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  1. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
    ×2.15 2 | 319 points by gavide 6 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.98 2 | 217 points by shdon 6 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.31 2 | 240 points by Topfi 7 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
    ×1.07 15 | 30 points by hermitcrab 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.43 3 | 577 points by ibotty 14 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.30 9 | 110 points by pizzaiolo 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.60 11 | 337 points by galnagli 14 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 12 | 178 points by linggen 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.55 13 | 360 points by inigyou 16 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
    ×7.70 4 | 233 points by DeepLogin 7 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.90 24 | 40 points by whobre 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.84 5 | 54 points by rglover 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.13 8 | 24 points by beanaroo 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
    ×5.94 13 | 698 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.48 15 | 313 points by plurby 16 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
    ×2.39 15 | 152 points by neogodless 11 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
    ×1.38 19 | 148 points by qingcharles 12 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
    ×1.93 5 | 16 points by cyndunlop 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
    ×1.54 10 | 121 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
    ×1.65 5 | 193 points by Gecko4072 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
    ×1.43 5 | 114 points by monkey_monkey 9 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
    ×1.54 6 | 265 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.91 28 | 41 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    ×0.64 36 | 96 points by abdik 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Gum Wrappers World (gww.su)
    ×0.16 74 | 5 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. scScript for Linux (scapplications.com)
    ×0.69 39 | 24 points by OptionOfT 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (wordpress.com)
    ×0.89 29 | 17 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.22 18 | 527 points by dhruv3006 14 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
    ×1.25 19 | 109 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform (cursor.com)
    ×1.43 23 | 48 points by KGC3D 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187 (libsyn.com)
    ×0.90 70 | 4 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models (roboflow.com)
    ×0.56 47 | 45 points by Bluestein 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A simple fix for LLM tail latency (myhoai.com)
    ×0.79 31 | 42 points by oskrim 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.84 28 | 105 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The oldest bar in every state (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.01 28 | 70 points by NaOH 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (axios.com)
    ×3.91 25 | 57 points by sgustard 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.16 28 | 320 points by anana_ 11 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Intriguing stories in computer science (inventwithpython.com)
    ×0.91 19 | 39 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.09 56 | 142 points by vlowrian 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/DarioAmodei)
    ×1.45 28 | 235 points by jacquesm 21 hours ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
    ×2.55 25 | 16 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.70 52 | 79 points by nanochess 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Puppy PPE (amosdudley.com)
    ×0.96 16 | 21 points by ChadNauseam 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
    ×1.93 25 | 260 points by the-mitr 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng (secretspec.dev)
    ×0.65 51 | 39 points by linggen 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.23 6 | 756 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.59 | 771 points by ropbear 1 day ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Columbia House Is Shutting Down (pitchfork.com)
    ×1.69 3 | 6 points by ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
    ×0.80 48 | 67 points by tarunnnp 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
    ×1.03 30 | 111 points by untiledsource 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (google.com)
    ×1.90 61 | 218 points by dt3ft 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tangled: The next-generation social coding platform (tangled.org)
    ×1.28 84 | 13 points by icy 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10M (reuters.com)
    ×3.84 15 | 33 points by symisc_devel 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.83 65 | 126 points by erickhill 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.09 65 | 27 points by librasteve 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.52 59 | 44 points by artiomyak 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (bundeskartellamt.de)
    ×1.71 25 | 240 points by nyku 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.45 45 | 67 points by enjoyyourlife 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Near 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
    ×1.70 62 | 13 points by pajop 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup (fast.ai)
    ×1.93 5 | 32 points by eamag 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.57 11 | 607 points by Narishma 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.89 61 | 122 points by spdegabrielle 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.21 50 | 535 points by SpyCoder77 15 hours ago | 924 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years (cnbc.com)
    ×2.21 7 | 52 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×3.01 10 | 745 points by tosh 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. LLM City – 3D render of all Kimi K3's weights as 2.5mm tiles (magik.net)
    ×0.78 76 | 17 points by devttyeu 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.46 89 | 11 points by liventruth 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Consumers Prefer AI Music Until They're Told It's AI (promarket.org)
    ×2.79 14 | 11 points by a2ff6eeb0 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Tesana – An AI game engine that builds quality games end-to-end (tesana.ai)
    ×0.80 83 | 10 points by solomonyardley 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Some Virtues of Narrative Poetry (newversereview.substack.com)
    ×0.27 71 | 6 points by samclemens 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Buy Your Friends Batteries (domenkozar.com)
    ×2.35 34 | 134 points by domenkozar 11 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Anthropic's War on open source AI (twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman)
    ×3.35 26 | 140 points by bilsbie 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
    ×0.72 74 | 68 points by gumby 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.86 60 | 70 points by benbreen 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.99 9 | 625 points by stagas 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car (techradar.com)
    ×2.67 14 | 55 points by ck2 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans (nature.com)
    ×3.15 6 | 11 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.14 48 | 170 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux (github.com/earendil-works)
    ×1.56 51 | 53 points by joooscha 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Archive of Archives (archiveofarchives.com)
    ×0.89 78 | 4 points by rdmuser 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.46 23 | 222 points by sudo_cowsay 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×0.98 71 | 97 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (npr.org)
    ×1.27 1 | 93 points by brandonb 15 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy (func25.dev)
    ×0.58 32 | 63 points by func25 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget (opscode.io)
    ×0.58 59 | 40 points by malcolmfrazier 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.20 59 | 98 points by hardlianotion 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.86 55 | 115 points by homarp 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
    ×0.86 84 | 4 points by WolfOliver 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.16 14 | 459 points by zacharyozer 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???