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  1. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×2.35 2 | 303 points by sam_bristow 5 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×4.35 | 489 points by jjfoooo4 7 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42 (lantian.pub)
    ×3.38 1 | 42 points by xiaoyu2006 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×4.62 2 | 1122 points by mikemcquaid 14 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How we made hit video game Prince of Persia (theguardian.com)
    ×1.55 4 | 43 points by msephton 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 337 points by matthewbarras 8 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.83 6 | 295 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. MiMo Code is now released and open-source (xiaomi.com)
    ×1.93 4 | 461 points by apeters 15 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (theverge.com)
    ×2.68 6 | 374 points by rarisma 14 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Device Clock Generation (zipcpu.com)
    ×0.94 20 | 8 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. WikiLambda the Ultimate (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.95 10 | 27 points by Antibabelic 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (utexas.edu)
    ×1.32 5 | 86 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22 (ourcommons.ca)
    ×2.30 2 | 412 points by hmokiguess 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Software is made between commits (zed.dev)
    ×1.58 6 | 237 points by jeremy_k 13 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.03 12 | 277 points by josephcsible 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ear Training Practice (tonedear.com)
    ×1.78 3 | 204 points by mattbit 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Emacs appearances in pop culture (ianyepan.github.io)
    ×1.80 1 | 299 points by ggcr 13 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks (endorlabs.com)
    ×3.00 | 280 points by bugvader 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lines of code got a better publicist (curlewis.co.nz)
    ×1.76 6 | 380 points by RyeCombinator 17 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.45 2 | 250 points by MrBruh 13 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.73 17 | 129 points by freejoe76 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.01 7 | 257 points by ljf 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)
    ×1.66 1 | 43 points by dougcalobrisi 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic (mtgautodeck.com)
    ×1.09 12 | 47 points by CallumFerg 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Waymo Premier (waymo.com)
    ×1.37 9 | 177 points by boulos 13 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How a new DSL may survive in the era of LLMs (williamcotton.com)
    ×0.83 20 | 35 points by williamcotton 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com/coder)
    ×0.87 13 | 65 points by kylecarbs 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL (github.com/icitry)
    ×0.90 33 | 117 points by MBCook 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++ (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
    ×0.82 12 | 24 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012) (righto.com)
    ×1.49 17 | 110 points by geerlingguy 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/huggingface)
    ×1.43 6 | 221 points by yogthos 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life (fabianhemmert.com)
    ×1.48 19 | 85 points by hemmert 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Making a vintage LLM from scratch (crlf.link)
    ×0.85 12 | 35 points by croqaz 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Doing nothing at work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.52 21 | 375 points by Sukram21 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.05 34 | 104 points by andrewstuart 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)
    ×1.36 3 | 95 points by zazuke 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. StonkRider – Ride any stock chart (stonkrider.com)
    ×2.30 2 | 12 points by nreece 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?' (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.20 20 | 67 points by Bender 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×4.10 29 | 436 points by neilfrndes 13 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A new era for software testing (antirez.com)
    ×1.42 40 | 125 points by Chrisszz 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Babel-USB: USB drive with every file (github.com/p2r3)
    ×0.63 2 | 34 points by LorenDB 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Codex for Open Source (openai.com)
    ×2.40 31 | 28 points by EvgeniyZh 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation (kennethpayne.uk)
    ×2.34 29 | 189 points by nick238 10 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Don't let the LLM speak, just probe it (j11y.io)
    ×1.78 27 | 17 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (dronexl.co)
    ×3.16 22 | 692 points by vrganj 23 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon (tridao.me)
    ×0.65 44 | 24 points by jxmorris12 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.15 28 | 92 points by rough-sea 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tailwind and slop apps (briandouglas.ie)
    ×2.37 22 | 66 points by coneonthefloor 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone (adamledoux.net)
    ×0.64 45 | 46 points by akkartik 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles (vale.rocks)
    ×1.24 32 | 159 points by robin_reala 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Trying to fix complicated problems (griffens.net)
    ×0.78 49 | 13 points by ngriffiths 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.24 86 | 123 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Finding Optimal Tokenizers (aqnichol.com)
    ×0.72 51 | 13 points by mcyc 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users (cnbc.com)
    ×2.36 53 | 120 points by agentifysh 22 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Did Ahmes find the best expansions for 2/n? (plover.com)
    ×0.47 68 | 11 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.98 168 | 68 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code (printserver.ink)
    ×1.57 53 | 105 points by ValdikSS 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (mayrhofer.eu.org)
    ×7.14 50 | 265 points by timedude 8 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Global population movements from 1990 to 2023 (nature.com)
    ×1.28 34 | 95 points by tzury 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning (medium.com)
    ×1.16 31 | 130 points by ruxudev 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014) (ferd.ca)
    ×0.75 40 | 62 points by locknitpicker 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.97 27 | 90 points by joshmarinacci 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus (masilotti.com)
    ×1.62 12 | 65 points by joemasilotti 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Deconstructing Datalog (rntz.net)
    ×0.89 31 | 10 points by rntz 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog (chiply.dev)
    ×0.92 14 | 82 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.16 38 | 70 points by luispa 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to (mapcomplete.org)
    ×1.68 25 | 185 points by GTP 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
    ×0.89 63 | 53 points by sneela 1 hour ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Biological evolution and information acquisition (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.61 34 | 12 points by chmaynard 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time (newscientist.com)
    ×2.32 21 | 193 points by deadgopher 16 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ivanti Sentry pre-auth RCE (CVE-2026-10520) – CVSS 10.0, public PoC, CISA KEV (hellorecon.com)
    ×0.82 66 | 17 points by slvnx 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why your asthma inhaler is so expensive (in the US) (educatedguesswork.org)
    ×1.47 52 | 26 points by duckduckgo 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers (ieee.org)
    ×1.43 23 | 73 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future (nextcloud.com)
    ×0.94 8 | 117 points by doener 15 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (lwn.net)
    ×2.45 19 | 542 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.68 73 | 28 points by vira28 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. πFS (github.com/philipl)
    ×4.05 33 | 936 points by helterskelter 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Lite XL – Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience (lite-xl.com)
    ×1.80 50 | 6 points by giancarlostoro 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning (farnoy.dev)
    ×1.25 27 | 126 points by GalaxySnail 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI to acquire Ona to expand Codex (openai.com)
    ×2.01 37 | 42 points by htrp 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) (rifters.com)
    ×1.23 28 | 136 points by zetalyrae 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux (nns.ee)
    ×1.20 38 | 134 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't (normaltech.ai)
    ×3.98 26 | 286 points by trueduke 22 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.40 16 | 108 points by Tomte 15 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos (claude.com)
    ×3.29 22 | 590 points by lebovic 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Fable 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×9.29 33 | 2601 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 2142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenAI Prepping for On-Prem Product? (somantix.ai)
    ×1.09 3 | 22 points by bdroopy 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A worm in my Erlang cluster, and adventures in microfluidics (lucassifoni.info)
    ×0.48 43 | 12 points by chantepierre 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.65 30 | 581 points by speckx 1 day ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pozzo: A Fast Lucky Number Checker (github.com/Robert-Cunningham)
    ×0.45 56 | 17 points by robertvc 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???