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  1. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×5.93 1 | 1291 points by bradleyg223 11 hours ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) (thespacereview.com)
    ×1.47 4 | 200 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.86 7 | 184 points by AnodicElegy 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.08 12 | 169 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.90 23 | 151 points by anerli 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.43 6 | 205 points by iandinwoodie 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (mattkeeter.com)
    ×1.10 15 | 116 points by luu 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.52 25 | 106 points by leephillips 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.71 8 | 269 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.34 8 | 159 points by jbott 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.06 8 | 20 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.98 30 | 73 points by lashkari 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.30 50 | 108 points by dancablam 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.70 30 | 177 points by b-man 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.21 7 | 152 points by adunk 9 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×3.63 9 | 341 points by rzk 14 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.06 15 | 225 points by megalomanu 18 hours ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Clipboard Normalizer (jefftk.com)
    ×0.82 23 | 9 points by luu 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.22 15 | 85 points by pwim 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)
    ×0.32 71 | 4 points by eustoria 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.36 26 | 133 points by viraj_shah 15 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com/TantrixAuto)
    ×0.56 8 | 23 points by renjipanicker 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×1.04 60 | 91 points by aureianimus 18 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 37 | 11 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×0.76 44 | 43 points by pminimax 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.02 28 | 62 points by cobbzilla 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Coltrane's Tone Circle (jtomschroeder.com)
    ×0.97 28 | 52 points by jtomschroeder 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.22 36 | 174 points by BurnerBurner 22 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.11 41 | 91 points by kmstout 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.05 23 | 145 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.90 18 | 635 points by yarapavan 21 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.01 210 | 1 points by rooppal 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.64 27 | 258 points by laurenth 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.70 52 | 60 points by croes 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.48 93 | 128 points by papa-whisky 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.41 95 | 343 points by evakhoury 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. pldb: programming languages papers (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.34 48 | 27 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI borrowers face tough sell in risky corners of US credit market (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 24 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
    ×2.47 36 | 52 points by orphereus 1 hour ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.83 37 | 124 points by gvuksic 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×0.98 15 | 48 points by thanouil1411 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.15 4 | 112 points by yedhukrishnan 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line (cmungall.github.io)
    ×0.50 45 | 9 points by chrismungall 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
    ×0.63 55 | 18 points by adunk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.90 97 | 95 points by primitivesuave 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.18 23 | 291 points by luispa 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 74 points by systemerror 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.96 28 | 73 points by mogrinz 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.70 23 | 893 points by bryan0 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (schemescape.com)
    ×1.36 43 | 25 points by zdw 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
    ×0.47 78 | 21 points by Levitating 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program (twitter.com/0xcrypto)
    ×9.67 51 | 195 points by 0xcrypto 2 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.13 29 | 117 points by signa11 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A Closer Look at Australopithecus Africanus (wordpress.com)
    ×0.55 49 | 14 points by dxs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.73 18 | 78 points by porridgeraisin 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.53 34 | 120 points by Zeruxe 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. IANA's email about why example.com changed (oliverdunk.com)
    ×3.38 44 | 18 points by oliverdunk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.51 58 | 15 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.77 53 | 23 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.64 84 | 29 points by nill0 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.52 64 | 19 points by OlympicMarmoto 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 22 | 439 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 846 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.67 45 | 206 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.13 29 | 90 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.46 34 | 1053 points by crorella 1 day ago | 935 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka (tigrisdata.com)
    ×1.39 75 | 13 points by bootlegbilly 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Parmiagiano and Financialisation: Cheese as Gold for the Gold of Cheese (developingeconomics.org)
    ×0.29 82 | 5 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×5.23 20 | 66 points by paimapi 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Steelers ex-coach Mike Tomlin has been building a Minecraft city for 12 years (youtube.com)
    ×3.27 24 | 17 points by Vaslo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.33 18 | 751 points by alvis 1 day ago | 631 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.17 42 | 127 points by Baljhin 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.52 47 | 160 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.79 67 | 60 points by zdw 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.82 58 | 89 points by luu 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.92 78 | 10 points by sshah03 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 18 | 755 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.16 5 | 375 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.08 58 | 101 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×1.01 59 | 14 points by cachrevolt 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.23 41 | 147 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.14 52 | 176 points by rossant 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
    ×2.74 53 | 104 points by ArchAndStarch 11 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×0.98 52 | 77 points by seam_carver 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×4.08 59 | 118 points by thoughtfullyso 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.13 11 | 314 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. HBM: High-Bandwidth Mistake (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
    ×2.22 15 | 12 points by gok 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.80 50 | 13 points by gmays 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.24 57 | 161 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program (404media.co)
    ×4.23 85 | 78 points by ripe 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (eia.gov)
    ×0.33 70 | 12 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???