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  1. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
    ×4.83 | 666 points by defrost 4 hours ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (patronview.com)
    ×1.73 12 | 6 points by petercooper 12 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.34 8 | 47 points by v0id_isgood 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.05 2 | 220 points by ceejayoz 2 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×2.73 10 | 480 points by boplicity 14 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.64 7 | 766 points by itvision 18 hours ago | 584 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower (wsj.com)
    ×2.02 1 | 45 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (ykiko.me)
    ×1.07 16 | 18 points by rramadass 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.20 14 | 36 points by m3h 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale (on-t.work)
    ×1.37 1 | 47 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.77 7 | 58 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.95 16 | 553 points by tsak 22 hours ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.83 25 | 53 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.05 27 | 228 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.22 29 | 277 points by neversaydie 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.20 41 | 173 points by Audiophilip 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.65 23 | 25 points by jasim 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.14 38 | 14 points by stagas 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.74 23 | 450 points by Footkerchief 23 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.67 35 | 275 points by tedsanders 22 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.36 9 | 29 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.25 27 | 190 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.84 49 | 215 points by willcarkner 23 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.91 3 | 35 points by poly2it 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.37 36 | 118 points by koolhead17 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.51 24 | 249 points by collinmanderson 19 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.91 41 | 41 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.54 11 | 5 points by Bender 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Software is about people, not code (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
    ×4.31 12 | 5 points by venamresm__ 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
    ×1.29 41 | 174 points by luu 20 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.39 6 | 1105 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.82 53 | 81 points by indyjo 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.24 2 | 118 points by teleforce 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×1.56 44 | 195 points by laurentiurad 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (fastcompany.com)
    ×4.80 32 | 115 points by rwmj 1 hour ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.83 9 | 233 points by baranul 17 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×0.93 4 | 82 points by rogix 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×1.18 45 | 66 points by champagnepapi 14 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.98 8 | 362 points by dsubburam 18 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly' (npr.org)
    ×2.76 11 | 31 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 54 | 110 points by davidmckayv 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.25 28 | 131 points by sebg 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (frame.work)
    ×2.40 16 | 123 points by RobinHirst11 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.81 58 | 120 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.08 44 | 97 points by bschne 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.25 60 | 16 points by purestatelabs 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (github.com/schroedinger-Hat)
    ×0.68 37 | 13 points by thejoin95 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. "It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)
    ×2.01 57 | 28 points by colinprince 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas (newsweek.com)
    ×3.12 27 | 40 points by almog 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.78 62 | 84 points by mpweiher 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.40 64 | 177 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.32 58 | 110 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.78 45 | 25 points by MBCook 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.65 4 | 675 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.56 84 | 4 points by andros 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.55 13 | 327 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
    ×2.16 11 | 384 points by yusyd 23 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.95 65 | 89 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agent Reach: An open-source CLI that gives AI agents access to the internet (github.com/Panniantong)
    ×0.31 84 | 4 points by Nina_antalpha 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (divyendusingh.com)
    ×0.42 74 | 16 points by divyenduz 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)
    ×0.37 43 | 17 points by mpc75 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×2.01 4 | 482 points by atan2 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.86 11 | 930 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (politico.com)
    [flagged] ×7.85 59 | 92 points by ceejayoz 2 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.32 12 | 46 points by CaRDiaK 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.05 14 | 841 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.03 49 | 77 points by john_strinlai 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.40 42 | 520 points by apitman 20 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.15 63 | 116 points by msephton 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies (github.com/satyasairay)
    ×1.45 61 | 7 points by satyasairay 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Original iPhone Loses Its Last Cellular Network as T-Mobile Kills 2G (macrumors.com)
    ×1.33 16 | 5 points by thm 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 76 | 22 points by Jimmc414 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.16 2 | 164 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Quantum entanglement generated by sunlight for the first time (uottawa.ca)
    ×1.02 84 | 5 points by giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
    ×1.01 12 | 51 points by martinhath 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Flock Pitched a Plan to Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers into Roaming Surveillance (404media.co)
    ×3.64 57 | 17 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.38 9 | 252 points by binyu 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.93 13 | 458 points by speckx 1 day ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.35 88 | 68 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 62 | 168 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com/mattdeeds)
    ×0.74 28 | 49 points by mdeeds 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.11 75 | 447 points by pmg101 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×1.96 67 | 109 points by Jare 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Parsers don't have to be complicated (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×1.37 36 | 57 points by signa11 9 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware (socket.dev)
    ×2.53 6 | 44 points by bhavansig 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.69 61 | 69 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? (noemamag.com)
    ×3.93 80 | 68 points by RickJWagner 2 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.60 66 | 67 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Killing Complexity Before Complexity Kills Growth (bain.com)
    ×0.99 28 | 3 points by andrewstetsenko 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model (reuters.com)
    ×3.67 72 | 9 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???