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  1. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×5.35 | 47 points by ereiamjh 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds (stanford.edu)
    ×2.49 | 235 points by emigre 4 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (wordpress.com)
    ×1.74 2 | 100 points by num42 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
    ×2.62 1 | 119 points by nsoonhui 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.91 2 | 846 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
    ×2.08 2 | 195 points by z-mach9 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. "The Secret Life of Circuits" is here (coredump.cx)
    ×2.45 1 | 27 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.04 2 | 709 points by jcbhmr 20 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7 (geekbench.com)
    ×3.35 | 54 points by gainsurier 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sourceforge.net)
    ×1.07 9 | 83 points by lioeters 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
    ×1.14 5 | 99 points by jegp 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.63 35 | 494 points by joeriddles 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.21 | 363 points by f311a 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com)
    ×1.31 6 | 48 points by evacchi 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (ieee.org)
    ×1.34 10 | 125 points by maxall4 11 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step (github.com/awlevin)
    ×1.27 1 | 81 points by rahimnathwani 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×1.34 6 | 82 points by agluszak 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise (pnas.org)
    ×0.98 72 | 3 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.94 12 | 26 points by randomImmigrant 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model (usra.edu)
    ×0.70 12 | 28 points by noobplus 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×2.35 12 | 274 points by ohjeez 19 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. OpenJev (openjev.com)
    ×2.91 | 628 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
    ×0.76 29 | 34 points by torutofu 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)
    ×1.19 20 | 198 points by HenryNdubuaku 19 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (ledger.com)
    ×1.20 12 | 194 points by synack 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 38 | 91 points by rochansinha 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (archive.org)
    ×1.74 43 | 168 points by succinct_ideas 22 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Suppress vulnerabilities applying Kubernetes context to scans (github.com/alegrey91)
    ×0.40 50 | 6 points by alegrey91 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Veronese's Dogs (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.36 56 | 7 points by prismatic 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (ferstar.org)
    ×2.83 20 | 301 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
    ×0.78 44 | 64 points by gone35 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Roman Timekeeping (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.25 2 | 3 points by janandonly 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.99 23 | 211 points by JumpCrisscross 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (claude.com)
    ×4.55 28 | 657 points by datadrivenangel 13 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (newscientist.com)
    ×1.24 39 | 116 points by Jimmc414 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
    ×1.19 27 | 161 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (apple.com)
    ×1.05 4 | 140 points by CameronBanga 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.72 31 | 10 points by AnodicElegy 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (lispbm.com)
    ×0.75 43 | 29 points by so-cal-schemer 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 39 | 68 points by tomjakubowski 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient (github.com/browserbase)
    ×2.64 42 | 88 points by wittydeveloper 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions (scmp.com)
    ×3.34 21 | 121 points by yogthos 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes (science.org)
    ×1.44 | 206 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×8.10 51 | 2330 points by arnemunthekaas 3 days ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture (overreacted.io)
    ×1.75 8 | 241 points by m-hodges 19 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Claude couldn't hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5 (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.56 1 | 10 points by stared 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.28 19 | 19 points by luxpir 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With (vice.com)
    ×1.99 22 | 14 points by celadonuproot 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds (science.org)
    ×1.80 38 | 107 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.73 52 | 77 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig (antfly.io)
    ×0.62 46 | 56 points by kingcauchy 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (wired.com)
    ×3.68 29 | 60 points by ent101 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
    ×2.64 5 | 284 points by nashashmi 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Replacing Pull Requests with Delta (zed.dev)
    ×1.31 44 | 140 points by vquemener 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (linguisticdiscovery.com)
    ×1.32 49 | 176 points by axiologist 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report (cnn.com)
    ×5.30 46 | 454 points by realsarm 16 hours ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing (scry.io)
    ×0.65 55 | 52 points by Xyra 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Human brain is two separate organs (stanford.edu)
    ×2.07 66 | 24 points by amirmc 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ctenophores Aren't Just Beautiful. They're Biological Wonders (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.10 70 | 30 points by saikatsg 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers (2023) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 48 | 36 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos (hacktron.ai)
    ×2.63 9 | 477 points by Handy-Man 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I don't like passkeys (hawksley.dev)
    ×5.77 51 | 776 points by ethanhawksley 22 hours ago | 765 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
    ×0.61 46 | 27 points by spacey 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him (nytimes.com)
    ×2.91 23 | 307 points by saimiam 23 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty (2023) (filippo.io)
    ×1.01 80 | 7 points by greyface- 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Column built an issuer processor from scratch (column.com)
    ×0.81 29 | 27 points by Matthalp 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product? (ax-check.com)
    ×0.47 60 | 32 points by 0x63_Problems 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (prismml.com)
    ×2.71 7 | 568 points by JonSchneider 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands (gods.art)
    ×0.62 50 | 65 points by vismit2000 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (sci.news)
    ×0.79 79 | 98 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader (crocidb.com)
    ×1.04 43 | 108 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Astra for Law (openai.com)
    ×2.38 7 | 570 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep (github.com/asciimoo)
    ×3.09 9 | 709 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Jeff – A read-only CLI for semantic code review using Jev (github.com/Alurith)
    ×1.11 67 | 23 points by imalessandro 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe (liveworld.info)
    ×0.90 5 | 33 points by harisingh1612 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python (flet.dev)
    ×1.23 54 | 162 points by absqueued 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September (nats.aero)
    ×0.67 45 | 53 points by asplake 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (global.fujitsu)
    ×2.55 5 | 629 points by my123 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member (bbc.com)
    ×1.32 60 | 62 points by drgo 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities (newyorker.com)
    ×1.81 43 | 261 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Wax motor (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.84 2 | 506 points by mhb 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Jemalloc 5.4.0 (github.com/jemalloc)
    ×1.81 15 | 330 points by gkfasdfasdf 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)
    ×1.37 50 | 149 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Farnese letter (simonklee.dk)
    ×0.57 4 | 41 points by grigolin 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI hallucination nearly triggers US Military operation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.38 38 | 6 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. EFF Statement on California Governor's Executive Order on AI (eff.org)
    ×3.23 47 | 10 points by mdp2021 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The scourge of x86 emulation (fex-emu.com)
    ×1.72 11 | 281 points by dagmx 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration (whitehouse.gov)
    ×3.07 40 | 27 points by anigbrowl 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion (lawandcrime.com)
    ×3.36 62 | 207 points by mmh0000 16 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???