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  1. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.60 | 295 points by p4bl0 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×2.96 2 | 189 points by skittleson 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AlphaProof Code (deepmind.google)
    ×2.56 4 | 473 points by ilreb 6 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Val Town is winding down (val.town)
    ×4.45 1 | 54 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (blender.org)
    ×2.72 3 | 260 points by amlib 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.74 3 | 52 points by pixelpoet 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ableton Live 13 (ableton.com)
    ×2.31 5 | 177 points by phaser 5 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com/GoogleChrome)
    ×2.42 7 | 14 points by paulirish 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Hardest Tarball? (stoppels.ch)
    ×1.36 1 | 120 points by thatslast 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I deleted all my SSH keys (infected.systems)
    ×2.81 1 | 83 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Work at the Frontier: AI's effect on freelance work (openai.com)
    ×1.55 12 | 9 points by swolpers 31 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (strandsagents.com)
    ×2.99 4 | 625 points by aloukissas 12 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.59 | 71 points by leugim 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Process Explorer for macOS (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.49 12 | 19 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
    ×1.66 1 | 14 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What's new in the .NET 11 runtime (microsoft.com)
    ×2.45 2 | 144 points by stevefan1999 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 (neongd.com)
    ×1.01 7 | 97 points by jaypatelani 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (anthropic.com)
    ×3.25 9 | 841 points by lairv 20 hours ago | 960 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 (ericswpark.com)
    ×1.18 2 | 84 points by ericswpark 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.24 13 | 162 points by rustyhancock 9 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.77 8 | 123 points by FinnLobsien 7 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
    ×5.05 3 | 160 points by plun9 8 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker (theguardian.com)
    ×1.87 25 | 67 points by sorokod 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The death knell of digital search (newyorker.com)
    ×0.93 4 | 40 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Variable-width Bézier curves (2025) (illinois.edu)
    ×0.44 55 | 6 points by leduyquang753 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026 (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×1.89 14 | 130 points by giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons (usps.com)
    ×2.78 12 | 712 points by munro 22 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A failed experiment in laptop cooling (2025) (kevinboone.me)
    ×1.13 45 | 43 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Billion Watts in the Speaker [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.14 32 | 84 points by Element_ 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (reddit.com)
    ×2.68 22 | 71 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.06 4 | 93 points by samuelaidoo45 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008) (letoverlambda.com)
    ×1.09 5 | 59 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Professor and the Madman,' Has Died (nytimes.com)
    ×0.89 9 | 61 points by benbreen 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.77 2 | 47 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Your TV can see through walls (2025) (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.86 3 | 245 points by Curiositry 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (notion.com)
    ×1.52 11 | 147 points by werrett 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.38 8 | 1165 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (blog.google)
    ×4.41 35 | 226 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PHP2Shell Deep Dive (djad04.github.io)
    ×0.84 5 | 27 points by moebrowne 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Locating the source of a mysterious beep (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.21 12 | 306 points by bigwheels 18 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io)
    ×2.31 17 | 484 points by porridgeraisin 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system (payments.ca)
    ×2.14 20 | 574 points by ocd 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How hard is it to check for whitespace? (serce.me)
    ×1.39 12 | 114 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Horible public key tricks (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.79 24 | 232 points by Curiositry 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases (ultorg.com)
    ×1.40 28 | 131 points by Ivoah 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building an OOO RISC-V CPU from scratch (prawns.dev)
    ×0.76 16 | 24 points by random__duck 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I Am at School on Here
    ×1.46 26 | 9 points by Nic-G 32 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ClickHouse Acquires Xata (xata.io)
    ×1.32 28 | 93 points by mebcitto 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics (anthropocenemagazine.org)
    ×1.66 40 | 345 points by speckx 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Contract: Digital Archivist, Historical Systems (nintendo.com)
    ×1.95 21 | 22 points by HelloUsername 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Git considers voting to determine its LLM policy (lwn.net)
    ×1.45 1 | 8 points by adunk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress (npr.org)
    ×4.14 47 | 128 points by DeepLogin 2 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (watched.earth)
    ×2.56 13 | 434 points by a585gupt 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization (nabo.dev)
    ×1.19 45 | 183 points by nomi_uw 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
    ×1.44 33 | 119 points by carnevalem 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Val Town is winding down (twitter.com/stevekrouse)
    ×3.21 26 | 8 points by yakkomajuri 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. On Being an Engineer in 2026 (shahar.blog)
    ×1.78 41 | 175 points by talboren 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer (infineon.com)
    ×0.86 45 | 152 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out today (twitter.com/sundarpichai)
    ×1.07 1 | 10 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (github.com/thisisme6598)
    ×4.42 15 | 696 points by gf74918 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Trolls' Comeuppance (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.61 13 | 3 points by cdrnsf 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI Users have workdays up to 90 min longer than non-users (activtrak.com)
    ×1.29 62 | 6 points by gosen 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Time for AVIF everywhere? (michaelponders.com)
    ×0.93 56 | 98 points by speckx 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (meta.ai)
    ×1.72 18 | 322 points by dvaplima 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Anthropic to Seek $1.3T Valuation in IPO (wsj.com)
    ×4.29 25 | 52 points by sonabinu 5 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Greenfield – a short film about the last engineers who write code by hand [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.25 3 | 5 points by mhsmith 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How Hard Can Quant Trading Be? I Tried It to Find Out (laurenleek.substack.com)
    ×1.44 18 | 9 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Web Is More Than Enough (ftrain.com)
    ×1.23 59 | 201 points by edward 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
    ×0.76 41 | 114 points by raiseCatError 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver (fakedos.com)
    ×1.08 17 | 59 points by TheIncredibleCh 8 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server (github.com/HolyArrs)
    ×2.14 53 | 156 points by CoderLuii 6 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game (notesbylex.com)
    ×4.47 30 | 469 points by lexandstuff 19 hours ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Never Gonna Print You Up (dixken.de)
    ×0.73 42 | 58 points by ta988 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away (someonewashere.app)
    ×1.09 37 | 112 points by 4onthefloor124 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Russia's combat losses in the data of Rosstat (rosstat-leaks.com)
    ×2.99 8 | 57 points by mxschumacher 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (github.com/Dodaios)
    ×1.33 38 | 104 points by Dodaios 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (twitter.com/shanemelaugh)
    ×4.73 2 | 804 points by rzk 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship (spacex.com)
    ×1.52 50 | 173 points by spikels 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.38 14 | 364 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise (taskandpurpose.com)
    ×1.35 57 | 111 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers (xnacly.me)
    ×0.54 50 | 52 points by xnacly 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
    ×1.28 39 | 135 points by nchagnet 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) (parkgraph.com)
    ×0.90 30 | 89 points by parkgraph 22 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max (blog.google)
    ×2.03 7 | 254 points by _benx_ 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present (reactormag.com)
    ×1.67 23 | 187 points by speckx 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Don't buy AR glasses (yaros.ae)
    ×3.08 70 | 120 points by Bluestein 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Human Emacs (alexschroeder.ch)
    ×1.23 47 | 16 points by watermelon0 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) (oled-info.com)
    ×0.58 48 | 50 points by zeristor 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 34 | 179 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???