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  1. Ada 2022 (adaic.org)
    ×1.19 2 | 59 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.33 5 | 41 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack (fivetran.com)
    ×5.91 1 | 63 points by georgewfraser 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (twitter.com/JosephPolitano)
    ×5.08 3 | 466 points by enraged_camel 3 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com/moongate-community)
    ×1.09 8 | 190 points by squidleon 7 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (anthropic.com)
    ×3.21 5 | 369 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android (opencamera.org.uk)
    ×1.45 9 | 170 points by tetris11 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apache Otava (apache.org)
    ×1.44 6 | 34 points by djoldman 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
    ×0.39 18 | 25 points by sam_palus 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Payphone Go (walzr.com)
    ×1.96 7 | 263 points by walz 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. CT Scans of Health Wearables (lumafield.com)
    ×1.24 8 | 152 points by radeeyate 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Astra: An open-source observatory control software (github.com/ppp-one)
    ×0.85 11 | 66 points by pppone 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Triplet Superconductor (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.70 18 | 25 points by jonbaer 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner (thetravel.com)
    ×4.81 12 | 24 points by SunshineTheCat 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale (ieee.org)
    ×1.05 9 | 65 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor (libresprite.github.io)
    ×1.41 11 | 222 points by nicoloren 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (cornell.edu)
    ×2.90 9 | 450 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
    ×0.70 19 | 74 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Good Bad ISPs (torproject.org)
    ×1.44 10 | 81 points by rzk 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (github.com/elder-plinius)
    ×1.98 18 | 57 points by mvdwoord 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com)
    ×6.04 20 | 840 points by morsch 7 hours ago | 822 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×0.88 14 | 40 points by es617 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.55 21 | 24 points by kwitczak 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)
    ×1.78 7 | 109 points by fortran77 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We might all be AI engineers now (yasint.dev)
    ×2.22 20 | 133 points by sn0wflak3s 12 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. TypeScript 6.0 RC (microsoft.com)
    ×2.84 17 | 22 points by johnz 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM (github.com/taiseiue)
    ×0.92 41 | 6 points by taiseiue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Supertoast tables (hatchet.run)
    ×0.71 | 42 points by abelanger 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard (aresluna.org)
    ×1.49 30 | 116 points by tobr 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon (crowdsupply.com)
    ×0.84 48 | 66 points by ZiiS 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. System76 on Age Verification Laws (system76.com)
    ×3.89 12 | 784 points by LorenDB 17 hours ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.11 34 | 460 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)
    ×2.45 22 | 62 points by eatonphil 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I made a free list of 100 places where you can promote your app (launchdirectories.com)
    ×2.66 1 | 10 points by rosennn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.20 32 | 172 points by armandhammer10 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Utah's online porn tax proposal poses a major threat to civil liberties (techdirt.com)
    ×2.33 10 | 3 points by speckx 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation (runxiyu.org)
    ×0.74 27 | 98 points by weinzierl 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
    ×3.71 6 | 972 points by mudkipdev 1 day ago | 760 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (anthropic.com)
    ×2.17 24 | 308 points by jjwiseman 22 hours ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests (406.fail)
    ×1.93 34 | 284 points by Muhammad523 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nobody ever got fired for using a struct (feldera.com)
    ×1.40 46 | 136 points by gz09 19 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.33 37 | 467 points by smartbit 7 hours ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund (reuters.com)
    ×2.94 22 | 39 points by itbeho 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Where things stand with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×3.88 13 | 600 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 740 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions (seafloor.pages.dev)
    ×0.32 53 | 16 points by marcohaber 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
    ×4.53 5 | 861 points by marvinborner 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (wikimediastatus.net)
    ×4.30 13 | 1026 points by greyface- 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Image manipulation with convolution using Julia (medium.com)
    ×0.57 51 | 37 points by AhmadHamze 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI and the Ship of Theseus (pocoo.org)
    ×1.48 65 | 170 points by pixelmonkey 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape (aps.org)
    ×0.78 53 | 55 points by akshatjiwan 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Charge a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger (2012) [pdf] (ti.com)
    ×0.31 46 | 33 points by theblazehen 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A ternary plot of citrus geneology (jlauf.com)
    ×1.14 48 | 166 points by jlauf 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (wsj.com)
    ×5.71 14 | 1042 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.96 40 | 54 points by ToddWBurgess 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Modembin – A pastebin that encodes your text into real FSK modem audio (modembin.com)
    ×1.04 41 | 15 points by a13x57 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details (arcanenibble.github.io)
    ×0.98 52 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government (schneier.com)
    ×1.55 | 4 points by Jimmc414 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
    ×1.32 44 | 175 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework (jido.run)
    ×1.52 31 | 316 points by mikehostetler 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app (alibaba.github.io)
    ×0.92 56 | 136 points by simon_luv_pho 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
    ×2.92 3 | 598 points by edf13 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. When Using AI Leads to "Brain Fry" (hbr.org)
    ×1.40 8 | 9 points by dracula_x 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (404media.co)
    ×2.89 21 | 514 points by ece 23 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps (wired.com)
    ×1.87 16 | 3 points by LorenDB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike (cnn.com)
    ×7.44 61 | 112 points by agluszak 2 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
    ×1.17 40 | 95 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. M6 MacBook Pro could have four innovations new to the Mac (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.04 34 | 14 points by blacktulip 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
    ×0.38 85 | 53 points by Gobhanu 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Stupidly Obscure Programming in a Troubled Time (2018) (podsnap.com)
    ×0.32 68 | 19 points by luu 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (acm.org)
    ×0.43 80 | 5 points by blakepelton 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
    ×1.50 47 | 238 points by ZacnyLos 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bolivia Voids Banknotes After Plane Crash, Confusing Businesses, Shoppers (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.53 12 | 5 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×7.02 4 | 1948 points by dm 2 days ago | 2288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Async Programming Is Just Inject Time (willhbr.net)
    ×1.03 11 | 36 points by marvinborner 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)
    ×1.00 63 | 31 points by laurex 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. See the oldest fossilized 'butthole' imprint (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.89 24 | 14 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Good software knows when to stop (writizzy.com)
    ×2.41 2 | 526 points by ssaboum 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
    ×1.07 48 | 44 points by cfmcdonald 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenTitan Shipping in Production (googleblog.com)
    ×1.15 36 | 123 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.93 61 | 76 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (happel.ai)
    ×0.79 39 | 56 points by nill0 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command (twitter.com/Al_Grigor)
    ×5.74 75 | 116 points by jv22222 3 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
    ×3.72 2 | 930 points by gonzalovargas 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Data does not speak to you (tantaman.com)
    ×0.64 46 | 32 points by tantaman 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Typst Examples Book (sitandr.github.io)
    ×1.48 46 | 24 points by slow_typist 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.69 50 | 82 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels (fossforce.com)
    ×0.58 64 | 70 points by brideoflinux 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude's Cycles [pdf] (stanford.edu)
    ×2.81 47 | 818 points by fs123 3 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Converting dash cam videos into Panoramax images (openstreetmap.org)
    ×0.72 51 | 59 points by marklit 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???