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  1. What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (ingebrigtsen.no)
    ×3.02 | 84 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×1.13 4 | 140 points by GalaxySnail 6 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Astrological CPU Scheduler (github.com/zampierilucas)
    ×1.96 1 | 60 points by fratellobigio 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease (wiley.com)
    ×2.28 2 | 66 points by jbotz 2 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. (github.com/KrystianJonca)
    ×1.18 7 | 19 points by iamkrystian17 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.06 4 | 687 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.70 4 | 414 points by trms 14 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (anthropic.com)
    ×1.28 5 | 188 points by salkahfi 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.88 6 | 460 points by wodniok 17 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.49 12 | 82 points by Imustaskforhelp 8 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.53 10 | 218 points by bhouston 13 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    ×3.52 4 | 177 points by gyrovague-com 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. 50 Years of the Jetsons: Why the Show Still Matters (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.68 19 | 11 points by fortran77 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.21 24 | 278 points by whoishiring 18 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. xAI joins SpaceX (spacex.com)
    ×4.39 12 | 715 points by g-mork 13 hours ago | 1592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
    ×0.97 25 | 82 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.36 14 | 91 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug (wordpress.com)
    ×0.95 69 | 3 points by tanelpoder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hacking Moltbook (wiz.io)
    ×2.16 9 | 333 points by galnagli 18 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (frommers.com)
    ×5.11 12 | 422 points by donohoe 12 hours ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×2.17 2 | 11 points by tinuviel 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×2.24 15 | 138 points by jinhkuan 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.78 20 | 313 points by indigodaddy 22 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.82 24 | 169 points by cf100clunk 17 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Crime rates of undocumented-, legal immigrants, & native-born citizens in Texas (pnas.org)
    ×2.80 5 | 4 points by u1hcw9nx 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    ×3.16 3 | 270 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.86 6 | 121 points by ashergill 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.45 19 | 382 points by ck2 12 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.43 44 | 15 points by tobr 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (science.org)
    ×0.59 42 | 17 points by noleary 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    ×1.22 22 | 253 points by yz-yu 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×2.04 28 | 208 points by PaulHoule 22 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem (bpe.xyz)
    ×1.06 3 | 43 points by shoes_for_thee 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com/BenjaminPoilve)
    ×1.29 10 | 25 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×0.97 24 | 72 points by mci 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.85 39 | 86 points by dbgrman 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.57 11 | 50 points by MilnerRoute 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.97 27 | 155 points by defrost 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X (bbc.com)
    ×5.64 34 | 13 points by vikaveri 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×1.01 24 | 102 points by tromp 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
    ×1.00 16 | 125 points by salkahfi 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (sdan.io)
    ×0.69 48 | 36 points by sdan 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.96 28 | 119 points by whoishiring 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (macrumors.com)
    ×3.03 26 | 165 points by stalfosknight 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    ×1.28 47 | 107 points by Technolithic 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.26 23 | 96 points by geox 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.09 42 | 107 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions (bentsukun.ch)
    ×0.75 74 | 6 points by jaypatelani 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com/orgs)
    ×3.73 24 | 111 points by aofeisheng 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×0.94 35 | 141 points by noelwelsh 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why software stocks are getting pummelled (economist.com)
    ×1.98 5 | 163 points by petethomas 16 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Flying Around the World in under 80 Days (pinchito.es)
    ×0.28 53 | 8 points by alexfernandez 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.30 4 | 829 points by zdw 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.86 8 | 35 points by pouyathe 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
    ×1.32 45 | 131 points by tontony 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)
    ×0.64 46 | 38 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder (iso-coaster.com)
    ×1.02 23 | 106 points by duck 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com/stelviodev)
    ×0.50 50 | 32 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (theverge.com)
    ×3.31 20 | 371 points by Anon84 22 hours ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com/ujjwalredd)
    ×0.19 83 | 4 points by ujjwalreddyks 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.92 25 | 161 points by MallocVoidstar 14 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled (cnbc.com)
    ×2.41 20 | 134 points by greatgib 14 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (epa.gov)
    ×1.98 19 | 178 points by bilsbie 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. To Build a Fire:Inside Russia's Campaign of Sabotage in Europe (newyorker.com)
    ×3.58 10 | 31 points by stevenwoo 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ratchets in software development (2021) (qntm.org)
    ×1.00 45 | 112 points by nvader 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum has been charged for alleged fraud (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.44 3 | 6 points by darkhorse13 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Parking lots as economic drains (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
    ×2.77 17 | 148 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kannada Nudi Editor Web Version (nudiweb.com)
    ×0.50 67 | 4 points by Codegres 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.56 18 | 206 points by JumpCrisscross 19 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com/chenxin-yan)
    ×0.36 76 | 4 points by jellyotsiro 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×0.84 48 | 100 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sam Altman felt "useless" next to Codex (twitter.com/sama)
    ×1.27 3 | 9 points by mherrmann 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Termux (github.com/termux)
    ×2.45 27 | 342 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Hypergrowth isn’t always easy (tailscale.com)
    ×1.17 19 | 130 points by usrme 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.91 38 | 132 points by kioku 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Best Gas Masks (theverge.com)
    ×6.38 43 | 545 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 33 | 42 points by evakhoury 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.21 2 | 422 points by rafaelcosta 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Valanza – my Unix way for weight tracking and anlysis (github.com/paolomarrone)
    ×0.32 54 | 25 points by lallero317 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Treasures found on HS2 route (bbc.com)
    ×0.90 38 | 118 points by breve 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.11 4 | 723 points by l1am0 2 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×3.18 8 | 388 points by righthand 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
    ×0.45 41 | 24 points by ps2026 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TileIR Internals (maknee.github.io)
    ×0.24 68 | 9 points by vimarsh6739 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rev up the viral factories (science.org)
    ×0.58 56 | 46 points by etiam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.25 6 | 327 points by martinald 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    ×2.64 19 | 421 points by rebane2001 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system (wesmckinney.com)
    ×3.03 37 | 39 points by j4mie 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    ×2.20 26 | 156 points by zdw 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???