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  1. Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976) (chez.com)
    ×2.04 1 | 96 points by janandonly 2 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×1.59 2 | 171 points by doener 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.16 | 543 points by l1am0 10 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    ×7.60 3 | 59 points by firefoxd 44 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.11 2 | 280 points by SatvikBeri 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×1.37 11 | 24 points by CzaxTanmay 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.57 12 | 117 points by mikece 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    ×1.95 6 | 133 points by yannick2k 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. (leventhalmap.org)
    ×0.80 18 | 37 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    ×1.37 13 | 174 points by 0x54MUR41 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
    ×1.08 22 | 78 points by donatj 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    ×0.39 64 | 3 points by jandrewrogers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
    ×1.64 25 | 117 points by demail 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival (phys.org)
    ×2.05 10 | 34 points by bikenaga 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. List animals until failure (rose.systems)
    ×2.27 16 | 287 points by l1n 16 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown (github.com/VoidenHQ)
    ×0.91 32 | 16 points by dhruv3006 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
    ×1.81 9 | 12 points by PaulHoule 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×0.81 43 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    ×1.23 21 | 63 points by ActionRetro 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.48 25 | 152 points by doppp 15 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.36 | 52 points by ddaniel10 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)
    ×1.14 21 | 33 points by mitchbob 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.42 26 | 156 points by marojejian 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
    ×1.87 28 | 257 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    ×4.96 16 | 5 points by rcarmo 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control – TDF Community Blog (documentfoundation.org)
    ×1.10 4 | 5 points by cratermoon 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
    ×1.47 31 | 214 points by ColinWright 22 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Real engineering failures instead of success stories (failhub.substack.com)
    ×1.59 18 | 27 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/DataDog)
    ×1.18 30 | 117 points by tanelpoder 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.27 4 | 818 points by cbeuw 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.86 14 | 5 points by geox 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
    ×1.23 33 | 136 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.79 22 | 229 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
    ×0.64 47 | 42 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.26 35 | 222 points by qmr 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)
    ×2.71 31 | 182 points by breve 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.34 9 | 146 points by kohlschuetter 11 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. NCR Tower 1632 – Computer Ads from the Past (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
    ×1.52 26 | 15 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.40 7 | 290 points by CrossVR 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.41 24 | 91 points by merelysounds 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
    ×1.35 33 | 131 points by behnamoh 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tuning Semantic Search on JFMM.net – Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (carlkolon.com)
    ×0.40 31 | 28 points by cckolon 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Over half of American adults can't read at 6th Grade Levels (moneywise.com)
    ×4.68 18 | 27 points by laurex 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building (phoronix.com)
    ×3.29 29 | 11 points by sergiogdr 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
    ×0.72 51 | 50 points by 1970-01-01 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)
    ×5.28 14 | 696 points by Teever 1 day ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)
    ×1.52 24 | 168 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (apple.com)
    ×1.89 24 | 200 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×0.91 37 | 108 points by ritvikarya98 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.67 21 | 21 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CPython Internals Explained (github.com/zpoint)
    ×1.47 27 | 213 points by yufiz 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Automatic Programming (antirez.com)
    ×2.65 31 | 244 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci (cern.ch)
    ×0.86 22 | 51 points by nill0 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015) (shazow.net)
    ×3.46 20 | 23 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Leakage of polymer-coated fertilizer microplastics from paddy fields to beaches (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.31 11 | 7 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles (cnbc.com)
    ×3.34 52 | 297 points by pera 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.39 36 | 182 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.28 44 | 3 points by tracyspacy 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 44 | 80 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)
    ×1.13 44 | 80 points by doener 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way (randsinrepose.com)
    ×2.63 24 | 147 points by ohjeez 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) (nmn.sh)
    ×2.47 20 | 311 points by behnamoh 21 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)
    ×1.59 35 | 172 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sparse File LRU Cache (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
    ×0.76 31 | 48 points by paladin314159 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
    ×0.84 63 | 93 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.18 31 | 166 points by verzali 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Best of Moltbook (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.32 17 | 75 points by feross 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s (politico.eu)
    ×3.82 14 | 54 points by DavideNL 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.73 3 | 253 points by schlichtm 1 day ago | 854 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.02 24 | 85 points by zaptrem 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)
    ×1.11 9 | 122 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ferrari vs. Markets (enigmatechnologies.dev)
    ×0.88 40 | 58 points by merinid 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)
    ×1.92 9 | 127 points by novaRom 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    ×2.25 69 | 67 points by cmsefton 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pre-Steal This Book (2008) (seths.blog)
    ×0.87 50 | 21 points by herbertl 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS (genode.org)
    ×0.88 14 | 119 points by doener 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M (rrauction.com)
    ×1.22 8 | 59 points by qingcharles 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev (somehowmanage.com)
    ×1.29 33 | 152 points by Ozzie_osman 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? (webkit.org)
    ×1.15 21 | 44 points by feross 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Spurious Correlations (tylervigen.com)
    ×0.86 61 | 4 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pancreatic cancer researchers' latest breakthrough could help tumors disappear (nypost.com)
    ×1.92 51 | 14 points by abunuwas 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) (archaeologyworlds.com)
    ×0.94 31 | 146 points by griffzhowl 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.68 14 | 207 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones (simedw.com)
    ×2.12 7 | 453 points by simedw 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US, UK, EU, Australia and more to meet to discuss critical minerals alliance (theguardian.com)
    ×1.88 34 | 17 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency (globalping.io)
    ×1.35 3 | 219 points by jimaek 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023) (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×1.18 35 | 120 points by OgsyedIE 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Phage Explorer (phage-explorer.org)
    ×0.87 33 | 118 points by eigenvalue 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources (openjuris.org)
    ×0.76 45 | 15 points by Zachzhao 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???