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  1. AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities (arxiv.org)
    ×1.95 2 | 168 points by sbulaev 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.61 9 | 218 points by jsomers 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GLM-Legal (z.ai)
    ×2.13 9 | 526 points by ilreb 15 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
    ×2.43 9 | 515 points by prophittcorey 15 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (intel.com)
    ×1.69 14 | 166 points by hurricanepootis 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.80 12 | 618 points by Zeekaas 19 hours ago | 769 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Who is vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.49 13 | 178 points by pngmangi 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com/prabanta-dev)
    ×1.45 22 | 108 points by khalidkhair 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
    ×1.77 20 | 170 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com/h0m3us3r)
    ×2.12 23 | 326 points by djfergus 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n (getsupers.com)
    ×0.80 28 | 50 points by swesnow 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)
    ×3.33 6 | 366 points by layer8 9 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.34 9 | 21 points by janisz 57 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
    ×0.81 35 | 128 points by 14 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF (theguardian.com)
    ×4.26 14 | 65 points by novaRom 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (bbc.com)
    ×1.99 21 | 314 points by scrlk 19 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
    ×1.21 14 | 117 points by rickcarlino 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)
    ×0.96 22 | 109 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.93 32 | 172 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.39 39 | 259 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP (github.com/andrewfader)
    ×0.82 25 | 45 points by androsynth89 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
    ×1.46 22 | 177 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)
    ×1.18 29 | 244 points by gregsadetsky 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com/openai)
    ×3.15 16 | 541 points by whimblepop 12 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)
    ×0.82 33 | 55 points by neuling 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Muse Wonder (meta.ai)
    ×4.69 16 | 612 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com/bherbruck)
    ×1.60 15 | 42 points by bherbruck 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms (argmin.net)
    ×2.52 21 | 101 points by mochomocha 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
    ×1.42 15 | 145 points by arunc 7 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com/SaarthurR)
    ×1.24 58 | 94 points by SaarthRanka 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Thinking will become a hobby (spinellis.gr)
    ×2.44 4 | 269 points by pranitha_m 14 hours ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post (patreon.com)
    ×3.02 23 | 27 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
    ×2.42 49 | 533 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)
    ×2.01 38 | 197 points by soeckly 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (linkedin.com)
    ×4.44 12 | 260 points by svieira 13 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine (ludeon.com)
    ×2.95 50 | 41 points by sha-3 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.69 68 | 69 points by signa11 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com/qgis)
    ×2.26 4 | 372 points by bwnkl 20 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.44 23 | 69 points by soheilpro 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.64 19 | 331 points by gumby 14 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Patching Zig's Std (marler8997.github.io)
    ×0.93 70 | 13 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)
    ×3.03 5 | 714 points by royfish 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Neuroscience can make decluttering easier (nytimes.com)
    ×0.88 12 | 25 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
    ×1.66 3 | 123 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RJ Mitte has died (sky.com)
    ×4.36 30 | 186 points by austinallegro 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×3.75 41 | 120 points by mushstory 4 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.61 4 | 22 points by johnnyApplePRNG 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)
    ×1.14 30 | 91 points by gavide 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com/Geramy)
    ×0.67 61 | 92 points by joshcsimmons 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Picothermal – WebUSB Thermal Camera Using RP2040 and Flir Lepton (cezarchirila.com)
    ×0.79 68 | 13 points by icamaster 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com/shaongitbd)
    ×1.50 43 | 215 points by acley 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
    ×0.80 60 | 140 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com/snuri00)
    ×1.60 7 | 287 points by deadxwarrior 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.61 | 692 points by albertzeyer 1 day ago | 1010 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
    ×1.31 46 | 13 points by MBCook 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (wired.com)
    ×3.04 18 | 170 points by rndsignals 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (ericgoldman.org)
    ×1.40 1 | 92 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
    ×2.61 3 | 674 points by jttnr 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Passkeys are a trap (nonfunctional.substack.com)
    ×6.74 23 | 1046 points by laurex 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.55 38 | 20 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra (nirajrajgor.com)
    ×2.08 44 | 142 points by nirajrajgor 8 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)
    ×0.81 58 | 146 points by rafael859 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)
    ×0.68 52 | 68 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
    ×1.13 7 | 242 points by lukaslalinsky 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
    ×0.89 49 | 122 points by TedHaley 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (thetravel.com)
    ×0.41 55 | 12 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo (404media.co)
    ×2.76 8 | 18 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.15 5 | 155 points by dkpk 19 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Illustration Beyond Proof (wordpress.com)
    ×0.70 56 | 99 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (nyc.gov)
    ×3.59 4 | 594 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com/morluto)
    ×1.47 3 | 88 points by taytus 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
    ×1.04 52 | 137 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)
    ×4.11 49 | 216 points by ajcp 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
    ×1.45 6 | 257 points by subset 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.08 50 | 175 points by verdagon 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)
    ×2.33 7 | 373 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (berkeley.edu)
    ×2.94 51 | 177 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Leaving Tech (ryanbigg.com)
    ×4.82 77 | 147 points by jonahx 4 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)
    ×1.24 47 | 96 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
    ×2.40 22 | 411 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI (wolfstreet.com)
    ×2.07 3 | 28 points by metadat 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)
    ×4.53 4 | 631 points by defly 1 day ago | 778 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (cell.com)
    ×0.72 46 | 83 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
    ×1.30 55 | 90 points by optimalsolver 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (wonyoung.so)
    ×1.49 4 | 316 points by edent 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com/rogerbinns)
    ×0.62 48 | 87 points by tosh 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.86 51 | 86 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.67 45 | 65 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×0.93 1 | 65 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???