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  1. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
    ×4.97 | 55 points by l-one-lone 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
    ×1.04 2 | 64 points by snvzz 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com/paulg)
    ×1.99 6 | 274 points by bilsbie 8 hours ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
    ×4.90 2 | 1124 points by schlarpc 14 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease (washu.edu)
    ×0.84 15 | 93 points by dabinat 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
    ×2.93 8 | 209 points by setheron 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Future Belongs to the Weird (georgestrakhov.com)
    ×1.20 9 | 60 points by georgestrakhov 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (ft.com)
    ×3.57 11 | 623 points by naves 19 hours ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers (bbc.com)
    ×1.28 23 | 11 points by tchalla 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file (hamiltonulmer.com)
    ×1.45 7 | 68 points by v3gas 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.22 10 | 464 points by vanpra 18 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM (github.com/thiagotigaz)
    ×0.93 11 | 77 points by thiagolima 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (modelrepublic.org)
    ×5.69 10 | 349 points by reasonableklout 6 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
    ×2.55 14 | 234 points by pantelisk 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Agent Is Not the Model (joejag.com)
    ×1.17 | 26 points by joejag 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister (theguardian.com)
    ×2.49 9 | 99 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (theguardian.com)
    ×3.35 12 | 67 points by fittingopposite 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (elis.cc)
    ×2.33 12 | 343 points by el1s7 18 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
    ×2.82 14 | 492 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.24 15 | 340 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. New EU-wide product repair rules come into force (rte.ie)
    ×2.82 8 | 180 points by austinallegro 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Mourning Steve French (lwn.net)
    ×1.19 35 | 36 points by mfrw 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
    ×1.78 21 | 340 points by shortcrct 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
    ×3.38 22 | 72 points by mittermayr 1 hour ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
    ×1.22 37 | 251 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
    ×0.73 41 | 7 points by NN708 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI Chip Architectures (jepeake.com)
    ×1.19 28 | 104 points by Finbarr 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.72 21 | 186 points by dbreunig 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
    ×1.45 27 | 254 points by bwb 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo (who.int)
    ×1.81 12 | 86 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
    ×1.36 29 | 161 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
    ×1.21 31 | 185 points by the-mitr 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel (hanselman.com)
    ×0.70 28 | 62 points by soheilpro 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anger, Anxiety and Agency (pocoo.org)
    ×0.86 66 | 6 points by tosh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
    ×2.27 1 | 362 points by ryanvogel 20 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof (motherjones.com)
    ×2.31 2 | 20 points by brandonb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anthropic Claude and API service outages (claude.com)
    ×1.65 12 | 69 points by vikrantrathore 7 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake (github.com/AlpinDale)
    ×1.01 31 | 87 points by porridgeraisin 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Elevated Errors for Multiple Models (claude.com)
    ×0.75 25 | 30 points by rob 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
    ×1.86 42 | 144 points by henryaj 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's? (cmart.blog)
    ×1.97 6 | 61 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The first search engine for Internet-connected devices (shodan.io)
    ×0.44 57 | 23 points by momentmaker 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II (colino.net)
    ×0.90 48 | 70 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
    ×2.99 7 | 274 points by tchalla 18 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions (hugodaniel.com)
    ×0.71 48 | 43 points by hugodan 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
    ×1.13 57 | 66 points by mdp2021 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 42 | 48 points by root-parent 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Most AI Work Can Wait (tomtunguz.com)
    ×0.72 68 | 4 points by walterbell 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities (pew.org)
    ×0.75 49 | 57 points by softwaredoug 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Death to px, long live ch (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.08 44 | 84 points by Brajeshwar 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
    ×0.87 34 | 102 points by zdw 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
    ×2.62 13 | 459 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
    ×1.67 5 | 157 points by allisdust 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.59 12 | 178 points by mdp2021 21 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.71 16 | 326 points by taubek 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
    ×1.16 34 | 161 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.82 4 | 67 points by billybuckwheat 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)
    ×1.08 52 | 124 points by Sir_Twist 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms (cntraveler.com)
    ×1.50 11 | 99 points by simonebrunozzi 17 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.77 59 | 86 points by rznicolet 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
    ×0.99 43 | 36 points by Tiberium 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mac OS X on Xbox 360 (github.com/osx360)
    ×2.99 63 | 9 points by PortableCode 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 'Cookies' made from plastic may be on the menu for future astronauts (theguardian.com)
    ×0.72 13 | 5 points by sandebert 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.46 10 | 352 points by raybb 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)
    ×2.70 8 | 494 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How I Use Git Worktrees (2024) (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.64 70 | 12 points by oogali 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI and Infrastructure Engineering (omegion.dev)
    ×0.92 16 | 68 points by 0megion 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
    ×1.00 18 | 177 points by userbinator 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M (omarchy.org)
    ×2.70 61 | 50 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
    ×1.18 43 | 128 points by speckx 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at least $13B (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.86 17 | 9 points by AlexDragusin 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.65 76 | 310 points by nunodonato 4 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI (andros.dev)
    ×0.79 49 | 29 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
    ×0.87 63 | 43 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×6.15 3 | 713 points by tartoran 2 days ago | 1628 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Worldwide animated weather map, with easy to use layer and precise spot forecast (windy.com)
    ×0.84 42 | 14 points by momentmaker 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004) (unt.edu)
    ×3.48 47 | 97 points by tiahura 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Casio's Bluetooth F-B100W-1A with step-tracker sells out again (notebookcheck.net)
    ×0.92 9 | 9 points by 01-_- 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anthropic candidates face blunt money question (axios.com)
    ×1.85 69 | 30 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)
    ×2.03 | 416 points by tosh 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The planet now has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2018) (psmag.com)
    ×1.87 13 | 88 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.84 5 | 481 points by auraham 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.20 60 | 152 points by gmays 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×1.25 44 | 44 points by gdcbe 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fast and Hard Code (pocoo.org)
    ×1.24 21 | 113 points by tosh 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.24 52 | 163 points by chilipepperhott 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.38 8 | 845 points by colinprince 2 days ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)
    ×1.21 44 | 112 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.44 8 | 1097 points by floathub 2 days ago | 1352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.63 31 | 639 points by Cider9986 3 days ago | 904 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???