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  1. I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)
    ×3.65 | 321 points by jernestomg 3 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product (simonberens.com)
    ×2.89 1 | 518 points by sberens 11 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
    ×3.70 2 | 492 points by ajyoon 12 hours ago | 596 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The world is more equal than you think (economist.com)
    ×1.76 24 | 3 points by andsoitis 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
    ×2.42 1 | 263 points by deofoo 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)
    ×0.91 29 | 11 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Deno Sandbox (deno.com)
    ×2.03 3 | 398 points by johnspurlock 14 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (thedrive.com)
    ×1.30 3 | 74 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode (apple.com)
    ×1.84 4 | 294 points by davidbarker 13 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
    ×2.05 7 | 442 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers (adafruit.com)
    ×4.23 3 | 370 points by ptorrone 15 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
    ×1.48 4 | 98 points by banteg 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.28 8 | 191 points by baotiao 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)
    ×0.88 10 | 22 points by Agreed3750 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 221 Cannon is Not For Sale (fredbenenson.com)
    ×2.19 7 | 227 points by mecredis 14 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com/j178)
    ×1.47 7 | 232 points by fortuitous-frog 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)
    ×5.21 21 | 313 points by vikaveri 21 hours ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (cnn.com)
    ×1.34 9 | 95 points by breve 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins (fortune.com)
    ×1.49 20 | 118 points by shscs911 13 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)
    ×2.47 13 | 19 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
    ×2.72 12 | 636 points by danielhanchen 15 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention (acm.org)
    ×0.78 9 | 91 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US (apnews.com)
    ×6.80 19 | 911 points by AareyBaba 15 hours ago | 479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
    ×3.23 16 | 264 points by natebc 9 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.60 15 | 11 points by viraptor 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bunny Database (bunny.net)
    ×1.92 8 | 279 points by dabinat 19 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 (pugetsystems.com)
    ×1.18 17 | 116 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% (science.org)
    ×1.04 28 | 153 points by XzetaU8 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too (igalia.com)
    ×0.25 59 | 12 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)
    ×1.14 27 | 94 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (openpetition.de)
    ×3.34 29 | 160 points by numeri 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
    ×0.51 41 | 67 points by eduardpi 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Flying Around the World in under 80 Days (pinchito.es)
    ×0.47 42 | 52 points by alexfernandez 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.02 25 | 119 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (ieee.org)
    ×1.70 6 | 129 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What's up with all those equals signs anyway? (ingebrigtsen.no)
    ×2.94 18 | 625 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (rbby.dev)
    ×0.44 54 | 60 points by rbbydotdev 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left (twitter.com/davidmarcus)
    ×2.84 18 | 8 points by latchkey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.55 37 | 54 points by crimsoneer 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping (tadpolehq.com)
    ×0.63 53 | 47 points by zachperkitny 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines (aiaa.org)
    ×1.39 29 | 76 points by CGMthrowaway 16 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly (github.com/mavdol)
    ×0.67 35 | 72 points by mavdol04 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×0.73 40 | 56 points by ambonvik 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux (senko.net)
    ×1.65 7 | 101 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.53 17 | 178 points by tinuviel 22 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.14 15 | 330 points by geox 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city (harpers.org)
    ×0.55 49 | 32 points by jfil 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Embedded Vector and Graph Database in Pure Go (github.com/liliang-cn)
    ×1.13 16 | 3 points by AISlop31415 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.00 29 | 60 points by at1as 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Machinery and English Style (1904) (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.48 26 | 8 points by danidiaz 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×2.09 35 | 171 points by jinhkuan 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 50 | 37 points by rachitnigam 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
    ×2.53 31 | 114 points by p0nce 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.15 52 | 136 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Underrated ways to change the world, part II (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.20 77 | 22 points by disgruntledphd2 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
    ×0.55 53 | 32 points by techstuff123 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI and Trust (2023) (schneier.com)
    ×2.35 26 | 90 points by insuranceguru 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×1.16 10 | 236 points by GalaxySnail 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. "Superhuman": A 13 year old boy swims 2.5 miles to save family swept out to sea (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.74 45 | 6 points by gurjeet 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.19 11 | 787 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    ×2.92 4 | 346 points by gyrovague-com 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Latex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects (piwheels.org)
    ×0.11 98 | 7 points by sethbarrettAU 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.35 86 | 16 points by aragoss 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com/OpenAIDevs)
    ×2.97 35 | 54 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
    ×0.54 60 | 26 points by jauws 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Anthropic is Down (updog.ai)
    ×3.48 21 | 143 points by ersiees 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.78 14 | 552 points by trms 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.12 55 | 122 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.96 10 | 585 points by wodniok 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.95 64 | 165 points by defrost 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up (acm.org)
    ×2.68 29 | 95 points by Beeroness 12 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.83 75 | 103 points by dbgrman 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×0.95 67 | 93 points by mci 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.64 30 | 75 points by garbawarb 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.68 35 | 166 points by ashergill 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hexagonal Grids (redblobgames.com)
    ×1.42 66 | 27 points by elisaado 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe's key satellites (ft.com)
    ×2.74 52 | 3 points by mraniki 9 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 36 Years in Making, GNU's Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead (itsfoss.com)
    ×1.79 13 | 6 points by pkaeding 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.86 60 | 133 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×0.99 58 | 116 points by tromp 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (theguardian.com)
    ×4.15 57 | 51 points by jnord 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't (github.com/sheeki03)
    ×2.38 66 | 24 points by MrBuddyCasino 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. NASA hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket (apnews.com)
    ×1.63 33 | 8 points by aao-fyi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    ×1.18 68 | 119 points by Technolithic 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×0.96 59 | 154 points by noelwelsh 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why The Jetsons still matters (2012) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.65 55 | 43 points by fortran77 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.06 64 | 120 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Visual Family Cosmos (rosano.ca)
    ×0.29 68 | 12 points by akkartik 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 372 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???