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  1. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.47 3 | 65 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
    ×2.19 5 | 507 points by piotrgrabowski 14 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)
    ×2.42 20 | 156 points by randycupertino 10 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
    ×1.31 14 | 201 points by logicallee 11 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com/firelex)
    ×2.27 2 | 433 points by firelex 9 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tank Body Problem (jimsitu.com)
    ×1.34 11 | 62 points by jimbooonooo 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
    ×0.93 23 | 118 points by yusufaytas 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.18 8 | 30 points by thefourthchime 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com/Low-Zi-Hong)
    ×1.20 29 | 69 points by nkko 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.28 8 | 706 points by D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 12 hours ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? (wired.com)
    ×1.46 10 | 31 points by danielmorozoff 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)
    ×1.38 17 | 235 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.94 22 | 96 points by gumby 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
    ×1.22 4 | 88 points by henrychannel 6 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)
    ×2.92 | 362 points by simonpure 14 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. World Labs Is Joining AMD (worldlabs.ai)
    ×1.95 8 | 250 points by mfiguiere 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero (priceonomics.com)
    ×1.04 15 | 34 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)
    ×1.60 24 | 146 points by jonbaer 14 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
    ×2.85 17 | 178 points by p-s-v 14 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com/AliAbunimah)
    ×7.35 8 | 392 points by slowin 14 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)
    ×1.38 7 | 56 points by jamie-simon 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
    ×5.43 17 | 409 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Simulating Airband Am Radios (bitbashing.io)
    ×1.09 4 | 17 points by shellpipe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×1.17 27 | 6 points by rhl314 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (isfine.org)
    ×1.71 6 | 104 points by keeda 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance (sagepub.com)
    ×0.53 33 | 27 points by rustoo 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.38 17 | 146 points by macleos 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.29 12 | 150 points by mrborgen 13 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Behold the pawpaw (cbc.ca)
    ×1.26 57 | 66 points by BiraIgnacio 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.40 13 | 129 points by HugoDz 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×7.83 12 | 1871 points by sancho-panza 1 day ago | 1049 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra (bluegraph.io)
    ×0.64 18 | 16 points by polytap 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)
    ×3.84 19 | 470 points by firstSpeaker 16 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators (benovermyer.com)
    ×0.55 42 | 72 points by bovermyer 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Profit Margins of the Largest Companies (visualcapitalist.com)
    ×1.61 10 | 22 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (plcred.org)
    ×0.57 30 | 45 points by embedding-shape 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)
    ×3.22 15 | 340 points by diek 15 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
    ×1.20 31 | 170 points by nicocarsui 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (vespper.com)
    ×0.36 59 | 34 points by topaztee 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What would a serious AI product look like? (glyph.im)
    ×1.84 23 | 144 points by lumpa 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
    ×1.07 38 | 164 points by birdculture 23 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.14 30 | 133 points by seamus_c 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GDB 18.1 Released (sourceware.org)
    ×1.73 58 | 32 points by edelsohn 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.50 37 | 45 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    ×1.39 6 | 312 points by davidcollantes 19 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.35 42 | 113 points by sia_xi 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
    ×1.26 53 | 27 points by chmaynard 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    ×1.05 51 | 157 points by mroche 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)
    ×0.72 36 | 22 points by ColinWright 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I switched to Brave (kevquirk.com)
    ×2.24 4 | 115 points by mindracer 15 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GPT-6 Astra Is the Best Vision Model We Have Tested (roboflow.com)
    ×2.31 58 | 7 points by gmays 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator (wedgworth.com)
    ×0.54 37 | 8 points by paltman 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Highlights from Git 2.56 (github.blog)
    ×1.03 66 | 4 points by soheilpro 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
    ×4.01 53 | 126 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 37 | 171 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (newyorker.com)
    ×0.70 3 | 77 points by prismatic 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GrapheneOS – When an app is slow (wirelessmoves.com)
    ×1.12 9 | 80 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
    ×3.35 38 | 226 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Windows 11½ (definitelynotwindows.com)
    ×5.03 53 | 460 points by jjbinx007 12 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI risk is not sentience by computers, it is negligence by humans (seattletimes.com)
    ×1.98 11 | 7 points by ianmosher 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    ×0.37 55 | 24 points by luu 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns (bbc.com)
    ×2.61 | 5 points by alastairr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) (slashdot.org)
    ×1.98 16 | 75 points by jdkee 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (ssp.sh)
    ×3.82 51 | 358 points by zazuke 14 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.47 8 | 5 points by thelastgallon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.52 4 | 14 points by lisper 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.39 6 | 579 points by gmays 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sonnet 5.5 scores just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.80 82 | 3 points by spenvo 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 49 | 65 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
    ×1.04 50 | 173 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.70 58 | 97 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
    ×1.81 58 | 19 points by amortize 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong (c3-lang.org)
    ×2.02 5 | 17 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×1.80 17 | 308 points by safaelmali 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sober: We Ported Roblox to Linux (vinegarhq.org)
    ×0.77 59 | 11 points by poly2it 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
    ×4.92 52 | 1065 points by Eric_Gullichsen 1 day ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Let's See Paul Allen's SIMD CSV Parser (chunkofcoal.com)
    ×1.05 55 | 10 points by hellerve 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×0.95 43 | 124 points by bingden 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.59 46 | 76 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.38 16 | 10 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD (elsevier.com)
    ×1.99 6 | 14 points by OutOfHere 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step (engadget.com)
    ×0.77 74 | 11 points by poisonborz 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
    ×1.73 55 | 85 points by FKJ 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. European industry is doing better than you may think (economist.com)
    ×1.86 52 | 58 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.90 30 | 84 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×2.35 4 | 343 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses (github.com/google-research)
    ×0.81 58 | 8 points by simonpure 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 47 | 86 points by Rochus 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Its not just the f*cking sandbox (twitter.com/joedaroo)
    ×2.84 34 | 20 points by jumploops 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.75 61 | 91 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???