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  1. Open-source Zig book (zigbook.net)
    ×2.60 | 530 points by rudedogg 12 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents (shoosmiths.com)
    ×1.41 7 | 110 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Building a Simple Search Engine That Works (karboosx.net)
    ×2.04 4 | 42 points by freediver 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A file format uncracked for 20 years (landaire.net)
    ×1.93 7 | 140 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models (github.com/p-e-w)
    ×2.62 3 | 516 points by melded 16 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser (greg.technology)
    ×0.95 7 | 48 points by vaibhavsagar 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL (peterullrich.com)
    ×1.60 5 | 60 points by pjullrich 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones (idevicecentral.com)
    ×3.07 7 | 45 points by K0IN 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator (picoide.com)
    ×1.33 10 | 91 points by st_goliath 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The fate of "small" open source (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.47 6 | 194 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Where do the children play? (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 25 points by casca 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.42 10 | 96 points by wjb3 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) (ahalbert.com)
    ×1.38 8 | 120 points by ahalbert2 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels (david.coffee)
    ×2.02 9 | 185 points by eustoria 14 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. runit Linux: Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision (codelucky.com)
    ×2.12 9 | 22 points by smartmic 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (ericpony.github.io)
    ×1.12 14 | 115 points by amit-bansil 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT (bit-hack.net)
    ×1.15 15 | 162 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Origin and Evolution of the Globstar (mergify.com)
    ×0.95 52 | 5 points by remyduthu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Fourier Transforms (continuummechanics.org)
    ×1.29 21 | 132 points by o4c 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.00 23 | 14 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com/Hans-Halverson)
    ×1.31 16 | 222 points by ivankra 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (britneyspears.ac)
    ×2.07 19 | 198 points by lachlan_gray 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) (github.com/jonasstrehle)
    ×2.14 17 | 287 points by vxvrs 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure (jonathanclark.com)
    ×5.54 22 | 468 points by jclarkcom 11 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Extreme Moon: The Major Lunar Standstill of 2024-2025 (griffithobservatory.org)
    ×0.51 21 | 14 points by keepamovin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Help My LocalDate Isn't Flattened (horstmann.com)
    ×1.28 9 | 15 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml (roscidus.com)
    ×0.85 21 | 63 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dark Pattern Games (darkpattern.games)
    ×2.32 14 | 210 points by robotnikman 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Garbage collection is useful (dubroy.com)
    ×1.30 20 | 143 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit (djnn.sh)
    ×6.31 25 | 967 points by vxvxvx 20 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Lithium vs. Lettuce (ambrook.com)
    ×0.61 44 | 39 points by mfburnett 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why your mock breaks later (nedbatchelder.com)
    ×0.72 26 | 30 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems (seri.tools)
    ×3.08 49 | 27 points by shepmaster 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem (github.com/kavishdevar)
    ×5.67 17 | 1282 points by moonleay 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What if you don't need MCP at all? (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.29 15 | 195 points by jdkee 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020) (montsecure.com)
    ×0.94 33 | 27 points by vxvrs 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight (greatscottgadgets.com)
    ×1.19 28 | 126 points by Jyaif 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Shell Grotto, Margate (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.82 23 | 42 points by Michelangelo11 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment? (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.44 78 | 3 points by EGreg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018) (cnbc.com)
    ×4.23 36 | 195 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All (eisentraut.org)
    ×0.80 37 | 50 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024) (spakhm.com)
    ×0.59 39 | 38 points by coffeemug 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. De Bruijn Numerals (marvinborner.de)
    ×0.66 33 | 68 points by marvinborner 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Modern Stack on AWS (cloudposse.com)
    ×2.07 52 | 4 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Spam classifier in Go using Naive Bayes (github.com/igomez10)
    ×0.58 32 | 24 points by igomeza 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Vintage Large Language Models (owainevans.github.io)
    ×0.96 38 | 70 points by pr337h4m 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today (adguard-dns.io)
    ×6.85 21 | 1749 points by immibis 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. From Zero to 35M: The struggles of scaling Laravel with Octane (galahadsixteen.com)
    ×0.86 88 | 3 points by bdlowery 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Building a High Performance Home (bulwinkle.net)
    ×1.31 55 | 8 points by pilingual 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.64 33 | 33 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance (github.com/randoneering)
    ×1.46 16 | 98 points by yakshaving_jgt 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Maybe you’re not trying (usefulfictions.substack.com)
    ×3.08 27 | 384 points by eatitraw 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. An Open-Source HDMI Keyboard/Video/Mouse (KVM) Switch (github.com/thatoddmailbox)
    ×1.74 38 | 12 points by pabs3 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field (johndcook.com)
    ×0.55 47 | 20 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023) (swtch.com)
    ×1.09 2 | 116 points by naves 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog (hofstede.it)
    ×0.89 29 | 57 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes (flox.dev)
    ×1.09 30 | 105 points by kelseyhightower 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.15 31 | 175 points by emsign 16 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 9NEWS Questions Flock Safety CEO over Mass Surveillance and ICE Access (9news.com)
    ×3.28 20 | 47 points by mhb 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Open Catalyst Project (opencatalystproject.org)
    ×0.41 52 | 8 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective (beehiiv.com)
    ×0.89 37 | 47 points by subdomain 18 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore (reddit.com)
    ×3.66 28 | 33 points by Jun8 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Holes (1970) [pdf] (colorado.edu)
    ×0.56 29 | 31 points by miobrien 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Coherent Synchrotron Radiation by Excitation of SPPs on Near-Critical CNT (arxiv.org)
    ×0.72 79 | 5 points by westurner 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Writing a DOS Clone in 2019 (medium.com)
    ×0.68 59 | 64 points by shakna 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024) (polybdenum.com)
    ×1.09 49 | 119 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering (pinetreelabs.github.io)
    ×0.91 62 | 114 points by i_don_t_know 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Alchemy (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×0.53 70 | 27 points by tobr 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales (bbc.com)
    ×1.80 15 | 164 points by ksec 21 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Things that aren't doing the thing (strangestloop.io)
    ×2.99 11 | 469 points by downboots 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Starring the Computer: AN/FSQ-7 of SAGE air-defense sysstem (starringthecomputer.com)
    ×0.96 66 | 9 points by stmw 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. JavaScript Engines Benchmarks (ivankra.github.io)
    ×1.34 58 | 21 points by homebrewer 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mag Wealth (2024) (saul.pw)
    ×2.01 52 | 149 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft's AI (proton.me)
    ×3.03 34 | 23 points by jethronethro 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.98 31 | 152 points by binning 18 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Diamonds and Lasers: Thermal Management for Chips (ieee.org)
    ×0.24 76 | 11 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bypassing the Branch Predictor (nicula.xyz)
    ×0.99 41 | 64 points by signa11 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs (codeberg.org)
    ×1.69 17 | 293 points by nogajun 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more (lwn.net)
    ×2.29 14 | 37 points by leephillips 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares (unflipgame.com)
    ×1.33 19 | 169 points by bogdanoff_2 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI World Clocks (brianmoore.com)
    ×5.15 22 | 1340 points by waxpancake 2 days ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.15 54 | 35 points by thinkingemote 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×2.92 20 | 305 points by goldenskye 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.81 59 | 90 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Private AI Compute (blog.google)
    ×1.59 9 | 12 points by neehao 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A 6502 Emulator in LabVIEW (crossover-eng.it)
    ×1.14 48 | 10 points by azhenley 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. One Handed Keyboard (github.com/htx-studio)
    ×1.50 37 | 211 points by doppp 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I made a better DOM morphing algorithm (drapper.me)
    ×1.05 50 | 90 points by joeldrapper 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year' (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.58 2 | 202 points by achow 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???