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  1. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×1.78 6 | 268 points by adilmoujahid 4 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
    ×2.29 7 | 156 points by bewal416 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.03 10 | 101 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×3.78 1 | 47 points by surprisetalk 51 minutes ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×1.01 16 | 158 points by RyanShook 7 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.76 18 | 43 points by Hooke 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.92 18 | 78 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.43 10 | 196 points by adamnemecek 7 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.21 14 | 140 points by jbdamask 7 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.14 7 | 330 points by guilamu 4 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. 747s and Coding Agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.09 15 | 94 points by cckolon 6 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts (robservatory.com)
    ×2.00 27 | 13 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967) (jstor.org)
    ×0.53 23 | 26 points by Hooke 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100 (theguardian.com)
    ×0.41 39 | 10 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×9.08 5 | 2453 points by BloondAndDoom 20 hours ago | 770 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
    ×0.69 14 | 46 points by elvis70 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
    ×0.92 14 | 67 points by simedw 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.06 20 | 178 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×1.38 26 | 197 points by dinvlad 15 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system (github.com/thatipamula-jashwanth)
    ×0.47 46 | 6 points by Jashwanth01 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code (mksg.lu)
    ×2.60 16 | 150 points by mksglu 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
    ×1.13 28 | 90 points by BerislavLopac 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (wired.com)
    ×2.54 8 | 229 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.64 12 | 873 points by lavp 14 hours ago | 2063 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.58 11 | 1282 points by eoskx 18 hours ago | 603 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.29 30 | 221 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Life Cycle of Money (bohyen.space)
    ×0.79 15 | 66 points by nanacnote 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.10 47 | 223 points by ks2048 22 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev)
    ×2.21 13 | 284 points by gronky_ 8 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Seeing Like a Sedan (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.56 38 | 16 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×4.01 12 | 15 points by lostmsu 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.34 35 | 137 points by JuniperMesos 15 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com/junevm)
    ×0.46 40 | 49 points by unsorted2270 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. More Cows, More Wives (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.88 30 | 77 points by oxw 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)
    ×2.52 7 | 469 points by toomuchtodo 18 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes (btao.org)
    ×0.41 45 | 27 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
    ×0.65 46 | 101 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight (in-hakumei.com)
    ×0.58 16 | 17 points by 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
    ×0.81 54 | 97 points by mrtedbear 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.28 50 | 285 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it (mataroa.blog)
    ×1.51 30 | 16 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.92 1 | 31 points by NathanFlurry 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com)
    ×3.88 26 | 254 points by tomwojcik 8 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.25 45 | 241 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Gitcredits – movie-style end credits for any Git repo in your terminal (github.com/Higangssh)
    ×0.75 41 | 29 points by swq115 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.62 52 | 111 points by ppnpm 21 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.28 1 | 768 points by WalterSobchak 1 day ago | 653 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×5.68 28 | 1109 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An Open Letter to the Department of War and Congress (dowletter.org)
    ×1.77 17 | 6 points by -_- 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals (kayssel.com)
    ×0.31 34 | 8 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)
    ×1.15 49 | 212 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ow My Foot – Error Handling Across C, Go, Rust, and Google's Absl (n8z.dev)
    ×0.65 50 | 10 points by nlz 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI – How to delete your account (openai.com)
    ×9.36 52 | 1770 points by carlosrg 10 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation (github.com/nocodemf)
    ×0.60 7 | 38 points by urav 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.09 1 | 552 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.25 63 | 17 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GPL as the best licence (hansenpartnership.com)
    ×1.73 1 | 12 points by lr0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.19 40 | 212 points by shad42 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.60 57 | 50 points by sarelta 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Let's discuss sandbox isolation (shayon.dev)
    ×0.87 41 | 157 points by shayonj 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail (unfudged.io)
    ×0.86 45 | 122 points by cyrusradfar 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.63 53 | 110 points by chunkles 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.55 50 | 93 points by rikk3rt 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×0.95 41 | 159 points by spacey 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.63 6 | 608 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.20 71 | 15 points by chunkles 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally (lackofimagination.org)
    ×0.38 60 | 36 points by tie-in 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
    ×1.15 39 | 188 points by lqs_ 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.81 53 | 135 points by mousepad12 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure (browser-use.com)
    ×0.54 63 | 72 points by gregpr07 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.47 41 | 213 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×1.43 45 | 190 points by Aissen 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.77 31 | 286 points by rendx 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
    ×3.21 7 | 549 points by zhisme 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (acm.org)
    ×0.37 61 | 43 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.65 | 434 points by nnx 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.60 53 | 269 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Reclaim Flowers – A 2D physics-based "Digital Altar" protocol (github.com/voice-of-japan)
    ×0.24 50 | 9 points by sakanakana00 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems (npr.org)
    ×3.92 11 | 312 points by pkress2 23 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Latency numbers every programmer should know (cheat.sh)
    ×1.08 34 | 60 points by ksec 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Compact disc story (1998) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.58 80 | 61 points by pipeline_peak 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.10 58 | 122 points by nxobject 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. No Bookmarks (nik.art)
    ×0.82 1 | 29 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements (imdea.org)
    ×0.66 10 | 50 points by wisdomseaker 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a dashboard to track AI's impact on jobs (clocktick.ai)
    ×0.51 80 | 3 points by AznHisoka 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (beyondthejoke.co.uk)
    ×2.47 8 | 283 points by nephihaha 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE (freepascal.org)
    ×1.29 47 | 102 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health (pensoft.net)
    ×0.34 61 | 37 points by PaulHoule 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure (clojure.stream)
    ×0.63 53 | 54 points by jacekschae 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???