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  1. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
    ×4.02 | 935 points by daveoc64 10 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.28 | 481 points by MitPitt 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.35 7 | 195 points by sidharthkmenon 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
    ×2.62 5 | 248 points by jbotz 8 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
    ×2.30 6 | 110 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fearless SIMD v1.0 (linebender.org)
    ×1.67 9 | 180 points by verdagon 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.85 1 | 230 points by an0malous 8 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
    ×2.63 4 | 225 points by ahmedhossamdev 9 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (electrek.co)
    ×3.40 8 | 220 points by cisc 11 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.11 14 | 67 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)
    ×1.63 16 | 104 points by xnx 8 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Writing Parquet files using Haskell (datahaskell.org)
    ×0.90 23 | 10 points by cosmic_quanta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
    ×2.15 10 | 125 points by hxii 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. California is chasing wealth that has feet (landeconomics.org)
    ×2.90 8 | 133 points by idbnstra 5 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
    ×2.18 4 | 377 points by ReturnoftheHack 15 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? (ahelwer.ca)
    ×1.09 14 | 85 points by ahelwer 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) (grantland.com)
    ×1.26 1 | 49 points by neonate 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (arusekk.pl)
    ×1.32 4 | 64 points by arusekk 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.07 4 | 62 points by aray07 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless (economist.com)
    ×3.11 16 | 74 points by burntcaramel 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
    ×1.67 36 | 244 points by snikolaev 19 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors (historytoday.com)
    ×0.29 64 | 4 points by prismatic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)
    ×0.46 14 | 27 points by loughnane 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The forgotten battle of East Lansing (eastlansinginfo.news)
    ×1.03 7 | 80 points by rmason 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] (iacr.org)
    ×0.63 33 | 49 points by int0x29 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. GitLab Outage (gitlab.com)
    ×2.33 23 | 52 points by kunley 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
    ×3.36 21 | 131 points by iacguy 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com/christianrowlands)
    ×0.97 19 | 92 points by 882542F3884314B 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Geothermal heat map of US hot springs (soakingsprings.com)
    ×1.26 6 | 84 points by armenarmen 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (afr.com)
    ×1.38 22 | 80 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (aalto.fi)
    ×1.07 9 | 209 points by pillars 15 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.74 35 | 40 points by miguelrios 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)
    ×0.39 32 | 47 points by abrax3141 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.98 25 | 51 points by 91awebsi 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (theguardian.com)
    ×4.79 19 | 121 points by YeGoblynQueenne 13 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem (xkeeper.net)
    ×1.04 28 | 23 points by panic 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity (cell.com)
    ×2.45 25 | 143 points by lormayna 7 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it (critic.run)
    ×0.29 69 | 7 points by snyy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.91 19 | 269 points by nonfamous 12 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Lambda MicroEgg (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.45 21 | 55 points by philzook 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×2.14 36 | 521 points by avidly 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley (verysane.ai)
    ×6.18 6 | 90 points by martythemaniak 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (coredump.cx)
    ×0.88 44 | 109 points by Luc 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.85 28 | 33 points by emurlin 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud (docker.com)
    ×3.87 30 | 8 points by pheonixblade9 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop (wordpress.com)
    ×0.42 68 | 22 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×3.09 34 | 237 points by hermitcrab 9 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS (github.com/driceroland)
    ×1.10 20 | 60 points by metrofun 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
    ×1.28 40 | 155 points by erichocean 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (qualcomm.com)
    ×2.47 7 | 590 points by aaronday 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. When the Debugger Lies (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.76 45 | 68 points by hasheddan 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. SkillOpt: Training Loop for Agent Skills (microsoft.github.io)
    ×0.88 61 | 7 points by DaveFr 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
    ×1.48 17 | 130 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023) (thecretefleet.com)
    ×0.32 69 | 19 points by nixass 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.29 47 | 142 points by CharlesW 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (anthropic.com)
    ×3.02 10 | 759 points by raahelb 1 day ago | 782 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.66 29 | 62 points by voxadam 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
    ×2.30 9 | 379 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.38 29 | 213 points by adunk 14 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem (instacloud.com)
    ×0.88 20 | 28 points by tonychang430 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.08 65 | 19 points by leonagano 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Best LLM for every budget, updated daily (terrydjony.com)
    ×2.78 35 | 164 points by terryds 11 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. China reaches 5-minute EV charging (newsminimalist.com)
    ×2.62 18 | 18 points by russfink 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)
    ×1.57 53 | 58 points by Hooke 17 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
    ×1.86 33 | 181 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.16 52 | 146 points by Retro_Dev 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Year of Internal Tools (geocod.io)
    ×0.85 57 | 59 points by thecodemonkey 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.95 30 | 135 points by simonpure 12 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Meta VR Glasses (meta.com)
    ×3.17 18 | 480 points by polymorph1sm 1 day ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.49 50 | 28 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 (techworkersinquiry.org)
    ×0.97 69 | 10 points by utiiiD 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.26 56 | 149 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (arxiv.org)
    ×1.78 5 | 305 points by JohnHammersley 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)
    ×0.72 67 | 72 points by nanochess 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (microsoft.com)
    ×1.04 57 | 167 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error (votebeat.org)
    ×2.97 26 | 91 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack (notesfrompoland.com)
    ×4.30 21 | 165 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
    ×6.32 12 | 1762 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 842 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Women Who Sold Books Door to Door (jstor.org)
    ×0.83 54 | 63 points by herbertl 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.93 20 | 76 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Is A.I. Above the Law? (newyorker.com)
    ×3.21 4 | 51 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers (medium.com)
    ×2.02 29 | 132 points by ArielSimon 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 (texastribune.org)
    ×5.03 50 | 90 points by bonefishgrill 9 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned (kotaku.com)
    ×1.90 3 | 13 points by MBCook 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.60 16 | 1791 points by km144 2 days ago | 1116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. If you don't have the factories, you lose the expertise (lemire.me)
    ×2.34 16 | 32 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
    ×1.64 4 | 301 points by Rapzid 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
    ×1.06 57 | 143 points by zuckerborg0101 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
    ×1.94 10 | 327 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???