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  1. DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)
    ×1.43 1 | 60 points by LowLevelMahn 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
    ×2.28 1 | 310 points by msalsas 6 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)
    ×3.09 2 | 135 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The European Social Stack (european.social)
    ×1.35 4 | 65 points by doener 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Big Tech is borrowing like never before (startupfortune.com)
    ×2.10 7 | 40 points by krupan 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Web Browsers on PDAS (vale.rocks)
    ×0.62 17 | 20 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Mencius (2016) (iu.edu)
    ×0.45 45 | 10 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server (bootimus.com)
    ×1.06 12 | 66 points by car 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C (github.com/oraziorillo)
    ×1.81 8 | 15 points by oraziorillo 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Cargo-Geiger (github.com/geiger-rs)
    ×0.63 9 | 16 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.98 6 | 96 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (wordpress.com)
    ×2.74 2 | 342 points by moultano 13 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)
    ×1.45 2 | 252 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.74 11 | 52 points by farhadhf 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios (vawaa.com)
    ×0.90 16 | 11 points by karakoram 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)
    ×4.23 9 | 72 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.91 11 | 77 points by drayfield 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012) (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.76 19 | 31 points by firephox 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Can you see three trees? (not-ship.com)
    ×2.33 15 | 259 points by Pamar 17 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic (reuters.com)
    ×2.15 10 | 39 points by karakoram 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
    ×4.75 29 | 409 points by oshrimpton 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why? (ft.com)
    ×3.99 18 | 39 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Human Judgment as a Specification (brownplt.org)
    ×0.85 35 | 33 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Pong in S Favicon (franzai.com)
    ×0.86 25 | 20 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. There are no instances in ATProto (overreacted.io)
    ×2.10 13 | 497 points by danabramov 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Data Compression Explained (2012) (mattmahoney.net)
    ×1.05 22 | 173 points by mtdewcmu 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (mit.edu)
    ×0.80 24 | 49 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×2.34 39 | 121 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (ibm.com)
    ×1.01 39 | 104 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.15 47 | 73 points by ohjeez 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How many of the 170k English words do you know? (us-west1.run.app)
    ×2.96 23 | 454 points by abnry 1 day ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sogen Kato (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 14 | 13 points by sorokod 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)
    ×2.37 22 | 95 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.99 49 | 139 points by KraftyOne 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    ×4.37 13 | 910 points by ck2 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. "Career coaches" are fear-farming the Stanford AI hiring study [debunk] (placementist.com)
    ×1.17 89 | 12 points by nikkotyze 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years (arcadeheroes.com)
    ×0.65 68 | 38 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lobsters Bug Allows Unauthorized Email Access (lobste.rs)
    ×1.97 11 | 7 points by RandomGerm4n 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.38 64 | 8 points by msephton 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity (novaramedia.com)
    ×1.62 64 | 8 points by vincvinc 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)
    ×1.12 50 | 107 points by EvgeniyZh 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (reuters.com)
    ×3.97 26 | 761 points by ilreb 21 hours ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (legacy.com)
    ×3.28 14 | 435 points by pgrote 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Egyptian Fractions (2006) (plover.com)
    ×0.89 73 | 105 points by luu 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (space.com)
    ×2.35 15 | 157 points by y1n0 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Court Records Should Be Free (eff.org)
    ×4.05 11 | 450 points by hn_acker 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce (cnn.com)
    ×7.23 38 | 12 points by MilnerRoute 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Telescope Ranchers (kottke.org)
    ×1.00 67 | 139 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ten years of ClickHouse in open source (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.96 44 | 320 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets (metiq.space)
    ×1.00 62 | 138 points by rakeda 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. UCalgary study tears off colon cancer's invisibility cloak (ucalgary.ca)
    ×1.79 12 | 7 points by voisin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. John Jumper to join Anthropic (twitter.com/JohnJumperSci)
    ×1.72 38 | 158 points by artninja1988 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)
    ×1.46 56 | 118 points by jwilk 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Big Banana Car (bigbananacar.com)
    ×1.72 31 | 166 points by Bender 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers (github.com/ascorbic)
    ×0.86 79 | 27 points by gurjeet 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Wanted: War-Zone Divers to Scrape Barnacles from Ships in Persian Gulf (insurancejournal.com)
    ×1.39 11 | 6 points by t-3 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand (flexport.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Should everyone be on GLP-1s? (cbc.ca)
    ×2.91 4 | 18 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks (thinkwright.ai)
    ×1.48 80 | 45 points by oceanwaves 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (jvm-weekly.com)
    ×2.55 3 | 635 points by philonoist 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.45 12 | 135 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.68 25 | 960 points by theorchid 2 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty (elenarossini.com)
    ×1.25 73 | 263 points by nemoniac 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017) (digitalorientalist.com)
    ×1.06 47 | 73 points by a_t48 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DuckDB Internals Part 1 (greybeam.ai)
    ×2.11 23 | 458 points by marklit 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (kentbeck.com)
    ×2.63 26 | 199 points by rrvsh 16 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How Alberta Eradicated Rats (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.38 76 | 201 points by tzury 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.47 70 | 221 points by realmofthemad 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Midjourney Medical (midjourney.com)
    ×5.32 20 | 1348 points by ricochet11 2 days ago | 872 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Make every bug perfectly reproducible (workers.io)
    ×2.04 60 | 12 points by chaitanyya 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Kremlometr - Using NLP to spot pro-Russian propaganda in czech media comments (kremlometr.cz)
    ×3.96 35 | 15 points by kekqqq 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access (fromprod.com)
    ×4.21 39 | 508 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech (eff.org)
    ×2.55 9 | 284 points by hn_acker 23 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)
    ×1.84 8 | 214 points by Bender 20 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy (wired.com)
    ×1.06 73 | 141 points by dstala 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Designing a backyard deck for my house (cosmin.cloud)
    ×1.20 40 | 29 points by spycraft 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How to feed a dictator (theguardian.com)
    ×1.51 21 | 148 points by Michelangelo11 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research (jxmo.io)
    ×1.48 30 | 277 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Zenzizenzizenzic (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.64 7 | 113 points by gyosifov 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk (dfdxlabs.com)
    ×1.23 46 | 172 points by mplappert 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Shutting Down Fornjot (fornjot.app)
    ×1.55 11 | 5 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.09 53 | 149 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.67 73 | 125 points by okwasniewski 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems (americanexpress.io)
    ×0.93 58 | 151 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)
    ×4.54 29 | 1260 points by regnerba 3 days ago | 676 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)
    ×2.84 15 | 437 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (mssv.net)
    ×0.79 41 | 28 points by adrianhon 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.85 61 | 98 points by mfornet 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.43 17 | 452 points by turtlesoup 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018) (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 54 | 53 points by kioku 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???