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  1. Domain expertise has always been the real moat (brethorsting.com)
    ×3.01 1 | 97 points by aaronbrethorst 1 hour ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.29 1 | 315 points by freeCandy 4 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (github.com/Hawzen)
    ×2.42 2 | 127 points by Hawzen 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Accenture to acquire Ookla (accenture.com)
    ×2.88 5 | 189 points by Garbage 5 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)
    ×1.55 3 | 144 points by kristoff_it 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013) (lowendmac.com)
    ×1.01 8 | 37 points by tylerdane 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (ajin.im)
    ×1.32 3 | 59 points by poppypetalmask 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack (github.com/wolfSSL)
    ×1.32 10 | 18 points by aidangarske 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Voxel Space (2017) (s-macke.github.io)
    ×1.61 3 | 234 points by davikr 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled (twilitrealm.dev)
    ×1.71 3 | 31 points by shepherdjerred 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping (remyhax.xyz)
    ×1.00 8 | 28 points by jerrythegerbil 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (righto.com)
    ×1.17 5 | 72 points by pwg 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com/kristapsdz)
    ×2.21 9 | 292 points by sph 11 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams (openenvelope.org)
    ×0.79 47 | 7 points by ashconway 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)
    ×2.00 5 | 342 points by ankitg12 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates (lloydslist.com)
    ×2.52 10 | 144 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
    ×0.95 12 | 62 points by Michelangelo11 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Republicans are trying to kill science in this country (npr.org)
    ×8.37 14 | 24 points by pdar4123 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)
    ×1.93 6 | 307 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Design Engineering Magazine (interfaces.dev)
    ×1.89 6 | 12 points by hnhsh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine (myzopotamia.dev)
    ×1.62 6 | 164 points by myzek 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (fermatslibrary.com)
    ×1.24 15 | 87 points by malshe 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Shakespeare's World – I thought this would be simple but (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
    ×0.77 33 | 10 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal (github.com/darshanmakwana412)
    ×1.12 37 | 7 points by martianvoid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (engadget.com)
    ×1.34 26 | 136 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated (gptzero.me)
    ×4.74 25 | 243 points by smartmic 3 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (economist.com)
    ×1.59 17 | 147 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. What are locusts and what happened to them? (explosion-scratch.github.io)
    ×1.92 13 | 197 points by explosion-s 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stateless Actors (massicotte.org)
    ×0.64 37 | 24 points by frizlab 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)
    ×0.92 22 | 105 points by ruaraidh 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A disappearing Service Processor (2025) (oxide.computer)
    ×0.91 19 | 10 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers (jackmaguire.org)
    ×3.89 6 | 76 points by LilBytes 7 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (scientificamerican.com)
    ×4.28 43 | 193 points by jordanpg 20 hours ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Searching for Birds (visualcinnamon.com)
    ×0.75 24 | 22 points by robin_reala 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.53 36 | 9 points by rishikeshs 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (thecretefleet.com)
    ×0.54 44 | 36 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. We are constantly broadcasting emotional data (tonyrice.me)
    ×1.19 16 | 19 points by tonyrice 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.93 14 | 125 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×1.62 33 | 112 points by gattilorenz 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. MCP is dead? (quandri.io)
    ×2.47 24 | 381 points by nadis 23 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Last Technical Interview (medium.com)
    ×1.98 48 | 233 points by headalgorithm 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (chrislewis.au)
    ×1.64 28 | 274 points by GaggiX 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer (prusa3d.com)
    ×1.42 45 | 220 points by rented_mule 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History (deadcarl.com)
    ×1.27 35 | 70 points by baud147258 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) (martyn.berlin)
    ×1.57 22 | 48 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80 (bbc.com)
    ×2.35 14 | 19 points by layer8 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 768GB Intel Optane DIMMs to run 1T-parameter LLM with single GPU at 4tps (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.19 12 | 13 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots (theverge.com)
    ×1.12 53 | 182 points by evilsimon 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)
    ×2.59 5 | 669 points by tomasol 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (overreacted.io)
    ×1.01 42 | 87 points by satvikpendem 16 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.20 12 | 59 points by karakoram 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025) (sigbovik.org)
    ×2.04 22 | 79 points by kmstout 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Meteor explodes off coast of Massachusetts, causing loud boom – CBS Boston (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.67 8 | 8 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The timing of the impending crude crisis (brookings.edu)
    ×1.59 1 | 4 points by mooreds 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets (wsj.com)
    ×3.79 22 | 136 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (inkandswitch.com)
    ×1.17 42 | 252 points by justinweiss 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU (asawicki.info)
    ×0.52 49 | 43 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com/jmaczan)
    ×1.23 41 | 181 points by yu3zhou4 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (ieee.org)
    ×0.84 44 | 89 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.22 50 | 110 points by arrdalan 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. On Rendering Diffs (pierre.computer)
    ×1.41 35 | 196 points by amadeus 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Naphtha shortages in Japan (nippon.com)
    ×1.27 20 | 152 points by takakaze 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.26 3 | 1741 points by craigmart 2 days ago | 1359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×1.95 4 | 452 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×1.19 52 | 189 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)
    ×4.47 8 | 723 points by AndrewKemendo 1 day ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
    ×3.21 61 | 384 points by Bolat14 8 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)
    ×5.31 5 | 1324 points by philips 2 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dear Steve Lemay (ilyabirman.net)
    ×1.28 53 | 6 points by zahrevsky 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×1.43 74 | 184 points by mil22 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)
    ×4.50 22 | 627 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 836 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.16 47 | 185 points by tosh 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7 (openrct2.io)
    ×0.60 52 | 32 points by jandeboevrie 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A new register allocator for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)
    ×0.70 41 | 55 points by tenderlove 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (kog.ai)
    ×1.35 46 | 211 points by NicoConstant 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks (martyn.berlin)
    ×5.55 61 | 114 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.19 32 | 485 points by tambourine_man 22 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.73 53 | 216 points by goranmoomin 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV (tvexplorer.live)
    ×1.44 32 | 172 points by dtagames 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mystery company accidentally blew $500M on Claude AI in a single month (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.34 32 | 8 points by timpera 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Math-to-Manim (github.com/HarleyCoops)
    ×0.83 35 | 61 points by georgewsinger 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents (roundtable.ai)
    ×0.67 58 | 80 points by timshell 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM (perryts.com)
    ×1.11 6 | 119 points by 0x1997 19 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Let's talk about encrypted reasoning (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×0.99 52 | 25 points by MrBuddyCasino 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.05 2 | 378 points by watermelon0 1 day ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (zot.sh)
    ×1.13 38 | 95 points by patriceckhart 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
    ×1.09 51 | 106 points by andrejsshell 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The dead economy theory (owenmcgrann.com)
    ×5.37 55 | 1249 points by WillDaSilva 1 day ago | 1357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Expertise in the age of AI (moderndescartes.com)
    ×1.12 43 | 120 points by brilee 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???