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  1. A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.38 7 | 243 points by aanet 9 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  2. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.33 | 139 points by epestr 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  3. New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×4.85 2 | 65 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.98 5 | 652 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 396 comments | ??? ???
  5. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×2.17 7 | 252 points by moelf 13 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  6. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.07 8 | 716 points by RickJWagner 22 hours ago | 801 comments | ??? ???
  7. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.66 3 | 27 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  8. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.02 9 | 356 points by piotrgrabowski 17 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  9. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×1.03 22 | 26 points by csmantle 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  10. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.89 12 | 119 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  11. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
    ×2.37 4 | 258 points by wglb 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  12. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.48 13 | 213 points by aagha 16 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  13. Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices (nytimes.com)
    ×1.20 3 | 10 points by Korwell 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  14. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.78 21 | 388 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 356 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.66 42 | 5 points by aadisang 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  16. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
    ×2.31 8 | 251 points by moonikakiss 17 hours ago | 211 comments | ??? ???
  17. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×1.17 52 | 3 points by bhavansig 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  18. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.78 12 | 312 points by Meleagris 10 hours ago | 153 comments | ??? ???
  19. US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.61 14 | 20 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  20. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
    ×2.25 6 | 101 points by yk 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  21. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.71 23 | 22 points by denismenace 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  22. Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.65 30 | 8 points by dieselgate 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  23. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
    ×1.00 19 | 170 points by MarcoDewey 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  24. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.98 5 | 186 points by cckolon 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  25. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.18 7 | 188 points by artninja1988 18 hours ago | 180 comments | ??? ???
  26. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.52 28 | 158 points by jnord 22 hours ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  27. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.05 16 | 481 points by delduca 17 hours ago | 342 comments | ??? ???
  28. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.94 10 | 292 points by poly2it 1 day ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  29. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.34 21 | 197 points by m3h 1 day ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  30. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.83 30 | 74 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  31. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.81 32 | 72 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  32. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×2.74 14 | 206 points by Bender 14 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  33. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.11 5 | 767 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 407 comments | ??? ???
  34. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.36 40 | 34 points by msephton 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  35. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.84 5 | 903 points by itvision 1 day ago | 684 comments | ??? ???
  36. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.70 42 | 74 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.22 8 | 201 points by v0id_isgood 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.25 20 | 171 points by stagas 1 day ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  39. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)
    ×2.34 16 | 6 points by eternalreturn 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  40. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.79 59 | 229 points by willcarkner 1 day ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  41. Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
    ×0.63 55 | 60 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  42. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
    ×3.05 21 | 423 points by petercooper 20 hours ago | 390 comments | ??? ???
  43. Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)
    ×2.24 24 | 67 points by dnnehgf 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  44. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.45 3 | 1156 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments | ??? ???
  45. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.11 45 | 214 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  46. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.10 48 | 137 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  47. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.96 1 | 668 points by tsak 1 day ago | 524 comments | ??? ???
  48. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    ×0.65 50 | 40 points by 4pkjai 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  49. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
    ×0.88 40 | 77 points by rramadass 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  50. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.23 52 | 151 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 54 comments | ??? ???
  51. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×0.86 49 | 100 points by rogix 1 day ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  52. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.55 60 | 57 points by jasim 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  53. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.43 63 | 27 points by geerlingguy 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  54. The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.83 60 | 78 points by zdw 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  55. Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.79 25 | 30 points by peterkelly 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  56. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (stackdump.com)
    ×0.74 32 | 70 points by m_kos 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  57. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.69 67 | 90 points by indyjo 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  58. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.03 8 | 344 points by rmason 1 day ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  59. Samsung debuts three new memory technologies – zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.74 2 | 15 points by peter_d_sherman 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  60. Building community out of strangers (2023) (tracydurnell.com)
    ×0.50 50 | 39 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  61. Curlese, Five Years Later (hypertesto.me)
    ×0.54 47 | 18 points by rovr138 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  62. Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
    ×0.86 61 | 60 points by martinhath 1 day ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  63. A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 43 | 76 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  64. Facing 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers (utilitydive.com)
    ×1.54 7 | 13 points by geox 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  65. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.28 66 | 182 points by nanochess 2 days ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  66. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.19 10 | 302 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  67. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.11 24 | 208 points by Audiophilip 1 day ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  68. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.45 3 | 497 points by Footkerchief 1 day ago | 409 comments | ??? ???
  69. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.86 5 | 406 points by dsubburam 1 day ago | 198 comments | ??? ???
  70. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.04 50 | 112 points by bschne 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  71. Jujutsu 0.44.0 (jj-vcs.dev)
    ×3.14 51 | 23 points by tosh 19 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  72. "It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)
    ×1.74 54 | 64 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  73. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 59 | 130 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 169 comments | ??? ???
  74. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×4.98 59 | 141 points by allenc 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ??? ???
  75. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.62 5 | 688 points by DarkContinent 2 days ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  76. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 940 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 591 comments | ??? ???
  77. OpenAI Trained Models for Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×1.83 9 | 14 points by paulpauper 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  78. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.59 4 | 313 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 259 comments | ??? ???
  79. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.13 28 | 143 points by sebg 1 day ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  80. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.74 62 | 91 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  81. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.06 | 851 points by colesantiago 2 days ago | 923 comments | ??? ???
  82. Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader (ma-r-s.com)
    ×0.84 54 | 9 points by ma-r-s 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  83. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×0.91 47 | 72 points by champagnepapi 1 day ago | 115 comments | ??? ???
  84. Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×1.21 31 | 14 points by Wilsoniumite 13 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.11 65 | 451 points by pmg101 4 days ago | 442 comments | ??? ???
  86. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.82 7 | 258 points by baranul 1 day ago | 252 comments | ??? ???
  87. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.66 52 | 47 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  88. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.91 56 | 96 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  89. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.50 3 | 332 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 243 comments | ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.57 45 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???