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  1. QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)
    ×7.63 1 | 454 points by mraniki 3 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025) (dtrace.org)
    ×2.15 3 | 287 points by cyb0rg0 4 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. An Alien Mind (openai.com)
    ×2.04 6 | 11 points by tosh 27 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)
    ×2.76 4 | 420 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death (edwest.co.uk)
    ×2.46 1 | 218 points by shubhamjain 5 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A/I shuts down – Stay human (keepitfree.ai)
    ×4.05 5 | 255 points by captainmuon 2 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 (netbsd.org)
    ×1.65 6 | 16 points by jaypatelani 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure (wsu.edu)
    ×1.46 28 | 9 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Research carried out using NetBSD (netbsd.org)
    ×0.89 10 | 8 points by Bluestein 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.56 10 | 133 points by gurjeet 8 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry (economist.com)
    ×0.71 4 | 35 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies (ydb.tech)
    ×0.97 4 | 21 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats (phoronix.com)
    ×3.73 9 | 127 points by mdp2021 2 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS (github.com/scastiel)
    ×0.77 2 | 32 points by scastiel 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)
    ×2.65 2 | 544 points by zplizzi 16 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The revolt of the reader (dtrace.org)
    ×2.90 10 | 501 points by chmaynard 19 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cultivating Trust (kaeruct.github.io)
    ×0.26 41 | 3 points by kaeruct 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The pencil case model of creativity (uu.nl)
    ×0.65 11 | 34 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×2.31 13 | 9 points by iamsyr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)
    ×0.76 11 | 23 points by BinRoo 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Music Theory for Programmers (runjs.app)
    ×2.47 6 | 274 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 (ibm.com)
    ×0.78 26 | 56 points by fuglede_ 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Household Laser Cuts (cceckman.com)
    ×0.72 15 | 34 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I Feel about AI (tuxen.de)
    ×2.75 21 | 123 points by qznc 1 hour ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
    ×0.36 20 | 9 points by tobr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)
    ×1.38 26 | 127 points by firexcy 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
    ×7.94 16 | 2242 points by moultano 2 days ago | 1567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 (dpreview.com)
    ×0.96 25 | 108 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (wordpress.com)
    ×1.17 35 | 98 points by vermaden 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark (kuber.studio)
    ×1.42 35 | 5 points by kuberwastaken 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text (github.com/rhsev)
    ×0.51 36 | 17 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What is Nueralese and Why is it Bad (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.32 18 | 47 points by tristanMatthias 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Alzheimer's trial to test drug on people without symptoms to test prevention (theguardian.com)
    ×1.88 3 | 4 points by borski 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Empire of Information (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×0.61 27 | 27 points by Petiver 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I Changed My License (bergie.iki.fi)
    ×1.93 24 | 133 points by jllyhill 6 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Learn Programming with OCaml (cnrs.fr)
    ×1.70 18 | 297 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)
    ×1.62 25 | 363 points by networked 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels (albertapolitics.ca)
    ×1.78 31 | 41 points by cmrdporcupine 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×4.99 17 | 524 points by ExMachina73 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)
    ×2.86 2 | 349 points by canjobear 20 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 2026 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org)
    ×1.76 20 | 43 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices (online.fr)
    ×0.78 33 | 81 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)
    ×4.25 19 | 686 points by bookmtn 20 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 'Old Person Smell' (theguardian.com)
    ×2.28 26 | 64 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)
    ×1.43 44 | 198 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.19 13 | 33 points by AlexeyBrin 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Topologist's Map of the World (futilitycloset.com)
    ×1.39 36 | 120 points by beardyw 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×0.70 73 | 3 points by worldvoyageur 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map (victoriametrics.com)
    ×0.89 48 | 93 points by valyala 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.12 51 | 116 points by willx86 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. RecurseCenter.return() (mm-dev.rocks)
    ×0.81 41 | 59 points by evakhoury 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor (github.com/iczelia)
    ×0.93 51 | 95 points by palaiologos 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A Computer History Time Capsule (archive.org)
    ×0.57 47 | 22 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
    ×0.92 58 | 139 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Slop (ssrn.com)
    ×1.17 25 | 9 points by andy99 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (robocurve.org)
    ×2.16 21 | 218 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
    ×3.00 14 | 788 points by negura 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Schemy Lisp En DOS (neocities.org)
    ×0.66 2 | 11 points by AlexeyBrin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward (isaraerospace.com)
    ×0.75 65 | 46 points by t43562 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
    ×3.36 12 | 698 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×8.06 13 | 2243 points by kibae 2 days ago | 2051 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Decapitating a MacBook (mm-dev.rocks)
    ×1.02 68 | 13 points by luu 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
    ×3.00 19 | 760 points by jlebar 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
    ×0.89 53 | 99 points by rfarley04 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. LLM representations have implicit symbolic structure (twitter.com/RTomMcCoy)
    ×0.97 8 | 8 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×8.03 15 | 2207 points by pavel_lishin 3 days ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.81 42 | 315 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber (practical.engineering)
    ×0.76 51 | 73 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Singapore subway (mrt) information display types (sgtrains.com)
    ×0.58 63 | 58 points by gregorvand 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks (llogiq.github.io)
    ×0.14 80 | 6 points by speckx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)
    ×2.62 8 | 394 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
    ×3.05 13 | 353 points by sevenseacat 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Steffen's Polyhedron (gregegan.net)
    ×0.76 49 | 64 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
    ×1.44 56 | 203 points by gioscarab 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.57 29 | 72 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com/okf-memory)
    ×1.13 19 | 74 points by okf_memory 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×0.77 49 | 77 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
    ×2.45 19 | 471 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. .gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)
    ×1.62 13 | 175 points by der_gopher 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
    ×2.27 10 | 491 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (atspotify.com)
    ×1.96 32 | 263 points by cebert 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)
    ×0.96 62 | 129 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Obscura: Native rendering is here. No Chromium required (github.com/h4ckf0r0day)
    ×1.41 59 | 24 points by partsch 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game (michaelteter.com)
    ×0.98 10 | 83 points by michaelteter 19 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
    ×1.17 50 | 172 points by acusti 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Can guitar frets perform multiplication? (charlespetzold.com)
    ×1.06 51 | 133 points by wibbily 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)
    ×0.81 54 | 78 points by ingve 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
    ×1.18 55 | 159 points by gurjeet 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison (circuitvalley.com)
    ×0.53 45 | 24 points by devoxel 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???