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  1. Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons (iconify.design)
    ×2.36 1 | 64 points by sea-gold 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Spirit of ThinkPad (thinknextdesign.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 53 points by __patchbit__ 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The longest Greek word (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.35 4 | 110 points by firloop 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. jQuery 4 (jquery.com)
    ×4.95 3 | 228 points by OuterVale 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Data Activation Thoughts (galsapir.github.io)
    ×0.26 61 | 4 points by galsapir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Profession by Isaac Asimov (abelard.org)
    ×1.10 6 | 56 points by bkudria 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
    ×3.88 2 | 977 points by alexharri 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster (economist.com)
    ×0.99 17 | 12 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval (github.com/gibram-io)
    ×0.43 32 | 7 points by ktyptorio 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (twitter.com/neelsomani)
    ×1.98 7 | 184 points by nl 4 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. No knives, only cook knives (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)
    ×1.01 3 | 53 points by firloop 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
    ×2.93 4 | 430 points by glimshe 18 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com/kip-dili)
    ×1.26 4 | 177 points by nhatcher 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×1.72 13 | 72 points by beardyw 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
    ×2.46 | 447 points by iamwil 18 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.08 6 | 35 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.65 11 | 33 points by amadeuswoo 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (mastodon.social)
    ×5.41 14 | 459 points by lateforwork 9 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Raising money fucked me up (yakkomajuri.com)
    ×3.06 1 | 237 points by yakkomajuri 14 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Xous Operating System (xous.dev)
    ×1.30 11 | 123 points by eustoria 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board (github.com/dvelton)
    ×0.50 45 | 4 points by dustfinger 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024 (mit.edu)
    ×1.26 1 | 78 points by barishnamazov 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Launching the Handmade Software Foundation (handmade.network)
    ×1.83 17 | 39 points by DeathArrow 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue (royalbhati.com)
    ×0.78 29 | 26 points by howToTestFE 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail)
    ×1.49 8 | 165 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine (loper-os.org)
    ×0.70 16 | 16 points by Kotlopou 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
    ×1.07 17 | 140 points by Tachyooon 16 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.50 18 | 64 points by t-3 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery (anthropic.com)
    ×1.42 21 | 80 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases (github.com/chunkhound)
    ×0.93 13 | 79 points by NadavBenItzhak 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
    ×1.01 23 | 81 points by stefanvdw1 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game (speedminers.fun)
    ×0.89 26 | 30 points by nickponline 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Light Mode InFFFFFFlation (willhbr.net)
    ×2.06 22 | 195 points by Fudgel 10 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) (maniek86.xyz)
    ×1.17 28 | 111 points by rasz 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The thing that brought me joy (stephenlewis.me)
    ×1.35 17 | 94 points by monooso 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator (polysoftit.co.uk)
    ×0.74 24 | 33 points by rtybanana 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do (honeycomb.io)
    ×1.30 32 | 58 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
    ×0.73 48 | 74 points by kurinikku 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
    ×1.81 9 | 256 points by originalankur 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.80 28 | 87 points by 7777777phil 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The relentless rule of my fitness tracker (timharford.com)
    ×0.57 4 | 15 points by Arnt 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.47 38 | 9 points by benbreen 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.20 23 | 486 points by rendall 21 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
    ×0.74 44 | 97 points by 1659447091 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Common misunderstandings about large software companies (philipotoole.com)
    ×1.35 14 | 88 points by otoolep 14 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TLS stripping on-device under Windows XP (kianbradley.com)
    ×1.58 47 | 8 points by k-ian 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)
    ×0.77 45 | 53 points by sinak 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
    ×1.21 16 | 204 points by tin7in 23 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/PABannier)
    ×1.02 32 | 146 points by el_pa_b 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    ×1.44 44 | 217 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    ×1.66 32 | 258 points by tobr 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    ×2.32 24 | 360 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
    ×1.54 32 | 153 points by c420 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Hekate – A Zero-Copy ZK Engine Overcoming the Memory Wall
    ×0.74 68 | 4 points by y00zzeek 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys (supaexplorer.com)
    ×2.15 60 | 16 points by xyborg 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.73 7 | 702 points by robertvc 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What are Tithe Maps (2021) (mapreading.co.uk)
    ×0.67 44 | 21 points by thomasjb 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.69 48 | 24 points by antonly 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.22 36 | 7 points by NewCzech 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support (bsky.app)
    ×3.05 30 | 19 points by unforgivenpasta 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
    ×1.40 42 | 140 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (google.com)
    ×1.05 50 | 154 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A New Era for FIRST LEGO League: Inspiring the Next Generation of Learners (firstinspires.org)
    ×0.71 33 | 16 points by jchin 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
    ×3.27 30 | 345 points by doener 22 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: App to spoof GPS location on iOS without jailbreaking (github.com/acheong08)
    ×2.19 46 | 9 points by acheong08 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go (dsifry.github.io)
    ×0.57 48 | 37 points by dsifry 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    ×3.07 16 | 922 points by todotask2 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    ×1.57 29 | 164 points by newbebee 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
    ×1.90 31 | 275 points by cebert 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet (docker.how)
    ×1.40 3 | 55 points by anagogistis 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. STFU (github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna)
    ×5.43 31 | 991 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Musk Seeks Up to $134B Damages from OpenAI, Microsoft (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.18 35 | 23 points by SanjayMehta 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
    ×3.21 27 | 246 points by smurda 22 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes (systemstack.dev)
    ×0.34 57 | 20 points by entaloneralie 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    ×3.18 13 | 705 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    ×1.11 46 | 140 points by gmays 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.17 42 | 924 points by susam 3 days ago | 2352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? (nngroup.com)
    ×1.44 66 | 51 points by seanwilson 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.93 6 | 495 points by jaas 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
    ×1.70 37 | 261 points by samuel246 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Serpl – a pleasant TUI for regex and fixed-string search and replace (github.com/yassinebridi)
    ×0.65 75 | 3 points by Curiositry 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    ×0.96 54 | 99 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.06 26 | 86 points by OgsyedIE 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
    ×1.09 45 | 157 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
    ×1.11 39 | 154 points by jamesgresql 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    ×1.11 39 | 114 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
    ×1.57 7 | 362 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.70 19 | 113 points by 7777777phil 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Claude Code with Anthropic API Compatibility [ollama blog] (ollama.com)
    ×2.15 38 | 23 points by laacz 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???