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  1. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
    ×2.06 | 49 points by softwaredoug 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.54 1 | 329 points by Michelangelo11 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (over.pizza)
    ×3.01 1 | 129 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.81 6 | 105 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
    ×2.84 6 | 188 points by oskarth 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
    ×1.54 3 | 124 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Knuth reward check (thomas-huehn.com)
    ×0.89 9 | 132 points by Curiositry 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (cockroachlabs.com)
    ×2.09 4 | 32 points by rafiss 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.38 15 | 234 points by rociiu 13 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (windows.com)
    ×1.45 22 | 151 points by smokel 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
    ×1.06 11 | 69 points by merksittich 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×2.99 14 | 686 points by modinfo 23 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
    ×1.90 21 | 81 points by ghuntley 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×3.43 10 | 331 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
    ×1.44 12 | 89 points by b-man 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)
    ×1.78 8 | 104 points by arkj 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
    ×0.70 35 | 22 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
    ×0.64 25 | 66 points by nateb2022 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform' (barchart.com)
    ×2.78 19 | 50 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.76 19 | 42 points by EA-3167 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Bitwarden Dual License Model (bitwarden.com)
    ×2.64 15 | 335 points by Cider9986 9 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (opengroup.org)
    ×2.21 1 | 237 points by john_alan 13 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
    ×1.42 23 | 90 points by xyproto 12 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
    ×2.33 7 | 399 points by g-b-r 21 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (vt.edu)
    ×1.45 25 | 96 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
    ×2.52 8 | 201 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (usenix.org)
    ×2.00 21 | 300 points by ortusdux 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years (phys.org)
    ×1.32 32 | 124 points by geox 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.79 22 | 92 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th (nature.com)
    ×0.76 12 | 13 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
    ×1.00 22 | 54 points by kgolubic 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
    ×2.29 17 | 376 points by baal80spam 14 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How Protein Took over the World (ft.com)
    ×1.35 3 | 53 points by thm 8 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.68 14 | 32 points by makerdiety 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.65 18 | 24 points by PicardManeuver 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.26 28 | 177 points by jsomers 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
    ×4.79 8 | 1337 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (popvax.com)
    ×2.10 17 | 115 points by jajoosam 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text (datocms.com)
    ×0.64 37 | 54 points by steffoz 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors (righto.com)
    ×1.26 30 | 16 points by pwg 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)
    ×5.93 16 | 1357 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
    ×1.99 13 | 410 points by simplyalec 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
    ×1.04 40 | 132 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (wordpress.com)
    ×1.68 41 | 190 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A Stark Warning from a Former AI Doomer (apple.com)
    ×2.37 17 | 9 points by _virtu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (broadinstitute.org)
    ×1.51 23 | 155 points by luu 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)
    ×2.33 17 | 222 points by tonymet 15 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (theguardian.com)
    ×4.28 34 | 167 points by NewJazz 9 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
    ×2.38 8 | 428 points by tosh 1 day ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.97 28 | 282 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
    ×1.08 41 | 179 points by piratebroadcast 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sorry, I'm in a meeting (iminafleeting.com)
    ×4.49 8 | 999 points by splintersio 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020) (nature.com)
    ×1.15 62 | 119 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)
    ×0.93 49 | 115 points by khaosdoctor 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Our $445M Series D (oxide.computer)
    ×2.86 6 | 691 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
    ×0.84 79 | 97 points by jacobedawson 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The state of systemd: 2026 edition (lwn.net)
    ×0.96 75 | 9 points by hnrprtlpdb 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Programming Isn't Special (glyph.im)
    ×2.20 47 | 256 points by ingve 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Computers Cannot Make Decisions (cateat.fish)
    ×2.06 12 | 193 points by heavensteeth 18 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.06 47 | 82 points by astlouis44 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web (projecttimestamper.org)
    ×0.80 10 | 39 points by arthuredelstein 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
    ×1.50 36 | 163 points by miletus 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.22 30 | 661 points by gumby 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (dgt.is)
    ×4.38 3 | 1110 points by jonotime 2 days ago | 976 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 55 | 1348 points by OfficialTurkey 4 days ago | 1527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (dexerto.com)
    ×4.15 7 | 944 points by ck2 2 days ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.69 27 | 12 points by ron_k 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×3.41 1 | 946 points by gmays 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.80 3 | 412 points by franze 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×2.27 68 | 289 points by pyduan 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks (senate.gov)
    ×2.89 4 | 51 points by DeepLogin 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to head into VR without wearing a headset (kyushu-u.ac.jp)
    ×0.69 27 | 65 points by Betelbuddy 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×4.28 1 | 921 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing? (transitions.substack.com)
    ×1.06 6 | 7 points by fsndz 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator (typeincube.com)
    ×0.78 15 | 53 points by eustoria 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
    ×0.92 48 | 65 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.34 14 | 483 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.52 1 | 355 points by trakkstar 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (nbcphiladelphia.com)
    ×2.94 14 | 206 points by Zambyte 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Yes, and (htmx.org)
    ×3.69 6 | 768 points by Michelangelo11 2 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×1.92 69 | 6 points by ravenical 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond (shrub.industries)
    ×0.34 72 | 20 points by shrub900 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
    ×1.33 50 | 207 points by md224 2 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.24 5 | 10 points by raffael_de 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Put a price on breakthroughs (alexwang.ai)
    ×0.69 59 | 30 points by ketothekingdom 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
    ×4.14 67 | 124 points by utiiiD 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.56 58 | 230 points by andreynering 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.35 63 | 401 points by 6bitquant 3 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com/WallStreetApes)
    ×2.00 1 | 188 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. M7.6 Earthquake in Panama (usgs.gov)
    ×1.42 6 | 161 points by gslin 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???