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  1. this css proves me human (will-keleher.com)
    ×1.67 10 | 19 points by todsacerdoti 34 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Art Bits from Apple Macintosh HyperCard (somnolescent.net)
    ×1.70 20 | 10 points by TigerUniversity 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (twitter.com/JosephPolitano)
    ×4.91 2 | 545 points by enraged_camel 4 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com/moongate-community)
    ×1.11 15 | 204 points by squidleon 8 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (anthropic.com)
    ×3.10 11 | 393 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds (scribd.com)
    ×5.21 3 | 45 points by coloneltcb 57 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The worst acquisition in history, again (profgmedia.com)
    ×2.16 2 | 47 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android (opencamera.org.uk)
    ×1.42 13 | 180 points by tetris11 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ada 2022 (adaic.org)
    ×1.13 3 | 84 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Apache Otava (apache.org)
    ×1.34 8 | 52 points by djoldman 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
    ×0.34 27 | 26 points by sam_palus 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Payphone Go (walzr.com)
    ×1.91 11 | 270 points by walz 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Triplet Superconductor (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.76 18 | 35 points by jonbaer 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Math Notepad (mathnotepad.com)
    ×0.39 65 | 5 points by the-mitr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CT Scans of Health Wearables (lumafield.com)
    ×1.22 11 | 158 points by radeeyate 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale (ieee.org)
    ×1.05 13 | 74 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Astra: An open-source observatory control software (github.com/ppp-one)
    ×0.78 12 | 67 points by pppone 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor (libresprite.github.io)
    ×1.42 13 | 231 points by nicoloren 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Anthropic, please make a new Slack (fivetran.com)
    ×5.28 16 | 117 points by georgewfraser 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (github.com/elder-plinius)
    ×2.09 19 | 78 points by mvdwoord 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (cornell.edu)
    ×2.88 10 | 460 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
    ×0.67 25 | 75 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.30 14 | 55 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Good Bad ISPs (torproject.org)
    ×1.34 10 | 85 points by rzk 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM (github.com/taiseiue)
    ×0.86 11 | 13 points by taiseiue 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×0.89 15 | 47 points by es617 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com)
    ×6.03 26 | 866 points by morsch 8 hours ago | 850 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. TypeScript 6.0 RC (microsoft.com)
    ×2.64 15 | 41 points by johnz 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)
    ×1.73 5 | 117 points by fortran77 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We might all be AI engineers now (yasint.dev)
    ×2.26 19 | 148 points by sn0wflak3s 13 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.52 21 | 26 points by kwitczak 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Supertoast tables (hatchet.run)
    ×0.69 6 | 44 points by abelanger 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard (aresluna.org)
    ×1.46 31 | 119 points by tobr 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon (crowdsupply.com)
    ×0.82 46 | 67 points by ZiiS 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)
    ×2.44 21 | 68 points by eatonphil 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. System76 on Age Verification Laws (system76.com)
    ×3.89 13 | 790 points by LorenDB 18 hours ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What if AI just makes us work harder? (ft.com)
    ×2.00 11 | 8 points by paulpauper 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.21 34 | 176 points by armandhammer10 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made a free list of 100 places where you can promote your app (launchdirectories.com)
    ×1.78 11 | 12 points by rosennn 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Evaluating Godot (2023) (caseyyano.com)
    ×0.52 66 | 4 points by Trung0246 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
    ×3.71 6 | 974 points by mudkipdev 1 day ago | 764 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government (schneier.com)
    ×1.63 4 | 8 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Manual to Phil Zimmermans PGPfone Circa 1996 [pdf] (philzimmermann.com)
    ×1.04 70 | 4 points by smalltorch 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nobody ever got fired for using a struct (feldera.com)
    ×1.40 46 | 138 points by gz09 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund (reuters.com)
    ×3.12 18 | 48 points by itbeho 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Utah's online porn tax proposal poses a major threat to civil liberties (techdirt.com)
    ×1.48 3 | 6 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions (seafloor.pages.dev)
    ×0.33 57 | 17 points by marcohaber 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
    ×4.53 3 | 865 points by marvinborner 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.30 43 | 471 points by smartbit 8 hours ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.96 42 | 59 points by ToddWBurgess 13 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation (runxiyu.org)
    ×0.74 22 | 98 points by weinzierl 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Image manipulation with convolution using Julia (medium.com)
    ×0.59 49 | 39 points by AhmadHamze 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape (aps.org)
    ×0.80 54 | 57 points by akshatjiwan 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Modembin – A pastebin that encodes your text into real FSK modem audio (modembin.com)
    ×1.05 46 | 17 points by a13x57 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.25 1 | 7 points by LorenDB 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Charge a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger (2012) [pdf] (ti.com)
    ×0.31 47 | 34 points by theblazehen 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app (alibaba.github.io)
    ×0.91 61 | 136 points by simon_luv_pho 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
    ×2.91 | 598 points by edf13 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. When Using AI Leads to "Brain Fry" (hbr.org)
    ×1.47 2 | 12 points by dracula_x 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (404media.co)
    ×2.90 12 | 517 points by ece 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
    ×1.15 50 | 95 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (acm.org)
    ×0.47 87 | 6 points by blakepelton 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.13 6 | 464 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
    ×0.38 90 | 54 points by Gobhanu 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
    ×1.49 55 | 238 points by ZacnyLos 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×7.01 4 | 1948 points by dm 2 days ago | 2289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Stupidly Obscure Programming in a Troubled Time (2018) (podsnap.com)
    ×0.32 76 | 19 points by luu 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bolivia Voids Banknotes After Plane Crash, Confusing Businesses, Shoppers (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.18 1 | 7 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
    ×1.08 59 | 45 points by cfmcdonald 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Good software knows when to stop (writizzy.com)
    ×2.42 5 | 528 points by ssaboum 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenTitan Shipping in Production (googleblog.com)
    ×1.14 46 | 123 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)
    ×1.01 69 | 32 points by laurex 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (happel.ai)
    ×0.82 51 | 58 points by nill0 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cognitive and Physical Improvement with Positive Age Beliefs (mdpi.com)
    ×1.58 19 | 6 points by wjb3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.90 70 | 76 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Async Programming Is Just Inject Time (willhbr.net)
    ×1.01 20 | 36 points by marvinborner 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
    ×3.72 4 | 931 points by gonzalovargas 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (anthropic.com)
    ×2.17 10 | 310 points by jjwiseman 23 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests (406.fail)
    ×1.92 3 | 284 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps (wired.com)
    ×1.53 5 | 4 points by LorenDB 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude's Cycles [pdf] (stanford.edu)
    ×2.81 54 | 819 points by fs123 3 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.69 56 | 82 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels (fossforce.com)
    ×0.58 70 | 70 points by brideoflinux 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Data does not speak to you (tantaman.com)
    ×0.63 50 | 32 points by tantaman 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Converting dash cam videos into Panoramax images (openstreetmap.org)
    ×0.71 59 | 59 points by marklit 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS (alexeyondata.substack.com)
    ×1.53 24 | 45 points by dsr12 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pentagon names former DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as new chief data officer (defensescoop.com)
    ×2.16 27 | 10 points by anigbrowl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Typst Examples Book (sitandr.github.io)
    ×1.48 45 | 25 points by slow_typist 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data (github.com/seelikat)
    ×0.51 68 | 62 points by katsee 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???