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  1. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
    ×4.31 2 | 1097 points by dwwoelfel 14 hours ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
    ×1.78 6 | 286 points by adam_rida 9 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
    ×2.02 6 | 226 points by glinscott 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zuckerberg Emojis (rybakov.com)
    ×2.06 18 | 3 points by ms7892 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
    ×4.53 1 | 809 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
    ×1.90 5 | 323 points by nickthegreek 12 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What else do people draw on gradient.horse? (rybakov.com)
    ×1.84 8 | 75 points by spython 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.19 10 | 228 points by dhorthy 12 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 98.css (jdan.github.io)
    ×2.88 8 | 364 points by lopespm 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
    ×1.40 7 | 264 points by mpweiher 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
    ×1.28 10 | 205 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Freeze-Casting (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.67 14 | 15 points by soupspaces 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
    ×1.10 3 | 143 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
    ×1.10 21 | 132 points by hchtin 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
    ×1.93 10 | 209 points by r2sk5t 15 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
    ×1.13 4 | 74 points by infiniteregrets 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
    ×1.04 7 | 205 points by MarcoDewey 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Fields Medals 2026 (mathunion.org)
    ×1.83 16 | 148 points by nill0 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
    ×3.14 36 | 57 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
    ×0.56 47 | 65 points by louis030195 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Quickly rewrite Git repository history (github.com/newren)
    ×0.77 85 | 3 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fractl.art – a fractal generator with 8 octillion different patterns (fractl.art)
    ×0.83 5 | 25 points by gilded-lilly 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×4.10 17 | 138 points by boramalper 14 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond (the-scientist.com)
    ×3.03 17 | 50 points by fosco 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.67 21 | 443 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.78 10 | 81 points by MarcoDewey 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
    ×2.45 14 | 234 points by jjfoooo4 12 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
    ×2.17 21 | 48 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
    ×3.37 23 | 287 points by Shortness8 8 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.85 23 | 85 points by Jonathanfishner 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
    ×1.20 10 | 89 points by s0ck_r4w 11 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.19 18 | 67 points by amelius 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)
    ×0.91 28 | 65 points by annieversary 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
    ×0.82 24 | 92 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
    ×4.57 25 | 629 points by technewssss 15 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Emacs Is a Lispboard (andros.dev)
    ×1.24 24 | 103 points by andros 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.72 13 | 61 points by wuemeli 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
    ×0.54 43 | 39 points by iluzone 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) (openjdk.org)
    ×0.96 8 | 95 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.65 32 | 39 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone (github.com/h3nock)
    ×0.97 27 | 90 points by bitwise42 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets (logisheets.com)
    ×2.24 63 | 6 points by JeremyHe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.64 12 | 3 points by benwen 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account (blog.google)
    ×2.76 21 | 96 points by lkurtz 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com/fried_rice)
    ×2.95 37 | 46 points by Alifatisk 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin (reprodev.com)
    ×3.31 41 | 53 points by reprodev 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games (rogerdickey.com)
    ×0.97 31 | 17 points by rogerdickey 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×5.26 46 | 398 points by Thrashed 7 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.36 70 | 14 points by mitchbob 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Open Problems: Why Reading Every Herculaneum Scroll Is Still a Challenge (scrollprize.org)
    ×2.13 62 | 5 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (github.com/Conradqh)
    ×0.95 14 | 78 points by conradqh 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
    ×0.78 56 | 83 points by nateb2022 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What happens when the information runs out (jimgrey.net)
    ×1.09 33 | 69 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
    ×1.07 36 | 153 points by Erenay09 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Splink – Fast, accurate and scalable probabilistic data linkage (moj-analytical-services.github.io)
    ×1.52 75 | 4 points by rzk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency (rtx.com)
    ×0.91 15 | 87 points by r2sk5t 14 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (yamafaktory.github.io)
    ×0.61 52 | 46 points by yamafaktory 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.14 30 | 1094 points by gmays 1 day ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Geekbench 7 (geekbench.com)
    ×0.85 3 | 56 points by ilreb 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (ssrn.com)
    ×0.58 41 | 49 points by iamnothere 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Turo – An Aggressive Token-Saving Proxy for CLI AI Agents (github.com/kdeps)
    ×1.26 92 | 3 points by jjuliano 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (tangled.org)
    ×0.75 53 | 43 points by nerdypepper 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Don't put your name to bot-written content (sherliker.net)
    ×1.73 48 | 21 points by speerer 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Life Tile – Passive time tracker that shows your day as a Mondrian grid (apple.com)
    ×1.27 96 | 3 points by choyongjoon 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Australia to AI: Produce More Power Than You Burn, Stop Content 'Theft' (theregister.com)
    ×3.74 28 | 20 points by gnabgib 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.00 55 | 459 points by DemiGuru 2 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Connecting my dumb garage and car's homelink buttons to Home Assistant (dsauerbrun.com)
    ×0.67 72 | 8 points by dsauerbrun 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (msn.com)
    ×4.05 38 | 90 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Telegarden (1995-2004) (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.36 76 | 27 points by zetamax 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Feral cats fail at urban rodent control (2018) (wildlife.org)
    ×3.45 22 | 10 points by vector_spaces 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI (brightsec.com)
    ×0.64 67 | 58 points by xgpyc2qp 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×2.31 13 | 480 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Malleable computing, Emacs, and you (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.01 52 | 156 points by kickingvegas 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Asthma Control Before and After Changing Gas Stoves to Electric Stoves (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.95 26 | 8 points by tchalla 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)
    ×0.89 51 | 149 points by effects 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (mozilla.ai)
    ×0.31 66 | 12 points by royapakzad 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B (wsj.com)
    ×3.25 45 | 50 points by htrp 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.22 59 | 16 points by pixelpoet 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
    ×1.31 49 | 156 points by helonaut 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B (twitter.com/andrewcurran_)
    ×2.41 35 | 24 points by julien_c 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.89 21 | 131 points by jjba23 23 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Light Flip Phone (thelightphone.com)
    ×2.05 40 | 7 points by agilek 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (textualize.io)
    ×1.28 53 | 186 points by willm 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.05 42 | 39 points by nianderwallace 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×4.00 46 | 987 points by starfallg 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.80 1 | 170 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Negative Resistance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.09 46 | 6 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. MTTR is the wrong metric for Engineering Teams today (ito.ai)
    ×2.75 46 | 6 points by jevanish 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Soccer/Wordle/Chess (tactkicks.com)
    ×1.04 69 | 4 points by alfredmalmros 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.36 38 | 624 points by WadeGrimridge 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???