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  1. APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs (teenage.engineering)
    ×1.61 1 | 167 points by vthommeret 4 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.42 3 | 51 points by 882542F3884314B 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Dopamine Fracking (igerman.cc)
    ×2.68 4 | 66 points by igmn 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (ranpara.net)
    ×1.66 4 | 140 points by DevarshRanpara 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
    ×3.59 1 | 538 points by gavinray 11 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections (science.org)
    ×2.07 2 | 128 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation (github.com/markusheimerl)
    ×0.79 18 | 11 points by markusheimerl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (algorithmichiring.github.io)
    ×1.39 6 | 53 points by drchiu 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background (1worldflag.com)
    ×1.89 7 | 56 points by davidbarker 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.10 7 | 194 points by bkazez 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm (nosuggest.com)
    ×1.28 10 | 23 points by VJ-2-108 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com/melastmohican)
    ×1.71 3 | 88 points by melastmohican 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (microsoft.com)
    ×0.67 20 | 13 points by soheilpro 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) (nik.art)
    ×1.81 8 | 198 points by herbertl 11 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Richard Scolyer Has Died (bbc.com)
    ×1.36 12 | 8 points by nicwilson 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision (runtimewire.com)
    ×3.22 15 | 193 points by yogthos 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960) (mit.edu)
    ×1.19 7 | 27 points by rballpug 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026 (retro.social)
    ×5.71 15 | 25 points by rihegher 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
    ×2.53 9 | 368 points by howToTestFE 10 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests (reuters.com)
    ×2.24 11 | 65 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.64 7 | 172 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com/devenjarvis)
    ×2.20 12 | 282 points by devenjarvis 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024) (ydb.tech)
    ×1.00 17 | 72 points by b-man 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)
    ×1.78 19 | 378 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible (yahoo.com)
    ×2.25 13 | 79 points by mikhael 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (bearblog.dev)
    ×5.46 15 | 883 points by poisonfountain 17 hours ago | 867 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (righto.com)
    ×0.64 21 | 84 points by elpocko 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
    ×0.95 17 | 122 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
    ×0.88 17 | 75 points by aself101 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Splash Is a Colour Format (todepond.com)
    ×0.66 120 | 58 points by tobr 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight (radioworld.com)
    ×1.94 50 | 177 points by pkaeding 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.83 20 | 33 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding (phoronix.com)
    ×2.65 14 | 96 points by Bender 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
    ×2.47 15 | 282 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (podman.io)
    ×1.25 18 | 108 points by daesorin 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com/garethgeorge)
    ×1.22 16 | 92 points by flexagoon 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.70 19 | 479 points by predkambrij 16 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
    ×1.33 3 | 126 points by maxloh 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A visual introduction to kernel functions (kelvinpaschal.com)
    ×0.78 25 | 43 points by Kelvinidan 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (ft.com)
    ×2.95 23 | 46 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. KNN early termination in Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)
    ×0.36 53 | 10 points by snikolaev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
    ×0.96 26 | 137 points by supermatou 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
    ×1.27 41 | 156 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm' (wired.com)
    ×1.96 8 | 14 points by uxhacker 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Back end is full of hidden workflows (unmeshed.io)
    ×0.47 29 | 9 points by jusonchan81 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.86 52 | 693 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1077 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.10 24 | 144 points by kkm 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.71 27 | 176 points by zeech 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE (github.com/ninoxAI)
    ×0.78 58 | 13 points by egorferber 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.07 29 | 161 points by gscott 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (bbc.com)
    ×2.42 13 | 131 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
    ×1.07 36 | 48 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)
    ×2.05 16 | 78 points by 7777777phil 10 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
    ×1.18 29 | 169 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.65 1 | 266 points by babuskov 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
    ×1.72 3 | 210 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
    ×0.76 32 | 67 points by ChrisGammell 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    ×1.45 34 | 112 points by old_sound 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (safia.rocks)
    ×0.49 42 | 37 points by ankitg12 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.77 16 | 74 points by le_chuck 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)
    ×2.35 44 | 214 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab (acs.org)
    ×1.10 46 | 123 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com/a-yiorgos)
    ×0.70 50 | 51 points by nextos 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (kdab.com)
    ×0.48 52 | 34 points by jandeboevrie 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    ×2.00 3 | 287 points by pramodbiligiri 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 43 | 51 points by yorwba 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
    ×1.87 9 | 405 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Vim Classic 8.3 Released (vim-classic.org)
    ×1.95 51 | 48 points by tempodox 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    ×1.74 2 | 245 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. gonum (github.com/gonum)
    ×1.25 59 | 19 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: OpenPayphone – open-source guts for a 1996 coin payphone (Pi and SIP) (github.com/eric-cgn)
    ×1.77 62 | 12 points by mcintyem 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. "Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum (eghammuseum.org)
    ×1.83 39 | 33 points by lifeisstillgood 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
    ×1.39 39 | 184 points by uonr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×3.14 48 | 300 points by toephu2 2 days ago | 894 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Huawei executive credits bans for accelerating domestic chip independence (techradar.com)
    ×2.89 18 | 20 points by yogthos 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.52 21 | 61 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.45 60 | 174 points by emschwartz 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.66 62 | 82 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The User Doesn't Care – But you should (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.49 48 | 24 points by kugurerdem 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×4.20 20 | 924 points by 0xkato 2 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. You Can Run (atavist.com)
    ×1.04 37 | 140 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue (respeak-io.github.io)
    ×0.97 41 | 57 points by evolabs 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The curious case of low-protein diets (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.40 27 | 44 points by curmudgeon22 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)
    ×0.77 37 | 136 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)
    ×1.78 5 | 352 points by jwilk 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Social Cache Busting (autodidacts.io)
    ×1.15 49 | 146 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×1.71 3 | 324 points by tosh 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (privacyguides.net)
    ×2.18 51 | 275 points by Cider9986 3 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development (saturnci.com)
    ×1.47 45 | 246 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???