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  1. Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
    ×4.55 | 120 points by twapi 54 minutes ago | 80 comments | ??? ???
  2. I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
    ×1.88 | 299 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  3. Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
    ×2.45 | 425 points by cutoff 7 hours ago | 163 comments | ??? ???
  4. 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
    ×2.34 1 | 53 points by samizdis 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  5. A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.61 1 | 143 points by keithcarolus 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
    ×1.28 1 | 87 points by con 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  7. Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)
    ×1.64 7 | 99 points by geox 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  8. Autonomous (YC F25) Is Hiring Engineers
    1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.66 4 | 102 points by matthewsinclair 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  10. Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×3.50 5 | 227 points by Tomte 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  11. Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5 (tmpout.sh)
    ×1.67 5 | 106 points by kmstout 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  12. Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
    ×3.46 5 | 232 points by thm 9 hours ago | 258 comments | ??? ???
  13. ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
    ×1.47 1 | 131 points by Bluestein 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  14. ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.23 4 | 160 points by ijidak 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  15. I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
    ×2.89 12 | 196 points by jcurbo 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ??? ???
  16. Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
    ×2.79 7 | 91 points by hazebooth 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  17. Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
    ×0.42 48 | 35 points by kushagrchitkar 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  18. Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (theguardian.com)
    ×1.04 26 | 32 points by ziofill 4 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  19. Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
    ×2.12 45 | 148 points by robinpie 14 hours ago | 107 comments | ??? ???
  20. Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf] (uwr.edu.pl)
    ×0.78 43 | 26 points by Eridanus2 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  21. The safest job from AI may be writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×2.02 2 | 48 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  22. Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/Hebbian-Robotics)
    ×0.41 52 | 33 points by kstonekuan 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  23. Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×0.28 81 | 4 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  24. Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
    ×0.69 26 | 61 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  25. Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com/andrew_n_carr)
    ×2.43 1 | 94 points by notRobot 7 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  26. 'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.25 9 | 41 points by tzury 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  27. How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails (sixpatterns.com)
    ×1.74 18 | 6 points by __vivek 52 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
    ×2.42 3 | 100 points by reasonableklout 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ??? ???
  29. OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)
    ×2.51 18 | 502 points by metrofun 12 hours ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  30. Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires (governance.fyi)
    ×0.82 22 | 33 points by crescit_eundo 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  31. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
    ×2.39 1 | 325 points by Recursing 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  32. C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (cppstories.com)
    ×0.91 5 | 76 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)
    ×1.15 42 | 4 points by beerglass 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  34. Kids These Days (paulbloom.net)
    ×1.94 13 | 51 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  35. Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding (heise.de)
    ×2.71 29 | 140 points by virtualritz 5 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  36. DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure (ripe.net)
    ×0.94 21 | 70 points by jruohonen 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  37. Agent memory as a file format (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.40 4 | 151 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  38. uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)
    ×1.86 22 | 199 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  39. Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
    ×2.48 9 | 350 points by thecsw 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  40. Malleable software = solid bases and custom code (mdubakov.me)
    ×1.07 27 | 92 points by tablet 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme (corporatemindgames.com)
    ×0.85 3 | 32 points by dontwordle 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  42. Show HN: SlideOps – slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code (github.com/glukicov)
    ×0.55 17 | 18 points by lukicov 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  43. Separating logic and language (mit.edu)
    ×1.09 12 | 34 points by myelinscience 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  44. Why are rivers so mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.82 45 | 26 points by sebg 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  45. I attended the State of the Map conference (wordpress.com)
    ×1.06 56 | 61 points by altilunium 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  46. Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)
    ×0.73 5 | 29 points by modagent 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  47. Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most (uga.edu)
    ×1.09 39 | 85 points by giuliomagnifico 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  48. Infrastructure as Raclette (postu.la)
    ×0.73 31 | 36 points by kasmanit 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  49. I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user (eris-system.dev)
    ×0.80 19 | 13 points by hagbardCelin3 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  50. “I just chose words carefully” (aresluna.org)
    ×4.87 30 | 1163 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 337 comments | ??? ???
  51. Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.82 40 | 153 points by jllyhill 18 hours ago | 162 comments | ??? ???
  52. Google Maps Now Shows 'Lake America' in US, Not 'Lake Ontario' (reuters.com)
    ×2.32 24 | 7 points by tartoran 36 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  53. Navigation app for people with blindness and low vision (harvard.edu)
    ×0.60 41 | 26 points by geox 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)
    ×0.59 34 | 17 points by windell 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  55. The art of CHIP-8 (beyondloom.com)
    ×0.86 28 | 50 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  56. P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
    ×1.32 16 | 212 points by dbalatero 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: An HN client that summarises long threads and lets you chat with them (github.com/nilbuild)
    ×0.95 36 | 18 points by kamranahmedse 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  58. The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash (aeon.co)
    ×0.72 11 | 61 points by Hooke 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  59. The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT (mux.com)
    ×0.45 12 | 25 points by mmcclure 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  60. How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
    ×1.51 45 | 172 points by volodia 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  61. Notes on Private Trackers (jenn.site)
    ×1.51 21 | 58 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  62. Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
    ×1.35 41 | 177 points by BirAdam 22 hours ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  63. Tim Cook's Last Day as CEO of Apple (twitter.com/tim_cook)
    ×2.30 14 | 9 points by skwasimin 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.64 28 | 355 points by WithinReason 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  65. Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)
    ×5.23 19 | 1326 points by zdw 1 day ago | 672 comments | ??? ???
  66. Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)
    ×1.38 26 | 51 points by vinnyglennon 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  67. LeanDB a strongly Typed SQL front end (theoric.com)
    ×0.76 45 | 11 points by hargup 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  68. 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (bbc.com)
    ×0.87 54 | 35 points by dabinat 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  69. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.54 7 | 314 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 177 comments | ??? ???
  70. Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP (apache.org)
    ×1.40 41 | 91 points by spetz 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  71. Hit anything. Discover how it rings (fraware.github.io)
    ×0.82 26 | 42 points by MADEinPARIS 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  72. Dropbox Got Hacked (twitter.com/yonilevy)
    ×4.23 50 | 16 points by yonilevy 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  73. What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.02 41 | 72 points by mdp2021 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  74. Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) (flowg.cloud)
    ×0.55 49 | 34 points by linkdd 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  75. You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad) (thenewatlantis.com)
    ×2.33 51 | 71 points by iamnothere 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  76. A CVE Dispute (haxx.se)
    ×3.17 43 | 179 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  77. ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
    ×2.44 16 | 143 points by marttt 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  78. A milestone in expanding access to AI (openai.com)
    ×1.10 69 | 9 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  79. All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi (home.cern)
    ×0.74 61 | 19 points by ilreb 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  80. Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) (sander.ai)
    ×1.14 45 | 128 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  81. Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
    ×0.74 60 | 63 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  82. Undocumented Atari Slapstic side-channel in a Marble Madness reimplementation (magno73.github.io)
    ×0.62 71 | 5 points by magno 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  83. Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.71 59 | 19 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  84. When Japan Tried to Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s (tokyoweekender.com)
    ×2.24 3 | 7 points by SeenNotHeard 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. Show HN: What Happens When You Give Your AI Agents a Voice and an Attitude (fellowgeek.github.io)
    ×1.64 63 | 6 points by pcbmaker20 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  86. Libertix installs Linux with 3 mouse clicks for Windows users (ekimia.fr)
    ×1.37 43 | 32 points by freechelmi 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  87. Apple used to be weirder and maybe more fun (scottknaster.substack.com)
    ×2.20 3 | 16 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  88. How much of a problem is AI's water use? (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.57 14 | 11 points by knowablemag 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem (github.com/plby)
    ×0.36 61 | 20 points by robinhouston 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  90. Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
    ×0.94 53 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 78 comments | ??? ???