopianism (deepmind.com)
    ×0.65 58 | 7 points by cfowles 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.44 67 | 371 points by david927 3 days ago | 1174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (utoronto.ca)
    ×3.26 52 | 156 points by geox 12 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
    ×1.01 45 | 113 points by natolambert 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (loiseaujc.github.io)
    ×0.57 33 | 28 points by loiseaujc 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???