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  1. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)
    ×4.27 | 149 points by riffraff 1 hour ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
    ×2.57 1 | 61 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser (mozilla.ai)
    ×1.54 5 | 13 points by selvan 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zig breaking change – initial Writergate (github.com/ziglang)
    ×3.43 1 | 36 points by Retro_Dev 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)
    ×3.21 2 | 689 points by Jtsummers 15 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work (joincolossus.com)
    ×1.82 3 | 216 points by latentnumber 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots
    ×1.11 12 | 168 points by codekansas 13 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Context Engineering for Agents (rlancemartin.github.io)
    ×1.10 12 | 16 points by 0x79de 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Wind Knitting Factory (merelkarhof.nl)
    ×1.40 8 | 111 points by bschne 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×1.54 8 | 192 points by CharlesW 13 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LooksMapping (looksmapping.com)
    ×1.21 3 | 13 points by elsewhen 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com/soham_btw)
    ×11.18 10 | 282 points by sohzm 4 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: Operators and Kernels (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.53 65 | 3 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Peasant Railgun (knightsdigest.com)
    ×1.90 7 | 223 points by cainxinth 16 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase (github.com/zserge)
    ×1.43 11 | 165 points by dcu 14 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions (cell.com)
    ×0.97 14 | 51 points by __rito__ 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×1.63 19 | 87 points by bundie 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Where is my von Braun wheel? (angadh.com)
    ×1.60 23 | 140 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)
    ×2.77 9 | 261 points by doomroot13 12 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization (buttondown.com)
    ×1.18 17 | 98 points by samuel246 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships (science.org)
    ×1.19 2 | 43 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers (runconverge.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Postcard is now open source (contraption.co)
    ×1.40 17 | 96 points by philip1209 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds (aftermath.site)
    ×2.94 18 | 41 points by dotmanish 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.29 | 78 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf (acm.org)
    ×1.24 7 | 87 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 27 | 267 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) (ednamode.xyz)
    ×0.80 39 | 57 points by chilipepperhott 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI for Scientific Search (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 16 | 99 points by omarsar 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Experiment: Colocating agent instructions with eng docs (technicalwriting.dev)
    ×0.37 53 | 8 points by dannyrosen 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System (abc.net.au)
    ×1.83 17 | 293 points by gammarator 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data (ethanzuckerman.com)
    ×0.99 19 | 66 points by nkurz 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. About AI Evals (hamel.dev)
    ×1.53 22 | 172 points by TheIronYuppie 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Michael Madsen has died (nytimes.com)
    ×3.43 23 | 102 points by anigbrowl 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing (numpad.io)
    ×0.91 18 | 31 points by tonyonodi 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Nintendo locked down the Switch 2's USB-C port and broke third-party docking (theverge.com)
    ×2.89 20 | 16 points by snvzz 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 19 | 142 points by henning 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking (hackernews.coffee)
    ×1.04 19 | 109 points by azath92 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Budget Bill Takes WiFi & Citizen Spectrum Away and Hands It to Wireless Carriers (techdirt.com)
    ×3.48 4 | 7 points by WarOnPrivacy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sound Chip, whisper me your secrets [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.10 2 | 14 points by rasz 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] (arista.com)
    ×1.24 23 | 77 points by tanelpoder 16 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Trans-Taiga Road (2004) (jamesbayroad.com)
    ×0.98 51 | 151 points by jason_pomerleau 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian (nature.com)
    ×0.84 53 | 146 points by A_D_E_P_T 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)
    ×2.48 17 | 282 points by Bogdanp 19 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. FossFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams (github.com/stan-smith)
    ×1.05 74 | 12 points by nateb2022 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning (sutro.sh)
    ×1.93 14 | 108 points by sethkim 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Importance of context management in AI NPCs (walterfreedom.com)
    ×0.80 53 | 54 points by walterfreedom 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling (jhuapl.edu)
    ×0.92 62 | 114 points by mcswell 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA (controlpaths.com)
    ×0.85 19 | 58 points by hasheddan 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON (github.com/c4pt0r)
    ×1.40 54 | 132 points by c4pt0r 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.31 12 | 460 points by exiguus 1 day ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel (janestreet.com)
    ×2.33 47 | 210 points by Ne02ptzero 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent (allenpike.com)
    ×2.36 3 | 143 points by GavinAnderegg 18 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Conversations with a hit man (atavist.com)
    ×1.54 41 | 139 points by gmays 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck (ordep.dev)
    ×5.89 42 | 703 points by phire 23 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Locality of Behaviour (2020) (htmx.org)
    ×1.14 9 | 101 points by jstanley 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript? (jrsinclair.com)
    ×0.97 75 | 40 points by jrsinclair 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) (mgdproductions.com)
    ×2.19 4 | 557 points by ajdude 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database (github.com/osmzoso)
    ×1.02 30 | 56 points by amadeuspagel 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
    ×5.71 17 | 553 points by geox 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD (overclock3d.net)
    ×0.79 78 | 101 points by ZenithExtreme 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. When will ad tech measurement not be a mess of fraud? (twitter.com/Chronotope)
    ×2.00 33 | 9 points by dotcoma 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Molecule with a Ring to It (nature.com)
    ×0.45 55 | 13 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Is there a business for extracting US tech talent?
    ×1.14 12 | 16 points by Arubis 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (morrick.me)
    ×1.88 71 | 170 points by freediver 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' in 35mm – Dir's Cut 258min and Intermission (secretlosangeles.com)
    ×2.47 42 | 28 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io)
    ×2.19 2 | 305 points by hundredwatt 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients (ki.se)
    ×2.00 16 | 348 points by justacrow 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) (w3.org)
    ×2.39 2 | 502 points by theandrewbailey 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead of Thousands? (aftermath.site)
    ×4.75 58 | 16 points by dotmanish 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Serial SPI RAM Emulation on Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 MCU (github.com/MichaelBell)
    ×1.68 64 | 6 points by transpute 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go (maypok86.github.io)
    ×1.14 50 | 123 points by maypok86 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Zen of Quakerism (2016) (friendsjournal.org)
    ×0.94 56 | 121 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Mochia, a virtual pet browser game, built with Rust, SolidJS, Postgres (mochia.net)
    ×1.35 53 | 15 points by lemphi 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ViscaCamLink – Camera control application for PTZ cameras (github.com/misorrek)
    ×0.49 36 | 27 points by yaman071 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation (jidonline.org)
    ×1.42 38 | 127 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app (cnet.com)
    ×1.87 2 | 180 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The story of Max, a real programmer (incoherency.co.uk)
    ×2.89 17 | 124 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A list is a monad (alexyorke.github.io)
    ×1.32 41 | 150 points by polygot 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup (aps.org)
    ×0.57 72 | 35 points by boilerupnc 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland (cleveland.com)
    ×3.13 42 | 83 points by DocFeind 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.66 33 | 7 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase (cnbc.com)
    ×4.33 17 | 500 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.79 2 | 302 points by tysone 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful (jonmagic.com)
    ×1.27 31 | 84 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News (josh.ing)
    ×2.16 61 | 240 points by coloneltcb 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Head in the Clouds (commonwealmagazine.org)
    ×0.29 66 | 15 points by bryanrasmussen 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What every programmer should know about how CPUs work [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 95 | 3 points by bschne 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art (asciimoon.com)
    ×1.51 3 | 264 points by zayat 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect (glass3d.dev)
    ×2.33 20 | 407 points by kris-kay 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???