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  1. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    ×5.80 | 223 points by novemp 1 hour ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×4.56 | 917 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
    ×1.16 1 | 34 points by kyars 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)
    ×1.68 1 | 251 points by prophylaxis 9 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×0.88 5 | 59 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×2.90 2 | 399 points by eustoria 14 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
    ×0.98 17 | 11 points by luu 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Audio is the one area small labs are winning (amplifypartners.com)
    ×1.67 8 | 179 points by rocauc 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.54 3 | 343 points by classichasclass 14 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How long do job postings stay open? (corvi.careers)
    ×0.71 21 | 26 points by sp1982 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found (nytimes.com)
    ×1.75 2 | 23 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
    ×1.09 9 | 11 points by telotortium 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.32 14 | 58 points by luu 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
    ×1.74 5 | 159 points by futurecat 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere (floedb.ai)
    ×0.68 21 | 18 points by matheusalmeida 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    ×0.82 16 | 69 points by srcreigh 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.62 8 | 167 points by b44 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (europa.eu)
    ×5.61 15 | 921 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
    ×0.78 24 | 42 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.09 14 | 94 points by nikodunk 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL (erichlof.github.io)
    ×1.22 21 | 149 points by tobr 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.34 2 | 146 points by mikhael 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.74 15 | 81 points by smartmic 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    ×1.66 9 | 217 points by theblazehen 16 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    ×1.49 14 | 133 points by djkurlander 14 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)
    ×6.03 19 | 805 points by mikece 19 hours ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.10 9 | 229 points by bikenaga 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.18 19 | 722 points by deevus 20 hours ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology (thesswnetwork.com)
    ×0.98 1 | 42 points by Propolice 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com/gpasquero)
    ×0.75 15 | 80 points by gpasquero 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.84 15 | 93 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×3.12 21 | 393 points by magoghm 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work (poetryfoundation.org)
    ×0.55 28 | 23 points by apollinaire 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative) (github.com/fosrl)
    ×0.97 15 | 63 points by miloschwartz 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)
    ×3.08 12 | 74 points by anonymid 8 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×0.96 39 | 109 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SCM as a database for the code (github.com/gritzko)
    ×1.51 59 | 80 points by gritzko 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Continuous batching from first principles (2025) (huggingface.co)
    ×0.67 27 | 31 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    ×3.86 13 | 893 points by panic 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems (speedata.de)
    ×0.97 | 19 points by patrickg 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×2.20 35 | 49 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com/cavedave)
    ×1.24 28 | 87 points by donohoe 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet (ieee.org)
    ×0.60 46 | 32 points by oldnetguy 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    ×2.93 10 | 116 points by informal007 16 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf] (pro.sony)
    ×0.80 31 | 40 points by xattt 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
    ×3.40 29 | 276 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.37 12 | 184 points by swah 22 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (pennmedicine.org)
    ×1.33 33 | 87 points by gnabgib 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
    ×0.96 23 | 36 points by jv22222 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    ×3.38 21 | 492 points by twapi 23 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business (local12.com)
    ×1.58 7 | 14 points by cpeterso 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court (heise.de)
    ×3.10 30 | 225 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)
    ×8.40 39 | 141 points by doener 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.65 4 | 27 points by arjunchint 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved (flashpointarchive.org)
    ×1.79 5 | 332 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Kimi Claw (kimi.com)
    ×1.87 22 | 79 points by pretext 18 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults (usc.edu)
    ×2.53 9 | 58 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending (nytimes.com)
    ×2.54 21 | 42 points by JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.36 5 | 596 points by minimalthinker 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.13 37 | 80 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.51 27 | 5 points by rtrgrd 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction (note.com)
    ×0.86 43 | 92 points by uolmir 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Build Gaussian Splat Experiences with SuperSplat Studio (playcanvas.com)
    ×0.58 49 | 37 points by ovenchips 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
    ×0.79 10 | 69 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI should build Slack (latent.space)
    ×1.85 21 | 244 points by swyx 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. One Server. Small Business (chodounsky.com)
    ×2.14 19 | 48 points by jakubgarfield 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (stargazingbuddy.com)
    ×1.08 17 | 116 points by constantinum 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you (ooh.directory)
    ×2.51 | 587 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×1.08 14 | 57 points by moomoo11 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Breaking the spell of vibe coding (fast.ai)
    ×3.31 1 | 409 points by arjunbanker 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.34 41 | 128 points by computerliker 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) (microscopy-uk.org.uk)
    ×0.76 58 | 104 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language (davi.sh)
    ×1.23 62 | 9 points by davish 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents (videocardz.com)
    ×2.28 21 | 62 points by ledoge 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.30 18 | 556 points by ninjagoo 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes (twitter.com/steipete)
    ×0.72 39 | 16 points by vibeprofessor 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.90 34 | 90 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.48 46 | 44 points by chunkles 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? (usatoday.com)
    ×1.22 29 | 152 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Deep Blue (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.27 21 | 15 points by Philpax 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python (github.com/Nonannet)
    ×0.91 26 | 62 points by Saloc 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened (theshamblog.com)
    ×4.91 | 741 points by scottshambaugh 2 days ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: GPU Perpetual Futures Prototype (github.com/zacharyfrederick)
    ×0.70 59 | 7 points by ozzymandiaz96 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Spy Who Found T. Rex (nautil.us)
    ×0.24 52 | 11 points by speckx 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Descent, ported to the web (mrdoob.github.io)
    ×2.52 5 | 305 points by memalign 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.07 34 | 124 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Fieldnotes (fieldnote.ink)
    ×0.65 35 | 12 points by samcgraw 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI (github.com/melezhik)
    ×0.32 11 | 18 points by melezhik 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (yossarian.net)
    ×0.89 41 | 110 points by tosh 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???