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  1. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.05 | 316 points by bryan0 4 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.21 7 | 185 points by ilamont 7 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.66 11 | 403 points by plesiv 13 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×1.71 16 | 135 points by wanick 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.04 3 | 819 points by crorella 10 hours ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.04 9 | 452 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×1.96 14 | 246 points by therepanic 11 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.25 25 | 45 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (backblaze.com)
    ×2.16 32 | 100 points by HieronymusBosch 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.19 15 | 42 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.24 56 | 265 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (theguardian.com)
    ×2.33 1 | 79 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.05 19 | 113 points by rossant 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×1.06 12 | 42 points by primitivesuave 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Commodore 64: Mercenary (gamesexplained.com)
    ×0.72 43 | 34 points by a1r 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.28 35 | 98 points by bketelsen 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
    ×1.69 36 | 5 points by peter_d_sherman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×1.97 5 | 110 points by devonnull 6 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×1.93 9 | 164 points by dan-bailey 12 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
    ×2.13 16 | 202 points by amortize 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.70 9 | 249 points by dmux 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (pocoo.org)
    ×1.39 13 | 36 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.34 15 | 232 points by nicowaltz 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor (newyorker.com)
    ×0.44 68 | 3 points by conorcleary 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.20 19 | 750 points by barry-cotter 16 hours ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.36 23 | 477 points by alvis 10 hours ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008) (withouthotair.com)
    ×0.92 23 | 138 points by 0sake_rs 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.07 42 | 35 points by ewpratten 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)
    ×2.91 24 | 85 points by yakkomajuri 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
    ×0.74 27 | 43 points by joebig 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    ×0.38 42 | 33 points by luu 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×0.74 32 | 75 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (nytimes.com)
    ×0.80 19 | 84 points by gumby 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.86 15 | 45 points by lostmsu 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
    ×0.77 47 | 36 points by ianmcook 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
    ×1.94 9 | 411 points by damaru2 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper (wordpress.com)
    ×0.52 51 | 57 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is open-weight AI banned yet? (isopenweightaibannedyet.com)
    ×1.81 53 | 14 points by kartikarti 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.89 61 | 6 points by papa-whisky 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ChatGPT Pro 500 (openai.com)
    ×2.96 21 | 191 points by prodigycorp 9 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Galaxy Game (icm.museum)
    ×0.53 60 | 15 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Inspect: An open-source framework for large language model evaluations (aisi.org.uk)
    ×0.90 89 | 3 points by pkilgore 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Councilmember, residents push back on AI 'blight scores' given to homes (nbcdfw.com)
    ×1.92 4 | 14 points by hn_acker 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×2.43 14 | 240 points by colinprince 14 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (theregister.com)
    ×2.22 16 | 191 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.48 22 | 47 points by thelastgallon 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
    ×0.83 48 | 95 points by airhangerf15 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.34 24 | 184 points by doener 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Systems that no one will test (christianperone.com)
    ×1.03 30 | 146 points by perone 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.57 42 | 73 points by ilamont 4 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
    ×0.72 34 | 62 points by tgluck 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Using any C++ library in Godot (conan.io)
    ×0.90 14 | 159 points by czoido 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Climate Essay: The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Inconvenient Truth (2026) (brucemccabe.com)
    ×0.72 99 | 3 points by sceeene 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Frequent cannabis use: association w seizure burden in drug-resistant epilepsy (wiley.com)
    ×0.75 99 | 3 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.90 | 1962 points by sancho-panza 2 days ago | 1090 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995) (calpoly.edu)
    ×1.77 73 | 7 points by robinpie 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac (cnbc.com)
    ×2.86 15 | 47 points by Betelbuddy 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×4.90 41 | 197 points by Philpax 9 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×2.52 38 | 289 points by p-s-v 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
    ×0.47 70 | 44 points by luu 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
    ×1.43 21 | 90 points by polygot 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (theguardian.com)
    ×4.02 44 | 475 points by ilamont 15 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.58 20 | 21 points by DeepLogin 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)
    ×2.16 12 | 373 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 926 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev) (sezwhere.com)
    ×2.46 70 | 16 points by irs 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Sarala – An open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor (solancer.com)
    ×1.06 60 | 9 points by solancer 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far (columbia.edu)
    ×2.22 51 | 140 points by zaik 8 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.86 54 | 125 points by gumby 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. TIRx Harness: An Open Compiler Harness for Agentic GPU Programming (mlc.ai)
    ×0.71 58 | 9 points by jinhongyii 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)
    ×0.37 66 | 29 points by dabinat 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (squareorbits.com)
    ×4.73 61 | 443 points by SquareOrbits 12 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.36 38 | 208 points by mrborgen 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers (eff.org)
    ×4.81 69 | 532 points by paimapi 10 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Behold the pawpaw (cbc.ca)
    ×0.93 83 | 82 points by BiraIgnacio 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own Linux (beehiiv.com)
    ×2.45 10 | 14 points by CrankyBear 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest (fbi.gov)
    ×4.27 31 | 19 points by sanelk 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. World Labs is Joining AMD (worldlabs.ai)
    ×1.87 3 | 303 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Its not just the f*cking sandbox (twitter.com/joedaroo)
    ×2.45 85 | 27 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (startup-nights.ch)
    ×0.62 49 | 45 points by sschueller 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A New Type of Small Nuclear Reactor Gets the Green Light in Tennessee (nytimes.com)
    ×1.43 22 | 3 points by elsewhen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OpenAI Targets $30B in New Funding at $1.4T Value (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.60 10 | 41 points by spenvo 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
    ×2.66 20 | 688 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.29 40 | 166 points by macleos 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.11 30 | 597 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.37 34 | 166 points by HugoDz 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nura // The road to daily-drivable mainline phones (nura.eco)
    ×1.13 78 | 3 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)
    ×3.85 12 | 548 points by firstSpeaker 1 day ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    ×1.02 63 | 164 points by mroche 2 days ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) (longcreek.me)
    ×0.40 32 | 24 points by carlos-menezes 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
    ×1.13 48 | 177 points by nicocarsui 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???