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  1. A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.74 3 | 74 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Let's Ditch Google (Verb) (farkas.pro)
    ×3.45 | 35 points by speckx 15 minutes ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. You Said No MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.60 | 462 points by yarapavan 7 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records (faav.net)
    ×2.50 2 | 113 points by luispa 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×0.97 3 | 73 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.89 5 | 21 points by croes 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×2.03 5 | 21 points by viraj_shah 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×1.14 3 | 30 points by mogrinz 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.57 9 | 23 points by kmstout 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Commit Description as a Thinking Tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.66 24 | 3 points by yedhukrishnan 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.55 2 | 823 points by bryan0 18 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.90 5 | 103 points by gvuksic 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.92 12 | 20 points by b-man 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.13 7 | 81 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.68 5 | 216 points by laurenth 12 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes (setecastronomyinc.com)
    ×0.69 30 | 6 points by jkalbfeld 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.82 11 | 34 points by systemerror 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.30 6 | 717 points by alvis 1 day ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.10 20 | 330 points by devonnull 20 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.13 18 | 278 points by ilamont 18 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 6 | 726 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 658 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.04 4 | 25 points by dancablam 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.11 68 | 3 points by turantekin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.23 26 | 263 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.13 16 | 349 points by wanick 22 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.37 73 | 328 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (backblaze.com)
    ×2.22 35 | 283 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.31 14 | 567 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.71 37 | 45 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.16 22 | 113 points by Baljhin 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.79 40 | 78 points by luu 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.66 29 | 186 points by Anon84 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×1.02 31 | 69 points by seam_carver 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
    ×2.41 34 | 353 points by amortize 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.45 19 | 1033 points by crorella 1 day ago | 913 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.28 36 | 142 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.45 10 | 393 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 781 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)
    ×4.09 34 | 462 points by marjancek 10 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×2.72 17 | 5 points by sdlkj- 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.47 34 | 141 points by thelastgallon 19 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.57 41 | 110 points by papa-whisky 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Minitel (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.95 1 | 8 points by GuinansEyebrows 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.09 44 | 162 points by rossant 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.22 56 | 149 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.65 37 | 178 points by Thom2503 6 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tobacco – Smoking Cigarettes – Radiation Dose (nuclear-power.com)
    ×1.01 10 | 5 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Built Dental Scope (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.57 14 | 76 points by Zeruxe 9 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why copyright makes no sense (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 29 | 3 points by mnaimd 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.00 5 | 336 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.71 5 | 291 points by dmux 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone (ieee.org)
    ×1.16 6 | 7 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (theguardian.com)
    ×2.31 1 | 192 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. For the First Time in a Century, the Atlantic May See No Hurricanes (yale.edu)
    ×2.18 13 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×1.06 4 | 18 points by zcalvin 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
    ×0.67 64 | 58 points by joebig 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Commodore 64: Mercenary (gamesexplained.com)
    ×0.74 57 | 59 points by a1r 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.95 40 | 78 points by primitivesuave 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
    ×1.92 15 | 420 points by damaru2 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008) (withouthotair.com)
    ×0.90 44 | 148 points by 0sake_rs 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×0.73 56 | 85 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kuala Lumpur is the world's most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third (scmp.com)
    ×0.63 32 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com/Sparticle62ops)
    ×1.05 5 | 84 points by sparticle62 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper (wordpress.com)
    ×0.53 66 | 66 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy (popsci.com)
    ×1.01 17 | 9 points by snarky-comments 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (pocoo.org)
    ×1.20 40 | 66 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Story of Human Progress (nautil.us)
    ×0.49 29 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (nytimes.com)
    ×0.81 43 | 98 points by gumby 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.91 12 | 1987 points by sancho-panza 2 days ago | 1100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Singapore Govt Dating App Uses Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×2.41 9 | 32 points by rzk 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane (ft.com)
    ×1.46 31 | 3 points by alephnerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
    ×0.66 65 | 43 points by ianmcook 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ballmer Peak (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.11 6 | 80 points by thunderbong 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt (avherald.com)
    ×2.39 22 | 36 points by haunter 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.75 49 | 53 points by lostmsu 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
    ×0.83 51 | 105 points by airhangerf15 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×2.43 45 | 299 points by p-s-v 2 days ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×2.46 6 | 277 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Systems that no one will test (christianperone.com)
    ×0.99 40 | 150 points by perone 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    ×0.34 58 | 35 points by luu 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
    ×1.32 14 | 54 points by peter_d_sherman 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
    ×7.21 81 | 331 points by allisdust 1 hour ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.29 29 | 190 points by doener 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.32 6 | 239 points by nicowaltz 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.61 61 | 76 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. ChatGPT Pro 500 (openai.com)
    ×2.71 9 | 214 points by prodigycorp 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Galaxy Game (icm.museum)
    ×0.44 66 | 19 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.32 57 | 804 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)
    ×2.16 16 | 383 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 965 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (theregister.com)
    ×2.16 4 | 209 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???