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  1. Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
    ×3.28 | 170 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)
    ×1.68 1 | 142 points by rdl 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×6.06 1 | 1652 points by salkahfi 14 hours ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
    ×1.89 3 | 35 points by reconnecting 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
    ×1.83 6 | 30 points by xngbuilds 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
    ×1.23 3 | 28 points by the-mitr 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×3.62 2 | 727 points by unsnap_biceps 10 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.65 4 | 47 points by lumpa 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×3.06 6 | 25 points by embedding-shape 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
    ×4.71 | 776 points by bpierre 13 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (flyingmag.com)
    ×1.18 21 | 30 points by Jblx2 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (agwa.name)
    ×1.54 13 | 286 points by agwa 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
    ×1.26 13 | 37 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. OpenTrafficMap (opentrafficmap.org)
    ×1.37 7 | 180 points by moooo99 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.13 13 | 1047 points by homebrewer 9 hours ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (microsoft.com)
    ×0.88 23 | 36 points by aragonite 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)
    ×1.73 13 | 226 points by bobbiechen 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×1.31 17 | 180 points by jjba23 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com/GliaX)
    ×1.56 25 | 226 points by 0x54MUR41 13 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust (acm.org)
    ×0.63 25 | 15 points by tkhattra 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (eetimes.com)
    ×0.61 29 | 40 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.87 24 | 120 points by takira 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. We need a federation of forges (tangled.org)
    ×2.46 8 | 536 points by icy 14 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com/aallan)
    ×1.19 17 | 69 points by unignorant 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.70 1 | 35 points by noleary 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years (jivx.com)
    ×2.79 14 | 291 points by momentmaker 9 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL (bensimms.moe)
    ×1.09 20 | 75 points by nitros 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Online age verification is the hill to die on (x.com)
    ×5.80 21 | 846 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] (claude.com)
    ×2.75 24 | 108 points by rob 3 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.87 26 | 99 points by sandslash 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.62 18 | 3375 points by WadeGrimridge 1 day ago | 1007 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot (lina.sh)
    ×2.37 10 | 76 points by fishgoesblub 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU (github.com/qumulator)
    ×0.32 34 | 7 points by nnoorbakhsh 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019) (increment.com)
    ×0.53 37 | 19 points by ripe 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.10 24 | 87 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Zulip 12.0 Released (zulip.com)
    ×2.48 13 | 25 points by tabbott 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary (microsoft.com)
    ×2.54 16 | 17 points by hackthemack 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." (maxtaylor.me)
    ×1.83 1 | 81 points by max-t-dev 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts (github.com/DOS-History)
    ×0.96 36 | 134 points by s2l 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.72 13 | 25 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. At Protocol: Building the Social Internet (atproto.com)
    ×0.97 28 | 77 points by resiros 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores (theguardian.com)
    ×2.87 20 | 279 points by 01-_- 11 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (nldigitalgovernment.nl)
    ×2.33 7 | 532 points by e12e 19 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Open-source briefing packets and citizen-action toolkits (github.com/ClosedNetwork)
    ×0.64 93 | 3 points by pkaeding 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.41 27 | 441 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval (github.com/few-sh)
    ×2.25 32 | 6 points by hexer303 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.83 13 | 22 points by Tomte 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (jeffschomay.com)
    ×0.88 25 | 125 points by jschomay 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (theguardian.com)
    ×1.22 28 | 80 points by Cynddl 13 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
    ×0.44 41 | 50 points by khurdula 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (talkie-lm.com)
    ×2.83 61 | 746 points by jekude 2 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team (healthmanagement.org)
    ×0.45 58 | 57 points by embedding-shape 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bugs Rust won't catch (corrode.dev)
    ×2.75 4 | 634 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Have You Seen the New Excel? (idiallo.com)
    ×2.47 14 | 19 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) · Nikhil Jha (nikhiljha.com)
    ×0.63 90 | 10 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com/rocky-data)
    ×0.71 52 | 115 points by hugocorreia90 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle (hardenedbsd.org)
    ×0.90 31 | 153 points by lftherios 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Before GitHub (pocoo.org)
    ×2.63 1 | 650 points by mlex 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: An attempt to grow a mind – building software with an inner life (momentbymoment.app)
    ×0.29 106 | 7 points by shahabebrahimi 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record (savethearchive.com)
    ×1.82 91 | 140 points by doener 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How ChatGPT serves ads (buchodi.com)
    ×2.16 2 | 490 points by lmbbuchodi 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.34 12 | 169 points by bozdemir 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Demonstrating the idea of gamma camera imaging [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.20 8 | 5 points by num42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation (acm.org)
    ×0.54 76 | 68 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.07 60 | 402 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Withnail's Coat and I (ontherow.substack.com)
    ×0.89 47 | 130 points by apollinaire 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop (macrumors.com)
    ×2.70 14 | 73 points by jurmous 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. UAE to leave OPEC (ft.com)
    ×2.75 26 | 482 points by bazzmt 1 day ago | 659 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Intel Arc Pro B70 Review (pugetsystems.com)
    ×1.07 62 | 193 points by zdw 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis (handyai.substack.com)
    ×4.43 19 | 68 points by sss111 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.60 6 | 55 points by akyuu 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I have officially retired from Emacs (nullprogram.com)
    ×1.46 61 | 263 points by Fudgel 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.16 63 | 177 points by frabonacci 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.99 39 | 25 points by zh_code 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold (kaust.edu.sa)
    ×0.68 68 | 84 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes (github.blog)
    ×1.93 62 | 305 points by whtsky 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com/electricant)
    ×0.75 5 | 88 points by electricant 16 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.66 37 | 385 points by tosh 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Sony rolls out 30-day DRM check-in for PlayStation – stay online or lose access (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.58 13 | 29 points by josephcsible 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GitHub Actions is the weakest link (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.68 62 | 247 points by dochtman 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio] (heavybit.com)
    ×0.31 79 | 13 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. CJIT: C, Just in Time (dyne.org)
    ×0.91 71 | 143 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage (lumara-space.app)
    ×1.04 65 | 213 points by beeswaxpat 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz (theregister.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 9 points by omer_k 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz (kviss.eu)
    ×0.89 56 | 32 points by steinvakt2 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.66 7 | 248 points by thomashobohm 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Who owns the code Claude Code wrote? (legallayer.substack.com)
    ×2.80 5 | 540 points by senaevren 1 day ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)
    ×1.23 2 | 230 points by fesens 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today (tradingeconomics.com)
    ×3.69 25 | 70 points by walrus01 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???