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  1. AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
    ×4.88 | 781 points by xiaoyu2006 7 hours ago | 302 comments | ??? ???
  2. Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (osull.com)
    ×2.23 | 40 points by danosull 1 hour ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  3. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×5.06 3 | 908 points by jjfoooo4 13 hours ago | 297 comments | ??? ???
  4. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×2.72 4 | 520 points by sam_bristow 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×4.97 5 | 1287 points by mikemcquaid 20 hours ago | 310 comments | ??? ???
  6. AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (ifin.network)
    ×2.67 9 | 73 points by keyle 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  7. How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
    ×1.63 6 | 159 points by msephton 9 hours ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  8. David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
    ×2.88 3 | 24 points by SirLJ 48 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)
    ×2.20 3 | 423 points by matthewbarras 14 hours ago | 232 comments | ??? ???
  10. Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
    ×0.89 7 | 91 points by sneela 8 hours ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  11. Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.16 4 | 519 points by lumpa 11 hours ago | 412 comments | ??? ???
  12. The Future of Email (fastmail.com)
    ×1.86 8 | 55 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  13. Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)
    ×5.46 10 | 54 points by nekofneko 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  14. Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (theverge.com)
    ×2.59 11 | 444 points by rarisma 20 hours ago | 396 comments | ??? ???
  15. MiMo Code is now released and open-source (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.05 8 | 511 points by apeters 21 hours ago | 282 comments | ??? ???
  16. Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22 (ourcommons.ca)
    ×2.24 8 | 447 points by hmokiguess 20 hours ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  17. macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.04 24 | 333 points by josephcsible 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ??? ???
  18. Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
    ×2.73 14 | 341 points by bugvader 20 hours ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  19. Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
    ×0.70 14 | 41 points by croqaz 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  20. Ear Training Practice (tonedear.com)
    ×1.81 14 | 258 points by mattbit 18 hours ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  21. Software is made between commits (zed.dev)
    ×1.56 19 | 269 points by jeremy_k 19 hours ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  22. Emacs appearances in pop culture (ianyepan.github.io)
    ×1.81 8 | 340 points by ggcr 19 hours ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  23. Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
    ×1.51 12 | 107 points by dougcalobrisi 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  24. Lines of code got a better publicist (curlewis.co.nz)
    ×1.77 14 | 401 points by RyeCombinator 23 hours ago | 283 comments | ??? ???
  25. Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.69 28 | 179 points by freejoe76 19 hours ago | 232 comments | ??? ???
  26. Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.97 18 | 298 points by ljf 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  27. The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.50 12 | 283 points by MrBruh 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ??? ???
  28. How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.41 52 | 138 points by Tomte 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  29. Trying to fix complicated problems (griffens.net)
    ×0.64 16 | 22 points by ngriffiths 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  30. A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
    ×1.16 12 | 115 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ??? ???
  31. Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails (korte.co)
    ×3.06 22 | 170 points by dotcoma 6 hours ago | 174 comments | ??? ???
  32. Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012) (righto.com)
    ×1.44 28 | 141 points by geerlingguy 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  33. FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL (github.com/icitry)
    ×0.87 50 | 125 points by MBCook 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  34. Waymo Premier (waymo.com)
    ×1.33 20 | 195 points by boulos 20 hours ago | 463 comments | ??? ???
  35. WikiLambda the Ultimate (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.74 20 | 48 points by Antibabelic 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  36. Report on an Unidentified Space Station (uchicago.edu)
    ×2.37 25 | 71 points by paulmooreparks 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  37. Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/huggingface)
    ×1.41 21 | 233 points by yogthos 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  38. Doing nothing at work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.41 23 | 399 points by Sukram21 1 day ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  39. Finding Optimal Tokenizers (aqnichol.com)
    ×0.56 28 | 25 points by mcyc 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  40. Please Switch to Python. Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or Matlab (presentofcoding.substack.com)
    ×2.94 21 | 4 points by heterodoxjedi 15 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. Tailwind and slop apps (briandouglas.ie)
    ×2.00 16 | 83 points by coneonthefloor 13 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  42. A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life (fabianhemmert.com)
    ×1.52 1 | 104 points by hemmert 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com/coder)
    ×0.88 34 | 79 points by kylecarbs 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  44. How a new DSL may survive in the era of LLMs (williamcotton.com)
    ×0.78 38 | 47 points by williamcotton 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  45. MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic (mtgautodeck.com)
    ×0.97 33 | 59 points by CallumFerg 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  46. Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.04 46 | 111 points by andrewstuart 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  47. Device Clock Generation (2025) (zipcpu.com)
    ×0.53 29 | 23 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  48. A new era for software testing (antirez.com)
    ×1.35 52 | 130 points by Chrisszz 1 day ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  49. Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×4.07 28 | 465 points by neilfrndes 20 hours ago | 217 comments | ??? ???
  50. The Normalization of Deviance in AI (embracethered.com)
    ×1.21 62 | 13 points by gurjeet 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  51. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.17 15 | 702 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 313 comments | ??? ???
  52. Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++ (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
    ×0.65 51 | 28 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  53. A Commons of Software Productive Infrastructure, by and for Capital (marewolf.me)
    ×0.59 3 | 16 points by simonmic 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  54. Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?' (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.11 32 | 72 points by Bender 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  55. Speech Plus Prose 2000 vintage speech synthesizer, as used by Stephen Hawking [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.08 91 | 3 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  56. Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88 (theguardian.com)
    ×2.34 34 | 13 points by helsinkiandrew 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.83 153 | 75 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  58. Codex for Open Source (openai.com)
    ×1.86 47 | 40 points by EvgeniyZh 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  59. CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.21 82 | 128 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  60. StonkRider – Ride any stock chart (stonkrider.com)
    ×1.71 21 | 27 points by nreece 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  61. Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles (vale.rocks)
    ×1.22 38 | 163 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  62. OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users (cnbc.com)
    ×2.11 58 | 123 points by agentifysh 1 day ago | 133 comments | ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.08 38 | 94 points by rough-sea 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  64. Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code (printserver.ink)
    ×1.42 63 | 105 points by ValdikSS 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  65. Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation (kennethpayne.uk)
    ×2.24 28 | 197 points by nick238 16 hours ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  66. Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)
    ×1.35 4 | 104 points by zazuke 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  67. Don't let the LLM speak, just probe it (j11y.io)
    ×1.52 39 | 28 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  68. Global population movements from 1990 to 2023 (nature.com)
    ×1.30 46 | 103 points by tzury 1 day ago | 94 comments | ??? ???
  69. AI Economics for Dummies (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×2.39 49 | 8 points by _____k 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  70. Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning (medium.com)
    ×1.16 41 | 134 points by ruxudev 1 day ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  71. Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone (adamledoux.net)
    ×0.63 54 | 49 points by akkartik 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  72. Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon (tridao.me)
    ×0.68 57 | 29 points by jxmorris12 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  73. Babel-USB: USB drive with every file (github.com/p2r3)
    ×0.61 23 | 37 points by LorenDB 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  74. πFS (github.com/philipl)
    ×4.05 24 | 942 points by helterskelter 1 day ago | 203 comments | ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.96 38 | 97 points by joshmarinacci 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  76. Claude Fable 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×9.29 24 | 2604 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 2144 comments | ??? ???
  77. AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (lwn.net)
    ×2.45 14 | 545 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 242 comments | ??? ???
  78. Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014) (ferd.ca)
    ×0.75 48 | 64 points by locknitpicker 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  79. I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus (masilotti.com)
    ×1.64 5 | 72 points by joemasilotti 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  80. MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to (mapcomplete.org)
    ×1.66 14 | 187 points by GTP 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  81. Did Ahmes find the best expansions for 2/n? (plover.com)
    ×0.45 72 | 13 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  82. Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos (claude.com)
    ×3.28 9 | 592 points by lebovic 1 day ago | 298 comments | ??? ???
  83. SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog (chiply.dev)
    ×0.89 25 | 83 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  84. Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers (ieee.org)
    ×1.39 35 | 76 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ??? ???
  85. OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision (opencv.org)
    ×3.47 51 | 844 points by ternaus 3 days ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  86. Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) (rifters.com)
    ×1.23 37 | 139 points by zetalyrae 1 day ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  87. Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time (newscientist.com)
    ×2.29 18 | 198 points by deadgopher 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  88. Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux (nns.ee)
    ×1.18 43 | 134 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  89. Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning (farnoy.dev)
    ×1.23 32 | 127 points by GalaxySnail 1 day ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  90. Why your asthma inhaler is so expensive (in the US) (educatedguesswork.org)
    ×1.43 53 | 30 points by duckduckgo 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???