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  1. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×5.77 | 300 points by Philpax 45 minutes ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
    ×3.86 | 76 points by j-bu 35 minutes ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×2.30 2 | 108 points by simicd 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.14 3 | 243 points by solarist 4 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (dinculescu.dev)
    ×1.97 7 | 6 points by faithraven 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history (helgilibrary.com)
    ×4.30 3 | 211 points by thw_9a83c 2 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
    ×0.34 12 | 8 points by srameshc 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire (techdirt.com)
    ×3.72 4 | 67 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
    ×1.98 1 | 119 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents (jotbus.com)
    ×0.70 14 | 4 points by shake-n-fries 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.70 37 | 3 points by yashdotrv 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated (phys.org)
    ×2.58 4 | 91 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×2.03 10 | 486 points by Philpax 18 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.42 17 | 244 points by ishan0102 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.90 6 | 53 points by hochmartinez 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    ×1.51 16 | 236 points by E-Reverance 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    ×2.00 13 | 234 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024) (liquidbrain.net)
    ×0.73 24 | 60 points by luu 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
    ×2.62 2 | 408 points by outlier99 17 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.47 21 | 570 points by tosh 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)
    ×0.93 3 | 8 points by torutofu 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (pipetogrep.org)
    ×0.98 23 | 78 points by thepipetogrep 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.59 12 | 51 points by helsinkiandrew 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.86 26 | 246 points by vinhnx 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (debugbear.com)
    ×1.88 | 270 points by jgx0 15 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
    ×1.64 29 | 154 points by walrus01 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.16 31 | 58 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales (blue-continuum.com)
    ×1.01 25 | 54 points by dnetesn 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×2.25 36 | 259 points by farslan 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble (medium.com)
    ×1.91 17 | 7 points by mpweiher 18 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The complement of true is true, except when it's false (dryperspective.github.io)
    ×0.81 28 | 37 points by aw1621107 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (vivienhenz.com)
    ×2.59 17 | 245 points by misterchocolat 11 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Mistral Large 4 (twitter.com/MistralAI)
    ×3.37 27 | 47 points by apt-get 53 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Remote Live vs. Pre-Recorded Exercise Training for Chronic Low Back Pain (RCT) (nih.gov)
    ×0.66 12 | 7 points by chavasorani 55 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×0.61 46 | 34 points by stelabouras 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com/dfd-tud)
    ×0.90 49 | 79 points by greyface- 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.90 34 | 278 points by maguay 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
    ×0.86 38 | 71 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.05 59 | 200 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.98 43 | 166 points by Vosporos 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
    ×0.69 48 | 52 points by networked 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×1.04 75 | 99 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×5.83 3 | 760 points by emptybits 1 day ago | 591 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.89 38 | 70 points by stratts 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (princeton.edu)
    ×1.06 18 | 98 points by leecoursey 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (niemanlab.org)
    ×3.95 32 | 495 points by rdmuser 15 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
    ×1.23 48 | 131 points by mkornaukhov 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.39 65 | 139 points by lode 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.26 63 | 146 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.12 60 | 141 points by signa11 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.86 21 | 54 points by ahmetomer 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.07 66 | 109 points by tiagod 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×1.14 66 | 52 points by vinhnx 20 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.80 52 | 82 points by delphidolphin 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    ×0.69 65 | 30 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
    ×1.39 48 | 22 points by procedurecall 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.33 31 | 316 points by Vaslo 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) (sagepub.com)
    ×0.35 63 | 7 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iop.org)
    ×0.37 66 | 14 points by bryanrasmussen 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.32 4 | 267 points by benbreen 23 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage (dw.com)
    ×3.40 24 | 31 points by Tomte 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
    ×1.02 45 | 44 points by ishan0102 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.98 77 | 33 points by abe94 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.63 7 | 490 points by clan 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.73 8 | 118 points by smilelamp 18 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com/eolix)
    ×3.65 23 | 128 points by montag 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.57 68 | 113 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.64 1 | 169 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.77 67 | 76 points by pykello 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Unruly Folded Sheets (literaryreview.co.uk)
    ×0.18 82 | 8 points by Thevet 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear (restofworld.org)
    ×2.82 3 | 38 points by jethronethro 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.60 66 | 50 points by andre15silva 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.91 64 | 86 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)
    ×1.30 4 | 100 points by hukl 17 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.49 75 | 141 points by zdw 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.42 3 | 100 points by hising 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.88 65 | 127 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (techarp.com)
    ×0.34 68 | 20 points by userbinator 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment (edworkingpapers.com)
    ×1.03 6 | 67 points by bryan0 13 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.13 63 | 170 points by allenleee 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×0.91 66 | 25 points by linesofcode 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.54 17 | 409 points by wiso 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Nvidia's Olympus Core: Pushing Server Single Threaded Performance Boundaries (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.68 69 | 5 points by pella 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.36 29 | 246 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.33 60 | 153 points by knuckleheads 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.64 58 | 36 points by adityamukho 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.27 67 | 129 points by rkagerer 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tests Come for Free Now, and Most of Them Are Pointless (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×0.83 13 | 5 points by vincent_s 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.65 6 | 934 points by paveworld 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???