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  1. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
    ×0.97 2 | 65 points by BruceEel 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.05 3 | 323 points by seg6 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.56 8 | 165 points by jggonz 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
    ×2.18 8 | 119 points by bohaska 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.59 15 | 9 points by gukoff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.05 2 | 222 points by bobbiechen 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.58 3 | 188 points by jmusall 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.25 6 | 411 points by groomlake 17 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.78 8 | 140 points by doubletwoyou 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    ×2.34 3 | 188 points by adletbalzhanov 10 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.86 17 | 11 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
    ×0.89 10 | 18 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.01 3 | 396 points by shaunpud 19 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
    ×1.20 5 | 61 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.40 11 | 115 points by hakkikonu 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    ×1.44 8 | 146 points by MarcoDewey 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×1.03 17 | 41 points by frozenseven 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.98 16 | 178 points by minimaxir 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×0.48 48 | 4 points by michaefe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
    ×3.04 16 | 98 points by WaitWaitWha 5 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 54 points by tchalla 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Assert(): A Modern How To (fiberfs.io)
    ×0.37 57 | 10 points by nyc_pizzadev 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.58 14 | 109 points by bkudria 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.49 20 | 178 points by electricant 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
    ×1.10 11 | 36 points by robin_reala 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)
    ×1.00 30 | 80 points by robinpdev 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
    ×0.57 22 | 51 points by fagnerbrack 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.89 27 | 126 points by mfiguiere 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Datalog Disassembly (github.com/GrammaTech)
    ×0.73 40 | 43 points by aboardRat4 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.10 23 | 754 points by senko 18 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    ×0.80 23 | 45 points by hyperific 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)
    ×2.45 17 | 8 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    ×1.82 2 | 193 points by gumby 17 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
    ×0.79 40 | 61 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.69 74 | 6 points by 1659447091 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.35 9 | 416 points by bhavansig 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.16 20 | 54 points by Eloissssss 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    ×3.41 32 | 573 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019) (rajivprab.com)
    ×0.67 41 | 22 points by whack 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    ×0.74 49 | 56 points by skibz 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.89 41 | 111 points by rfarley04 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.83 19 | 394 points by 882542F3884314B 22 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.73 57 | 81 points by rahen 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    ×0.78 64 | 71 points by kkgupta 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.06 50 | 82 points by mmoogle 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
    ×1.50 74 | 16 points by divingstar 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.50 7 | 286 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles (apnews.com)
    ×1.51 27 | 9 points by geox 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (njit.edu)
    ×1.06 42 | 37 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. What makes companies dodge taxes? (utexas.edu)
    ×0.88 72 | 9 points by hhs 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.24 9 | 1017 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.32 | 430 points by aanet 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×3.75 46 | 226 points by allenc 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.13 11 | 772 points by tosh 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×0.71 85 | 71 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
    ×2.73 42 | 273 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I asked 4 AI companions what they were. They lied, then texted me the next day (ssrn.com)
    ×1.98 76 | 5 points by Ai_Sycophancy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
    ×4.41 20 | 195 points by ExMachina73 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    ×0.93 57 | 40 points by bgpdude 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
    ×2.02 13 | 164 points by happosai 19 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AFK – Command center for teams running coding agents (mooglest.com)
    ×0.77 93 | 6 points by lcavadas 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.49 51 | 162 points by zdw 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.27 22 | 359 points by epestr 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.96 14 | 348 points by moelf 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 52 | 72 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results (github.com/Tura-AI)
    ×0.61 80 | 7 points by turaainet 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.30 70 | 214 points by m3h 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.13 28 | 796 points by boplicity 2 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.58 36 | 175 points by andrewpollack 16 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. "Coding is solved" misses the point (mastykarz.nl)
    ×1.75 14 | 16 points by listless 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE (amibeingpwned.com)
    ×1.02 73 | 16 points by Doohickey-d 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Delta Passed on Starlink Wi-Fi. United and Virgin Atlantic Are Seeing the Payoff (inc.com)
    ×1.94 5 | 4 points by mlindner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Muse Code Sends Codex and Claude Instructions to Meta by Default (runtimewire.com)
    ×1.84 3 | 7 points by ryanmerket 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.11 47 | 197 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Termdom: Build terminal apps with HTML, CSS and the DOM (github.com/bikeshaving)
    ×1.62 19 | 6 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.65 75 | 49 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.56 83 | 11 points by modinfo 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.90 14 | 928 points by itvision 2 days ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.00 9 | 526 points by delduca 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.32 23 | 6 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S. (npr.org)
    ×2.56 16 | 24 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ready set march: Researchers use math to explain sudden activity bursts in ants (nyu.edu)
    ×1.01 65 | 6 points by hhs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.01 10 | 160 points by 01-_- 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.99 1 | 416 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.02 14 | 21 points by Eloissssss 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.74 25 | 392 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)
    ×0.56 80 | 8 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.47 16 | 501 points by inigyou 2 days ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.78 67 | 231 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×3.96 72 | 228 points by geox 15 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???