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  1. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.39 6 | 224 points by hhs 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.37 6 | 564 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×7.68 2 | 1010 points by stock_toaster 12 hours ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.77 1 | 74 points by mvdtnz 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.38 4 | 97 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×1.81 4 | 186 points by chmaynard 13 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.23 14 | 173 points by CrankyBear 14 hours ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
    ×1.35 8 | 15 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.31 31 | 252 points by kschaul 21 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)
    ×2.62 7 | 420 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.28 24 | 47 points by chrwn 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.27 19 | 162 points by mytuny 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.93 5 | 364 points by dmonay 20 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×1.34 5 | 213 points by markus_zhang 16 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    ×1.75 42 | 131 points by aviaviavi 18 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.95 10 | 444 points by scrlk 14 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.88 25 | 73 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.14 34 | 128 points by simonpure 17 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.26 14 | 506 points by randycupertino 14 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (economist.com)
    ×3.42 18 | 18 points by nlpnerd 20 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.39 33 | 135 points by ethanpil 18 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.21 3 | 184 points by simonebrunozzi 16 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.21 21 | 152 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Lindy effect in software (clemsau.com)
    ×0.66 29 | 14 points by ankitg12 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.21 62 | 3 points by poupeaua 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)
    ×1.34 25 | 174 points by Bender 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.30 10 | 850 points by vforno 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    ×0.56 44 | 27 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.30 2 | 148 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.45 14 | 75 points by djfergus 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.69 4 | 213 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)
    ×0.78 25 | 74 points by dicroce 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.61 33 | 70 points by Asmod4n 15 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.89 2 | 36 points by dado3212 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.11 5 | 1099 points by pompomsheep 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.10 32 | 130 points by Gedxx 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.76 54 | 81 points by pancomplex 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.17 11 | 161 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.57 51 | 58 points by jarodrh 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
    ×2.31 30 | 204 points by imustachyou 13 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.74 28 | 1523 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 1084 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.60 31 | 53 points by jacobgraf 14 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
    ×0.92 28 | 51 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.11 19 | 1592 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 817 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.62 37 | 203 points by tosh 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com/Cpp2Rust)
    ×1.20 41 | 48 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gary Kildall's Death Investigation (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.33 65 | 13 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.68 2 | 239 points by kickingvegas 22 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.08 58 | 92 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.06 43 | 58 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)
    ×4.15 6 | 827 points by oumua_don17 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.17 9 | 1374 points by djoldman 2 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×0.80 39 | 46 points by bdcravens 16 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding (sxp.studio)
    ×0.86 55 | 22 points by tasoeur 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (atomscale.ai)
    ×0.57 53 | 26 points by groznyj 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window (abralo.com)
    ×0.53 82 | 32 points by cwbuilds 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Postgres locks do not scale (recall.ai)
    ×0.73 57 | 16 points by timetoogo 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×2.88 20 | 261 points by jeroenhd 21 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.39 66 | 13 points by zhinit 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Phobos – A tiny scale-free kernel language with tile-DAG support (joa-ebert.com)
    ×0.58 39 | 7 points by joajoa 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×2.96 13 | 278 points by smusamashah 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.32 54 | 142 points by catalinvoss 1 day ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.68 72 | 116 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)
    ×4.56 2 | 795 points by SweetSoftPillow 1 day ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)
    ×3.39 37 | 47 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.64 47 | 45 points by Uptrenda 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure (simpleflying.com)
    ×2.42 28 | 65 points by amelius 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Meta removes AI feature on Instagram after global backlash (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.98 21 | 13 points by billybuckwheat 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (google.dev)
    ×2.08 48 | 122 points by NickDob 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.49 10 | 53 points by thisislife2 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.12 51 | 178 points by mrl5 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
    ×1.51 40 | 43 points by cui 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.31 46 | 39 points by rstagi 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.82 24 | 168 points by hbcondo714 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.12 1 | 311 points by jyunwai 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Zeal 8-Bit Computer (zeal8bit.com)
    ×1.65 52 | 11 points by gregsadetsky 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)
    ×0.41 59 | 23 points by pncnmnp 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)
    ×2.34 11 | 381 points by veqq 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hy3 (tencent.com)
    ×2.65 14 | 550 points by andai 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mit.edu)
    ×0.79 60 | 104 points by mckelveyf 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
    ×2.46 67 | 330 points by ScottWRobinson 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (wired.com)
    ×2.78 2 | 380 points by PotatoNinja 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.00 7 | 18 points by dcyfr 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Metamaterial Antennas Enhance MRI of the Eye and Occipital Brain (wiley.com)
    ×1.57 55 | 5 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.65 10 | 1478 points by speerer 3 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 24 | 327 points by ihsw 2 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration (lazypi.org)
    ×1.08 43 | 145 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)
    ×0.88 41 | 96 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)
    ×0.78 45 | 65 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???