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  1. Are We Idiocracy Yet? (idiocracy.wtf)
    ×4.83 | 173 points by jdiiufccuskal 1 hour ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code (juxt.pro)
    ×2.04 1 | 26 points by henrygarner 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Every GPU That Mattered (sheets.works)
    ×1.67 1 | 113 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. My Experience as a Rice Farmer (xd009642.github.io)
    ×1.88 2 | 182 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Blackholing My Email (johnsto.co.uk)
    ×1.55 11 | 19 points by semyonsh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it (tubesoundquiz.com)
    ×1.73 3 | 13 points by nelson687 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security (sergioprado.blog)
    ×0.65 14 | 9 points by sprado 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
    ×1.59 6 | 402 points by MattHart88 15 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.52 4 | 19 points by rustoo 44 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app (midi.guide)
    ×1.40 10 | 56 points by ductionist 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×9.95 3 | 1488 points by adrianhon 1 day ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.78 5 | 1140 points by StanAngeloff 21 hours ago | 626 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C (github.com/solod-dev)
    ×1.04 10 | 140 points by TheWiggles 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents (freestyle.sh)
    ×1.11 21 | 287 points by benswerd 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Second Revision of 6502 Laptop (codeberg.org)
    ×1.58 13 | 52 points by uticus 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (filippo.io)
    ×2.26 6 | 491 points by thadt 19 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Peptides: where to begin? (science.org)
    ×2.43 12 | 182 points by A_D_E_P_T 13 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos (curiousmarc.com)
    ×1.17 6 | 68 points by mariuz 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11 (adashape.com)
    ×0.80 20 | 14 points by fsloth 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.31 22 | 308 points by Bender 21 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode (essenceia.github.io)
    ×1.14 11 | 11 points by random__duck 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)
    ×1.50 14 | 288 points by player_piano 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)
    ×1.78 24 | 199 points by flinner 19 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What being ripped off taught me (belief.horse)
    ×1.92 10 | 421 points by doctorhandshake 22 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (stephendiehl.com)
    ×1.34 21 | 262 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
    ×1.81 26 | 243 points by coinfused 22 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)
    ×0.93 18 | 105 points by kitfunso 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute (anthropic.com)
    ×2.28 11 | 255 points by l1n 13 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V (github.com/roscopeco)
    ×0.97 30 | 86 points by noone_youknow 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go (github.com/anzellai)
    ×1.12 30 | 172 points by whalesalad 19 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion (github.com/Netflix)
    ×1.61 13 | 165 points by bobsoap 10 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome (shapemachine.xyz)
    ×1.05 23 | 104 points by factorialboy 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On? (judoscale.com)
    ×2.47 3 | 76 points by crcastle 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Linux extreme performance H1 load generator (gcannon.org)
    ×0.53 38 | 21 points by MDA2AV 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple' (macrumors.com)
    ×2.45 25 | 60 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game (wesnoth.org)
    ×2.44 22 | 495 points by akyuu 17 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Build web apps for smart glasses (evenrealities.com)
    ×0.34 52 | 8 points by mozz100 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save lives by 2040 (carbonbrief.org)
    ×2.26 12 | 4 points by lentoutcry 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign (newyorker.com)
    ×1.85 31 | 140 points by tantalor 21 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok (bramcohen.com)
    ×3.34 29 | 572 points by drob518 16 hours ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting (github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7)
    ×0.75 34 | 57 points by 4RH1T3CT0R 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Agent Reading Test (agentreadingtest.com)
    ×0.56 39 | 64 points by kaycebasques 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025) (ericgoldman.org)
    ×2.01 26 | 196 points by datadrivenangel 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Graph-go – zero config, full visibility (github.com/guilherme-grimm)
    ×0.64 27 | 26 points by devGrimm 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines (som-st.github.io)
    ×0.74 49 | 51 points by tosh 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? (nxdomain.no)
    ×0.67 37 | 77 points by jruohonen 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (osnews.com)
    ×2.95 23 | 311 points by rglullis 17 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. France pulls last gold held in US (mining.com)
    ×3.32 11 | 593 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×3.41 10 | 876 points by armanified 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A New Oil Shock Accelerates a Return to Nuclear Power (nytimes.com)
    ×2.35 1 | 10 points by rustoo 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Signals, the push-pull based algorithm (willybrauner.com)
    ×1.09 50 | 162 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool (github.com/maaslalani)
    ×1.34 47 | 196 points by _____k 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)
    ×1.68 21 | 275 points by karimf 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)
    ×3.57 7 | 794 points by naves 1 day ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes (twitter.com/exQUIZitely)
    ×1.74 21 | 293 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair (drop.com)
    ×1.05 52 | 130 points by stevebmark 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Gemma 4 on iPhone (apple.com)
    ×3.07 7 | 850 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
    ×1.04 56 | 152 points by ikessler 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days (photon.codes)
    ×2.05 19 | 151 points by RyanZhuuuu 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Weird Clocks (specr.net)
    ×1.30 57 | 43 points by vunderba 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Porting Go's strings package to C (antonz.org)
    ×1.63 8 | 70 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (sschueller.github.io)
    ×4.92 5 | 781 points by sschueller 1 day ago | 655 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
    ×0.81 50 | 109 points by gmays 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick (github.com/JuliusBrussee)
    ×3.21 5 | 874 points by tosh 2 days ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok (0xsid.com)
    ×4.76 53 | 880 points by ssiddharth 20 hours ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com)
    ×3.67 3 | 931 points by brilee 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Reducto releases Deep Extract (reducto.ai)
    ×0.51 43 | 47 points by raunakchowdhuri 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
    ×1.64 11 | 314 points by nevernothing 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon (moonrf.com)
    ×1.39 11 | 253 points by hillcrestenigma 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What happens when a destructor throws (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.93 15 | 23 points by jandeboevrie 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Astronauts honor Artemis commander's deceased wife in emotional moon moment (cnn.com)
    ×1.43 15 | 5 points by 01-_- 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)
    ×3.38 7 | 441 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025) (umich.edu)
    ×1.07 52 | 181 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs (github.com/salmanmohammadi)
    ×1.38 48 | 214 points by desideratum 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Purple: Terminal SSH Client for macOS and Linux (getpurple.sh)
    ×1.13 29 | 3 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (bbc.com)
    ×1.95 6 | 518 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com/kdave)
    ×0.97 42 | 116 points by salt4034 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua (github.com/love2d)
    ×1.67 6 | 406 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi (theverge.com)
    ×3.66 76 | 46 points by marksully 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters (varun.ch)
    ×1.81 52 | 98 points by varun_ch 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
    ×0.82 47 | 98 points by mohshomis 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear" (wsj.com)
    ×3.86 14 | 57 points by fortran77 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network (friendi.ca)
    ×1.03 52 | 164 points by janandonly 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI (wsj.com)
    ×1.19 25 | 3 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (jaso1024.com)
    ×2.80 11 | 951 points by Jaso1024 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code (georgeliu.com)
    ×1.95 1 | 399 points by vbtechguy 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company" (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.27 25 | 58 points by chermanowicz 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is not guaranteed (theguardian.com)
    ×1.31 41 | 3 points by victortalkstech 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python (docking.cc)
    ×0.39 32 | 26 points by edumucelli 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???