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  1. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.64 2 | 423 points by stephen-hill 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    ×1.95 3 | 109 points by robinhouston 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.88 3 | 48 points by srean 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.39 3 | 472 points by calcifer 14 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com/MartinGalway)
    ×1.28 9 | 130 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Desmond Morris has died (bbc.com)
    ×1.86 7 | 46 points by martey 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.20 11 | 102 points by adunk 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
    ×0.76 18 | 27 points by jxmorris12 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×4.10 19 | 18 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty (openai.com)
    ×1.39 1 | 88 points by Murfalo 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com/nakagami)
    ×1.11 13 | 90 points by mariuz 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI (victortaelin.github.io)
    ×1.20 5 | 104 points by marvinborner 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.63 24 | 34 points by wslh 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (aresluna.org)
    ×1.88 26 | 230 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com/niri-wm)
    ×3.00 14 | 167 points by nickjj 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (github.com/yuvadm)
    ×2.43 13 | 296 points by pigeons 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (kevinlynagh.com)
    ×2.05 30 | 498 points by alcazar 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)
    ×4.33 16 | 115 points by ekianjo 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (clad.you)
    ×0.91 31 | 123 points by arkadiuss 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. HEALPix (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.83 19 | 34 points by hyperific 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (wordpress.com)
    ×1.15 17 | 56 points by keepamovin 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The mail sent to a video game publisher (gamefile.news)
    ×1.37 26 | 121 points by colinprince 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Humpback whales are forming super-groups (bbc.com)
    ×1.34 30 | 190 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default (hhh.hn)
    ×1.56 25 | 300 points by hhh 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Paraloid B-72 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.69 11 | 255 points by Ariarule 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.47 35 | 237 points by wise_blood 23 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.88 16 | 213 points by najmuzzaman 11 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.23 13 | 777 points by elffjs 23 hours ago | 763 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Education must go beyond the mere production of words (ncregister.com)
    ×1.27 43 | 129 points by signor_bosco 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do (alash3al.github.io)
    ×2.02 27 | 155 points by alash3al 18 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
    ×2.46 21 | 329 points by jamie-simon 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Email could have been X.400 times better (buttondown.com)
    ×1.44 61 | 223 points by maguay 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.10 11 | 2015 points by impact_sy 1 day ago | 1538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How to Implement an FPS Counter (vplesko.com)
    ×1.10 1 | 115 points by vplesko 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Work with the garage door up (2024) (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.25 45 | 179 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (blender.org)
    ×1.19 42 | 99 points by shankysingh 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology (nikomc.com)
    ×1.04 28 | 75 points by mailyk 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.35 22 | 8 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)
    ×1.73 23 | 256 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GPT-5.5 (openai.com)
    ×5.86 6 | 1557 points by rd 2 days ago | 1033 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
    ×4.72 18 | 359 points by nreece 18 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests (jakeworth.com)
    ×1.32 17 | 63 points by jwworth 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port (github.com/magiblot)
    ×2.03 12 | 187 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations (gigazine.net)
    ×1.10 58 | 137 points by gslin 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)
    ×3.37 35 | 73 points by fanf2 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.58 24 | 168 points by Zta77 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I'm done making desktop applications (2009) (kalzumeus.com)
    ×1.41 38 | 192 points by claxo 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower (eff.org)
    ×2.65 15 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)
    ×1.95 29 | 58 points by AndrewDucker 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support (nickyreinert.de)
    ×5.95 29 | 926 points by y42 1 day ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain (apple.com)
    ×1.31 38 | 37 points by gurjeet 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What Async Promised and What It Delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.94 40 | 82 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.02 56 | 117 points by gregpr07 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be (craigmod.com)
    ×3.07 42 | 304 points by jen729w 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
    ×7.91 14 | 2282 points by Kaibeezy 3 days ago | 774 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. $8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children (science.org)
    ×1.64 65 | 50 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Larry McMurtry's Tall Tales (thenation.com)
    ×0.56 53 | 19 points by samclemens 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role (mnot.net)
    ×1.70 50 | 55 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid (cnn.com)
    ×3.74 17 | 677 points by nkrisc 1 day ago | 730 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A Man Who Invented the Future (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×0.88 9 | 56 points by apollinaire 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Overtom Chess Computer Museum (xs4all.nl)
    ×0.57 75 | 39 points by semyonsh 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google Search to classify 'back button hijacking' as spam (9to5google.com)
    ×2.62 19 | 6 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SDL Now Supports DOS (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×1.97 5 | 277 points by Jayschwa 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hear your agent suffer through your code (github.com/AndrewVos)
    ×1.73 35 | 207 points by AndrewVos 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code (github.com/delta-hq)
    ×0.74 63 | 64 points by tejpalv 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Different language models learn similar number representations (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 48 | 112 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock (phys.org)
    ×0.60 75 | 62 points by wglb 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. MiniZinc, constraint modelling language solve discrete optimisation problems (minizinc.org)
    ×1.35 70 | 50 points by Alifatisk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Social media is no longer social (bsky.app)
    ×2.63 28 | 29 points by frereubu 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences (leaflet.pub)
    ×2.21 4 | 367 points by calcifer 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly (jeroen.github.io)
    ×0.89 51 | 125 points by datajeroen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The longest train journey in the EU (jonworth.eu)
    ×1.85 42 | 9 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign (socket.dev)
    ×3.28 8 | 861 points by tosh 2 days ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Using the internet like it's 1999 (joshblais.com)
    ×1.49 50 | 251 points by joshuablais 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.82 4 | 927 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels (furrtek.org)
    ×0.70 41 | 40 points by pabs3 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CSS as a Query Language (evdc.me)
    ×0.91 43 | 79 points by evnc 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler (github.com/matz)
    ×1.83 5 | 340 points by dluan 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.09 50 | 136 points by aliezsid 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The operating cost of adult and gambling startups (orchidfiles.com)
    ×1.43 33 | 130 points by theorchid 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.24 20 | 3 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (recurse.com)
    ×1.09 43 | 75 points by nicholasjbs 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 57 | 71 points by solarist 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub (rocher.lc)
    ×1.25 55 | 195 points by Cynddl 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale (googleblog.com)
    ×1.33 52 | 198 points by mji 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. SFO Quiet Airport (2025) (viewfromthewing.com)
    ×1.43 | 149 points by CaliforniaKarl 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why Not Venus? (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×2.31 40 | 149 points by zdw 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API (openai.com)
    ×2.40 24 | 252 points by arabicalories 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Is Italy the new tax haven for the global rich? (bbc.com)
    ×1.55 62 | 21 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing (ieee.org)
    ×0.48 53 | 17 points by sohkamyung 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???