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  1. Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
    ×3.24 | 152 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.48 | 156 points by groomlake 3 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×5.70 | 199 points by senko 5 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.73 | 83 points by andrewpollack 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)
    ×1.89 | 245 points by shaunpud 6 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    ×2.69 2 | 56 points by gumby 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.31 4 | 311 points by bhavansig 10 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.80 2 | 234 points by 882542F3884314B 8 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.90 5 | 87 points by electricant 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.26 6 | 16 points by jandeboevrie 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.90 11 | 69 points by rfarley04 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    ×0.72 16 | 9 points by skibz 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.78 8 | 57 points by rahen 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.29 4 | 147 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×3.78 9 | 52 points by geox 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Monitors for Work (coker.com.au)
    ×1.19 4 | 32 points by edward 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud' (omnistrate.com)
    ×1.02 7 | 53 points by kkgupta 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.27 5 | 373 points by aanet 17 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.42 1 | 54 points by mmoogle 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.19 5 | 285 points by epestr 12 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.08 5 | 734 points by tosh 1 day ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.14 8 | 911 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1081 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×2.06 14 | 329 points by moelf 21 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
    ×2.24 15 | 116 points by happosai 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.00 17 | 401 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 25 | 54 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
    ×2.41 50 | 126 points by ilamont 21 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    ×0.65 12 | 12 points by bgpdude 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×0.77 46 | 62 points by csmantle 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.44 32 | 247 points by aagha 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.51 34 | 475 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.11 13 | 140 points by 01-_- 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×4.32 16 | 181 points by allenc 18 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
    ×2.44 7 | 339 points by wglb 17 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
    ×2.15 22 | 290 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.62 25 | 156 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science? (acm.org)
    ×2.31 21 | 13 points by visha1v 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)
    ×3.84 21 | 147 points by eternalreturn 9 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.67 55 | 43 points by denismenace 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×0.88 56 | 5 points by mfiguiere 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.90 30 | 220 points by cckolon 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.50 51 | 185 points by jnord 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
    ×1.00 43 | 183 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.93 32 | 315 points by poly2it 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.74 20 | 370 points by Meleagris 18 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.13 32 | 195 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.33 48 | 210 points by m3h 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×2.02 16 | 20 points by yurivish 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Website that plays bangers from Indian barbershops (saloon.wtf)
    ×2.09 1 | 13 points by dsr12 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.12 13 | 783 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×2.99 15 | 506 points by delduca 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.80 53 | 81 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.88 11 | 919 points by itvision 1 day ago | 691 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.78 54 | 78 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. No one can afford to make Myst games anymore (wired.com)
    ×1.95 22 | 76 points by littlexsparkee 9 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)
    ×1.58 25 | 33 points by sbulaev 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×2.72 3 | 236 points by Bender 22 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined" (indiatimes.com)
    ×3.19 2 | 10 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.60 42 | 20 points by aadisang 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can they be built fast enough? (cbc.ca)
    ×2.92 5 | 11 points by Teever 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.29 38 | 187 points by stagas 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.78 61 | 229 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.66 52 | 75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.35 55 | 37 points by msephton 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.45 3 | 1164 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.23 24 | 210 points by v0id_isgood 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.08 45 | 216 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
    ×2.06 1 | 125 points by yk 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices (nytimes.com)
    ×1.15 | 30 points by Korwell 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
    ×0.59 60 | 61 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.96 11 | 680 points by tsak 2 days ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
    ×3.01 24 | 436 points by petercooper 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.64 33 | 20 points by dieselgate 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.06 44 | 138 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.20 50 | 153 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×4.45 63 | 194 points by sbulaev 9 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
    ×0.85 45 | 79 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.86 59 | 85 points by zdw 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×0.84 48 | 102 points by rogix 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Jujutsu 0.44.0 (jj-vcs.dev)
    ×3.00 63 | 36 points by tosh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    ×0.62 53 | 42 points by 4pkjai 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.56 18 | 9 points by keiferski 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.66 67 | 90 points by indyjo 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.02 18 | 348 points by rmason 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.53 56 | 57 points by jasim 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (stackdump.com)
    ×0.73 35 | 73 points by m_kos 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.41 66 | 28 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.25 59 | 182 points by nanochess 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.74 37 | 33 points by peterkelly 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Curlese, Five Years Later (hypertesto.me)
    ×0.62 54 | 23 points by rovr138 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???