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  1. FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/FFmpeg)
    ×4.19 | 153 points by gyan 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×2.81 3 | 29 points by zhoutong 55 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×4.56 4 | 991 points by MaxMussio 13 hours ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
    ×2.63 4 | 50 points by pedro_movai 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.78 4 | 67 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
    ×1.78 4 | 195 points by leonickson 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.51 6 | 546 points by milkshakes 18 hours ago | 838 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.69 7 | 623 points by bryanmikaelian 20 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
    ×1.31 8 | 159 points by marojejian 10 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.88 29 | 9 points by wglb 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.32 13 | 71 points by wofo 8 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.18 9 | 181 points by whoishiring 13 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
    ×2.73 14 | 492 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.28 4 | 164 points by pmg101 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.61 15 | 223 points by ascorbic 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.75 9 | 27 points by footest 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
    ×3.69 14 | 276 points by fiddlosopher 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.16 18 | 121 points by whoishiring 14 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (comfy.org)
    ×1.50 13 | 300 points by vblanco 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
    ×0.55 48 | 73 points by BenceRed 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
    ×2.02 8 | 315 points by nikolay_sivko 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.11 17 | 168 points by roryirvine 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (aps.org)
    ×0.60 26 | 9 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
    ×0.65 55 | 3 points by shelldweller 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. 200 Milliseconds (thenodebook.com)
    ×2.71 6 | 291 points by dimitarpanov 16 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
    ×1.17 7 | 109 points by jandeboevrie 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)
    ×2.51 24 | 43 points by riffraff 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.92 13 | 360 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.89 24 | 78 points by austinallegro 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)
    ×1.32 14 | 199 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (defector.com)
    ×1.94 15 | 247 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.73 2 | 551 points by mertbio 1 day ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.40 17 | 221 points by Anon84 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (upi.com)
    ×7.15 33 | 61 points by giov4 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode (wordpress.com)
    ×0.82 30 | 48 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.32 57 | 8 points by aba_cz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (2010) (scancad.net)
    ×0.38 36 | 13 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
    ×4.67 17 | 1079 points by ai2027 1 day ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)
    ×1.13 16 | 109 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com/SwagSoftware)
    ×1.28 22 | 73 points by skibz 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
    ×6.87 36 | 200 points by meetpateltech 5 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
    ×1.55 25 | 91 points by yusufozkan 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.76 44 | 43 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (mcgill.ca)
    ×1.99 9 | 149 points by audreyfei 15 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Battle of the Beams (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.35 12 | 56 points by petethomas 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ioskeley Mono (github.com/ahatem)
    ×1.56 55 | 24 points by carlos-menezes 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.69 37 | 52 points by ashleypeacock 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.16 4 | 51 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×0.99 28 | 131 points by adulion 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (jfrog.com)
    ×3.23 33 | 713 points by ymir_e 23 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B (businesswire.com)
    ×4.31 40 | 20 points by BoorishBears 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (rootsofprogress.org)
    ×1.47 1 | 46 points by frozenseven 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×1.93 38 | 123 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SearXNG in Rust (github.com/MikeLuu99)
    ×0.99 20 | 69 points by dluuuu 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Kelly Criterion Simulator (kellysimulator.com)
    ×0.97 14 | 67 points by aleyan 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
    ×2.02 32 | 267 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Train Simulator Controller (z80.me)
    ×0.99 43 | 102 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (abc.net.au)
    ×1.89 69 | 208 points by CHB0403085482 2 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
    ×0.83 30 | 57 points by signa11 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ASCII Today (ascii.today)
    ×1.68 37 | 47 points by andsoitis 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)
    ×0.83 19 | 110 points by NickySlicks 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.59 50 | 49 points by aofeisheng 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
    ×1.05 20 | 123 points by nnx 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)
    ×1.13 7 | 72 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The true power of regular expressions (2012) (npopov.com)
    ×0.82 45 | 78 points by uneven9434 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
    ×1.03 40 | 126 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Don't start a startup with the goal of getting acquired (raymondyxu.com)
    ×1.76 46 | 19 points by greenfish6 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Potomac River Midair Collision (medium.com)
    ×2.66 9 | 82 points by mplanchard 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
    ×1.20 30 | 176 points by jeninh 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.48 38 | 40 points by screm 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kraid is a now a real compiler (collabora.com)
    ×0.49 60 | 32 points by losgehts 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)
    ×0.49 52 | 30 points by peter_d_sherman 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.50 36 | 52 points by meysamazad 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
    ×0.94 20 | 41 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
    ×7.73 65 | 1745 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 706 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com/johnsonjh)
    ×0.63 54 | 95 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Future of Gnome Boxes (gnome.org)
    ×1.28 21 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Incus 7.3 adds easy GPU virtualization (linuxcontainers.org)
    ×1.49 69 | 9 points by ropyeett 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (andreagrandi.it)
    ×1.12 28 | 145 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.62 33 | 5 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 40 | 91 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
    ×1.54 22 | 246 points by c-oreills 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (mattbeton.com)
    ×0.91 36 | 134 points by nmstoker 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×1.67 10 | 181 points by emilesilvis 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The myth of Snow Leopard (rubenerd.au)
    ×1.17 49 | 123 points by speckx 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×2.78 26 | 611 points by delichon 1 day ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to Ceuta (apnews.com)
    ×2.69 44 | 6 points by geox 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Read the novels and forget everything else (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×1.22 34 | 135 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×1.47 28 | 235 points by paavohtl 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???