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  1. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×2.73 1 | 546 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
    ×2.54 2 | 387 points by ComputerGuru 5 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (thijs.gg)
    ×2.34 3 | 182 points by centrosphere 3 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
    ×2.13 3 | 254 points by iand 4 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights (github.com/l3a0)
    ×1.05 10 | 18 points by l3a0 56 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
    ×1.22 6 | 33 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
    ×4.94 4 | 846 points by l-one-lone 7 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Oceans hit highest temperature on record (bbc.com)
    ×5.82 7 | 125 points by tcp_handshaker 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
    ×1.27 7 | 93 points by inputmice 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.82 11 | 52 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff (dover.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
    ×0.87 16 | 53 points by adesh_nalpet 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (openai.com)
    ×2.15 5 | 226 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon (github.com/getkern)
    ×1.01 9 | 25 points by realexweb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
    ×0.91 16 | 151 points by snvzz 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com/paulg)
    ×2.32 14 | 461 points by bilsbie 14 hours ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What Is a Syslog Server? (greencloudvps.com)
    ×0.74 9 | 22 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance (larsfaye.com)
    ×4.02 13 | 318 points by larsfaye 4 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (codecanary.org)
    ×1.01 5 | 63 points by tke248 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog (textlog.cc)
    ×0.73 5 | 17 points by stagas 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study (plos.org)
    ×1.57 24 | 42 points by brandonb 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
    ×2.90 10 | 420 points by setheron 15 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
    ×1.56 4 | 121 points by ssx360 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease (washu.edu)
    ×0.99 32 | 165 points by dabinat 13 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
    ×1.47 11 | 95 points by bearsyankees 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.47 21 | 40 points by ksec 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge (codefloe.com)
    ×0.97 30 | 32 points by jeremyjh 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? (2018) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.72 22 | 33 points by at1as 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour (skimmiq.com)
    ×1.07 23 | 9 points by Pawel_SkimmIQ 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Agent Lightning v1.0 (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.94 50 | 9 points by qainsights 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tracking Costco Gas Prices During a Global Fuel Crisis (jack.bio)
    ×1.17 43 | 10 points by lafond 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.37 40 | 13 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Greg Abbott says data centers:'basically dug their own grave' (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.46 14 | 12 points by root-parent 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×5.36 14 | 1329 points by schlarpc 21 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com/tobi)
    ×1.54 35 | 25 points by matallo 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file (hamiltonulmer.com)
    ×1.37 15 | 142 points by v3gas 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.33 65 | 14 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: How to Mentally Calculate the Day of the Week for Any Date (tinkerandsee.com)
    ×1.08 44 | 19 points by yang140 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Qwen 3.6 is now much easier to run locally on your Mac, thanks to JetBrains (neowin.net)
    ×2.08 6 | 7 points by bundie 41 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: OutMap – a live map of 235 countries where anyone can place a link (outmap.lol)
    ×1.24 65 | 4 points by ifrosted 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.10 32 | 224 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Public services are increasingly strained by LLM-written appeals for benefits (arxiv.org)
    ×1.23 20 | 58 points by lensecat 3 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NetBSD GSoC 2026 Improving RAIDframe (netbsd.org)
    ×0.52 35 | 19 points by jaypatelani 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fences, Not Sandboxes (yegge.ai)
    ×1.34 42 | 8 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
    ×2.51 17 | 322 points by pantelisk 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Play Dates (dogdogfish.com)
    ×1.43 53 | 18 points by matthewsharpe3 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas (wsj.com)
    ×2.72 18 | 30 points by ilarum 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.53 49 | 19 points by subset 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Three Generations in E7 (wordpress.com)
    ×0.41 41 | 14 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.48 4 | 11 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM (github.com/thiagotigaz)
    ×0.95 26 | 113 points by thiagolima 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (modelrepublic.org)
    ×5.92 35 | 623 points by reasonableklout 13 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Tblue – 614 passive security scanners for any website, runs locally (github.com/taylannuhogluofficial-png)
    ×0.61 78 | 9 points by taylannuhoglu 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ICE officers with electric-shock gloves (theguardian.com)
    ×6.39 41 | 44 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Release Nvim 0.12.5 (github.com/neovim)
    ×1.09 51 | 14 points by DemiGuru 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Agent Is Not the Model (joejag.com)
    ×0.88 5 | 63 points by joejag 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to spot a stupid person with Carlo Cipolla's "golden law of stupidity" (bigthink.com)
    ×1.79 16 | 6 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: See how much your AI knows about you (withcorpus.com)
    ×1.20 88 | 3 points by cgnry 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What's New in Emacs 31.1? (masteringemacs.org)
    ×2.99 41 | 23 points by geospeck 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15% (reuters.com)
    ×2.43 20 | 8 points by dgellow 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies (econjared.substack.com)
    ×2.58 18 | 5 points by root-parent 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Creating under 256 byte 32-bit x86 based Linux binaries (sizecoding.org)
    ×0.81 45 | 6 points by vitalnodo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Anger, Anxiety and Agency (pocoo.org)
    ×1.47 53 | 46 points by lumpa 1 hour ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (ft.com)
    ×3.74 18 | 751 points by naves 1 day ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Dev tools in one static site, no framework, no server (devtools.fit)
    ×0.97 71 | 4 points by gr3ggg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha (borretti.me)
    ×1.24 64 | 13 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers (bbc.com)
    ×1.10 18 | 83 points by tchalla 9 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mojang is enforcing "inappropriate" MOTDs even on private whitelisted servers (reddit.com)
    ×2.13 30 | 16 points by tech234a 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. IBM's next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.71 11 | 18 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mourning Steve French (lwn.net)
    ×1.08 50 | 70 points by mfrw 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.81 23 | 9 points by apparent 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
    ×0.44 63 | 22 points by NN708 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
    ×1.19 52 | 258 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AliExpress Silent WebAudio Fingerprinting Uses Bluetooth Hardware (beyondmachines.net)
    ×0.73 64 | 8 points by MBCook 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. You can just build any software now (mkagenius.substack.com)
    ×1.85 16 | 7 points by mkagenius 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
    ×1.44 45 | 269 points by bwb 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Nvidia Groq 3 LPX Unlocks Ultrafast Interactivity at Long Context (nvidia.com)
    ×1.51 10 | 11 points by frozenport 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI Chip Architectures (jepeake.com)
    ×1.21 44 | 135 points by Finbarr 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. We are not going anywhere (github.com/omeid)
    ×3.05 36 | 52 points by omeid2 12 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
    ×1.42 43 | 190 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.67 33 | 212 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. New EU-wide product repair rules come into force (rte.ie)
    ×2.55 38 | 238 points by austinallegro 14 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.42 28 | 545 points by vanpra 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Who Wed Who (scrape of 6.4M couples' names from The Knot) (walzr.com)
    ×1.31 66 | 4 points by mkmk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Most AI Work Can Wait (tomtunguz.com)
    ×1.21 60 | 27 points by walterbell 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble (theregister.com)
    ×1.58 10 | 9 points by joebuckwilliams 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister (theguardian.com)
    ×2.22 50 | 172 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Firefox intent to ship: JPEG XL (google.com)
    ×2.56 52 | 38 points by cpeterso 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
    ×1.18 39 | 191 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tiny-Net: learned token embeddings in 2D (robertdavidgraham.github.io)
    ×0.39 90 | 4 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???