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  1. The case against geometric algebra (alexkritchevsky.com)
    ×2.03 5 | 14 points by Hbruz0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (github.com/namgyaaal)
    ×0.99 2 | 72 points by sph 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google Hits 50% IPv6 (apnic.net)
    ×2.52 2 | 177 points by barqawiz 4 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com/mysk-research)
    ×2.92 5 | 345 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512 (zeux.io)
    ×0.88 12 | 86 points by luu 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.77 2 | 96 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (beyondallreason.info)
    ×3.02 21 | 4 points by mosiuerbarso 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)
    ×1.47 5 | 253 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)
    ×1.96 2 | 239 points by toilet 10 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
    ×2.25 5 | 49 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.15 13 | 22 points by dbaupp 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)
    ×1.32 7 | 186 points by Sibexico 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)
    ×2.16 1 | 233 points by croes 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test (bostonglobe.com)
    ×1.57 13 | 136 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)
    ×1.35 17 | 267 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.66 29 | 10 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
    ×3.73 15 | 51 points by sxx0 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)
    ×1.47 19 | 260 points by LowLevelMahn 21 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.65 2 | 200 points by cauenapier 13 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)
    ×1.31 23 | 145 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)
    ×1.27 18 | 211 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.13 12 | 38 points by dhorthy 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Building reliable agentic AI systems (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.66 13 | 113 points by sarangk90 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.75 35 | 43 points by andrewstuart 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography (nature.com)
    ×1.23 28 | 83 points by lnyan 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Cosmodial Sky Atlas (frankforce.com)
    ×0.21 85 | 3 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.75 37 | 222 points by farhadhf 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Alice is impatient (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.09 21 | 106 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)
    ×3.01 6 | 230 points by simonpure 15 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Project Fetch: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
    ×0.82 27 | 64 points by stopachka 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Armstrong Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.04 19 | 36 points by userbinator 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 16 | 204 points by shpran 20 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)
    ×1.63 | 3 points by bookofjoe 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×1.33 28 | 135 points by gr4vityWall 19 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.42 25 | 128 points by overflowy 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
    ×4.18 42 | 529 points by oshrimpton 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.94 29 | 101 points by saisrirampur 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)
    ×1.45 23 | 142 points by JumpCrisscross 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)
    ×2.75 21 | 375 points by ridesisapis 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project (ieee.org)
    ×0.92 16 | 24 points by asdefghyk 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air (ieee.org)
    ×1.00 28 | 69 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Inference cost at scale with napkin math (injuly.in)
    ×0.98 30 | 76 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
    ×2.54 14 | 510 points by msalsas 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)
    ×5.00 41 | 239 points by colinprince 8 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. NOLA 'Nacular: One man's crusade to preserve New Orleans's vernacular signage (countryroadsmagazine.com)
    ×0.81 18 | 40 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (thinkgeoenergy.com)
    ×2.29 54 | 53 points by Jimmc414 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×1.02 35 | 84 points by dk189 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)
    ×3.15 37 | 197 points by vnbrs 11 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C (github.com/oraziorillo)
    ×0.76 52 | 70 points by oraziorillo 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×3.47 25 | 6 points by lemonberry 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? (dancemagazine.com)
    ×0.77 52 | 57 points by onemind 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server (bootimus.com)
    ×1.06 43 | 118 points by car 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)
    ×1.85 56 | 245 points by Bender 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×1.10 63 | 18 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
    ×1.05 29 | 64 points by mitchivin 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios (vawaa.com)
    ×0.91 49 | 72 points by karakoram 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×2.36 51 | 189 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The 100k Whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.30 53 | 117 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.98 12 | 181 points by nryoo 18 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects (nih.gov)
    ×1.44 13 | 4 points by nephihaha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)
    ×4.15 25 | 290 points by tcp_handshaker 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions (github.com/confh)
    ×0.65 51 | 39 points by confis 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic (politicshome.com)
    ×0.66 55 | 36 points by thinkingemote 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.66 22 | 159 points by roboror 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Web Browsers on PDAS (vale.rocks)
    ×0.58 54 | 51 points by robin_reala 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (ibm.com)
    ×1.02 54 | 122 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How the Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory (sebastiangarren.com)
    ×1.03 73 | 20 points by momentmaker 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Pre-2022 Books (lorenzogravina.com)
    ×2.22 48 | 199 points by trms 13 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.00 56 | 152 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    ×4.37 18 | 943 points by ck2 1 day ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (wordpress.com)
    ×2.94 13 | 460 points by moultano 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' with Fake Bets (slashdot.org)
    ×2.71 17 | 28 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Human Judgment as a Specification (brownplt.org)
    ×0.78 62 | 52 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.05 58 | 85 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine (dirtylittlezine.com)
    ×2.53 48 | 30 points by cianmm 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.22 | 97 points by sylwester 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (mit.edu)
    ×0.77 52 | 64 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012) (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.57 64 | 41 points by firephox 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.75 8 | 153 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mencius (2016) (iu.edu)
    ×0.37 69 | 25 points by jruohonen 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Agentic coding workflows built on Git worktrees and task evidence (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×1.16 66 | 9 points by alexreysa 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Can you see three trees? (not-ship.com)
    ×2.30 4 | 313 points by Pamar 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)
    ×1.09 51 | 116 points by EvgeniyZh 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Early life adversity leaves a lasting molecular imprint across the body (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.85 10 | 18 points by gmays 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians (theguardian.com)
    ×2.25 6 | 13 points by lambdaone 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Coding a Brick Tower [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 50 | 18 points by tobr 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. There are no instances in ATProto (overreacted.io)
    ×2.18 6 | 529 points by danabramov 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.86 72 | 103 points by mfornet 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (legacy.com)
    ×3.23 15 | 461 points by pgrote 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)
    ×1.55 22 | 303 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???