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  1. Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit (newyorker.com)
    ×3.55 | 312 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)
    ×2.00 2 | 98 points by willwhitedc 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I advertise malicious software on Google Ads (xlii.space)
    ×2.61 1 | 117 points by xlii 1 hour ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
    ×1.30 6 | 84 points by maguay 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue (opusfived.dev)
    ×7.50 3 | 102 points by matthieu_bl 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (meta.com)
    ×2.40 13 | 563 points by yks 18 hours ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify (tailwindcss.com)
    ×1.71 26 | 3 points by EdwinHoksberg 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
    ×3.15 5 | 127 points by nickweb 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Coyote v. Acme (1990) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.62 4 | 65 points by ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (nyu.edu)
    ×8.01 7 | 1817 points by procedurecall 1 day ago | 750 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch (mbugert.de)
    ×1.04 13 | 27 points by jcklie 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes (github.com/ashemag)
    ×0.77 16 | 20 points by metrofun 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language (eighty-twenty.org)
    ×0.67 39 | 7 points by tonyg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
    ×0.94 17 | 139 points by mdp2021 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy (science.org)
    ×2.48 11 | 147 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
    ×2.45 7 | 390 points by cat-whisperer 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time (yahoo.com)
    ×2.31 11 | 24 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
    ×2.21 11 | 577 points by utiiiD 22 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.63 39 | 60 points by cisc 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
    ×0.95 15 | 77 points by porridgeraisin 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
    ×0.98 5 | 100 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.52 24 | 220 points by Topfi 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration (openreview.net)
    ×1.06 24 | 182 points by paimapi 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
    ×1.02 5 | 81 points by whoami_nr 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×1.68 24 | 419 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.72 12 | 485 points by domhudson 23 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (ericgoldman.org)
    ×2.54 12 | 146 points by progval 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.70 6 | 416 points by _alternator_ 16 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
    ×1.31 37 | 270 points by stared 22 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (openai.com)
    ×6.26 18 | 1293 points by tedsanders 20 hours ago | 1042 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
    ×1.09 22 | 102 points by bpierre 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (lanparty.house)
    ×3.32 31 | 549 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.83 39 | 71 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme (codeberg.org)
    ×0.47 33 | 21 points by jjba23 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner (theguardian.com)
    ×2.37 10 | 4 points by gradschool 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Topological Picture Book, Rendered (e-infinity.space)
    ×1.28 28 | 121 points by mathgenius 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (acm.org)
    ×0.52 58 | 28 points by rramadass 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.67 56 | 65 points by neehao 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades (hackaday.com)
    ×1.11 43 | 189 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.03 47 | 134 points by metrofun 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
    ×2.98 8 | 358 points by vertigoruntime 18 hours ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I resigned from Anthropic today (Jacob Coxon) (xcancel.com)
    ×3.89 22 | 25 points by wrongful1520 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The origins of Partner’s computer case (racunalniski-muzej.si)
    ×0.58 43 | 36 points by markostamcar 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
    ×0.36 41 | 37 points by tobr 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.21 31 | 234 points by animeshchouhan 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs (github.com/argonautlabsai)
    ×1.93 10 | 273 points by Argonautlabs 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FreeBSD 14.5-Release (freebsd.org)
    ×1.27 57 | 133 points by joshcsimmons 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Getting your hands dirty is good for you (bbc.com)
    ×1.48 42 | 233 points by HatchedLake721 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.65 58 | 76 points by uecker 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.00 30 | 158 points by ifz 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (nytimes.com)
    ×1.44 33 | 174 points by robinhouston 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker (thran.uk)
    ×0.74 47 | 49 points by HeckFeck 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture (glocq.com)
    ×0.70 44 | 71 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tracing np.add, all the way down (veitheller.de)
    ×0.68 55 | 58 points by luu 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome (deepmind.google)
    ×0.68 64 | 86 points by fady0 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.71 47 | 88 points by collinmanderson 20 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.72 48 | 102 points by ibobev 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. GrapheneOS on AI Usage (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.48 66 | 51 points by garo-pro 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts (vale.rocks)
    ×1.39 30 | 235 points by patadune 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Reverse Engineering an ASIC (kjartanvandriel.github.io)
    ×0.96 40 | 60 points by burekqueen 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mistral raises €3B (mistral.ai)
    ×4.54 16 | 830 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.62 7 | 240 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Interactive demo of MINIX1-like O/S on emulated CPU (softwarewrighter.com)
    ×0.44 33 | 8 points by softwarewright 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.39 54 | 32 points by rietta 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.63 50 | 79 points by rramadass 21 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.72 32 | 43 points by trencedamp 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger (techdirt.com)
    ×3.25 16 | 374 points by hn_acker 22 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Insignificant Figures (open-innovations.org)
    ×0.54 67 | 4 points by ColinWright 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How well do agents use test/verification techniques? (danluu.com)
    ×1.23 52 | 184 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis (weirdgloop.org)
    ×3.21 4 | 553 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers (nytimes.com)
    ×1.67 8 | 5 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Procrastination study by Duke's Dan Ariely retracted (retractionwatch.com)
    ×1.95 6 | 7 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com/hilbertspaess)
    ×10.87 63 | 607 points by yurivish 12 hours ago | 820 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (mcpherrin.ca)
    ×2.28 7 | 501 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)
    ×3.98 17 | 1040 points by sonicrocketman 2 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Disappointed Optimists (cwodtke.com)
    ×0.67 49 | 66 points by adrianhoward 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
    ×5.22 72 | 275 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Extracting Steering Vectors from J space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)
    ×0.55 53 | 62 points by martianvoid 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors (jerf.org)
    ×0.65 47 | 42 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Picolibrary: A Small Press (novalis.org)
    ×0.59 57 | 63 points by luu 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Silicon Valley-backed Covenant unveils low-cost, mass-producible cruise missile (reuters.com)
    ×1.66 10 | 7 points by Hoasi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
    ×1.96 39 | 63 points by miguelacevedo 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (arm.com)
    ×0.61 59 | 83 points by Re-Tails 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Emacs Bedrock 2.0 (lambdaland.org)
    ×1.80 45 | 188 points by ashton314 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Greta Oto (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.74 12 | 5 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.55 2 | 253 points by Animats 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How fast can you type on T9? (sheets.works)
    ×1.06 54 | 5 points by lordbubbles 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.53 70 | 10 points by zdw 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. John Margolies' photographs of roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.01 47 | 129 points by duck 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???