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  1. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.29 3 | 106 points by hhs 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.11 4 | 460 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×6.98 2 | 574 points by stock_toaster 5 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.59 10 | 24 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.88 2 | 358 points by scrlk 7 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×1.50 12 | 92 points by chmaynard 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.85 19 | 46 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.17 23 | 120 points by mytuny 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.12 28 | 79 points by CrankyBear 8 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.75 75 | 4 points by dado3212 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.34 9 | 421 points by randycupertino 7 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×1.21 7 | 168 points by markus_zhang 9 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)
    ×2.59 12 | 364 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.88 8 | 327 points by dmonay 14 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.41 44 | 155 points by kschaul 15 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time (peakd.io)
    ×1.61 33 | 6 points by GroguMaster 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×0.96 38 | 88 points by simonpure 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.36 34 | 103 points by ethanpil 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
    ×1.41 12 | 26 points by cui 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    ×1.60 43 | 82 points by aviaviavi 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.22 1 | 118 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.70 21 | 235 points by kickingvegas 16 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)
    ×0.76 19 | 58 points by dicroce 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    ×0.41 44 | 10 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)
    ×1.37 20 | 157 points by Bender 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.17 8 | 128 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.58 34 | 56 points by Asmod4n 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.27 12 | 38 points by djfergus 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.13 9 | 156 points by simonebrunozzi 9 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
    ×2.33 19 | 182 points by imustachyou 7 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.69 | 194 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.64 19 | 52 points by jacobgraf 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.26 13 | 831 points by vforno 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
    ×0.97 14 | 47 points by handfuloflight 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.58 48 | 55 points by jarodrh 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.10 33 | 124 points by Gedxx 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.80 51 | 80 points by pancomplex 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)
    ×2.91 28 | 25 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.30 5 | 143 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 50 | 12 points by zhinit 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com/Cpp2Rust)
    ×1.31 38 | 44 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (atomscale.ai)
    ×0.66 34 | 26 points by groznyj 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.08 10 | 1088 points by pompomsheep 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Postgres locks do not scale (recall.ai)
    ×0.75 42 | 12 points by timetoogo 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Choosing the Right AI Agent Memory Strategy: A Decision-Tree Approach (machinelearningmastery.com)
    ×1.17 18 | 10 points by eigenBasis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding (sxp.studio)
    ×0.71 57 | 14 points by tasoeur 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.75 21 | 1520 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 1077 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.62 39 | 196 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (google.dev)
    ×2.04 37 | 112 points by NickDob 6 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.92 18 | 10 points by dcyfr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.08 38 | 53 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. MDN has a page that shows every web API update as it hits each browser (mozilla.org)
    ×2.47 24 | 8 points by luispa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.11 12 | 1586 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 812 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×0.79 28 | 41 points by bdcravens 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.09 53 | 88 points by fanf2 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SF Farmers Market allows laundering food stamps for drug purchases (thevoicesf.org)
    ×5.17 37 | 16 points by AcesoUnderGlass 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Gary Kildall's Death Investigation (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.84 55 | 5 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.14 20 | 35 points by thisislife2 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.47 53 | 138 points by hershyb_ 5 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window (abralo.com)
    ×0.58 79 | 32 points by cwbuilds 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Atlassian ordered to reinstate engineer sacked over Slack clash with leadership (hcamag.com)
    ×2.02 24 | 10 points by toomanyrichies 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×2.89 27 | 250 points by jeroenhd 15 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I think I was part of a model distillation attack (sebastianmarines.com)
    ×1.35 60 | 9 points by marinesebastian 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.65 40 | 44 points by Uptrenda 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. NYT article on opening of dachau (1933) (nytimes.com)
    ×1.75 5 | 4 points by marysminefnuf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)
    ×4.15 10 | 820 points by oumua_don17 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×2.95 17 | 268 points by smusamashah 18 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure (simpleflying.com)
    ×2.34 29 | 57 points by amelius 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)
    ×2.86 36 | 45 points by ytpete 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.15 3 | 1368 points by djoldman 2 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. UNIGRID's sodium-ion home battery debuts in Europe, US is next (electrek.co)
    ×1.74 5 | 5 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)
    ×0.41 63 | 22 points by pncnmnp 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Zeal 8-Bit Computer (zeal8bit.com)
    ×1.88 53 | 6 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.31 55 | 139 points by catalinvoss 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×1.04 18 | 32 points by kianN 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.67 22 | 8 points by arhamislam5766 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.68 65 | 115 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. China's Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power (noemamag.com)
    ×1.69 11 | 16 points by Gooblebrai 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
    ×2.45 65 | 326 points by ScottWRobinson 12 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)
    ×4.55 9 | 788 points by SweetSoftPillow 1 day ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.13 53 | 178 points by mrl5 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.84 25 | 167 points by hbcondo714 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.46 35 | 34 points by rstagi 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal (gadgetreview.com)
    ×3.05 24 | 42 points by 01-_- 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.13 5 | 306 points by jyunwai 1 day ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)
    ×2.33 8 | 375 points by veqq 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
    ×0.62 49 | 26 points by thunderbong 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Guy is banned by OpenAI for cyber abuse, his AI appeals, another AI approves it (twitter.com/endpointarena)
    ×2.60 23 | 28 points by binyu 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate (pcmag.com)
    ×1.74 5 | 6 points by healsdata 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???