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  1. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×6.05 | 603 points by rd 1 hour ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.29 | 317 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign (socket.dev)
    ×2.84 4 | 463 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge (bbc.com)
    ×1.91 5 | 34 points by codezero 50 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.88 2 | 156 points by Vaslo 1 hour ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code (meshcore.io)
    ×0.92 7 | 65 points by wielebny 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Incident with multple GitHub services (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.44 3 | 130 points by bwannasek 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys (wired.com)
    ×6.15 4 | 285 points by pavel_lishin 2 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.39 4 | 314 points by robtherobber 3 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)
    ×3.95 5 | 894 points by bumbledraven 15 hours ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear (hackster.io)
    ×1.12 12 | 89 points by sarusso 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)
    ×2.61 12 | 424 points by tobr 13 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)
    ×1.18 7 | 196 points by russellthehippo 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way (skyandtelescope.org)
    ×1.51 16 | 11 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus (semiengineering.com)
    ×0.47 32 | 8 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.44 10 | 806 points by cdrnsf 23 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable (tenphi.me)
    ×0.57 12 | 21 points by tenphi 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad? (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.06 10 | 249 points by momentmaker 3 hours ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.94 23 | 107 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)
    ×3.91 12 | 879 points by danpinto 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring (jiga.io)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image (antiz.fr)
    ×2.36 27 | 261 points by maxloh 18 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.80 13 | 76 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×7.38 2 | 2087 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 713 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.38 13 | 352 points by mentalgear 7 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.41 24 | 175 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Isopods of the world (isopod.site)
    ×1.12 24 | 118 points by debesyla 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. People Do Not Yearn for Automation (theverge.com)
    ×1.47 14 | 43 points by icco 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×2.95 23 | 203 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.36 27 | 173 points by Prof_Sigmund 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Raylib v6.0 (github.com/raysan5)
    ×2.53 12 | 180 points by rydgel 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The end of responsive images (piccalil.li)
    ×0.92 11 | 45 points by OuterVale 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Website streamed live directly from a model (flipbook.page)
    ×2.37 26 | 409 points by sethbannon 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary (nrehiew.github.io)
    ×1.84 26 | 410 points by pella 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road (bookdna.com)
    ×0.80 41 | 74 points by bwb 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil (thepointmag.com)
    ×0.29 29 | 25 points by lermontov 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Technical, cognitive, and intent debt (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.78 34 | 326 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players (reuters.com)
    ×1.16 47 | 175 points by wslh 23 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Highlights from Git 2.54 (github.blog)
    ×1.93 11 | 135 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Books are not too expensive (millersbookreview.com)
    ×1.24 58 | 113 points by herbertl 22 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Middle Eastern News Sites Are U.S. Government Propaganda Ops (theintercept.com)
    ×1.55 25 | 25 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
    ×3.99 3 | 931 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)
    ×1.64 31 | 268 points by ajeetdsouza 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The active ingredients: physical activity features linked to healthy brain aging (springer.com)
    ×1.03 2 | 12 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.51 7 | 785 points by zdw 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)
    ×1.81 31 | 324 points by hubraumhugo 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org)
    ×3.83 1 | 983 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Bodega cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)
    ×1.38 45 | 208 points by zdw 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game (homemade.systems)
    ×0.92 40 | 101 points by mwenge 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise (openai.com)
    ×1.07 42 | 91 points by shpat 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Workspace Agents in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×1.21 46 | 153 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon (ubuntu.com)
    ×1.71 21 | 16 points by l2dy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Borrow-checking without type-checking (scattered-thoughts.net)
    ×0.93 37 | 78 points by jamii 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What killed the Florida orange? (slate.com)
    ×1.28 46 | 159 points by danso 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets (streetsblog.org)
    ×3.05 44 | 189 points by greedo 4 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors) (locallllm.fly.dev)
    ×0.50 51 | 6 points by Igor_Wiwi 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust (verus-lang.github.io)
    ×0.80 46 | 66 points by fanf2 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bring Your Agent to Teams (microsoft.github.io)
    ×0.93 52 | 75 points by umangsehgal93 21 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.46 52 | 221 points by ingve 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba (ieee.org)
    ×0.42 71 | 17 points by defrost 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production (anthropocenemagazine.org)
    ×1.39 45 | 105 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Plexus P/20 Emulator (spritetm.github.io)
    ×0.52 51 | 33 points by hggh 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com)
    ×0.81 59 | 118 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.98 9 | 1030 points by wahnfrieden 2 days ago | 952 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard (theguardian.com)
    ×0.57 65 | 59 points by agronaut 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Workforce (wsj.com)
    ×3.03 21 | 10 points by ripvanwinkle 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SteamOS now runs on every AMD handheld (xda-developers.com)
    ×1.88 4 | 37 points by SockThief 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
    ×2.20 | 440 points by xnx 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Neon King of New Orleans (gardenandgun.com)
    ×0.60 60 | 54 points by renameme 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts (twitter.com/orsonscottcard)
    ×1.35 26 | 137 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports (lwn.net)
    ×1.16 53 | 120 points by edward 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing" (eurekalert.org)
    ×1.69 3 | 30 points by robtherobber 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Full Apple Ecosystem Now Costs Less Than a MacBook Pro (macrumors.com)
    ×0.55 7 | 5 points by thm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Effectful Recursion Schemes (effekt-lang.org)
    ×0.53 69 | 35 points by marvinborner 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.73 40 | 51 points by benbreen 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard (theregister.com)
    ×1.55 36 | 9 points by omer_k 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries (lpeproject.org)
    ×1.11 32 | 118 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LLM pricing has never made sense (anderegg.ca)
    ×1.26 6 | 19 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The great Scouse pasty war (livpost.co.uk)
    ×0.60 60 | 52 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.58 6 | 311 points by marklit 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ubuntu 26.04 ("Resolute Raccoon") LTS released (ubuntu.com)
    ×2.43 56 | 11 points by arunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent (jtomschroeder.com)
    ×0.68 39 | 49 points by jtomschroeder 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text (openai.com)
    ×1.78 36 | 47 points by tanelpoder 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud (github.com/besimple-oss)
    ×0.62 53 | 70 points by yzhong94 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.92 55 | 91 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.74 8 | 247 points by ndr42 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms (psu.edu)
    ×1.38 4 | 251 points by t-3 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Making RAM at Home [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.64 7 | 605 points by kaipereira 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans (dukeupress.edu)
    ×0.90 10 | 3 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. All your agents are going async (zknill.io)
    ×1.05 42 | 132 points by zknill 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???