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  1. 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
    ×4.32 | 117 points by cheeaun 51 minutes ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  2. Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)
    ×3.04 | 313 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 179 comments | ??? ???
  3. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (github.com/jake-stewart)
    ×1.50 5 | 18 points by tosh 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  4. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.10 1 | 1032 points by adocomplete 13 hours ago | 912 comments | ??? ???
  5. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.24 1 | 700 points by chaseadam17 9 hours ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  6. Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    9 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  7. BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/Zaneham)
    ×1.91 7 | 254 points by rurban 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  8. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
    ×1.81 4 | 339 points by moWerk 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  9. Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
    ×5.10 6 | 355 points by virgildotcodes 5 hours ago | 249 comments | ??? ???
  10. A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com/taleshape-com)
    ×1.32 24 | 4 points by wowi42 41 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  11. The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad (ro.co)
    ×0.85 19 | 22 points by nnmg 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  12. Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com/lopespm)
    ×1.42 9 | 87 points by lopespm 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  13. Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)
    ×1.72 6 | 308 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  14. Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (vogons.org)
    ×1.34 12 | 65 points by LowLevelMahn 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  15. Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
    ×1.70 5 | 324 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  16. So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
    ×1.26 13 | 205 points by crescit_eundo 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  17. Automatia and the Case for Vanilla (medium.com)
    ×0.39 45 | 5 points by fwsgonzo 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  18. Async/Await on the GPU (vectorware.com)
    ×1.14 14 | 183 points by Philpax 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  19. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.83 26 | 46 points by anarbadalov 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)
    ×0.81 4 | 5 points by paraschopra 13 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  21. Quamina and Claude, Case 1 (tbray.org)
    ×0.72 15 | 13 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  22. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
    ×1.34 15 | 189 points by cdegroot 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  23. Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office (github.com/Zaki101Aslam)
    ×0.85 25 | 41 points by Zaki101Aslam 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Breadboard – a modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.57 68 | 3 points by simquat 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  25. Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
    ×3.98 18 | 237 points by aloknnikhil 6 hours ago | 130 comments | ??? ???
  26. I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (edbn.me)
    ×1.42 5 | 242 points by kewonit 16 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  27. Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)
    ×1.06 15 | 90 points by NaOH 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  28. I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.66 11 | 144 points by Ariarule 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  29. HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
    ×1.71 6 | 290 points by hentrep 14 hours ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript (github.com/n-e)
    ×0.73 23 | 61 points by n_e 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  31. Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.75 20 | 94 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  32. Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)
    ×6.48 3 | 218 points by whynotmaybe 16 hours ago | 174 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I built a "Socratic" AI to stop my daughter from copy-pasting homework (thinkqurio.com)
    ×0.61 87 | 3 points by qurio_dev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  34. It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage (9to5google.com)
    ×1.66 19 | 57 points by aqeelat 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  35. Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 (github.com/fuseoppl)
    ×0.56 53 | 18 points by doener 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other (mage-bench.com)
    ×0.99 18 | 102 points by GregorStocks 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  37. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) (tardis.ac)
    ×0.51 48 | 40 points by luu 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  38. I Use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
    ×2.00 5 | 71 points by hisamafahri 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagrams (github.com/switz)
    ×0.40 50 | 21 points by switz 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  40. GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (tomaszdunia.pl)
    ×4.66 29 | 1102 points by to3k 21 hours ago | 785 comments | ??? ???
  41. Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
    ×2.62 17 | 231 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | 125 comments | ??? ???
  42. Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
    ×3.14 14 | 459 points by acnops 20 hours ago | 377 comments | ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing) (github.com/lixiasky-back)
    ×1.17 73 | 12 points by lixiasky 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  44. Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps (halfof8.com)
    ×0.61 37 | 55 points by gessha 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  45. Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) (liftgammagain.com)
    ×0.35 65 | 13 points by exvi 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  46. Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File (github.com/christopherkarani)
    ×2.14 15 | 103 points by ckarani 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  47. Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (notnotp.com)
    ×0.70 59 | 73 points by enz 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  48. Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts (sonarly.com)
    ×0.27 76 | 27 points by Dimittri 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  49. The Godless Students of London University (historytoday.com)
    ×0.69 29 | 16 points by samclemens 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  50. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.55 4 | 903 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  51. Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too (javaevolved.github.io)
    ×1.98 47 | 49 points by jongalloway2 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  52. Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries (alexanderbjoy.com)
    ×1.15 39 | 25 points by fi-le 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  53. Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs (github.com/byte271)
    ×0.34 65 | 30 points by yihac1 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  54. Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)
    ×1.51 36 | 158 points by valgaze 1 day ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
    ×1.14 31 | 161 points by elayabharath 1 day ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  56. Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
    ×1.09 44 | 143 points by signa11 1 day ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  57. A Brief History of Xenopus (asimov.press)
    ×0.31 66 | 5 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×1.91 53 | 253 points by presbyterian 1 day ago | 226 comments | ??? ???
  59. Labyrinth Locator (labyrinthlocator.org)
    ×0.49 58 | 36 points by emigre 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  60. Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations (waymo.com)
    ×1.29 42 | 68 points by xnx 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  61. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (theregister.com)
    ×3.07 34 | 245 points by benji8000 14 hours ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  62. Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
    ×1.62 5 | 330 points by tempodox 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  63. A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
    ×1.11 40 | 160 points by MrFinch 1 day ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI (continue.dev)
    ×0.57 37 | 40 points by sestinj 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  65. Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought (uni-freiburg.de)
    ×1.32 5 | 10 points by geox 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  66. A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
    ×3.13 3 | 238 points by zdw 1 day ago | 151 comments | ??? ???
  67. The Final Bottleneck (pocoo.org)
    ×0.61 82 | 5 points by donutshop 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  68. Browse Code by Meaning (haskellforall.com)
    ×0.94 45 | 17 points by cl3misch 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  69. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×1.12 66 | 149 points by yichab0d 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  70. DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.80 74 | 92 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  71. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
    ×1.07 65 | 106 points by lorisdev 1 day ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  72. Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×2.24 1 | 425 points by max-m 1 day ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.07 2 | 466 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  74. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.92 66 | 130 points by kianN 1 day ago | 34 comments | ??? ???
  75. Phison CEO: Consumer electronics firms may fail by 2026 over AI memory crisis (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.50 7 | 18 points by jamesy0ung 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  76. Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.65 18 | 192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.80 54 | 115 points by dogline 1 day ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  78. Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.53 23 | 46 points by linolevan 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  79. Chess engines do weird stuff (girl.surgery)
    ×1.44 39 | 144 points by admiringly 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  80. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
    ×1.15 52 | 158 points by varjag 1 day ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  81. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
    ×1.25 34 | 162 points by four_fifths 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  82. Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
    ×0.78 70 | 82 points by tesserato 1 day ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  83. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×2.32 6 | 528 points by ssgodderidge 1 day ago | 189 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)
    ×1.37 93 | 3 points by elijahcham 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×0.92 65 | 99 points by AnujNayyar 1 day ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  86. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.45 19 | 1428 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 1112 comments | ??? ???
  87. Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
    ×2.27 7 | 392 points by 0bytematt 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  88. Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk (harvard.edu)
    ×1.96 6 | 51 points by busymom0 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  89. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com)
    ×2.83 51 | 107 points by scottshambaugh 11 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python (github.com/LukeB42)
    ×0.33 65 | 19 points by LukeB42 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???