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  1. Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.13 2 | 295 points by haunter 5 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (fredchan.org)
    ×2.19 2 | 425 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (jdhodges.com)
    ×2.17 7 | 97 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1 (dailyprincetonian.com)
    ×2.40 3 | 144 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A History of IDEs at Google (le-brun.eu)
    ×1.95 8 | 185 points by laurentlb 5 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book (ardoedo.it)
    ×1.93 13 | 28 points by Eswo 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.35 17 | 131 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Emacsification of Software (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.11 7 | 132 points by rdslw 5 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens (github.com/composer)
    ×1.38 12 | 54 points by damienwebdev 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)
    ×0.83 18 | 82 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. ReactOS (reactos.org)
    ×2.49 6 | 67 points by DeathArrow 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs (bitplane.net)
    ×1.46 7 | 62 points by davidsong 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration (tryardent.com)
    ×0.58 19 | 51 points by vc289 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco (asymco.com)
    ×1.14 13 | 45 points by tambourine_man 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization (avkcode.github.io)
    ×1.75 14 | 132 points by akrylov 8 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (python.org)
    ×1.47 14 | 176 points by curiousgal 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.10 31 | 211 points by jnord 14 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage (propublica.org)
    ×3.97 12 | 100 points by ceejayoz 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools (andreafortuna.org)
    ×0.73 16 | 26 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.84 19 | 276 points by HardwareLust 14 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Making the news available at no cost is a victory (sltrib.com)
    ×1.41 13 | 82 points by danso 2 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)
    ×3.20 13 | 487 points by jorijn 9 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (algorithmicpattern.org)
    ×0.47 32 | 13 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)
    ×1.04 20 | 125 points by magni121 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (theverge.com)
    ×3.30 13 | 35 points by logickkk1 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter (dmitry.gr)
    ×1.37 13 | 195 points by dmitrygr 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)
    ×4.38 26 | 828 points by monokai_nl 10 hours ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.78 27 | 624 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time (ossresistance.com)
    ×2.12 16 | 225 points by mikemcquaid 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I was asked to install malware during a fake interview (ashishb.net)
    ×4.17 13 | 15 points by ashishb 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways (vittorioromeo.com)
    ×1.10 54 | 72 points by sagacity 13 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (sjmulder.nl)
    ×0.93 32 | 89 points by adunk 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)
    ×1.03 7 | 73 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems (atalaykutlay.com)
    ×0.88 34 | 72 points by akutlay 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors (kotaku.com)
    ×5.36 29 | 316 points by stalfosknight 6 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005) (greem.co.uk)
    ×1.10 16 | 70 points by microsoftedging 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.42 4 | 25 points by Bender 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Haiku (haiku-os.org)
    ×2.40 23 | 155 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Continual Harness: Online Adaptation for Self-Improving Foundation Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.47 79 | 3 points by milkkarten 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.27 57 | 154 points by sbulaev 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions (twitter.com/i)
    ×3.79 19 | 26 points by martinald 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com/FULU-Foundation)
    ×2.77 3 | 636 points by Murfalo 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple Is Quietly Building the Most Profitable AI Toll Booth (seekingalpha.com)
    ×2.18 7 | 8 points by ndr42 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)
    ×1.27 26 | 112 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×3.49 1 | 899 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 1498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com/tracewayapp)
    ×1.35 45 | 164 points by sebakubisz 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p` (x.com)
    ×3.37 17 | 21 points by ramoz 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
    ×1.19 66 | 139 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)
    ×1.44 33 | 207 points by ericswpark 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics (arxiv.org)
    ×1.45 1 | 288 points by matt_d 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
    ×0.45 105 | 55 points by namanyayg 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The vi family (ath0.com)
    ×2.08 10 | 259 points by hggh 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Data centers cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries (electrek.co)
    ×1.98 3 | 27 points by dotcoma 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row (macrumors.com)
    ×1.20 12 | 11 points by 01-_- 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pullback Drive (xkcd.com)
    ×1.01 20 | 3 points by linuxkernal 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
    ×1.41 16 | 229 points by tcp_handshaker 20 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com/xtellect)
    ×0.99 58 | 97 points by enduku 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lake Tahoe residents to find a new power source after energy source redirects (yahoo.com)
    ×1.17 7 | 9 points by hnthrowaway0315 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×3.62 3 | 761 points by nilirl 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
    ×2.36 3 | 471 points by _vaporwave_ 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers (fortune.com)
    ×2.62 40 | 122 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan (theguardian.com)
    ×2.98 14 | 43 points by pzxc 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Redis and the Cost of Ambition (charlesleifer.com)
    ×1.53 62 | 34 points by maxloh 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. SecurityBaseline.eu (internetcleanup.foundation)
    ×2.38 15 | 220 points by aequitas 14 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How Mamdani and Hochul Are Solving New York City's Budget Crisis (nytimes.com)
    ×2.03 6 | 5 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (savethearchive.com)
    ×3.54 9 | 401 points by doener 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? (blogsystem5.substack.com)
    ×0.57 56 | 39 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
    ×0.60 67 | 87 points by sai18 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (phoronix.com)
    ×1.42 16 | 36 points by mikece 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Up in Smoke (thebaffler.com)
    ×0.77 50 | 49 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AgentGate – Authorization layer for AI agents (github.com/ElamOlame31)
    ×0.68 84 | 4 points by ElamOlame 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
    ×1.74 7 | 361 points by chizhik-pyzhik 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.26 43 | 164 points by luispa 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com/Genymobile)
    ×2.99 3 | 347 points by xnx 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US producer prices surprise with largest increase in four years (reuters.com)
    ×2.59 17 | 23 points by tartoran 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 18 year old critical vulnerability found in Nginx (twitter.com/Markak_)
    ×3.08 39 | 20 points by ejcho 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×3.84 47 | 200 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Starship V3 (spacex.com)
    ×3.37 17 | 305 points by fprog 20 hours ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Is BusyBox? (specular.fi)
    ×1.54 47 | 32 points by maxloh 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×0.94 47 | 111 points by azurewraith 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.36 69 | 55 points by ttpost 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How Weak Evidence Is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth (eff.org)
    ×2.28 6 | 16 points by hn_acker 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot (x86.lol)
    ×1.09 34 | 98 points by evilmonkey19 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why We Ignore Advice (yusufaytas.com)
    ×6.27 60 | 15 points by yusufaytas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.94 9 | 12 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
    ×2.20 9 | 520 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.12 3 | 1082 points by varunsharma07 2 days ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Pyrefly v1.0 is here (fast type checker and language server for Python) (pyrefly.org)
    ×2.60 15 | 25 points by ocamoss 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
    ×2.25 9 | 364 points by aduffy 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???