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  1. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.42 1 | 61 points by spankibalt 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.54 3 | 55 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.43 6 | 517 points by 0xedb 14 hours ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.99 6 | 729 points by Ariarule 18 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×3.73 7 | 794 points by encyclopedism 20 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Version Control for Everything (tyoverby.com)
    ×1.02 14 | 34 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The case against a C alternative (2022) (handmade.network)
    ×1.82 8 | 18 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
    ×2.27 14 | 492 points by abhisek 20 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.94 9 | 144 points by mtokmak06 9 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.58 15 | 282 points by tyre 15 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×0.96 3 | 34 points by wise_blood 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.09 8 | 126 points by rdmuser 3 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.62 19 | 174 points by rafaelc 14 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
    ×2.24 14 | 398 points by EwanG 20 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.43 116 | 35 points by yousefh409 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.13 46 | 15 points by osnium123 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
    ×2.02 2 | 305 points by danielvaughn 14 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (github.com/emacs-mirror)
    ×2.55 10 | 16 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.92 14 | 254 points by Bluestein 18 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com/vivekhaldar)
    ×1.26 10 | 20 points by gandalfgeek 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
    ×0.97 16 | 51 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.71 9 | 250 points by mariuz 17 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (aps.org)
    ×0.66 21 | 40 points by supermagnet 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.88 11 | 964 points by emctech 23 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.73 79 | 236 points by nunodonato 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
    ×1.29 19 | 132 points by TheP1000 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.46 24 | 162 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
    ×0.77 37 | 53 points by arto 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×5.11 26 | 329 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)
    ×0.93 25 | 94 points by hurrrr 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)
    ×0.38 30 | 7 points by Ag0146 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×1.73 8 | 274 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
    ×0.82 46 | 101 points by vga805 19 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
    ×1.15 15 | 154 points by codedge 17 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
    ×0.72 50 | 60 points by cassepipe 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 27 | 152 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
    ×12.73 36 | 1441 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.28 36 | 126 points by st_goliath 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)
    ×0.77 33 | 96 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.84 17 | 347 points by luu 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript (petewarden.com)
    ×0.34 57 | 4 points by jreynar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.91 26 | 342 points by mayoff 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns (tidalcycles.org)
    ×0.89 27 | 64 points by gjvc 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
    ×2.66 22 | 553 points by simedw 21 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Slack Code (salesforce.com)
    ×1.75 52 | 72 points by trollied 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour (niki.cat)
    ×0.80 23 | 38 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The smell of rain: how Aussie scientists invented a new word in 1964 (csiro.au)
    ×2.06 2 | 3 points by fanf2 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)
    ×2.95 32 | 331 points by Akasci 14 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.68 33 | 254 points by gavide 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.65 55 | 236 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells (washu.edu)
    ×1.57 36 | 35 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative (zoneless.com)
    ×0.89 41 | 73 points by tinyprojects 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Young Americans increasingly fear AI will take their jobs (pewresearch.org)
    ×2.29 25 | 12 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mojo is now open source (modular.com)
    ×2.82 8 | 395 points by visheshdembla 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Generic Methods in Go 1.27 (dominik.info)
    ×0.83 35 | 66 points by EspressoGPT 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 (icarm.cloud)
    ×1.09 24 | 95 points by robinhouston 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.55 13 | 947 points by rvz 1 day ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Git at any scale (cursor.com)
    ×2.42 7 | 335 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)
    ×1.01 32 | 74 points by knaught 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Artificial Intelligence Policy (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.47 19 | 38 points by hackerBanana 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (parqdb.io)
    ×0.84 45 | 16 points by petrizhang 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Orbital Construction Pioneers (orbitalconstructionpioneers.com)
    ×0.74 49 | 10 points by pmcjones 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.07 16 | 361 points by fg137 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
    ×1.64 11 | 124 points by pajop 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.29 45 | 188 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)
    ×0.71 20 | 58 points by radeeyate 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)
    ×1.44 34 | 30 points by hakkikonu 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
    ×2.79 56 | 11 points by rznicolet 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. As founding CEO of GitLab, I went "founder mode" on my cancer (cancerletter.com)
    ×3.34 43 | 29 points by dsr12 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)
    ×1.05 43 | 77 points by throwaw12 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.08 19 | 804 points by Animux 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Citizen Developer (massdriver.cloud)
    ×1.46 9 | 55 points by metal13 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.97 48 | 191 points by cwal37 13 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Our Servants Will Do That for Us (borretti.me)
    ×2.04 65 | 19 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe (lbl.gov)
    ×0.65 40 | 20 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Optimizing things in the USSR (2016) (chris-said.io)
    ×0.88 24 | 45 points by cassepipe 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×3.22 21 | 742 points by database64128 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (bizibah.com)
    ×1.49 41 | 298 points by gurov 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.14 64 | 162 points by j4mie 2 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain (acm.org)
    ×0.49 55 | 22 points by asdftemp 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.77 37 | 60 points by librasteve 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.42 41 | 409 points by dabinat 2 days ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting (jdagostino.github.io)
    ×1.03 53 | 26 points by timmmmmmay 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
    ×6.38 29 | 1610 points by amatheus 2 days ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.55 46 | 21 points by jonemi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU (marekfiser.com)
    ×0.66 42 | 40 points by iliketrains 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Hard Problems and Heuristic Answers (stochastic.blog)
    ×0.45 27 | 7 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (research.google)
    ×0.71 44 | 52 points by leanderjanssen 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
    ×3.80 50 | 240 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???