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  1. GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (semgrep.dev)
    ×3.09 1 | 297 points by jms703 5 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels (qsoe.net)
    ×1.18 11 | 13 points by edvinbesic 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine (xonaly.com)
    ×2.08 12 | 12 points by backlit4034 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920) (pudding.cool)
    ×1.68 4 | 304 points by xbryanx 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (stanford.edu)
    ×1.78 4 | 108 points by vga1 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI (antoine.fi)
    ×2.30 1 | 294 points by engmarketer 6 hours ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 10 | 10 points by babelfish 44 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (elpais.com)
    ×3.98 4 | 141 points by geox 6 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.95 5 | 53 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Librepods: AirPods liberated (github.com/librepods-org)
    ×2.84 9 | 219 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Boeing 747 begins its final descent (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.47 10 | 114 points by dbl000 7 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.94 12 | 86 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
    ×1.65 6 | 143 points by pompomsheep 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The food science behind designing an ice cream (altermag.com)
    ×0.43 47 | 6 points by trojanalert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Do LLMs pass the mirror test? (pascalschuster.de)
    ×1.70 16 | 38 points by thepasch 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.26 9 | 97 points by theahura 6 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (openculture.com)
    ×1.03 10 | 92 points by MaysonL 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs (github.com/kamaludu)
    ×0.56 22 | 21 points by kamaludu 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.79 13 | 30 points by vforno 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: DRM-Free Books (frequal.com)
    ×0.93 19 | 53 points by TeaVMFan 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (righto.com)
    ×0.98 14 | 79 points by pwg 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. POSIX Is Not a Shell (alganet.github.io)
    ×1.72 16 | 15 points by gaigalas 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005) (britishorigami.org)
    ×0.63 44 | 14 points by dang 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Staying Awake (2008) (harpers.org)
    ×0.48 26 | 13 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex (github.com/openai)
    ×1.23 11 | 168 points by pikseladam 10 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf] (archive.org)
    ×0.42 25 | 19 points by dang 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (aresluna.org)
    ×1.66 1 | 198 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The cost YAGNI was never about (kentbeck.com)
    ×1.82 18 | 86 points by kiyanwang 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.70 36 | 63 points by Rochus 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (eff.org)
    ×4.74 8 | 255 points by bilsbie 11 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (marfapublicradio.org)
    ×1.83 14 | 382 points by reaperducer 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025) (cbc.ca)
    ×0.95 38 | 51 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 24 | 40 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.92 31 | 587 points by NeutralForest 8 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Excavator That Digs to a Line It Cannot See – Mobility and Field Robotics (atomsfrontier.substack.com)
    ×0.43 31 | 7 points by jpatel3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (microsoft.com)
    ×1.34 17 | 127 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf] (virginia.edu)
    ×1.25 59 | 71 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Wall Street regulator investigating prediction market giant Polymarket (politico.com)
    ×3.22 22 | 10 points by voxadam 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.12 28 | 224 points by cebert 8 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding (deep-reinforce.com)
    ×1.27 42 | 13 points by kordlessagain 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Linux Kills Strncpy (wordpress.com)
    ×1.29 15 | 30 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mel Brooks is 100 today (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.35 24 | 24 points by shellback3 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×0.76 17 | 15 points by susros 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech (theintercept.com)
    ×4.19 24 | 15 points by xrd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide (github.com/kyuz0)
    ×1.41 27 | 222 points by jakogut 22 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Choosing a Public DNS Resolver (evilbit.de)
    ×1.83 29 | 268 points by pawal 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database (papersplease.org)
    ×2.09 17 | 113 points by iamnothere 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface (jonashietala.se)
    ×1.15 15 | 46 points by lawn 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI (adiamond.me)
    ×2.01 16 | 80 points by diamondap 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Slow Breathing Can Rewire Your Brain and Change the Choices You Make (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.85 16 | 8 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs (github.com/cfenollosa)
    ×0.86 37 | 105 points by ludicrousdispla 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reading Is the Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer (neurosciencenews.com)
    ×3.75 29 | 13 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.20 25 | 187 points by jackpriceburns 21 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bringing Swift to the Apple ][ (yeokhengmeng.com)
    ×0.86 32 | 56 points by LucidLynx 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast (engadget.com)
    ×4.16 48 | 330 points by SanjayMehta 8 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 1M Passports Leaked Online (schneier.com)
    ×3.37 27 | 32 points by garo-pro 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? (devz.cl)
    ×1.55 14 | 97 points by DanielVZ 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM (github.com/itsthelore)
    ×0.85 31 | 108 points by handfuloflight 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models (cnbc.com)
    ×2.19 22 | 137 points by root-parent 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (cauenapier.com)
    ×2.08 27 | 297 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Engineering for Bounded Cognition (shapeofthesystem.com)
    ×1.31 29 | 113 points by supermatt 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022) (scapegoat.dev)
    ×1.39 47 | 92 points by herbertl 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (cbc.ca)
    ×1.54 18 | 96 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.44 37 | 128 points by saisrirampur 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display (californiasciencecenter.org)
    ×0.96 46 | 98 points by uticus 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (johndcook.com)
    ×0.94 47 | 95 points by ColinWright 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenRA (openra.net)
    ×3.36 10 | 778 points by tosh 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (ieee.org)
    ×1.60 25 | 260 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. EU-Backed DNS Resolver Collects Pirate Site Blocklist, Which It Doesn't Use (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.07 16 | 18 points by gslin 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. It's dead, Jim – the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday (einval.com)
    ×2.17 51 | 42 points by zdw 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Suspicious Discontinuities (2020) (danluu.com)
    ×1.69 29 | 269 points by tosh 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools (github.com/open-energy-transition)
    ×1.37 47 | 157 points by lyoncy 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com/bikini)
    ×3.91 27 | 923 points by binyu 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A stray "j" ruined my evening (mtmn.name)
    ×1.06 22 | 66 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×3.34 7 | 784 points by aurenvale 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.60 26 | 266 points by bogdiyan 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner
    ×0.51 7 | 12 points by anitroves 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on (cephalosec.com)
    ×1.12 40 | 169 points by Versipelle 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It (pcmag.com)
    ×3.79 74 | 115 points by mwexler 4 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
    ×1.34 37 | 12 points by andyjohnson0 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.95 27 | 374 points by ProxyTracer 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)
    ×4.93 34 | 364 points by herbertl 21 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025) (dobrowolski.dev)
    ×0.77 43 | 73 points by shirozuki 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II (flutetunes.com)
    ×1.35 45 | 171 points by tomcam 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024) (texashighways.com)
    ×1.39 45 | 132 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fintech Engineering Handbook (pitula.me)
    ×2.99 14 | 615 points by signa11 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    ×4.00 4 | 1121 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 736 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art (typographica.org)
    ×0.63 43 | 27 points by whiteblossom 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. From Pentagons to Pentagrams (wordpress.com)
    ×0.69 33 | 29 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???