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  1. Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware (withdiode.com)
    ×1.84 2 | 170 points by rossant 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  2. λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic (polytechnique.fr)
    ×1.39 5 | 42 points by ux266478 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  3. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.98 2 | 330 points by gurjeet 10 hours ago | 177 comments | ??? ???
  4. A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage (turbopuffer.com)
    ×1.07 9 | 40 points by Sirupsen 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  5. Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com/GreatScott)
    ×1.16 6 | 113 points by parkaboy 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  6. I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 (dork.dev)
    ×1.47 11 | 224 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  7. Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
    ×1.67 7 | 168 points by rebane2001 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ??? ???
  8. Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
    ×2.80 6 | 319 points by shaunpud 7 hours ago | 268 comments | ??? ???
  9. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026 (mit.edu)
    ×2.47 11 | 85 points by anishathalye 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  10. Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.24 6 | 310 points by wglb 9 hours ago | 116 comments | ??? ???
  11. The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
    ×5.57 5 | 1506 points by oldnetguy 22 hours ago | 1165 comments | ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates (guidelabs.ai)
    ×2.13 4 | 206 points by adebayoj 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ??? ???
  13. Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.79 12 | 204 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 111 comments | ??? ???
  14. Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme (aresluna.org)
    ×2.31 9 | 116 points by onli 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  15. Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series (intel.com)
    ×0.80 33 | 45 points by nateb2022 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  16. “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
    ×2.54 8 | 264 points by felix089 16 hours ago | 337 comments | ??? ???
  17. UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)
    ×0.90 19 | 187 points by marcodiego 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  18. ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com/redruM0381)
    ×0.60 35 | 23 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ??? ???
  19. IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report (dropsitenews.com)
    ×21.93 18 | 65 points by Qem 43 minutes ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  20. Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music (plos.org)
    ×0.98 27 | 44 points by coloneltcb 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  21. A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
    ×1.45 24 | 264 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 183 comments | ??? ???
  22. Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (github.com/FirebirdSQL)
    ×0.58 45 | 7 points by mariuz 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.40 20 | 280 points by levkk 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  24. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
    ×4.64 15 | 1195 points by adius 1 day ago | 665 comments | ??? ???
  25. Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.42 19 | 234 points by swolpers 19 hours ago | 299 comments | ??? ???
  26. What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×1.37 32 | 157 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 203 comments | ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com/andrewosh)
    ×0.79 19 | 25 points by andrewosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  28. Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (hetzner.com)
    ×10.46 36 | 252 points by williausrohr 1 day ago | 534 comments | ??? ???
  29. Graph Topology and Battle Royale Mechanics (lukesalamone.com)
    ×0.78 20 | 20 points by salamo 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  30. Typed Assembly Language (2000) (cornell.edu)
    ×0.77 32 | 43 points by luu 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  31. SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco (ycombinator.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
    ×1.10 19 | 127 points by eigen-vector 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  33. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (varank.in)
    ×2.37 23 | 392 points by varankinv 15 hours ago | 315 comments | ??? ???
  34. Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons (guitarworld.com)
    ×1.60 15 | 195 points by mhb 12 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  35. ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)
    ×1.15 28 | 161 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×1.09 25 | 161 points by Sabrees 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  37. The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (colino.net)
    ×0.68 35 | 77 points by homarp 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  38. The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die (wired.com)
    ×1.60 9 | 8 points by quapster 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  39. Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (ifixit.com)
    ×2.61 17 | 142 points by gnabgib 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  40. Gig workers in Africa had no idea they were helping the U.S. military (restofworld.org)
    ×2.10 | 8 points by JeanKage 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
    ×3.18 14 | 342 points by pieterr 19 hours ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  42. Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends (singh-sanjay.com)
    ×0.76 40 | 43 points by singhsanjay12 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  43. Lords of the Ring (harpers.org)
    ×0.66 42 | 38 points by lermontov 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  44. Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software (fortune.com)
    ×2.72 16 | 5 points by robtherobber 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  45. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×5.71 15 | 1560 points by saeedesmaili 1 day ago | 360 comments | ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.14 42 | 161 points by ai_bot 1 day ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  47. The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
    ×1.60 5 | 245 points by montenegrohugo 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  48. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
    ×2.47 11 | 548 points by qsi 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  49. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/JeffBezanson)
    ×0.97 32 | 135 points by tosh 1 day ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  50. Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone (0x19.co)
    ×1.90 49 | 37 points by 25hex 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  51. The rise of eyes began with just one (nytimes.com)
    ×0.67 27 | 42 points by marojejian 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  52. Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
    ×0.80 40 | 97 points by platzhirsch 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  53. You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer (twitter.com/BenjaminBadejo)
    ×3.48 27 | 199 points by bundie 14 hours ago | 158 comments | ??? ???
  54. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
    ×2.10 | 385 points by microflash 1 day ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  55. Warm Oceans Turned a 3-Inch Forecast into a Record NYC Blizzard (umbrellatoday.app)
    ×1.30 52 | 25 points by s-xyz 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  56. Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index (anthropic.com)
    ×1.05 44 | 64 points by armcat 21 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  57. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
    ×1.95 2 | 408 points by mhb 1 day ago | 542 comments | ??? ???
  58. Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests (decrypt.co)
    ×3.27 25 | 20 points by darkwater 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  59. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
    ×0.48 52 | 55 points by usually 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  60. The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020) (newscientist.com)
    ×0.84 27 | 83 points by nixass 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  61. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×1.86 37 | 185 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  62. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×5.33 50 | 515 points by boplicity 17 hours ago | 231 comments | ??? ???
  63. 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
    ×1.85 7 | 340 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 115 comments | ??? ???
  64. "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything" (aresluna.org)
    ×1.41 45 | 6 points by bobbiechen 6 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  65. Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs (theregister.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 12 points by latexr 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  66. Scent, in Silico (asimov.press)
    ×0.46 46 | 29 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  67. SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
    ×0.64 41 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  68. Can frontier LLMs solve CAD tasks? (kerrickstaley.com)
    ×1.97 48 | 8 points by KerrickStaley 8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  69. Wealthy spouses are hiding crypto assets in divorce cases, say lawyers (ft.com)
    ×1.47 3 | 14 points by mmarian 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  70. What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
    ×0.56 44 | 65 points by jmount 1 day ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  71. Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] (columbia.edu)
    ×0.35 49 | 32 points by luu 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  72. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok (joinloops.org)
    ×2.61 1 | 566 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 384 comments | ??? ???
  73. NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it (westbayberry.com)
    ×1.88 4 | 28 points by ComCat 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
    ×2.31 | 481 points by MilkMp 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  75. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
    ×3.66 33 | 550 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 438 comments | ??? ???
  76. What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics (jamesoswald.dev)
    ×0.47 20 | 39 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  77. How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.01 44 | 25 points by EA-3167 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  78. Show HN: L88 – A Local RAG System on 8GB VRAM (Need Architecture Feedback)
    ×1.93 52 | 6 points by adithyadrdo 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  79. Our Warrant Canary (joplinapp.org)
    ×1.34 47 | 21 points by Coral-Tiny 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  80. NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026) (federalregister.gov)
    ×1.39 15 | 45 points by ascarola 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  81. Reddit fined £14M by UK data watchdog over age check failings (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.58 66 | 5 points by luck0r 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.79 74 | 664 points by mikece 17 hours ago | 442 comments | ??? ???
  83. Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)
    ×7.88 | 2236 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 730 comments | ??? ???
  84. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
    ×1.21 44 | 157 points by jalev 1 day ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  85. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)
    ×2.71 8 | 645 points by susam 2 days ago | 267 comments | ??? ???
  86. The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.75 50 | 83 points by zdw 1 day ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  87. The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.33 12 | 24 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  88. Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good (httptoolkit.com)
    ×1.27 58 | 33 points by pimterry 1 day ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  89. What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
    ×0.93 46 | 77 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  90. How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.90 47 | 67 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 38 comments | ??? ???