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  1. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×7.02 | 116 points by mysterydip 37 minutes ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×2.48 2 | 255 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.61 1 | 186 points by jimminyx 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (dtic.mil)
    ×1.30 14 | 14 points by kioku 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (bbc.com)
    ×0.93 14 | 30 points by breve 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
    ×1.13 11 | 179 points by janandonly 9 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    ×1.78 9 | 25 points by rebane2001 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.89 2 | 154 points by rafaelcosta 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.57 5 | 28 points by accrual 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×1.57 10 | 273 points by doener 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.17 13 | 38 points by bryantwolf 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    ×1.06 15 | 85 points by jandrewrogers 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    ×6.47 10 | 544 points by firefoxd 7 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    ×1.63 20 | 31 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021) (archive.org)
    ×0.38 52 | 5 points by brudgers 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.46 21 | 177 points by mikece 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.96 14 | 57 points by zem 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.17 23 | 214 points by kohlschuetter 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.28 53 | 8 points by against 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.08 7 | 646 points by l1am0 16 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.28 18 | 53 points by cyanbane 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.46 12 | 78 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
    ×1.01 30 | 113 points by donatj 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×0.84 21 | 46 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×0.86 19 | 63 points by CzaxTanmay 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    ×1.77 9 | 188 points by yannick2k 16 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
    ×1.46 28 | 156 points by demail 19 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all (joinformal.com)
    ×0.71 8 | 19 points by drewgregory 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.90 23 | 185 points by rcarmo 6 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    ×1.87 2 | 114 points by cmsefton 10 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)
    ×0.99 32 | 65 points by mitchbob 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×2.62 28 | 25 points by righthand 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    ×2.46 25 | 151 points by arwt 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    ×1.18 25 | 93 points by ActionRetro 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    ×2.50 31 | 133 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×2.26 37 | 22 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.14 15 | 352 points by SatvikBeri 17 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Good if make prior after data instead of before (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.36 49 | 10 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.32 5 | 838 points by cbeuw 1 day ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.39 57 | 11 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect (belnet.be)
    ×1.44 59 | 10 points by obeleh 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival (phys.org)
    ×1.61 11 | 73 points by bikenaga 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. (leventhalmap.org)
    ×0.62 24 | 46 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown (github.com/VoidenHQ)
    ×1.04 26 | 40 points by dhruv3006 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/DataDog)
    ×1.15 35 | 127 points by tanelpoder 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.49 39 | 43 points by martinald 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.83 27 | 248 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
    ×1.20 37 | 144 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.27 8 | 65 points by ddaniel10 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Therac-25: A landmark case study in software engineering failure (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.07 1 | 5 points by insuranceguru 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    ×1.32 2 | 201 points by 0x54MUR41 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
    ×0.66 57 | 49 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. List animals until failure (rose.systems)
    ×2.23 5 | 328 points by l1n 23 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.38 32 | 101 points by merelysounds 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)
    ×2.54 27 | 196 points by breve 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
    ×1.27 15 | 41 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)
    ×1.50 39 | 175 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)
    ×5.14 15 | 710 points by Teever 1 day ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (apple.com)
    ×1.88 35 | 210 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, what if we get there? (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.13 60 | 5 points by Noaidi 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
    ×1.36 37 | 141 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel (l4ka.org)
    ×0.73 69 | 6 points by doener 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
    ×1.91 5 | 287 points by ingve 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Automatic Programming (antirez.com)
    ×2.62 35 | 256 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.53 3 | 186 points by doppp 22 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)
    ×1.53 47 | 173 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product (simonberens.com)
    ×1.10 28 | 9 points by sberens 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles (cnbc.com)
    ×3.22 51 | 303 points by pera 2 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year (vktr.com)
    ×1.39 17 | 28 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×0.89 38 | 110 points by ritvikarya98 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kiki – The accountability monster for people who are easily distracted (kiki.computer)
    ×1.53 42 | 41 points by pikseladam 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
    ×0.68 56 | 51 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.88 31 | 36 points by geox 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.38 33 | 186 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it (github.com/IamLumae)
    ×1.11 81 | 3 points by LutumVeritas 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.36 7 | 170 points by marojejian 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Magnetic core memory 128-byte USB drive (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.77 1 | 8 points by stevenjgarner 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tuning Semantic Search on JFMM.net – Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (carlkolon.com)
    ×0.36 40 | 28 points by cckolon 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building (phoronix.com)
    ×3.54 32 | 44 points by sergiogdr 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)
    ×1.13 42 | 85 points by doener 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The L4Re Operating System Framework (l4re.org)
    ×1.42 67 | 4 points by doener 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings (oregonlive.com)
    ×4.47 55 | 52 points by xqcgrek2 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Real engineering failures instead of success stories (failhub.substack.com)
    ×1.42 27 | 40 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
    ×0.83 66 | 95 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
    ×1.48 8 | 230 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.17 26 | 167 points by verzali 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 37 | 83 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control – TDF Community Blog (documentfoundation.org)
    ×0.93 16 | 18 points by cratermoon 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.66 8 | 255 points by schlichtm 1 day ago | 861 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???