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  1. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.40 3 | 18 points by boris_m 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  2. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×2.00 | 122 points by fouronnes3 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  3. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.08 | 1008 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago | 661 comments | ??? ???
  4. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.69 3 | 46 points by signa11 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  5. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.11 4 | 91 points by eshelyaron 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  6. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.19 1 | 597 points by aray07 16 hours ago | 421 comments | ??? ???
  7. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.07 5 | 315 points by cybermango 13 hours ago | 185 comments | ??? ???
  8. Amiga Graphics (lychesis.net)
    ×2.33 10 | 10 points by sph 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  9. Spending 3 months coding by hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.40 8 | 197 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 192 comments | ??? ???
  10. What the EU Battery Passport Means for Your Devices (holdmybill.com)
    ×3.09 12 | 16 points by niksmac 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  11. Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
    ×2.26 5 | 29 points by riteshnoronha16 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  12. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.40 2 | 167 points by aw1621107 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ??? ???
  13. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.45 3 | 188 points by louiereederson 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  14. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.70 10 | 10 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  15. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    ×2.11 4 | 47 points by atomfinger 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.44 1 | 318 points by binsquare 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ??? ???
  17. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×0.80 28 | 6 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  18. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.81 8 | 185 points by seanieb 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ??? ???
  19. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.35 13 | 160 points by ericHosick 15 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  20. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.19 10 | 182 points by nowflux 15 hours ago | 143 comments | ??? ???
  21. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.85 2 | 166 points by arkadiyt 13 hours ago | 91 comments | ??? ???
  22. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.05 1 | 263 points by LorenDB 16 hours ago | 263 comments | ??? ???
  23. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.47 6 | 224 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  24. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×1.01 3 | 71 points by unsuspecting 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  25. Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)
    ×0.87 12 | 14 points by hjconstas 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  26. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.09 13 | 33 points by b-man 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  27. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.52 8 | 195 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  28. Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (ycombinator.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  29. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.97 21 | 50 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  30. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.40 12 | 86 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  31. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.58 10 | 87 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  32. "Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving (mas.to)
    ×4.30 19 | 18 points by riffraff 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  33. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.23 28 | 687 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 176 comments | ??? ???
  34. Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
    ×1.06 13 | 43 points by evakhoury 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  35. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.48 9 | 108 points by wespiser_2018 13 hours ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  36. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.34 26 | 706 points by ColinWright 19 hours ago | 281 comments | ??? ???
  37. The FBI Director Is MIA (theatlantic.com)
    ×7.63 29 | 47 points by osnium123 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  38. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.31 8 | 164 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  39. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.23 18 | 91 points by mellosouls 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  40. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.54 8 | 261 points by mpweiher 23 hours ago | 182 comments | ??? ???
  41. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×1.03 18 | 110 points by marklit 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  42. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.33 55 | 8 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  43. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.15 33 | 67 points by atan2 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  44. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
    ×0.91 20 | 63 points by Cider9986 14 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  45. Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)
    ×2.30 28 | 32 points by lwhsiao 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  46. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.89 38 | 61 points by mcookly 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  47. Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? (floss.social)
    ×2.79 13 | 7 points by pabs3 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  48. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.73 44 | 46 points by PaulHoule 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  49. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.78 23 | 142 points by bryanrasmussen 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  50. The big business of survival bunkers (economist.com)
    ×1.37 53 | 19 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.43 42 | 92 points by AlexC04 22 hours ago | 94 comments | ??? ???
  52. Sequencing DNA at Home Locally on a DGX Spark and Mac Studio (twitter.com/sethshowes)
    ×2.08 3 | 3 points by jonbraun 55 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  53. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×1.01 30 | 140 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 day ago | 77 comments | ??? ???
  54. Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement (reuters.com)
    ×4.66 29 | 41 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  55. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) (davidma.org)
    ×0.72 20 | 24 points by taikon 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  56. Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)
    ×0.96 24 | 72 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
    ×1.00 17 | 114 points by charleslpan 20 hours ago | 97 comments | ??? ???
  58. Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k (fulu.org)
    ×1.52 57 | 16 points by SomaticPirate 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  59. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.05 42 | 148 points by xk3 1 day ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  60. Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber (medium.com)
    ×4.21 29 | 42 points by anon-ex-uber 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  61. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.90 52 | 28 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  62. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×5.73 43 | 197 points by breve 13 hours ago | 156 comments | ??? ???
  63. Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald [audio] (art19.com)
    ×0.83 5 | 28 points by tpoindex 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  64. Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.51 73 | 5 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  65. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.14 43 | 118 points by apollinaire 1 day ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  66. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
    ×0.60 59 | 39 points by AusiasTsel 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  67. There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind" (bigthink.com)
    ×2.97 14 | 30 points by lschueller 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  68. Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
    ×1.13 30 | 141 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 111 comments | ??? ???
  69. Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (motherjones.com)
    ×2.92 13 | 32 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  70. Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)
    ×4.60 41 | 25 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  71. From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×2.51 10 | 28 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  72. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.10 38 | 180 points by gmays 1 day ago | 212 comments | ??? ???
  73. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.51 19 | 70 points by doener 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  74. Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.89 19 | 30 points by doctaj 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  75. How Australia Stopped the Boats (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.96 81 | 3 points by barry-cotter 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  76. MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (write.as)
    ×0.99 23 | 30 points by aniijbod 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  77. A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
    ×0.94 37 | 154 points by sebg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  78. Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)
    ×10.69 45 | 208 points by tcp_handshaker 17 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  79. Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×1.53 49 | 13 points by ChuckMcM 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  80. Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)
    ×0.54 61 | 95 points by alexblackwell_ 1 day ago | 84 comments | ??? ???
  81. CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
    ×1.26 6 | 220 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  82. Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science (nytimes.com)
    ×2.66 11 | 6 points by CalChris 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com/treyorr)
    ×0.65 60 | 6 points by trey-orr 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  84. The Business Plot of 1933 (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.15 7 | 11 points by Jimmc414 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  85. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.41 23 | 105 points by WesSouza 18 hours ago | 167 comments | ??? ???
  86. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.46 36 | 210 points by jgrahamc 1 day ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  87. Google Told to Share Search Data with AI Rivals in EU Proposal (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.18 3 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  88. Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/SeanFDZ)
    ×0.91 45 | 150 points by hammer32 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  89. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.96 69 | 1939 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 1429 comments | ??? ???
  90. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.49 23 | 454 points by simonw 1 day ago | 94 comments | ??? ???