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  1. East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.38 1 | 320 points by robertvc 6 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    ×2.71 1 | 712 points by todotask2 11 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (google.com)
    ×1.44 6 | 83 points by linolevan 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    ×2.21 4 | 121 points by vitaelabitur 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.84 7 | 344 points by jaas 10 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    ×3.21 5 | 408 points by embedding-shape 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    ×2.19 8 | 25 points by GaggiX 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
    ×1.54 8 | 310 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
    ×2.16 5 | 495 points by cl3misch 14 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    ×1.73 18 | 11 points by tobr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
    ×2.10 9 | 136 points by cebert 8 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
    ×1.70 9 | 264 points by p44v9n 13 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    ×1.45 4 | 54 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. STFU (github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna)
    ×5.26 13 | 645 points by tanelpoder 8 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    ×1.08 16 | 63 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
    ×1.23 13 | 108 points by jamesgresql 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
    ×2.03 18 | 216 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
    ×1.67 1 | 36 points by npmipg 3 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
    ×1.16 19 | 7 points by indigodaddy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
    ×0.92 10 | 29 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
    ×3.77 16 | 203 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.22 23 | 54 points by giuliomagnifico 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg (jeffverkoeyen.com)
    ×0.86 13 | 17 points by featherless 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
    ×0.53 25 | 66 points by christalwang 9 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.63 | 54 points by ImJasonH 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
    ×0.98 21 | 107 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender (github.com/openfunkHQ)
    ×0.86 37 | 10 points by rishikeshs 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code (github.com/21st-dev)
    ×0.61 27 | 54 points by Bunas 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
    ×1.03 7 | 111 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I'm Being Prosecuted for the Opposite of Insider Trading (wsj.com)
    ×3.63 13 | 6 points by mudil 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CLI's completion should know what options you've typed (hackers.pub)
    ×0.54 39 | 14 points by dahlia 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com/loresuso)
    ×0.80 34 | 85 points by tanelpoder 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
    ×1.75 15 | 216 points by samuel246 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Our approach to advertising (openai.com)
    ×3.99 25 | 218 points by rvz 8 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.61 41 | 22 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×1.11 16 | 130 points by dmvaldman 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Alignment Game (2023) (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×0.64 41 | 33 points by dmvaldman 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025) (atredis.com)
    ×0.85 6 | 22 points by notmine1337 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse (100x.bot)
    ×0.58 18 | 25 points by shardullavekar 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Brain: PC virus [audio] (bbc.com)
    ×0.46 42 | 15 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (kernel.org)
    ×4.06 35 | 152 points by luu 5 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.67 23 | 23 points by scaredreally 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Feature Selection: A Primer (ikromshi.com)
    ×0.66 38 | 24 points by ikromshi 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Building a Quake PC (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.88 60 | 4 points by roskelld 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025) (domainlanguage.com)
    ×0.48 47 | 23 points by druther 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine (theweek.com)
    ×2.58 44 | 50 points by Digit-Al 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
    ×2.73 9 | 289 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
    ×0.69 39 | 90 points by ThierryBuilds 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. FTC Finalizes Order Banning GM from Sharing Driver Data (pcmag.com)
    ×2.83 23 | 20 points by CGMthrowaway 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (esa.int)
    ×0.47 38 | 22 points by geox 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots (skyvm.dev)
    ×1.80 51 | 15 points by jkelleyrtp 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly (mdto.page)
    ×0.80 41 | 46 points by hjinco 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We’re more patient with AI than with each other (uxtopian.com)
    ×1.32 21 | 12 points by lucidplot 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.43 44 | 10 points by 8organicbits 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism, ADHD or IDs (medicalxpress.com)
    ×3.97 34 | 11 points by bikenaga 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
    ×1.54 13 | 393 points by gpi 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.' (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.66 35 | 46 points by donpott 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.19 37 | 895 points by susam 2 days ago | 2319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC (github.com/vnvo)
    ×0.53 60 | 43 points by sacs0ni 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.81 20 | 344 points by wilson090 21 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage (culpium.com)
    ×2.18 2 | 759 points by speckx 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.33 73 | 7 points by AndreyK1984 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice (kyutai.org)
    ×2.77 17 | 610 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study (binghamton.edu)
    ×1.74 61 | 60 points by hhs 2 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.08 23 | 48 points by adityaathalye 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP (github.com/syncguy)
    ×0.96 57 | 133 points by Oxodao 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem (svelte.dev)
    ×0.90 49 | 178 points by tobr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
    ×3.06 8 | 563 points by us321 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI (duckduckgo.com)
    ×2.89 28 | 37 points by jaredcwhite 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Prime chains (johndcook.com)
    ×0.54 71 | 43 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. pf: Make af-to less magical (undeadly.org)
    ×0.74 46 | 48 points by defrost 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink (github.com/alessandrocarminati)
    ×0.61 50 | 36 points by acarminati 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible (mvr.github.io)
    ×1.44 41 | 121 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perks (ft.com)
    ×2.62 35 | 17 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console (wiz.io)
    ×1.22 53 | 145 points by uvuv 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.11 58 | 158 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics (exasol.com)
    ×0.45 43 | 19 points by astigsen 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME (mataroa.blog)
    ×0.83 27 | 67 points by msephton 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Altaid 8800 (2024) (sunrise-ev.com)
    ×0.55 46 | 33 points by exvi 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.38 35 | 93 points by chmaynard 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media (nytimes.com)
    ×2.27 14 | 20 points by ripe 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure (hackernoon.com)
    ×1.74 2 | 433 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Zorgdomein Integration: A Guide to Secure .NET and Azure Architecture (plakhlani.in)
    ×0.32 25 | 16 points by prashantl 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout (yale.edu)
    ×4.82 12 | 734 points by mrtksn 1 day ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI Introduces Ads to ChatGPT (twitter.com/sama)
    ×2.38 24 | 16 points by strzalek 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Dilbert Afterlife (By Scott Alexander) (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.31 28 | 10 points by inglor_cz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.21 44 | 96 points by nz 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
    ×2.47 6 | 179 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×3.11 38 | 748 points by publicdebates 1 day ago | 1182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???