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  1. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.64 2 | 82 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Iowa et al asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed (iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
    ×1.70 3 | 15 points by ArcHound 20 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×3.17 1 | 137 points by dzdt 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.85 4 | 295 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
    ×3.20 4 | 74 points by embedding-shape 57 minutes ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.53 4 | 148 points by nozzlegear 7 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)
    ×1.35 8 | 32 points by ngoldbaum 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
    ×2.75 5 | 434 points by luispa 14 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
    ×2.66 5 | 134 points by calpaterson 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×2.02 18 | 450 points by riadsila 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.63 48 | 17 points by austinallegro 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 44 | 25 points by jacquesm 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.13 12 | 561 points by automatoney 21 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (thehopkinthomasproject.com)
    ×0.64 34 | 39 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.13 28 | 138 points by lapcat 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 19 | 66 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.73 8 | 16 points by tzury 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.41 31 | 147 points by edwardbzhang 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×9.04 13 | 1478 points by jdcampolargo 18 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
    ×1.01 40 | 127 points by sourdecor 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×1.37 14 | 8 points by vincent_s 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bugtraq is back (securityfocus.com)
    ×0.74 49 | 65 points by bashtoni 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
    ×1.64 22 | 160 points by seg6 14 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
    ×1.75 5 | 246 points by tchalla 13 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (github.com/Carloscodix)
    ×0.94 36 | 46 points by pavelai 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable (rioterm.com)
    ×0.71 42 | 46 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×1.61 15 | 60 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.16 57 | 401 points by pmg101 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
    ×2.04 5 | 268 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
    ×0.84 52 | 75 points by firer 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
    ×1.82 14 | 306 points by spyc 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
    ×1.92 1 | 306 points by xnx 18 hours ago | 594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (godox.com)
    ×0.87 46 | 54 points by routeroff 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com/hallko1234)
    ×0.72 47 | 18 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.69 6 | 674 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 713 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 57 | 102 points by doppp 20 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.74 49 | 56 points by brian-armstrong 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
    ×0.69 56 | 72 points by sbulaev 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×5.16 1 | 1362 points by MaxMussio 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
    ×0.88 55 | 143 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.59 58 | 139 points by FrojoS 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
    ×1.33 14 | 97 points by teleforce 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The applause that disrupted nothing – yet still led to an arrest (fire.org)
    ×1.71 73 | 63 points by timr 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.68 51 | 50 points by hahahaa 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.15 9 | 372 points by thewebguyd 21 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Amazon Germany to Accept Wero (mobiflip.de)
    ×1.74 69 | 34 points by doener 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (practicallyefficient.com)
    ×0.48 77 | 19 points by EndXA 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
    ×0.92 49 | 121 points by EndXA 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
    ×2.87 16 | 249 points by depr 16 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS (amiga.com)
    ×1.87 69 | 32 points by odomus 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
    ×0.36 78 | 37 points by Mzzzzz 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×1.58 12 | 374 points by zhoutong 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
    ×0.99 54 | 74 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
    ×3.62 32 | 310 points by stymaar 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.52 51 | 115 points by num42 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI, Anthropic AI Models Breached Systems During UK Safety Tests (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.32 12 | 7 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.02 55 | 110 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Warp Agent CLI (warp.dev)
    ×0.89 28 | 104 points by emschwartz 19 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 52 | 109 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com/MariaDB)
    ×0.88 57 | 61 points by petecooper 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
    ×2.26 4 | 238 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.16 40 | 616 points by mertbio 2 days ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.23 64 | 51 points by garyhtou 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.09 34 | 130 points by MakazhanAlpamys 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
    ×0.67 24 | 87 points by faebi 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
    ×2.54 46 | 288 points by mattsterett 14 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
    ×1.46 5 | 246 points by cimi_ 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
    ×1.02 64 | 69 points by dumindunuwan 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.27 59 | 143 points by wofo 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)
    ×2.13 50 | 106 points by riffraff 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.96 3 | 13 points by reconnecting 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.83 5 | 316 points by tosh 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
    ×1.52 10 | 184 points by carlos-menezes 18 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
    ×0.86 22 | 51 points by glub 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.81 4 | 716 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (vlt.io)
    ×0.66 38 | 54 points by patrikcsak 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.54 5 | 618 points by milkshakes 1 day ago | 919 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.06 58 | 180 points by roryirvine 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)
    ×1.32 54 | 219 points by speckx 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
    ×0.51 79 | 79 points by BenceRed 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System (oxide.computer)
    ×1.01 63 | 16 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. No Meat Proxy (nomeatproxy.com)
    ×1.83 59 | 46 points by kamilap 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (righto.com)
    ×0.58 60 | 37 points by Jimmc414 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
    ×0.60 42 | 41 points by simonebrunozzi 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Compass, a local-first code graph built in Rust for humans and AI agents (github.com/crabbuild)
    ×0.93 49 | 7 points by forhappy 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.51 60 | 48 points by wglb 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Red Strings Club (vegard.net)
    ×0.37 58 | 21 points by meysamazad 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nobody Was Watching: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Open Models (norabble.com)
    ×0.98 60 | 10 points by nedruod 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.86 49 | 143 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???