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  1. Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
    ×2.95 | 95 points by joahnn_s 56 minutes ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.50 3 | 77 points by naves 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    ×3.10 1 | 338 points by systima 3 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
    ×1.90 17 | 64 points by brryant 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (wordpress.com)
    ×1.97 6 | 383 points by subset 10 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
    ×1.24 11 | 57 points by adunk 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)
    ×4.05 3 | 91 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×2.81 26 | 6 points by david927 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.41 7 | 70 points by softwaredoug 4 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
    ×1.01 10 | 76 points by root-parent 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.39 8 | 236 points by therepanic 3 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    ×0.77 12 | 32 points by jxmorris12 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
    ×2.03 1 | 99 points by BerislavLopac 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
    ×1.30 4 | 51 points by georgex7 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
    ×1.17 | 65 points by supo 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    ×1.73 17 | 6 points by iNic 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
    ×1.22 29 | 9 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.76 8 | 163 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The State of MCP Security [pdf] (canopii.dev)
    ×0.82 13 | 9 points by mavzer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Deir El-Medina Strikes (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.28 3 | 47 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    ×2.66 13 | 222 points by silcoon 6 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels (nanduruganesh.github.io)
    ×0.62 27 | 6 points by rawsh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Defining new Jax types with hijax (jax.dev)
    ×0.55 25 | 10 points by fhchl 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
    ×2.13 15 | 181 points by saikatsg 6 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.89 11 | 58 points by mb1699 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)
    ×2.74 19 | 60 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×0.74 20 | 45 points by raahelb 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP (adaptiverecall.com)
    ×0.55 33 | 4 points by abratabia 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    ×0.63 29 | 9 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.33 1 | 252 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com/hasenj)
    ×1.04 9 | 70 points by hsn915 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.93 18 | 271 points by compiler-guy 18 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (github.com/cereblab)
    ×4.99 8 | 387 points by jhoho 17 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.28 1 | 140 points by AlexeyBrin 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS (github.com/cabeen)
    ×1.27 7 | 7 points by cafebeen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com/schollz)
    ×1.36 20 | 32 points by gregsadetsky 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy (economist.com)
    ×5.18 31 | 40 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×2.78 22 | 94 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (umd.edu)
    ×0.51 38 | 22 points by num42 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.02 17 | 73 points by MrBruh 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (ieee.org)
    ×1.52 14 | 131 points by zaikunzhang 8 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. UK has 'no future' if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse (theguardian.com)
    ×4.20 28 | 15 points by mepian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.62 37 | 26 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Uber is lobbying to keep robotaxi rides 85% human in New Jersey (wired.com)
    ×3.27 14 | 7 points by logickkk1 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Abject Praise (infrequently.org)
    ×0.42 40 | 14 points by genericlemon24 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly (buildnectar.com)
    ×1.14 9 | 25 points by blakeburnette 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them (engadget.com)
    ×2.32 19 | 8 points by gnabgib 58 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.11 20 | 144 points by cosmtrek 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (bruits.org)
    ×0.78 37 | 42 points by nateb2022 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cardspark_UI – React UI for TCG Builders (cardspark.dev)
    ×0.85 49 | 4 points by reb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)
    ×0.92 24 | 57 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.33 20 | 127 points by ming13 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money (seekingalpha.com)
    ×3.27 28 | 16 points by nothrowaways 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
    ×1.81 14 | 232 points by jamiebeach 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.51 52 | 28 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.59 4 | 8 points by xvxvx 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 6 months to live for open models (interconnects.ai)
    ×2.23 18 | 21 points by g42gregory 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.65 30 | 23 points by fagnerbrack 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
    ×0.53 67 | 13 points by tibordp 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fable extended until 19 July (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×5.29 42 | 71 points by protoman3000 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.45 69 | 14 points by sshwarts 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
    ×0.67 55 | 39 points by davikr 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) (marc.info)
    ×1.85 39 | 74 points by turrini 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.66 65 | 43 points by dmit 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app (sfgate.com)
    ×2.01 12 | 7 points by backlit4034 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×2.05 29 | 263 points by downwithdisease 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Communities turn to barter-style crop swaps to combat cost-of-living crisis (abc.net.au)
    ×1.76 9 | 11 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)
    ×1.71 25 | 42 points by Tomte 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
    ×1.65 8 | 7 points by lumpa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.66 8 | 328 points by tionis 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×0.89 53 | 68 points by rellem 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs (danq.me)
    ×1.62 21 | 13 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (ilograph.com)
    ×1.64 29 | 102 points by billyp-rva 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.04 27 | 86 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We Can Read Again (medium.com)
    ×1.04 8 | 4 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Braess's paradox: Adding roads to a road network can slow overall traffic flow (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.76 13 | 6 points by mhb 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ScreenWall, turn old phones and tablets into a shared display wall (screenwall.app)
    ×0.62 86 | 6 points by buibuibui 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.15 1 | 357 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. W11 Copilot tells you what's slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.70 10 | 14 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (nature.com)
    ×0.78 52 | 33 points by ColinWright 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.24 44 | 125 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. "Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.25 70 | 18 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Made the Sopranos Great (richardhanania.com)
    ×1.87 13 | 6 points by jger15 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×0.97 51 | 74 points by hydrogen7800 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gina Gallery of International Naive Art (ginagallery.com)
    ×0.63 4 | 28 points by o4c 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: VectorSim Tool for Visualizing DSP (dsp-coach.com)
    ×0.49 90 | 3 points by jason_s 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein's theory its most precise test yet (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.41 9 | 13 points by Logans_Run 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.32 8 | 335 points by ingve 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Do Models Doubt? (psychologytoday.com)
    ×0.82 13 | 3 points by 0gs 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???