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  1. Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies (frontiersin.org)
    ×2.64 1 | 321 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (timesofisrael.com)
    ×6.72 1 | 627 points by defly 3 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance (michaelgeist.ca)
    ×3.66 8 | 877 points by opengrass 17 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind (randalolson.com)
    ×0.19 35 | 13 points by turoczy 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How I write software with LLMs (stavros.io)
    ×2.52 9 | 366 points by indigodaddy 13 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)
    ×3.36 12 | 706 points by kermatt 19 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (chrome.com)
    ×2.34 13 | 536 points by xnx 20 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring (ashbyhq.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Home Assistant waters my plants (finnian.io)
    ×1.79 4 | 142 points by finniananderson 8 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators (robot-daycare.com)
    ×1.16 23 | 132 points by o4c 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points (exclusivearchitecture.com)
    ×1.23 18 | 84 points by ExAr 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)
    ×3.97 14 | 514 points by namnnumbr 21 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf] (itu.dk)
    ×1.01 29 | 102 points by jbarrow 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LLM Architecture Gallery (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.87 10 | 505 points by tzury 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. LLMs can be exhausting (tomjohnell.com)
    ×2.28 12 | 293 points by tjohnell 16 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kona EV Hacking (techno-fandom.org)
    ×0.83 21 | 65 points by AnnikaL 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (asimov.press)
    ×1.22 8 | 48 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025) (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.75 1 | 32 points by carlos-menezes 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu (gesoff.uk)
    ×1.32 15 | 63 points by bengesoff 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (isaacfreund.com)
    ×1.80 24 | 324 points by dpassens 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×0.48 25 | 54 points by blewboarwastake 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text (man7.org)
    ×1.32 19 | 144 points by teleforce 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books (alexerhardt.com)
    ×2.30 26 | 209 points by aerhardt 21 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories (aikido.dev)
    ×1.61 32 | 287 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner (go.dev)
    ×1.16 29 | 178 points by commotionfever 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? (benjojo.co.uk)
    ×0.64 29 | 49 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro (kenschutte.com)
    ×1.65 23 | 210 points by ks2048 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs (moment.dev)
    ×1.82 3 | 128 points by antics 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023) (zuthof.nl)
    ×1.06 29 | 217 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (r2d3.us)
    ×1.84 18 | 381 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (msn.com)
    ×0.77 39 | 76 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data (zzk273.github.io)
    ×1.29 34 | 168 points by danielmorozoff 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com/jtsylve)
    ×0.72 40 | 49 points by luu 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (salk.edu)
    ×1.87 2 | 152 points by anjel 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007) (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.00 30 | 39 points by exvi 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.09 27 | 83 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 385TB video game archive saved by fans; torrents being generated (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.44 7 | 53 points by mikhael 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nasdaq's Shame (keubiko.substack.com)
    ×4.65 16 | 363 points by imichael 17 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)
    ×1.85 4 | 105 points by pilingual 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)
    ×1.10 29 | 129 points by herodotus 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn (politico.eu)
    ×10.55 36 | 102 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code (phoronix.com)
    ×2.05 21 | 36 points by doener 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis (theculturenewspaper.com)
    ×1.36 39 | 149 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (ulmer457718.substack.com)
    ×0.66 54 | 46 points by gaplong 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300 (firthemouse.github.io)
    ×0.54 63 | 70 points by FirTheMouse 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    ×1.96 39 | 103 points by tathagatadg 4 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data (signet.watch)
    ×0.77 48 | 115 points by mapldx 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019) (righto.com)
    ×0.81 67 | 91 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
    ×3.14 9 | 345 points by svara 23 hours ago | 539 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)
    ×0.76 60 | 86 points by octetta 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2 (dashbit.co)
    ×0.80 43 | 48 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What is agentic engineering? (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.21 17 | 149 points by lumpa 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU (github.com/andkorzh)
    ×0.61 95 | 11 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS (towlion.github.io)
    ×0.48 73 | 21 points by baijum 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com/novatic14)
    ×2.78 8 | 415 points by ZacnyLos 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.30 73 | 137 points by bensouthwood 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. MCP is dead; long live MCP (chrlschn.dev)
    ×2.21 45 | 273 points by CharlieDigital 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) (hnlyman.github.io)
    ×0.68 63 | 83 points by hnlyman 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×3.80 14 | 229 points by Amorymeltzer 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product (macbudkowski.com)
    ×2.19 1 | 250 points by kiwieater 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Human Organ Atlas (science.org)
    ×0.93 75 | 87 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rack-mount hydroponics (lj.am)
    ×1.88 6 | 345 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×1.79 10 | 76 points by Tim25659 13 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Civic opinion sharing to promote democracy (ourpublicvoice.org)
    ×0.95 79 | 19 points by devpromgr 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.74 59 | 343 points by timhh 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×4.56 6 | 1201 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Never knew news websites could survive without ads (npr.org)
    ×0.75 33 | 6 points by dheerajmp 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene (le-brun.eu)
    ×1.48 96 | 17 points by laurentlb 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Grandparents are glued to their phones [video] (bbc.com)
    ×2.48 17 | 202 points by tartoran 21 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 'Another internet is possible': Norway rails against 'enshittification' (theguardian.com)
    ×3.88 38 | 21 points by voxleone 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. OpenJarvis: Personal AI, on Personal Devices (stanford.edu)
    ×2.09 97 | 14 points by jostylr 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories (wordpress.com)
    ×0.91 69 | 109 points by picafrost 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How kernel anti-cheats work (s4dbrd.github.io)
    ×2.38 7 | 354 points by davikr 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform (office.eu)
    ×4.22 36 | 288 points by campuscodi 21 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (microsoft.com)
    ×1.97 11 | 77 points by susam 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Autoresearch Hub (autoresearchhub.com)
    ×0.68 60 | 44 points by EvgeniyZh 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (sebi.io)
    ×2.48 12 | 308 points by sebi_io 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kangina (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.70 21 | 110 points by thunderbong 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.91 | 1476 points by ricardbejarano 3 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Third places are disappearing as the world goes more online – The Week (theweek.com)
    ×0.54 50 | 4 points by janandonly 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Blade Runner File: A Usenet Debate (1989) (scribble.com)
    ×0.49 92 | 5 points by exvi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO (ayushtambde.com)
    ×0.75 74 | 85 points by at2005 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents (github.com/jmilinovich)
    ×1.33 78 | 23 points by jmilinovich 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 (nullr0ute.com)
    ×0.98 66 | 121 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2023) (gardenandgun.com)
    ×0.44 85 | 13 points by NaOH 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
    ×0.92 69 | 117 points by Velocifyer 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988 (kubicki.org)
    ×0.81 78 | 67 points by kosmavision 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023) (csis.org)
    ×1.52 70 | 168 points by msuniverse2026 2 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers (ephemchat.vercel.app)
    ×0.66 50 | 16 points by zRinexD 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Library of Short Stories (libraryofshortstories.com)
    ×1.13 62 | 113 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???