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  1. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×5.90 | 337 points by BloondAndDoom 1 hour ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×6.35 1 | 159 points by surprisetalk 42 minutes ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.23 7 | 57 points by ks2048 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.63 8 | 39 points by ppnpm 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.11 3 | 379 points by zlatkov 9 hours ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.24 7 | 380 points by WalterSobchak 11 hours ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux (github.com/wkoszek)
    ×0.71 8 | 39 points by felipap 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.61 10 | 138 points by cwwc 7 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com/secwar)
    ×8.54 7 | 1037 points by jacobedawson 3 hours ago | 864 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.38 10 | 209 points by voxadam 9 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.61 5 | 371 points by nnx 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (acm.org)
    ×0.62 26 | 12 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (mixu.net)
    ×0.95 23 | 26 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.53 21 | 44 points by rikk3rt 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Let's discuss sandbox isolation (shayon.dev)
    ×0.88 9 | 100 points by shayonj 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)
    ×1.41 23 | 139 points by iamnothere 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health (pensoft.net)
    ×0.30 36 | 19 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.63 22 | 76 points by chunkles 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
    ×3.40 9 | 443 points by zhisme 16 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure (browser-use.com)
    ×0.69 32 | 57 points by gregpr07 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×1.05 11 | 123 points by spacey 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.22 6 | 170 points by shad42 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Unfucked – version every change between commits - local-first (unfudged.io)
    ×1.16 17 | 65 points by cyrusradfar 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PCB Tracer (pcbtracer.com)
    ×0.82 9 | 52 points by Luc 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)
    ×0.79 57 | 125 points by antirez 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (beyondthejoke.co.uk)
    ×3.08 20 | 240 points by nephihaha 6 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reading English from 1000 AD (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×0.97 49 | 112 points by LAC-Tech 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.69 26 | 80 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.78 21 | 512 points by hn_acker 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure (clojure.stream)
    ×0.74 12 | 38 points by jacekschae 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.61 14 | 269 points by jsomers 15 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
    ×2.45 29 | 395 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×1.31 24 | 124 points by mousepad12 12 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
    ×1.27 15 | 175 points by lqs_ 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything" (aresluna.org)
    ×1.35 5 | 112 points by bobbiechen 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Sprites on the Web (joshwcomeau.com)
    ×1.09 24 | 103 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock (origami-robotics.com)
    ×0.73 11 | 71 points by shmublu 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×1.67 24 | 179 points by Aissen 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute (thehill.com)
    ×3.64 26 | 35 points by rectang 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Zugunruhe, and what makes things worth doing (nathanzhao.cc)
    ×0.54 46 | 7 points by nzhaa 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.52 20 | 190 points by evakhoury 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window (github.com/qwibitai)
    ×0.76 24 | 79 points by jimminyx 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenAI is negotiating a deal with The Pentagon (fortune.com)
    ×2.41 18 | 7 points by doener 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Compact disc story (1998) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.66 73 | 54 points by pipeline_peak 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (danlew.net)
    ×1.18 60 | 32 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE (freepascal.org)
    ×1.53 28 | 82 points by mariuz 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (theguardian.com)
    ×2.44 23 | 190 points by simonebrunozzi 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.29 43 | 113 points by nxobject 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go)
    ×1.02 6 | 4 points by larryste 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.84 9 | 259 points by rendx 18 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
    ×1.09 16 | 159 points by edent 15 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
    ×4.15 48 | 425 points by throw0101a 7 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there's nowhere to put it (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.65 | 3 points by duxup 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.70 50 | 259 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trump Bans Anthropic from All US Federal Agencies (twitter.com/WhiteHouse)
    ×3.92 37 | 50 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007) (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
    ×0.73 43 | 27 points by strongpigeon 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: The Silent Filter, The Delegation of Synthesis and Linguistic Drift (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.48 71 | 5 points by juanpabloaj 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Federal panel behind cancer screening recommendations hasn't met in one year (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.10 22 | 5 points by brandonb 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)
    ×0.43 49 | 22 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users (theregister.com)
    ×2.65 31 | 127 points by nottorp 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (wordpress.com)
    ×2.72 13 | 520 points by moultano 22 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How to Allocate Memory (sdf1.org)
    ×1.04 27 | 70 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Lancet: Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure (thelancet.com)
    ×2.18 20 | 23 points by deng 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Most-Seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.05 43 | 46 points by corvad 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style (dionisiydk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.84 45 | 71 points by mpweiher 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant (space.com)
    ×1.48 12 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. FCC approves Charter Communications' $34.5B deal to buy Cox (reuters.com)
    ×1.67 11 | 6 points by geox 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM (skypilot.co)
    ×1.62 24 | 75 points by hopechong 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×10.49 59 | 2842 points by qwertox 1 day ago | 1527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×0.99 42 | 119 points by nand2mario 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds (getyourfuckingmoneyback.com)
    ×3.64 30 | 75 points by verdverm 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.63 30 | 23 points by minimaxir 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×1.00 42 | 69 points by sandebert 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Open Source Brain Stimulation: TDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) (youtube.com)
    ×1.44 14 | 3 points by andrewjneumann 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
    ×1.42 39 | 225 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
    ×1.09 46 | 106 points by paultendo 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.68 60 | 127 points by sxmawl 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount (reuters.com)
    ×1.97 14 | 28 points by Vitamin_Sushi 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.46 57 | 51 points by benbreen 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadline (apnews.com)
    ×2.00 7 | 33 points by infinitewars 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com/Frikallo)
    ×1.05 37 | 105 points by noahkay13 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.29 50 | 215 points by jasonpeacock 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.83 11 | 584 points by tin7in 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (understandingai.org)
    ×3.95 62 | 241 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.26 6 | 1266 points by hiisthisthingon 2 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Should Social Media Algorithms Have Age-Based Safeguards for Over-60s? (parliament.uk)
    ×1.83 4 | 7 points by lalessandro2 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pentagon approves OpenAI safety red lines after dumping Anthropic (axios.com)
    ×2.97 22 | 6 points by galleywest200 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×0.93 50 | 138 points by conesus 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
    ×1.13 35 | 199 points by spiffytech 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???