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  1. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×8.90 | 2066 points by qwertox 13 hours ago | 1099 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
    ×1.48 3 | 31 points by edent 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (janestreet.com)
    ×2.37 1 | 40 points by jsomers 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case (bbc.com)
    ×2.07 1 | 41 points by cmsefton 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.64 3 | 97 points by rendx 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (wordpress.com)
    ×2.13 | 271 points by moultano 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 34 points by evakhoury 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting (digitaliser.dk)
    ×3.01 6 | 52 points by mousepad12 1 hour ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Compact disc story (1998) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.63 22 | 9 points by pipeline_peak 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.29 41 | 5 points by wglb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.56 4 | 455 points by tin7in 17 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×2.90 7 | 12 points by Aissen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.21 8 | 85 points by nand2mario 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
    ×1.51 12 | 367 points by DamnInteresting 20 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
    ×4.50 9 | 756 points by mlex 14 hours ago | 826 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Implementing a clear room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)
    ×1.25 25 | 32 points by antirez 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×1.35 39 | 11 points by sandebert 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Origins of Agar (asimov.press)
    ×1.06 14 | 37 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 313 points by alexmolas 16 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com/Frikallo)
    ×1.14 4 | 73 points by noahkay13 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reading English from 1000 Ad (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×0.79 27 | 6 points by LAC-Tech 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style (dionisiydk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.84 9 | 13 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.72 37 | 122 points by sxmawl 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
    ×1.40 14 | 186 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
    ×1.18 11 | 74 points by paultendo 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (openculture.com)
    ×0.94 21 | 83 points by vinhnx 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
    ×1.15 24 | 135 points by ohjeez 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX (apnews.com)
    ×1.89 15 | 6 points by thinkcontext 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I baked a pie every day for a year (theguardian.com)
    ×1.86 5 | 284 points by NaOH 19 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.27 32 | 192 points by jasonpeacock 22 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.92 27 | 82 points by valyala 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
    ×1.15 13 | 187 points by spiffytech 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×0.96 36 | 127 points by conesus 19 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.59 53 | 75 points by Humanista75 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.52 35 | 171 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AS Level Chemistry Lab Simulator (github.com/nsriram)
    ×0.34 60 | 6 points by sriram_iyengar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025) (coderush.me)
    ×0.59 40 | 61 points by transpute 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.26 16 | 1242 points by hiisthisthingon 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.39 59 | 117 points by mikeayles 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
    ×0.85 34 | 106 points by flamestro 18 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Two insider cases we've recently closed (kalshi.com)
    ×0.77 39 | 31 points by fortran77 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
    ×3.58 27 | 570 points by davidbarker 20 hours ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (guidelabs.ai)
    ×0.77 49 | 72 points by luulinh90s 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.57 17 | 636 points by miki123211 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Julia: Performance Tips (julialang.org)
    ×1.24 28 | 69 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Move tests to closed source repo (github.com/tldraw)
    ×1.05 6 | 50 points by nilsbunger 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.75 31 | 241 points by littlexsparkee 14 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Open Source Handheld Linux Device [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.15 13 | 5 points by machinehum 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps (stanford.edu)
    ×0.46 52 | 20 points by starkparker 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (technically.dev)
    ×2.16 25 | 373 points by itunpredictable 20 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. You Just Need Postgres (youjustneedpostgres.com)
    ×2.56 39 | 73 points by olucasandrade 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (scripps.edu)
    ×0.68 58 | 74 points by littlexsparkee 23 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)
    ×2.07 14 | 239 points by kvinogradov 19 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.01 32 | 112 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)
    ×1.40 3 | 305 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)
    ×3.88 1 | 591 points by pie_flavor 1 day ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×3.99 24 | 131 points by atombender 12 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator (storozhenko98.github.io)
    ×0.59 55 | 44 points by mst98 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (ieee.org)
    ×2.58 5 | 659 points by tintinnabula 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs (github.com/antoniorodr)
    ×1.26 46 | 35 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CodeLeash: framework for quality agent development, NOT an orchestrator (codeleash.dev)
    ×0.40 75 | 5 points by cadamsdotcom 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993 (dreamwidth.org)
    ×2.45 50 | 98 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
    ×1.29 49 | 215 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 (PwC survey, n=4,454) (aishortcutlab.com)
    ×2.97 3 | 50 points by harran 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
    ×2.33 26 | 339 points by nee1r 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go (github.com/jayu)
    ×0.51 42 | 41 points by jayu_dev 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
    ×2.11 55 | 555 points by wordglyph 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Document.designMode Property (mozilla.org)
    ×2.90 5 | 5 points by lioeters 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Om Programming Language (om-language.com)
    ×1.51 34 | 296 points by tosh 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)
    ×2.79 6 | 468 points by iamskeole 1 day ago | 647 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×4.04 63 | 248 points by mikece 9 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
    ×2.75 26 | 157 points by Element_ 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
    ×1.11 51 | 184 points by remywang 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.79 15 | 419 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 625 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (hillelwayne.com)
    ×0.72 53 | 44 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
    ×4.28 10 | 485 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)
    ×1.51 43 | 135 points by sech8420 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.56 13 | 15 points by teleforce 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google Street View in 2026 (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.41 20 | 139 points by marklit 18 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
    ×1.35 53 | 135 points by speckx 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26) (norlinder.nu)
    ×0.92 51 | 114 points by jonasn 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
    ×4.09 3 | 831 points by robtherobber 2 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.62 40 | 261 points by avh3 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (windows.com)
    ×1.81 11 | 349 points by andreynering 1 day ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Never buy a .online domain (0xsid.com)
    ×3.36 13 | 770 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
    ×1.13 41 | 216 points by __cayenne__ 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (teamout.com)
    ×0.36 74 | 55 points by vincentalbouy 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Emacs Is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor (thecloudlet.github.io)
    ×1.07 58 | 18 points by spudlyo 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.79 26 | 41 points by meisnerd 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???