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  1. Things to know when you get cancer (jjmaxwell4.com)
    ×5.60 | 1438 points by jjmaxwell4 15 hours ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit (dfb.sh)
    ×1.81 1 | 118 points by 0xdeafbeef 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenCode 2.0 (anoma.ly)
    ×3.11 1 | 640 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tiny Little Office (tinylittleoffice.com)
    ×2.88 2 | 471 points by donohoe 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand (indigene.app)
    ×1.00 16 | 37 points by olivierlacan 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Do dentists know what they're doing? (mapwriting.substack.com)
    ×4.16 1 | 735 points by doitLP 18 hours ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents (liquid.ai)
    ×1.66 4 | 221 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity (catchabird.com)
    ×2.40 | 202 points by eduardsik 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: Best Pill Splitter (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×0.76 34 | 8 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio (newyorker.com)
    ×1.23 3 | 29 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years (dataforprogress.org)
    ×2.99 14 | 423 points by hubraumhugo 19 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction (phys.org)
    ×1.17 23 | 41 points by maxall4 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA (wowhaus.co.uk)
    ×0.62 36 | 50 points by rmason 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 (kennedn.com)
    ×1.43 12 | 88 points by kennedn 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua (uji.sh)
    ×1.05 12 | 30 points by cat-whisperer 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.67 23 | 40 points by austinallegro 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×1.22 19 | 260 points by allddd 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The Double Headed Stack Allocator (demofox.org)
    ×0.80 16 | 69 points by g0xA52A2A 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Your C is not standard C (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.10 19 | 97 points by dverlaeckt80 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.29 75 | 3 points by CaliforniaKarl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents (github.com/awslabs)
    ×0.43 36 | 10 points by pramodbiligiri 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing (github.com/andunieee)
    ×1.05 11 | 45 points by andunie 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface (itsnicethat.com)
    ×0.76 23 | 28 points by droidjj 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? (alexwennerberg.com)
    ×3.89 36 | 374 points by epestr 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free (petal.live)
    ×1.15 15 | 177 points by thedracle 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet (not-ship.com)
    ×4.27 3 | 849 points by sighborg 1 day ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts (csoonline.com)
    ×4.67 22 | 909 points by latexr 17 hours ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers (typesafe.ai)
    ×1.97 14 | 302 points by emschwartz 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
    ×0.74 19 | 82 points by reacharavindh 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack (oxide.computer)
    ×1.37 29 | 122 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold (stemdeck.app)
    ×0.82 37 | 116 points by thclpr 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Has AI tells (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.12 41 | 122 points by 7777777phil 18 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Submarine cable resilience (apnic.net)
    ×0.85 29 | 161 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Passkeys are not a trap (scotthelme.co.uk)
    ×3.90 18 | 604 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fancy Curl Sites (nytpu.com)
    ×1.02 16 | 129 points by adunk 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland (dpa-international.com)
    ×2.28 17 | 367 points by ilamont 16 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke (sunshowers.io)
    ×3.39 27 | 377 points by sunshowers 14 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW (github.com/timescale)
    ×1.00 33 | 204 points by jascha_eng 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.74 21 | 474 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font (typeof.net)
    ×2.87 11 | 722 points by otobrglez 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox (clova.email)
    ×0.94 39 | 102 points by edpin2000 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.74 30 | 424 points by ivewonyoung 16 hours ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases (futhark-lang.org)
    ×2.34 69 | 17 points by marvinborner 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Claude Code Desktop Vulnerability: Preview Pane Data Exfiltration (noma.security)
    ×1.45 71 | 7 points by wondersky 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
    ×1.32 49 | 194 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gemini 4 Argon (deepmind.google)
    ×5.23 9 | 1448 points by 737max 1 day ago | 1029 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LittleJS is 2D and 3D now (frankforce.com)
    ×0.83 42 | 102 points by dmit 20 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI was great until it was not (thetheorygirlie.substack.com)
    ×5.74 46 | 80 points by JohnHammersley 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why are chip companies allergic to open source? (zeroasic.com)
    ×1.17 73 | 13 points by adapteva 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.57 26 | 262 points by coloneltcb 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill (yyhh.org)
    ×3.52 54 | 776 points by layer8 2 days ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App
    ×0.71 40 | 20 points by bado 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014) (jsomers.net)
    ×0.59 60 | 30 points by hangsi 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.80 60 | 76 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material (swedenherald.com)
    ×1.09 38 | 147 points by tobr 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012) (sive.rs)
    ×2.96 46 | 111 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs (qawolf.com)
    ×0.76 41 | 91 points by jadenlemmon 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×1.97 16 | 179 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024) (robotsinplainenglish.com)
    ×0.50 60 | 66 points by ripe 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians (pessimistsarchive.org)
    ×0.76 79 | 86 points by list 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled (anitab.org)
    ×2.42 38 | 249 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Something is falling apart at GNOME, and it's not subtle (grigio.org)
    ×5.49 32 | 10 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.48 4 | 786 points by thm 1 day ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Gaming on Linux without cheating (epicgames.com)
    ×2.25 43 | 78 points by water-drummer 20 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Scientists are teaching birds to sing lost songs (yale.edu)
    ×0.58 62 | 49 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery (lever.co)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent (github.com/bealesh)
    ×0.65 29 | 69 points by bealesh 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord (strafe.chat)
    ×1.51 56 | 115 points by brydencalaway 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Marshall Islands Stick Chart (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 32 | 49 points by Thevet 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote (startupfortune.com)
    ×3.04 50 | 368 points by smartmic 16 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code (museumofages.org)
    ×0.68 45 | 88 points by micstradev 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How I manage persistent Claude Code loops: Spool (github.com/enes-alatas)
    ×0.73 48 | 22 points by enesalatas 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (co.za:443)
    ×0.44 58 | 37 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Redesigning source control at Anthropic (anthropic.com)
    ×4.24 16 | 879 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 987 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Hardwired - turn JS into a neural net (chenglou.me)
    ×1.31 67 | 4 points by dvrp 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.76 61 | 12 points by shadaba 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Creating a Garmin "MCP" (jackantico.io)
    ×0.86 68 | 40 points by ricotico060 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. KDE Plasma 6.8 released to celebrate 30 years of project (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×2.57 6 | 13 points by tapanjk 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy (neowin.net)
    ×2.56 29 | 34 points by bundie 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents (github.com/graphicle-ai)
    ×0.39 45 | 45 points by KarLexAI 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Apple HomeView (apple.com)
    ×3.14 3 | 752 points by etothet 1 day ago | 904 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×3.02 3 | 743 points by formerly_proven 2 days ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Next Concept Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 71 | 3 points by E-Reverance 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×1.19 45 | 69 points by mfrw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hinton: We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans (theguardian.com)
    ×1.68 1 | 8 points by calf 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs (github.com/android)
    ×3.36 42 | 492 points by tharen 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Teachers Using AI Say It Frees Up Time for What Matters Most (gallup.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 7 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Europe's reliance on US gas is as serious a risk as Russian gas used to be (euobserver.com)
    ×4.66 73 | 8 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (guitoro.com)
    ×2.43 12 | 560 points by talccc 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I let an AI run my startup for a week (tinyprojects.dev)
    ×1.78 38 | 62 points by tinyprojects 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???