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  1. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)
    ×3.14 1 | 168 points by iamflimflam1 1 hour ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.92 4 | 260 points by Levitating 4 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    ×4.52 2 | 239 points by robinpie 1 hour ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)
    ×2.89 6 | 126 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    ×2.24 6 | 441 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)
    ×1.19 6 | 96 points by chiassedu80 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.23 9 | 28 points by binyu 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.62 9 | 124 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.54 9 | 78 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    ×2.43 10 | 237 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing (youtube.com)
    ×5.14 7 | 37 points by chadgpt3 35 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.23 7 | 204 points by TheJCDenton 3 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×1.60 21 | 7 points by mikhael 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    ×3.06 13 | 517 points by jonifico 18 hours ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    ×0.51 17 | 26 points by xlmnxp 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (utk.edu)
    ×0.98 31 | 6 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    ×1.01 20 | 9 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×3.99 15 | 130 points by kolanos 2 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    ×0.79 10 | 90 points by blincoln 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.64 13 | 56 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×2.01 13 | 53 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.64 4 | 36 points by lumpa 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
    ×1.17 2 | 49 points by DamnInteresting 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    ×0.95 19 | 15 points by aaraujo002 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    ×2.29 19 | 569 points by juliantigler 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    ×0.72 24 | 45 points by kevvok 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.27 18 | 469 points by mikemcquaid 10 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.52 49 | 36 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.55 6 | 68 points by leephillips 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code (github.com/Dillonsmart)
    ×0.63 27 | 9 points by dillonsmartdev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System (github.com/OSPreservProject)
    ×0.42 37 | 13 points by EvanAnderson 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
    ×0.89 23 | 156 points by mulmen 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
    ×1.50 20 | 163 points by lopopolo 16 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026) (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.04 6 | 6 points by dgellow 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    ×1.33 19 | 160 points by ichacas 16 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×2.34 23 | 236 points by dsubburam 21 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (dunstanorchard.com)
    ×1.70 27 | 277 points by NaOH 23 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How Google Sees Your Site (miloslavhomer.cz)
    ×0.90 59 | 6 points by ArcHound 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nvidia is the central bank of AI (economist.com)
    ×2.37 10 | 550 points by tolugenius 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Stabilizing Rust's Never Type (lwn.net)
    ×1.43 40 | 237 points by cjd8 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.04 27 | 106 points by Levitating 5 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)
    ×6.14 20 | 708 points by xena 18 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.44 19 | 158 points by tdrz 9 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ode to Metadata (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.35 43 | 14 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.37 5 | 606 points by datakan 1 day ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
    ×1.70 27 | 204 points by eiln 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run (phys.org)
    ×0.89 48 | 59 points by wglb 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (github.com/Foadsf)
    ×1.10 48 | 106 points by petalmind 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We must pace the frontier (darioamodei.com)
    ×4.73 8 | 723 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 996 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 8 | 29 points by emerongi 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.15 54 | 452 points by wcrichton 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Will there be a 7G? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 60 | 119 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)
    ×0.89 62 | 122 points by pwg 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Liesegang Rings (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.41 70 | 48 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold (wired.com)
    ×1.15 63 | 139 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Durable execution without history replay (trigora.dev)
    ×0.60 61 | 37 points by hypervs 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times (lalitm.com)
    ×1.30 41 | 159 points by lalitmaganti 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A misalignment of AI in mathematics (mathandai.org)
    ×4.65 13 | 1215 points by meredydd 2 days ago | 1194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (hachyderm.io)
    ×4.11 7 | 380 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
    ×1.74 5 | 263 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.91 11 | 586 points by kegenaar 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (autom.dev)
    ×3.43 14 | 662 points by 1e1a 1 day ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (agentsdock.net)
    ×0.96 39 | 78 points by ZihuiGeorgia 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. P(doom) (pocoo.org)
    ×2.11 20 | 152 points by lumpa 21 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (dayzlegame.com)
    ×3.48 23 | 747 points by nickabe 2 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. LG Says We're Fake News [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.25 8 | 306 points by HelloUsername 23 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Eating Fruit Skins (pgadey.ca)
    ×0.98 72 | 97 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. From Git to Fossil (2025) (albenga.es)
    ×1.32 35 | 68 points by smartmic 18 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI job cuts fell short of forecasts, with 32% expected but only 14% reported (mckinsey.com)
    ×2.47 34 | 6 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering (getzep.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A simple model of AI-aided economic growth (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.52 39 | 3 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) (transformer-circuits.pub)
    ×0.65 55 | 102 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog (boerzel.de)
    ×0.72 19 | 44 points by marbartolome 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 (00f.net)
    ×0.93 61 | 101 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.96 72 | 21 points by classichasclass 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)
    ×3.48 61 | 82 points by delichon 5 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record (accuweather.com)
    ×2.04 22 | 85 points by RickJWagner 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle (tedium.co)
    ×0.98 50 | 119 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. First Naval Drone Duel Results in Ukrainian Success (navalnews.com)
    ×1.78 7 | 19 points by 1970-01-01 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account (newrepublic.com)
    ×3.80 19 | 65 points by girish_r 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown (supuk.ch)
    ×1.73 49 | 203 points by mhitza 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest (github.com/gauravapiscean)
    ×1.00 52 | 108 points by gauravapiscean 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. US Military tests quantum sensors for flight navigation without GPS over Pacific (heise.de)
    ×1.33 1 | 6 points by marklit 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality (utu.fi)
    ×0.66 79 | 44 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Usenet rewind archive search engine (usenet-rewind.com)
    ×0.93 56 | 130 points by cstadler1869 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×4.62 22 | 1263 points by fnthawar2 3 days ago | 949 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread (edconway.substack.com)
    ×0.99 82 | 131 points by baud147258 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI Tools Accelerates Coding, but Not Overall Software Delivery – GitLab Research (infoq.com)
    ×0.97 18 | 4 points by bucket2015 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Bodily Oddities (vester.si)
    ×1.86 49 | 332 points by vesterde 2 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) (stephaniestimac.com)
    ×0.56 77 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???