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  1. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
    ×1.56 3 | 259 points by otherayden 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Amazon Tax (seths.blog)
    ×3.99 | 441 points by herbertl 3 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How I Under-Engineered My Book (chriskiehl.com)
    ×1.26 11 | 55 points by goostavos 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
    ×2.20 9 | 412 points by flaburgan 9 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
    ×5.14 5 | 176 points by tomasreimers 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop (quantum5.ca)
    ×1.79 | 192 points by jp_sc 4 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
    ×1.07 8 | 82 points by jeroenjanssens 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
    ×0.47 16 | 10 points by bwm 54 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
    ×2.56 8 | 118 points by matt89 52 minutes ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
    ×1.44 10 | 149 points by andrewjanke 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
    ×1.44 8 | 51 points by signa11 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 15 | 23 points by baigy 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Composable Tests (kentbeck.com)
    ×0.75 12 | 49 points by vinipolicena 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
    ×3.24 9 | 239 points by Vinnl 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
    ×2.67 7 | 122 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Superpowers, Not Superintelligence (bond.now)
    ×0.55 31 | 5 points by edbernays 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.96 17 | 150 points by haunter 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
    ×4.11 11 | 461 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.81 16 | 22 points by rhgraysonii 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.75 11 | 17 points by Abh1Works 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
    ×2.70 10 | 183 points by DeepLogin 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (yale.edu)
    ×6.64 22 | 416 points by karakoram 19 hours ago | 556 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
    ×0.39 45 | 6 points by therepanic 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
    ×1.55 55 | 56 points by littlexsparkee 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.62 7 | 182 points by honungsburk 9 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×4.95 57 | 110 points by sharts 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (kentbeck.com)
    ×0.45 31 | 29 points by KentBeck 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Finger: Social network that never died (andros.dev)
    ×1.82 11 | 133 points by andros 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.95 8 | 10 points by toomuchtodo 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)
    ×0.68 75 | 45 points by mcclowes 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×2.52 13 | 120 points by porridgeraisin 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.09 15 | 47 points by neom 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Mojo is now open source! (modular.com)
    ×8.86 24 | 31 points by visheshdembla 57 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×1.89 18 | 99 points by danbolt 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.61 27 | 273 points by pizzaiolo 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful (theverge.com)
    ×2.83 3 | 6 points by Macha 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.90 51 | 73 points by kls0e 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
    ×1.15 38 | 88 points by newsomix9xl 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Go CLI for website health checks, zero dependencies (github.com/atillalab)
    ×0.86 85 | 3 points by mehmetkose 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×2.52 37 | 67 points by newusertoday 58 minutes ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
    ×2.77 11 | 666 points by gavide 18 hours ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 54 | 234 points by linggen 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer (jpegxlconvert.com)
    ×1.05 | 14 points by El-Necora 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
    ×1.41 20 | 159 points by cyndunlop 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Size of the World Wide Web (worldwidewebsize.com)
    ×0.41 39 | 7 points by 1970-01-01 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.75 35 | 166 points by rglover 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
    ×2.37 35 | 292 points by neogodless 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.88 63 | 97 points by whobre 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ChatGPT has almost stopped citing Reddit (promptwatch.com)
    ×2.72 12 | 30 points by klaaz0r 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed (404media.co)
    ×2.81 24 | 24 points by pavel_lishin 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Oxford Electric Bell (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.54 15 | 20 points by gurjeet 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
    ×1.74 39 | 273 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What Happens If OpenAI Dies? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×6.11 41 | 48 points by thelastgallon 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.29 12 | 460 points by shdon 19 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
    ×1.20 57 | 180 points by qingcharles 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. U.S. Declared an Energy Emergency, Then Paid $4B for Less Energy (forbes.com)
    ×3.34 18 | 28 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (wordpress.com)
    ×0.75 43 | 59 points by moultano 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
    ×7.57 36 | 953 points by DeepLogin 20 hours ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
    ×6.43 36 | 1026 points by mooreds 21 hours ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
    ×0.75 49 | 83 points by hermitcrab 16 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck (thehill.com)
    ×2.17 20 | 18 points by madihaa 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.17 26 | 596 points by Topfi 20 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.01 45 | 80 points by beanaroo 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
    ×1.27 46 | 157 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
    ×0.59 53 | 32 points by zbycz 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into teen safety on Instagram (theguardian.com)
    ×2.07 26 | 24 points by mikelgan 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    ×0.64 67 | 112 points by abdik 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints (github.com/ytkoka)
    ×0.47 7 | 18 points by ytkoka 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.69 14 | 691 points by ibotty 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Git at Any Scale (cursor.com)
    ×1.95 22 | 5 points by meetpateltech 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The new Framework 12 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.92 22 | 5 points by what-is-water 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
    ×1.43 32 | 173 points by monkey_monkey 21 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 25 Years of Haiku: From "Ok, Let's Start" to the Present (desktoponfire.com)
    ×1.62 67 | 31 points by fork-bomber 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.71 3 | 512 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Firefox and Exa Partnership (mozilla.org)
    ×1.38 16 | 12 points by pentagrama 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.85 58 | 66 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.16 19 | 615 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.75 1 | 413 points by galnagli 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
    ×1.18 36 | 143 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (wordpress.com)
    ×0.74 61 | 44 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems on a $46k USD Workstation (phoronix.com)
    ×1.25 12 | 5 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. NASA's IXPE detects 80% X-ray polarization from magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 (nature.com)
    ×1.52 3 | 7 points by khanhnguyen8386 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI Alignment as a Thought-Terminating Cliche (borretti.me)
    ×1.25 13 | 13 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.07 60 | 157 points by vlowrian 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/DarioAmodei)
    ×1.42 42 | 247 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.82 52 | 115 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.54 13 | 357 points by plurby 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Origin of Consciousness (2008) (plover.com)
    ×1.65 59 | 59 points by skm 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. scScript for Linux (scapplications.com)
    ×0.56 69 | 38 points by OptionOfT 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???