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  1. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×2.64 2 | 494 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.32 5 | 83 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.59 7 | 274 points by rafaelcosta 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.55 1 | 349 points by jimminyx 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    ×2.18 3 | 160 points by rebane2001 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.89 8 | 70 points by kioku 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×1.12 9 | 44 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
    ×1.20 9 | 223 points by janandonly 15 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×1.59 10 | 312 points by doener 19 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (bbc.com)
    ×0.72 16 | 57 points by breve 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce (wired.com)
    ×4.33 9 | 91 points by smurda 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×3.18 11 | 144 points by righthand 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.07 8 | 71 points by accrual 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    ×1.20 22 | 70 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ratchets in Software Development (qntm.org)
    ×0.88 24 | 7 points by nvader 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Rev Up the Viral Factories (science.org)
    ×0.65 35 | 7 points by etiam 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.40 8 | 167 points by martinald 9 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    ×1.05 14 | 116 points by jandrewrogers 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.04 11 | 73 points by bryantwolf 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.45 18 | 209 points by mikece 22 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.07 10 | 674 points by l1am0 23 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    ×1.85 13 | 230 points by yannick2k 22 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.30 21 | 90 points by cyanbane 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×1.01 24 | 80 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
    ×0.67 20 | 17 points by flashblaze 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    ×0.55 30 | 11 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
    ×0.41 40 | 18 points by hasheddan 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
    ×0.94 36 | 121 points by donatj 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    ×6.25 26 | 677 points by firefoxd 14 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×0.88 28 | 77 points by CzaxTanmay 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.39 48 | 21 points by against 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×6.62 32 | 627 points by mysterydip 7 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.92 | 37 points by NathanFlurry 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)
    ×0.95 43 | 71 points by mitchbob 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.85 14 | 68 points by zem 14 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×1.77 45 | 35 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021) (archive.org)
    ×0.35 46 | 14 points by brudgers 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    ×1.75 1 | 123 points by cmsefton 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    ×1.14 33 | 98 points by ActionRetro 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.23 19 | 98 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.34 9 | 849 points by cbeuw 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.27 19 | 382 points by SatvikBeri 23 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications (vatican.va)
    ×1.84 55 | 13 points by theresistor 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    ×1.83 29 | 257 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.19 5 | 255 points by kohlschuetter 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all (joinformal.com)
    ×0.76 10 | 26 points by drewgregory 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/DataDog)
    ×1.11 39 | 128 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Reasons Teens Say No to AI (wsj.com)
    ×1.90 4 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.89 38 | 209 points by rcarmo 13 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    ×2.32 33 | 160 points by arwt 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×0.85 10 | 18 points by cermicelli 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. (leventhalmap.org)
    ×0.61 33 | 50 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. List animals until failure (rose.systems)
    ×2.22 8 | 338 points by l1n 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    ×1.34 | 209 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.37 36 | 108 points by merelysounds 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown (github.com/VoidenHQ)
    ×0.93 31 | 43 points by dhruv3006 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)
    ×1.48 37 | 179 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)
    ×2.46 26 | 202 points by breve 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
    ×1.41 3 | 168 points by demail 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
    ×0.62 58 | 50 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)
    ×5.07 25 | 720 points by Teever 1 day ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles (cnbc.com)
    ×3.23 52 | 311 points by pera 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (apple.com)
    ×1.87 29 | 215 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Automatic Programming (antirez.com)
    ×2.61 32 | 263 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)
    ×1.52 45 | 177 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect (belnet.be)
    ×1.67 33 | 22 points by obeleh 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Good if make prior after data instead of before (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.38 49 | 13 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival (phys.org)
    ×1.57 15 | 80 points by bikenaga 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. X8.11 Solar Flare from AR4366 (spaceweatherlive.com)
    ×1.11 36 | 7 points by ruined 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dan Pelzer's List of 3,599 Books He Read from 1962-2025 (what-dan-read.com)
    ×0.82 23 | 5 points by YoctoYARN 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
    ×1.91 1 | 292 points by ingve 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×0.88 39 | 111 points by ritvikarya98 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.53 5 | 189 points by doppp 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, what if we get there? (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.98 56 | 9 points by Noaidi 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 42 | 15 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    ×2.44 64 | 146 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The L4Re Operating System Framework (l4re.org)
    ×1.64 59 | 9 points by doener 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.37 30 | 188 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)
    ×0.85 61 | 98 points by Thevet 2 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it (github.com/IamLumae)
    ×1.41 52 | 9 points by LutumVeritas 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)
    ×1.10 43 | 86 points by doener 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.38 8 | 176 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.16 30 | 168 points by verzali 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel (l4ka.org)
    ×0.72 55 | 8 points by doener 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
    ×1.49 7 | 234 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.68 4 | 262 points by schlichtm 2 days ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
    ×0.66 41 | 51 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 37 | 85 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
    ×1.27 24 | 47 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???