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  1. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime (isayeter.com)
    ×5.09 | 142 points by yusufusta 1 hour ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.02 | 131 points by f_r_d 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.22 1 | 77 points by RickJWagner 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.79 3 | 222 points by tkhattra 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.82 4 | 84 points by coinfused 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.83 5 | 160 points by sph 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.22 5 | 146 points by boris_m 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.28 5 | 1104 points by meetpateltech 23 hours ago | 722 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.89 5 | 222 points by fouronnes3 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.10 8 | 643 points by aray07 23 hours ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.19 11 | 387 points by cybermango 20 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.87 15 | 18 points by y1n0 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.22 11 | 148 points by eshelyaron 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.18 16 | 253 points by evakhoury 18 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.45 6 | 76 points by azhenley 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    ×1.72 10 | 105 points by atomfinger 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.37 11 | 253 points by louiereederson 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.49 7 | 380 points by binsquare 21 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.32 13 | 189 points by aw1621107 17 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.22 24 | 240 points by nowflux 22 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.71 13 | 236 points by arkadiyt 20 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
    ×1.30 9 | 69 points by riteshnoronha16 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.16 26 | 207 points by ericHosick 21 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.15 16 | 6 points by Lwrless 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.74 21 | 219 points by seanieb 22 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 252 points by speckx 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)
    ×0.57 27 | 18 points by olliewagner 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.02 9 | 296 points by LorenDB 22 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×1.04 24 | 98 points by unsuspecting 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.49 21 | 215 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant (jincongho.com)
    ×0.30 27 | 5 points by jincongho 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software (fitsonafloppy.com)
    ×1.13 13 | 5 points by msephton 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.39 22 | 111 points by evakhoury 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.06 26 | 54 points by b-man 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Loonies for Loongsons (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.67 3 | 20 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.86 32 | 60 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.13 20 | 717 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.54 18 | 108 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (ycombinator.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.41 20 | 732 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.54 20 | 268 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.35 15 | 176 points by zdw 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.24 28 | 101 points by mellosouls 22 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.47 18 | 120 points by wespiser_2018 20 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
    ×0.96 30 | 48 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×1.00 27 | 113 points by marklit 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.06 44 | 70 points by atan2 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
    ×0.85 38 | 65 points by Cider9986 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.84 50 | 63 points by mcookly 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)
    ×1.94 37 | 43 points by lwhsiao 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.47 45 | 104 points by AlexC04 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. "Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving (mas.to)
    ×3.81 16 | 51 points by riffraff 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.66 28 | 143 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.70 50 | 49 points by PaulHoule 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×0.99 35 | 141 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money (9news.com.au)
    ×5.57 48 | 10 points by johnbarron 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.07 41 | 154 points by xk3 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The big business of survival bunkers (economist.com)
    ×1.16 49 | 25 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)
    ×0.91 34 | 74 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
    ×0.98 23 | 117 points by charleslpan 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.89 59 | 33 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.23 69 | 8 points by prismatic 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.52 30 | 55 points by pabs3 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 41 | 119 points by apollinaire 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k (fulu.org)
    ×1.44 53 | 23 points by SomaticPirate 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) (davidma.org)
    ×0.64 37 | 25 points by taikon 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement (reuters.com)
    ×3.66 8 | 53 points by Jimmc414 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale (waxletter.com)
    ×0.83 8 | 22 points by hjconstas 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? (floss.social)
    ×3.98 17 | 31 points by pabs3 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.08 32 | 184 points by gmays 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
    ×1.12 26 | 143 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
    ×0.59 53 | 40 points by AusiasTsel 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)
    ×0.54 65 | 96 points by alexblackwell_ 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
    ×0.95 32 | 157 points by sebg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The FBI Director Is MIA (theatlantic.com)
    ×6.51 40 | 71 points by osnium123 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
    ×1.27 13 | 223 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.40 63 | 192 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Sequencing DNA at Home Locally on a DGX Spark and Mac Studio (twitter.com/sethshowes)
    ×1.98 11 | 14 points by jonbraun 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.44 33 | 210 points by jgrahamc 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.46 66 | 6 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How Australia Stopped the Boats (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.68 71 | 5 points by barry-cotter 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/SeanFDZ)
    ×0.92 42 | 154 points by hammer32 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×5.42 42 | 205 points by breve 19 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.98 55 | 1945 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 1436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald [audio] (art19.com)
    ×0.79 16 | 29 points by tpoindex 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.45 20 | 456 points by simonw 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)
    ×2.01 8 | 332 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (googleblog.com)
    ×1.81 3 | 307 points by ingve 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
    ×1.16 47 | 157 points by skogstokig 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (php.net)
    ×0.91 45 | 124 points by moebrowne 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???