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  1. CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 (safateam.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 37 points by safateam 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
    ×4.70 1 | 1215 points by daveoc64 17 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini (nyaa.sh)
    ×2.36 2 | 13 points by hugh4life 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.44 | 679 points by MitPitt 15 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.59 8 | 299 points by sidharthkmenon 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
    ×2.75 2 | 397 points by jbotz 15 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
    ×2.20 5 | 224 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fearless SIMD v1.0 (linebender.org)
    ×1.74 8 | 255 points by verdagon 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.06 2 | 329 points by an0malous 15 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (electrek.co)
    ×3.02 9 | 324 points by cisc 18 hours ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
    ×2.69 3 | 326 points by ahmedhossamdev 16 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.32 19 | 131 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Jev Based Code Review (github.com/egma-ai)
    ×1.98 5 | 22 points by namanbhulawat 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)
    ×1.78 19 | 178 points by xnx 16 hours ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
    ×2.33 6 | 446 points by ReturnoftheHack 22 hours ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
    ×3.58 10 | 245 points by iacguy 12 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Writing Parquet files using Haskell (datahaskell.org)
    ×1.06 22 | 58 points by cosmic_quanta 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? (ahelwer.ca)
    ×1.11 40 | 119 points by ahelwer 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What About Rails? (jardo.dev)
    ×3.39 32 | 22 points by jrochkind1 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) (grantland.com)
    ×1.20 22 | 86 points by neonate 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (arusekk.pl)
    ×1.37 17 | 108 points by arusekk 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. California is chasing wealth that has feet (landeconomics.org)
    ×2.93 15 | 231 points by idbnstra 12 hours ago | 619 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.99 13 | 68 points by emurlin 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (aalto.fi)
    ×1.13 37 | 231 points by pillars 23 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.02 28 | 88 points by aray07 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The forgotten battle of East Lansing (eastlansinginfo.news)
    ×0.96 42 | 98 points by rmason 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors (historytoday.com)
    ×0.66 54 | 27 points by prismatic 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com/christianrowlands)
    ×0.93 54 | 109 points by 882542F3884314B 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Geothermal heat map of US hot springs (soakingsprings.com)
    ×1.10 43 | 101 points by armenarmen 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
    ×2.06 20 | 181 points by hxii 11 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] (iacr.org)
    ×0.62 60 | 63 points by int0x29 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (afr.com)
    ×1.45 43 | 112 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)
    ×0.55 55 | 43 points by loughnane 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (theguardian.com)
    ×4.16 38 | 155 points by YeGoblynQueenne 20 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×2.16 52 | 530 points by avidly 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.64 80 | 42 points by miguelrios 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)
    ×0.37 75 | 48 points by abrax3141 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.23 95 | 7 points by pseudolus 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.86 59 | 53 points by 91awebsi 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
    ×1.67 34 | 257 points by snikolaev 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners (nh2.me)
    ×1.58 91 | 6 points by nh2 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MentalHealthBench (openai.com)
    ×1.52 76 | 17 points by gmays 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (qualcomm.com)
    ×2.49 11 | 599 points by aaronday 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.87 16 | 296 points by nonfamous 19 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
    ×1.29 58 | 163 points by erichocean 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Docker releases cloud sandboxes, enabling safe agentic workloads in the cloud (docker.com)
    ×1.90 62 | 21 points by pheonixblade9 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.33 73 | 154 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (anthropic.com)
    ×3.03 7 | 766 points by raahelb 1 day ago | 785 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GitLab Outage (gitlab.com)
    ×1.78 13 | 63 points by kunley 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (coredump.cx)
    ×0.89 57 | 114 points by Luc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity (cell.com)
    ×2.50 27 | 166 points by lormayna 14 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS (github.com/driceroland)
    ×1.06 50 | 65 points by metrofun 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
    ×2.31 10 | 391 points by signa11 1 day ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. When the Debugger Lies (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.73 72 | 69 points by hasheddan 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lambda MicroEgg (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.77 30 | 81 points by philzook 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem (xkeeper.net)
    ×0.96 63 | 29 points by panic 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)
    ×1.64 84 | 68 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
    ×1.45 10 | 136 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
    ×6.33 7 | 1766 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 843 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×3.08 38 | 256 points by hermitcrab 17 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop (wordpress.com)
    ×0.41 94 | 24 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (microsoft.com)
    ×1.06 81 | 172 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.41 7 | 227 points by adunk 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Meta VR Glasses (meta.com)
    ×3.15 3 | 484 points by polymorph1sm 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Year of Internal Tools (geocod.io)
    ×0.85 84 | 62 points by thecodemonkey 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.60 4 | 1793 points by km144 2 days ago | 1117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (arxiv.org)
    ×1.78 24 | 307 points by JohnHammersley 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. SkillOpt: Training Loop for Agent Skills (microsoft.github.io)
    ×0.76 99 | 9 points by DaveFr 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.25 73 | 150 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023) (thecretefleet.com)
    ×0.30 92 | 19 points by nixass 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.14 85 | 24 points by leonagano 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless (economist.com)
    ×2.85 53 | 105 points by burntcaramel 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)
    ×0.72 84 | 73 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.40 10 | 81 points by voxadam 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. London's schools are running out of children (ft.com)
    ×2.57 1 | 5 points by 2dvisio 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
    ×1.87 17 | 186 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Best LLM for every budget, updated daily (terrydjony.com)
    ×2.77 24 | 173 points by terryds 18 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error (votebeat.org)
    ×2.88 8 | 97 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it (critic.run)
    ×0.20 93 | 7 points by snyy 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
    ×1.65 15 | 304 points by Rapzid 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking' (twitter.com/paulg)
    ×1.51 84 | 5 points by fooker 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Women Who Sold Books Door to Door (jstor.org)
    ×0.80 70 | 63 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
    ×1.06 75 | 144 points by zuckerborg0101 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol (radicle.dev)
    ×0.94 70 | 152 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
    ×1.94 24 | 329 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.90 13 | 142 points by simonpure 19 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack (notesfrompoland.com)
    ×4.19 5 | 173 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I stopped letting LLMs do arithmetic (medium.com)
    ×1.93 26 | 7 points by jwbobbink 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.47 70 | 28 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???