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  1. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (medium.com)
    ×3.41 | 556 points by ca98am79 7 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
    ×2.07 | 153 points by bjhess 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
    ×1.52 7 | 45 points by kweezar 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Prompt API (chrome.com)
    ×1.72 7 | 36 points by gslin 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Three constraints before I build anything (jordanlord.co.uk)
    ×1.95 2 | 114 points by nervous_north 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.26 9 | 32 points by evanklem2004 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
    ×1.36 6 | 195 points by dd23 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
    ×1.66 6 | 66 points by ddrmaxgt37 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Box to save memory in Rust (dystroy.org)
    ×1.30 14 | 91 points by emschwartz 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
    ×3.00 7 | 311 points by berkeleyjunk 7 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
    ×1.56 26 | 10 points by skogstokig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
    ×3.20 8 | 343 points by koshyjohn 8 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. When Your Digital Life Vanishes (newyorker.com)
    ×1.25 8 | 28 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.64 15 | 269 points by kmdupree 14 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Revocation of X.509 Certificates (apnic.net)
    ×0.77 27 | 10 points by jandeboevrie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.85 4 | 170 points by 1659447091 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com/ebrandi)
    ×1.86 19 | 44 points by myth_drannon 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The fastest Linux timestamps (hmpcabral.com)
    ×1.19 4 | 43 points by hmpc 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.16 15 | 110 points by pwim 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
    ×1.22 49 | 104 points by gurjeet 15 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
    ×2.37 16 | 53 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core (tingouw.com)
    ×0.87 24 | 48 points by MrBuddyCasino 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) (github.com/sachitrafa)
    ×0.93 7 | 77 points by SachitRafa 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (alejandro.pe)
    ×0.57 29 | 19 points by alejandrohacks 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (ft.com)
    ×1.97 16 | 83 points by donsupreme 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (bbc.com)
    ×1.35 21 | 63 points by reconnecting 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
    ×5.31 19 | 553 points by jeremyccrane 12 hours ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. MoQ Boy (moq.dev)
    ×0.81 23 | 47 points by mmcclure 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
    ×1.24 2 | 205 points by j0r0b0 12 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
    ×1.05 13 | 119 points by PLenz 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)
    ×0.90 24 | 50 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Music of the BBC Microcomputer System (acornelectron.co.uk)
    ×0.71 28 | 16 points by eightb 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.07 19 | 118 points by 2DcAf 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The QEII garden – built from its own ruins – opens in Regent's Park (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.57 39 | 13 points by zeristor 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (macchaffee.com)
    ×1.83 24 | 95 points by Wingy 13 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.61 30 | 24 points by iliabara 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.10 11 | 23 points by drio 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US power demand to reach record highs in 2026–2027 driven by AI and data centers (reuters.com)
    ×2.46 | 4 points by latentframe 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×3.99 33 | 570 points by jamesponddotco 11 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.42 22 | 208 points by yak32 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.23 16 | 38 points by trebeljahr 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Last of the Lost Generation (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.59 36 | 17 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.99 25 | 602 points by elisaado 17 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
    ×0.52 37 | 37 points by plow-tycoon 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Voice Modems (computer.rip)
    ×0.72 41 | 9 points by K7PJP 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color (barwypowstania.pl)
    ×2.15 22 | 121 points by keiferski 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.51 19 | 165 points by rodarima 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×1.89 20 | 98 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one (pcworld.com)
    ×4.02 31 | 12 points by Garbage 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ELI: Explain Like I'm for any ArXiv Paper (voxos.ai)
    ×0.93 66 | 9 points by Falimonda 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.62 47 | 48 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.33 14 | 748 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×1.01 67 | 10 points by rohan044 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    ×1.61 24 | 216 points by iamwil 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (npmjs.com)
    ×1.29 44 | 79 points by okovooo 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Sloppy Copies (markround.com)
    ×0.94 14 | 61 points by dev_hugepages 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Principia Softwarica: Fundamental Literate System Programs (principia-softwarica.org)
    ×1.32 39 | 15 points by pratikdeoghare 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI appears to be funding it (modelrepublic.substack.com)
    ×3.28 19 | 21 points by Teever 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
    ×1.57 16 | 292 points by sph 19 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.69 35 | 162 points by offbyone42 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)
    ×1.86 32 | 254 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.71 39 | 81 points by subset 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
    ×2.94 29 | 233 points by luckman212 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×0.95 9 | 104 points by Jach 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.22 49 | 160 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. After three months on Linux, I don't miss Windows at all (theverge.com)
    ×5.01 26 | 20 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.69 56 | 74 points by jger15 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.85 15 | 16 points by Amorymeltzer 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds (mit.edu)
    ×1.48 22 | 80 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.38 42 | 148 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.16 54 | 135 points by srean 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.38 10 | 489 points by gwerbret 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.59 38 | 191 points by thehappyfellow 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Matrirc – run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix (github.com/pawelb0)
    ×2.45 47 | 8 points by pawelb0 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
    ×0.68 30 | 59 points by t-3 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.90 12 | 408 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.76 28 | 540 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them (road.cc)
    ×3.75 62 | 216 points by randycupertino 10 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tin Can: a screen free phone for kids (tomsguide.com)
    ×1.39 10 | 4 points by silverdrake11 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot, Backers Say (wsj.com)
    ×4.13 56 | 9 points by testfoobar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal (franzai.com)
    ×0.83 11 | 21 points by franze 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.98 28 | 245 points by zdw 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.31 23 | 331 points by gasull 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.23 50 | 77 points by mji 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 8v: One CLI for you and your AI agent. Up to 66% fewer tokens (github.com/8Network)
    ×1.21 24 | 9 points by soheeilalizadeh 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.63 11 | 602 points by stephen-hill 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.09 11 | 2062 points by impact_sy 3 days ago | 1586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    ×1.94 4 | 286 points by Nrbelex 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.32 37 | 130 points by varjag 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???