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  1. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×2.16 | 140 points by theMackabu 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  2. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)
    ×3.12 | 21 points by theorchid 29 minutes ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  3. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×1.83 5 | 117 points by adletbalzhanov 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  4. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/Wren6991)
    ×1.17 17 | 8 points by mariuz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  5. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.27 7 | 160 points by saisrirampur 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  6. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.55 13 | 6 points by tionis 19 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  7. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.43 15 | 67 points by prtk25 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  8. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.14 4 | 185 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  9. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.90 14 | 81 points by wolfi1 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  10. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.01 50 | 7 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  11. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)
    ×0.82 2 | 68 points by jacobobryant 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  12. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.52 14 | 32 points by cbrewster 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.82 12 | 101 points by acley 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.10 20 | 44 points by lukas9 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  15. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)
    ×3.60 10 | 210 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  16. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)
    ×1.75 7 | 84 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  17. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  18. Lost and Found (walzr.com)
    ×0.62 14 | 47 points by walz 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.73 35 | 23 points by modinfo 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×1.01 30 | 28 points by targetbridge 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  21. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (sixthtone.com)
    ×2.48 11 | 48 points by homarp 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  22. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.39 34 | 94 points by xlmnxp 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  23. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (theverge.com)
    ×0.90 38 | 90 points by herbertl 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  24. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
    ×1.35 18 | 62 points by _superposition_ 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  25. Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 3 | 20 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  26. AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It) (jamesdrandall.com)
    ×0.87 4 | 47 points by msephton 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  27. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.92 40 | 48 points by achairapart 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  28. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    ×2.05 30 | 328 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 343 comments | ??? ???
  29. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.37 14 | 82 points by jason_s 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  30. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.20 36 | 295 points by CrankyBear 1 day ago | 1094 comments | ??? ???
  31. AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)
    ×4.43 28 | 164 points by rvz 4 hours ago | 190 comments | ??? ???
  32. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.87 36 | 90 points by poupeaua 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  33. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.80 26 | 161 points by downwithdisease 6 hours ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  34. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.43 28 | 159 points by downbad_ 5 hours ago | 107 comments | ??? ???
  35. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.22 40 | 160 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  36. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)
    ×3.74 7 | 184 points by justswim 13 hours ago | 135 comments | ??? ???
  37. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.06 41 | 377 points by kschaul 1 day ago | 484 comments | ??? ???
  38. BLISS (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 11 | 40 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  39. Who manages the agents? (off-policy.com)
    ×1.11 21 | 66 points by GavCo 4 hours ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  40. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×1.06 46 | 73 points by rowbin 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  41. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×1.36 5 | 87 points by zetalyrae 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×1.59 18 | 39 points by iameli 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  43. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.67 4 | 380 points by hhs 1 day ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  44. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.97 25 | 415 points by dmonay 1 day ago | 296 comments | ??? ???
  45. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.78 | 721 points by speckx 1 day ago | 228 comments | ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.38 28 | 890 points by vforno 2 days ago | 229 comments | ??? ???
  47. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    ×1.90 46 | 216 points by aviaviavi 1 day ago | 264 comments | ??? ???
  48. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.31 35 | 228 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 166 comments | ??? ???
  49. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×1.37 31 | 253 points by markus_zhang 1 day ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  50. The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) (vfxblog.com)
    ×0.57 51 | 9 points by fabiensanglard 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. The Victorian War on Rabies (historytoday.com)
    ×0.54 43 | 17 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  52. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.50 44 | 195 points by ethanpil 1 day ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  53. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.45 29 | 227 points by mytuny 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  54. Reimplementing pf as an eBPF/XDP dataplane on Linux (nfsensei.org)
    ×0.92 60 | 11 points by 882542F3884314B 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  55. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.16 40 | 100 points by chrwn 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  56. Construction workers, electricians, couriers: ICE disguises to detain migrants (elpais.com)
    ×2.45 23 | 10 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  57. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)
    ×0.96 47 | 113 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  58. Earendel (Astronomical Object) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.29 17 | 31 points by brainlessdev 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  59. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.23 38 | 183 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 103 comments | ??? ???
  60. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
    ×2.36 25 | 112 points by reaperducer 10 hours ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  61. Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.07 10 | 103 points by helsinkiandrew 13 hours ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  62. Gates Heir's Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn't Drive (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.72 19 | 5 points by imichael 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  63. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.13 14 | 188 points by mvdtnz 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  64. Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)
    ×1.68 25 | 51 points by littlexsparkee 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  65. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.25 21 | 615 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 324 comments | ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.15 11 | 1120 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 354 comments | ??? ???
  67. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.19 38 | 162 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 134 comments | ??? ???
  68. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×8.22 54 | 1560 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 873 comments | ??? ???
  69. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.97 21 | 509 points by scrlk 1 day ago | 419 comments | ??? ???
  70. How Container Networking Works: Building a Bridge Network from Scratch (iximiuz.com)
    ×1.97 55 | 14 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. Secret Claude tracker surprises users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance (theregister.com)
    ×1.90 1 | 3 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  72. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.69 19 | 235 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  73. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.39 16 | 182 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  74. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.77 19 | 1540 points by logickkk1 2 days ago | 1092 comments | ??? ???
  75. Laguna XS 2.1 33B on a RTX 3090: 296 tok/s peak, 152 tok/s at 256K context (lucebox.com)
    ×1.84 46 | 8 points by GreenGames 8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  76. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.14 13 | 1609 points by rapnie 2 days ago | 848 comments | ??? ???
  77. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.39 31 | 95 points by djfergus 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  78. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.00 25 | 195 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 229 comments | ??? ???
  79. Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)
    ×1.72 39 | 123 points by chrka 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  80. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    ×1.07 36 | 136 points by Gedxx 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  81. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.49 24 | 37 points by superkuh 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  82. The Earth Is Coated in Supernova Dust (thequantumcat.space)
    ×0.88 66 | 7 points by verzali 11 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.76 47 | 89 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  84. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.61 31 | 214 points by tosh 1 day ago | 308 comments | ??? ???
  85. Germany's richest man takes on Big Tech (dw.com)
    ×5.55 33 | 21 points by vrganj 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  86. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    ×0.65 41 | 45 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  87. Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C (hackaday.com)
    ×3.62 25 | 16 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  88. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)
    ×2.80 23 | 530 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 248 comments | ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.58 33 | 80 points by Asmod4n 1 day ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)
    ×0.73 29 | 78 points by dicroce 1 day ago | 24 comments | ??? ???