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  1. LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
    ×3.71 1 | 827 points by pluc 11 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (thunderbird.net)
    ×3.41 1 | 132 points by playfultones 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
    ×4.91 1 | 1635 points by blkhp19 19 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Open Source Security at Astral (astral.sh)
    ×1.71 1 | 220 points by vinhnx 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019] (theasc.com)
    ×1.13 2 | 38 points by nixass 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (bbc.com)
    ×1.25 4 | 16 points by eigenspace 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use (darkounity.com)
    ×1.14 8 | 35 points by hacker_13 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Haunted Paper Toys (ravensblight.com)
    ×1.74 3 | 112 points by exvi 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (archive.org)
    ×1.45 14 | 66 points by kristianp 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK (dwyer.co.za)
    ×4.02 9 | 112 points by sixhobbits 2 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
    ×1.46 13 | 317 points by WerWolv 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
    ×1.73 16 | 363 points by alex_be 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents (botctl.dev)
    ×0.90 8 | 48 points by ankitg12 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
    ×2.18 16 | 566 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×1.92 1 | 211 points by Caiero 10 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator (nytimes.com)
    ×3.69 25 | 519 points by jfirebaugh 1 day ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting (mooncraft2000.com)
    ×1.36 8 | 17 points by JKCalhoun 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store (dropbox.tech)
    ×0.66 29 | 17 points by laluser 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
    ×2.52 10 | 515 points by pabs3 22 hours ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
    ×6.00 12 | 2075 points by grepsedawk 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
    ×1.54 11 | 350 points by chabons 19 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming (patater.com)
    ×0.53 60 | 3 points by medbar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence (perfectlynormal.co.uk)
    ×0.90 17 | 86 points by jxmorris12 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 22 | 305 points by chrsw 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
    ×1.03 23 | 135 points by ImGajeed76 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
    ×0.90 26 | 123 points by frizlab 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands (sanderdesnaijer.github.io)
    ×0.51 36 | 32 points by hebelehubele 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.94 11 | 390 points by e-topy 23 hours ago | 571 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
    ×0.88 33 | 135 points by stonecharioteer 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)
    ×2.20 24 | 45 points by kisamoto 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes (github.com/meribold)
    ×0.77 13 | 54 points by meribold 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. America Has Lost the Arab World (foreignaffairs.com)
    ×3.94 19 | 15 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
    ×3.20 15 | 330 points by CharlesW 14 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI and remote work is a disaster for junior software engineers (medium.com)
    ×1.67 1 | 4 points by gpi 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.76 43 | 114 points by DamnInteresting 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Union types in C# 15 (microsoft.com)
    ×1.40 34 | 211 points by 0x00C0FFEE 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
    ×1.21 28 | 232 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flatpak: Complete Sandbox Escape (github.com/flatpak)
    ×1.39 63 | 8 points by eyberg 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
    ×3.47 19 | 713 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Veracrypt project update (sourceforge.net)
    ×4.13 23 | 1226 points by super256 1 day ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
    ×3.01 14 | 367 points by nickvec 17 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
    ×3.90 30 | 407 points by anonfunction 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
    ×2.57 6 | 572 points by ra 1 day ago | 569 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Veteran artist behind Mass Effect, Halo, & Overwatch 2 weighs in on Nvidia DLSS5 (notebookcheck.net)
    ×2.37 6 | 12 points by DarrylLinington 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
    ×3.57 23 | 539 points by donohoe 20 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read (oj-hn.com)
    ×0.95 18 | 118 points by latchkey 17 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Your File System Is Already A Graph Database (rumproarious.com)
    ×1.11 30 | 175 points by alxndr 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×8.99 20 | 2098 points by adrianhon 3 days ago | 882 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era (anthropic.com)
    ×4.11 15 | 1493 points by Ryan5453 1 day ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
    ×0.88 65 | 139 points by noztol 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What does it mean to “write like you talk”? (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
    ×1.06 | 75 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. You Can Just Print an Air Purifier (aftermath.site)
    ×1.83 33 | 25 points by zdw 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Exposing and Understanding Scrolling Transfer Functions (2012) [pdf] (inria.fr)
    ×0.36 81 | 15 points by t23414321 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything (perevillega.com)
    ×1.39 32 | 7 points by v-mdev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)
    ×0.56 50 | 53 points by PatrickVuscan 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claude Managed Agents Overview (claude.com)
    ×1.23 31 | 29 points by NicoJuicy 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Lunar Flyby (nasa.gov)
    ×3.29 14 | 941 points by kipi 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Visual Guide to Gemma 4 (maartengrootendorst.com)
    ×1.78 75 | 9 points by vismit2000 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How Costco Won in Japan (2025) (readtrung.com)
    ×1.13 44 | 44 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×1.00 38 | 175 points by transpute 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Native Americans had dice 12k years ago (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.79 49 | 133 points by delichon 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go (github.com/rvitorper)
    ×0.38 46 | 57 points by rvitorper 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Formal Verification in Any Language for Everybody (lean 4) (dev-log.me)
    ×1.24 37 | 8 points by wazHFsRy 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)
    ×0.63 27 | 55 points by frizull 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com/onesuper)
    ×0.56 44 | 46 points by dreamsome 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing (rovers.land)
    ×0.39 61 | 46 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Building a JavaScript runtime in one month (themackabu.dev)
    ×0.83 46 | 15 points by franciscop 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)
    ×1.02 24 | 103 points by pruz 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
    ×1.53 12 | 210 points by bundie 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route (navimodo.com)
    ×0.72 41 | 51 points by vkatluri 20 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost) (indraneelpatil.github.io)
    ×0.70 31 | 105 points by indraneelpatil 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.61 11 | 371 points by tetrisgm 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
    ×1.24 39 | 162 points by thomasjb 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Under oath, Frank Lloyd Wright introduced himself as "world greatest architect" (pidgeondigital.com)
    ×1.71 44 | 6 points by felipevb 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 'There's a lot of desperation': older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat (theguardian.com)
    ×1.99 19 | 29 points by Stratoscope 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets (theguardian.com)
    ×2.90 50 | 139 points by mitchbob 10 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
    ×3.55 18 | 594 points by g-b-r 1 day ago | 1971 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
    ×1.10 47 | 139 points by Levitating 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring – Lead Robotics and More (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] (anthropic.com)
    ×2.78 26 | 830 points by be7a 1 day ago | 635 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Clock (senko.net)
    ×0.80 55 | 98 points by senko 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards (spoon-tamago.com)
    ×1.20 51 | 55 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany? (strommarktberatung.de)
    ×1.18 61 | 139 points by konschubert 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Study investigates how mass distribution of baseball bat affects performance (wsu.edu)
    ×0.37 54 | 23 points by Magi604 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks (z.ai)
    ×2.15 14 | 611 points by zixuanlimit 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Managed Agents (claude.com)
    ×2.80 33 | 159 points by adocomplete 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mario and Earendil (pocoo.org)
    ×0.74 44 | 65 points by doppp 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.39 28 | 201 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Image to Music AI – Turn Any Photo into an Original Soundtrack (imagetomusicai.com)
    ×1.24 54 | 5 points by airobus 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
    ×1.62 15 | 306 points by baely 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???