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  1. Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route (bbc.com)
    ×2.37 1 | 190 points by consumer451 1 hour ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative (researchagenda.news)
    ×2.00 2 | 276 points by JohnHammersley 4 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Logo Programming Language (mit.edu)
    ×1.35 6 | 60 points by azhenley 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.95 3 | 523 points by cromka 2 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. So you want to use OpenRouter? (mmoustafa.com)
    ×4.04 3 | 425 points by player85 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. HuggingFace: Security.txt (huggingface.co)
    ×4.08 | 42 points by yarapavan 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
    ×1.52 12 | 6 points by postalcoder 29 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light (iaea.org)
    ×1.24 6 | 157 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe (wordpress.com)
    ×0.96 36 | 6 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK (collabora.com)
    ×0.40 8 | 14 points by losgehts 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×4.45 5 | 1184 points by fnthawar2 1 day ago | 874 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree (quesma.com)
    ×0.90 1 | 83 points by michalwarda 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×3.55 12 | 692 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years (tinybird.co)
    ×1.37 8 | 13 points by adastral 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. iPod Classic 6G in QEMU (reddit.com)
    ×1.56 6 | 100 points by dmonterocrespo 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch (github.com/WerWolv)
    ×0.66 15 | 31 points by Bluestein 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. CSS Curiosities of the Past (vale.rocks)
    ×0.93 13 | 55 points by robin_reala 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over" (statnews.com)
    ×1.82 5 | 19 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Working with Git Worktrees in Magit (emacsredux.com)
    ×0.91 18 | 94 points by srijan4 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. OpenAI Agents API (openai.com)
    ×1.87 18 | 311 points by aquir 19 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code (earendil.com)
    ×2.52 18 | 101 points by doppp 1 hour ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
    ×1.15 6 | 58 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (upsocl.com)
    ×2.95 3 | 328 points by rguiscard 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Experiment – Projectional Viewer (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
    ×0.26 26 | 11 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (nasa.gov)
    ×1.88 18 | 362 points by gumby 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Claude is no longer available for minors (claude.com)
    ×4.06 19 | 271 points by Muhammad523 4 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)
    ×1.78 9 | 250 points by auberonedu 17 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (pugetsound.edu)
    ×1.77 19 | 270 points by aanet 22 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop (nasutton.notion.site)
    ×1.50 | 152 points by nasutton12 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.84 7 | 845 points by pred_ 1 day ago | 787 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami (ntsb.gov:443)
    ×1.09 24 | 135 points by mckn1ght 18 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Neki – Sharded Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.61 17 | 262 points by simon_weber 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
    ×1.29 32 | 200 points by weierstass 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×1.98 5 | 432 points by seelos 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
    ×1.11 34 | 126 points by mariabg 19 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Neijuan (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.07 19 | 97 points by vermilingua 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.52 29 | 205 points by tosh 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. My HTML Boilerplate (vale.rocks)
    ×1.56 14 | 11 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft (rustfoundation.org)
    ×3.10 13 | 709 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (anthropic.com)
    ×1.65 28 | 159 points by garo-pro 22 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Recursion into madness (coredump.cx)
    ×1.24 32 | 92 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×0.89 37 | 99 points by Skinney 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×2.81 3 | 414 points by haunter 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)
    ×1.59 26 | 174 points by paimapi 23 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result (geekbench.com)
    ×1.28 38 | 26 points by aurareturn 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Testing race conditions with mem access tracing and stack-based delay injection (projectzero.google)
    ×0.34 53 | 14 points by mfrw 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (deepseek.com)
    ×1.68 46 | 37 points by thatxliner 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree (devz.cl)
    ×0.84 55 | 99 points by DanielVZ 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.71 34 | 21 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. What Comes After Git (ersc.io)
    ×1.76 14 | 59 points by tangled 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health (cell.com)
    ×1.92 19 | 120 points by qclibre22 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×2.34 40 | 105 points by matheusml 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (lemire.me)
    ×1.09 41 | 103 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality (vertumnus.fyi)
    ×0.61 50 | 47 points by perspectivezoom 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What happens when a GPU writes memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×0.79 36 | 68 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)
    ×4.86 23 | 979 points by Liwink 1 day ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard (webb.page)
    ×0.50 53 | 28 points by NetOpWibby 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm (thenextweb.com)
    ×3.95 46 | 77 points by hsuduebc2 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models (magic.dev)
    ×1.04 29 | 116 points by ronfriedhaber 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Foldelight – the iPhone Duo folding effect the MacBook was owed (lufzle.dev)
    ×1.10 26 | 16 points by riffonio 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
    ×0.72 48 | 63 points by cdnsteve 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×5.30 20 | 1460 points by thecosmicfrog 1 day ago | 2501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory (system76.com)
    ×1.42 10 | 116 points by jonifico 16 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Larger Pacific striped octopus (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.92 48 | 132 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning (map-yue2.github.io)
    ×1.14 14 | 100 points by sexy_seedbox 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Shopify acquires Tailwind (tailwindcss.com)
    ×4.12 9 | 1130 points by EdwinHoksberg 2 days ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Julia 1.13 Highlights (julialang.org)
    ×2.58 30 | 37 points by postflopclarity 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? (pocoo.org)
    ×5.46 59 | 400 points by manojbajaj95 9 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored (huggingface.co)
    ×2.88 29 | 54 points by soltanov 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Knap – Turn Data into Markdown (knap.md)
    ×1.67 52 | 35 points by coinfused 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Herdr Studio (powerfooi.github.io)
    ×1.20 13 | 40 points by throwaway888abc 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof (johndcook.com)
    ×2.14 25 | 172 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics (specy.app)
    ×0.71 46 | 28 points by specy 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Creativity is the new moat (inventbuild.studio)
    ×2.08 16 | 165 points by virgil_disgr4ce 20 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Macbeth and His Problems (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.60 31 | 76 points by apophatic 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm (jo3-l.dev)
    ×0.89 31 | 22 points by haeseong 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.59 38 | 30 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.86 17 | 356 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.71 42 | 47 points by ayles 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.02 23 | 595 points by dmitrybrant 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.71 43 | 49 points by snyy 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
    ×2.89 11 | 662 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stockfish 19 (stockfishchess.org)
    ×1.76 9 | 276 points by atiedebee 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 312 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.73 12 | 445 points by LeoPanthera 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (not-ship.com)
    ×1.23 50 | 128 points by speckx 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Thinking with Looped Flows (arxiv.org)
    ×0.75 47 | 8 points by E-Reverance 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time (cbsnews.com)
    ×4.23 84 | 85 points by ck2 1 hour ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Apple Watch Series 12 (apple.com)
    ×1.66 16 | 280 points by Lealen 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???