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  1. Rack-mount hydroponics (lj.am)
    ×1.75 | 96 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) (johndcook.com)
    ×2.51 5 | 22 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm (robertsdotpm.github.io)
    ×2.36 1 | 51 points by Uptrenda 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (bbc.com)
    ×1.46 1 | 64 points by tartoran 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How kernel anti-cheats work (s4dbrd.github.io)
    ×2.31 1 | 130 points by davikr 7 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust (github.com/xodn348)
    ×1.13 9 | 157 points by xodn348 10 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories (wordpress.com)
    ×1.04 11 | 59 points by picafrost 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (agelesslinux.org)
    ×4.32 6 | 540 points by nateb2022 9 hours ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (sebi.io)
    ×2.92 12 | 106 points by sebi_io 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO (ayushtambde.com)
    ×0.91 16 | 52 points by at2005 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads (atgreen.github.io)
    ×1.19 14 | 74 points by anonzzzies 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.38 17 | 107 points by 1659447091 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Launching the Claude Partner Network (anthropic.com)
    ×1.60 7 | 130 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988 (kubicki.org)
    ×1.32 18 | 31 points by kosmavision 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post (nytimes.com)
    ×3.68 12 | 36 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. MCP is dead; long live MCP (chrlschn.dev)
    ×2.11 15 | 115 points by CharlieDigital 12 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.33 24 | 23 points by bensouthwood 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 (nullr0ute.com)
    ×0.96 27 | 86 points by jandeboevrie 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft (airbus.com)
    ×1.39 7 | 121 points by phasnox 8 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Marketing for Founders (github.com/EdoStra)
    ×1.68 4 | 156 points by jimsojim 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.03 39 | 121 points by signa11 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Library of Short Stories (libraryofshortstories.com)
    ×1.06 34 | 69 points by debo_ 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.13 32 | 79 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Enterprise Context Layer (andychen32.substack.com)
    ×0.79 27 | 46 points by zachperkel 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.74 25 | 301 points by timhh 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
    ×0.90 33 | 86 points by Velocifyer 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net (github.com/groverburger)
    ×0.82 35 | 39 points by __grob 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Postgres with Builtin File Systems (db9.ai)
    ×1.23 26 | 60 points by ngaut 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Python: The Optimization Ladder (cemrehancavdar.com)
    ×2.17 13 | 308 points by Twirrim 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
    ×1.05 16 | 99 points by katspaugh 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)
    ×1.53 1 | 261 points by bilsbie 17 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×4.47 9 | 1152 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023) (csis.org)
    ×1.73 47 | 154 points by msuniverse2026 22 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learning Creative Coding (stigmollerhansen.dk)
    ×1.09 6 | 64 points by ammerfest 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam (openttd.org)
    ×1.55 24 | 154 points by canpan 9 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 9 Mothers Defense (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin (ashbyhq.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (gitagent.sh)
    ×1.22 35 | 110 points by sivasurend 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)
    ×0.93 50 | 122 points by XzetaU8 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. XML is a cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.81 5 | 250 points by y1n0 19 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.78 6 | 1419 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Refinement Modeling and Verification of RISC-V Assembly Using Knuckledragger (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.51 56 | 8 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Generalizing Knuth's Pseudocode Architecture From Algorithms to Knowledge (researchgate.net)
    ×0.50 72 | 29 points by isomorphist 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. An interactive presentation about the Grammar of Graphic (timeplus-io.github.io)
    ×0.76 53 | 20 points by gangtao 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)
    ×1.49 11 | 140 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.87 64 | 214 points by angst 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter' (bbc.com)
    ×2.24 1 | 145 points by 1659447091 15 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.85 76 | 14 points by lumpa 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden (dbushell.com)
    ×0.57 68 | 34 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. It's time to move your docs in the repo (dein.fr)
    ×1.81 10 | 101 points by gregdoesit 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)
    ×2.01 12 | 157 points by homebrewer 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)
    ×1.33 42 | 149 points by enz 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones (apnews.com)
    ×3.71 25 | 23 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Making Sense of the DXY (dm13450.github.io)
    ×0.35 42 | 9 points by dm13450 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Claude March 2026 usage promotion (claude.com)
    ×2.44 45 | 228 points by weldu 11 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A Superpower Goes Offline (politico.com)
    ×1.93 15 | 12 points by mitchbob 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.32 17 | 677 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Researchers improve lower bounds for some Ramsey numbers using AlphaEvolve (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 68 | 7 points by 1024core 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)
    ×3.22 20 | 413 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago | 687 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)
    ×1.43 47 | 147 points by ghd_ 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices (washingtonian.com)
    ×2.35 5 | 50 points by kklisura 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015) (huguesjohnson.com)
    ×0.63 71 | 61 points by mondobe 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)
    ×3.05 17 | 322 points by gostsamo 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×2.12 41 | 13 points by ingve 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. In Praise of Stupid Questions (wordpress.com)
    ×0.87 37 | 32 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.10 17 | 267 points by edward 21 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mit.edu)
    ×3.12 52 | 328 points by inaros 14 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Earth's first major extinction was worse than we thought (science.org)
    ×2.37 1 | 11 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)
    ×3.66 3 | 502 points by merksittich 1 day ago | 794 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions (jnkr.tech)
    ×0.55 73 | 45 points by luispa 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (getspine.ai)
    ×0.57 80 | 106 points by a24venka 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cookie jars capture American kitsch (2023) (eater.com)
    ×0.28 63 | 24 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×2.24 3 | 582 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (chronicle.com)
    ×2.23 72 | 71 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Data-anim – Animate HTML with just data attributes (github.com/ryo-manba)
    ×0.61 84 | 11 points by ryo-manba 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight (unsw.edu.au)
    ×0.78 62 | 100 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GIMP 3.2 released (gimp.org)
    ×3.65 63 | 217 points by F3nd0 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills (ml.ink)
    ×0.59 49 | 29 points by august- 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Digg is gone again (digg.com)
    ×3.82 7 | 397 points by hammerbrostime 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An old photo of a large BBS (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×1.78 57 | 298 points by xbryanx 2 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com/Compresr-ai)
    ×0.57 68 | 89 points by ivzak 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)
    ×5.06 3 | 1412 points by microflash 2 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AEP (API Design Standard and Tooling Ecosystem) (aep.dev)
    ×0.54 71 | 33 points by rambleraptor 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)
    ×2.12 22 | 145 points by sebastian_z 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (mit.edu)
    ×0.60 49 | 38 points by o4c 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
    ×2.69 2 | 622 points by mipselaer 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)
    ×4.07 11 | 541 points by cf100clunk 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input (abjadpro.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 62 points by adangit 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com/TomBadash)
    ×2.28 6 | 417 points by avionics-guy 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. UBI as a productivity dividend (scottsantens.substack.com)
    ×3.57 32 | 118 points by 2noame 14 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
    ×1.79 8 | 298 points by tosh 1 day ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???