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  1. "They're made out of weights" (maxleiter.com)
    ×4.74 1 | 511 points by MaxLeiter 8 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (dailycal.org)
    ×2.91 4 | 222 points by littlexsparkee 7 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language (elixir-lang.org)
    ×3.13 1 | 721 points by cloud8421 12 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it (kasra.blog)
    ×1.68 3 | 174 points by jc4p 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
    ×3.41 3 | 804 points by rvz 15 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.39 5 | 381 points by lordleft 13 hours ago | 672 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
    ×3.11 2 | 594 points by Tomte 14 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The ways we contain Claude across products (anthropic.com)
    ×1.21 4 | 107 points by jbredeche 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.11 8 | 460 points by pdyc 18 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.10 6 | 52 points by karakoram 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. DaVinci Resolve 21 (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×2.10 4 | 444 points by pentagrama 17 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts (nbcboston.com)
    ×1.30 10 | 98 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (lithub.com)
    ×1.34 15 | 110 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. ESP32-S31 (espressif.com)
    ×1.63 4 | 284 points by volemo 15 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (github.com/tsupplis)
    ×0.55 22 | 26 points by elvis70 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.55 8 | 251 points by SGran 16 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ableton Extensions SDK (ableton.com)
    ×1.31 8 | 108 points by bennett_dev 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Capacity of HotHands to Facilitate High-Altitude Research (2023) [pdf] (colorado.edu)
    ×0.52 58 | 4 points by radeeyate 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig (github.com/duanebester)
    ×1.14 10 | 166 points by ksec 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding (googleblog.com)
    ×1.12 13 | 71 points by ledoge 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Dumbphone 2 (dumb.co)
    ×1.51 24 | 32 points by skogstokig 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
    ×1.22 17 | 70 points by xeonmc 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground (science.org)
    ×2.05 32 | 223 points by pseudolus 21 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
    ×0.50 50 | 65 points by shalinshah 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse (yale.edu)
    ×4.89 24 | 433 points by rguiscard 6 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Patching my guitar amp's firmware (mforney.org)
    ×1.17 12 | 74 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. PlayStation Architecture (copetti.org)
    ×1.78 14 | 292 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) (github.com/tastyeffectco)
    ×1.17 20 | 80 points by tastyeffectco 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Every Byte Matters (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.32 17 | 240 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes" (umontreal.ca)
    ×0.74 39 | 67 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min (bbc.com)
    ×4.48 22 | 723 points by reconnecting 19 hours ago | 690 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (nns.ee)
    ×2.92 19 | 665 points by xx_ns 20 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.66 15 | 23 points by cpu_ 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2 (danieljanus.pl)
    ×1.38 21 | 243 points by nathell 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator? (pytorch.org)
    ×0.46 37 | 10 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Angular v22 (angular.dev)
    ×1.49 12 | 120 points by Klaster_1 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.62 37 | 41 points by zaydmulani 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production (macrumors.com)
    ×4.22 26 | 362 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Stop Killing Games (jxself.org)
    ×2.26 19 | 208 points by amcclure 13 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Algorithmic Theming Engines (smashingmagazine.com)
    ×0.35 54 | 12 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What I've learned about the trombone (bryanhu.com)
    ×0.84 48 | 90 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5 (aftertone.co)
    ×0.85 25 | 54 points by oceanwaves 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades (groupdiy.com)
    ×1.74 15 | 100 points by SpikedCola 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011) (acm.org)
    ×0.92 38 | 121 points by aragonite 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×1.25 34 | 202 points by s-macke 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry (wired.com)
    ×1.67 34 | 112 points by joozio 20 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (mikeash.com)
    ×0.63 46 | 55 points by sebg 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.88 29 | 392 points by papersail 19 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland (rootshell.is)
    ×0.71 32 | 44 points by sc0rt 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.40 | 120 points by llovan 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the Shark (stephenbainbridge.com)
    ×0.73 71 | 8 points by droidjj 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. American Fork PD posts and removes unredacted bodycam footage (reddit.com)
    ×3.19 27 | 27 points by cosmicgadget 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire " (kottke.org)
    ×3.99 1 | 42 points by jay_kyburz 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Book Dedications (walzr.com)
    ×0.55 32 | 35 points by walz 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (ammaraskar.com)
    ×2.87 22 | 644 points by ammar2 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.30 47 | 138 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor (404media.co)
    ×3.31 22 | 57 points by jay_kyburz 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century (montanaskeptic.substack.com)
    ×7.04 56 | 80 points by 400thecat 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bairui.dev)
    ×0.66 47 | 10 points by subairui 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (julialang.org)
    ×1.76 38 | 221 points by fons-p 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 12B (maartengrootendorst.com)
    ×1.37 56 | 31 points by yurivish 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study (stanford.edu)
    ×2.53 2 | 400 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (leidendeclaration.ai)
    ×1.48 36 | 126 points by zvr 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Reading MAI's efficiency gain. How to pick architectures like serious people (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.59 70 | 6 points by smaddrellmander 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability (prashamhtrivedi.in)
    ×1.06 25 | 15 points by prash2488 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds (ligo.bio)
    ×1.05 34 | 154 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Roku LT Operating System open source distribution (roku.com)
    ×1.04 46 | 132 points by dpmdpm 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs (wassimans.com)
    ×2.70 19 | 79 points by wassimans 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fired 60 Minutes Scott Pelley: CBS told to inject 'falsehoods' into reporting (theguardian.com)
    ×2.89 27 | 10 points by mgh2 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How we index images for RAG (kapa.ai)
    ×1.34 45 | 199 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Patreon Refuses to Remove YouTuber's Viral Lego Investigation (kotaku.com)
    ×4.01 28 | 46 points by healsdata 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Ü Programming Language (github.com/Panzerschrek)
    ×1.03 42 | 51 points by deterministic 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GoPro warned it may not survive (thenextweb.com)
    ×2.44 17 | 71 points by mmh0000 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework (capstone-engine.org)
    ×0.89 50 | 106 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing (openfov.com)
    ×0.91 65 | 139 points by mwit2023 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release (davidedmundson.co.uk)
    ×1.49 43 | 232 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C (hpcalcs.com)
    ×1.41 31 | 209 points by dm319 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux (github.com/c0dejedi)
    ×2.15 18 | 459 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors (ieee.org)
    ×0.73 49 | 70 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.56 38 | 30 points by LoadingALIAS 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (0xsid.com)
    ×7.77 28 | 2174 points by ssiddharth 2 days ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer (github.com/krauseler)
    ×1.94 45 | 280 points by sargstuff 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Open Repair Data Standard (openrepair.org)
    ×1.00 42 | 156 points by cassepipe 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house (reddit.com)
    ×2.55 45 | 213 points by frereubu 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. MAI-Code-1-Flash (microsoft.ai)
    ×2.15 20 | 533 points by EvanZhouDev 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Iran war drains US oil stocks to lowest level since 2004 (ft.com)
    ×3.40 24 | 46 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) (fidonet.org)
    ×0.94 43 | 180 points by BruceEel 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bot vs human traffic (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.21 54 | 137 points by jmsflknr 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Stop Ruining It (seths.blog)
    ×2.27 25 | 312 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???