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  1. Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians (michaelgeist.ca)
    ×3.40 | 473 points by opengrass 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (chrome.com)
    ×2.20 2 | 397 points by xnx 9 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)
    ×2.78 2 | 375 points by kermatt 8 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What Is Agentic Engineering? (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.49 1 | 80 points by lumpa 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators (robot-daycare.com)
    ×1.63 42 | 7 points by o4c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. LLM Architecture Gallery (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.49 5 | 296 points by tzury 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text (man7.org)
    ×1.20 8 | 50 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LLMs can be exhausting (tomjohnell.com)
    ×2.23 1 | 122 points by tjohnell 5 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner (go.dev)
    ×1.13 13 | 123 points by commotionfever 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (isaacfreund.com)
    ×1.78 10 | 245 points by dpassens 13 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (msn.com)
    ×0.90 10 | 56 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)
    ×3.22 7 | 174 points by namnnumbr 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×2.35 7 | 44 points by Tim25659 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How I write software with LLMs (stavros.io)
    ×2.47 4 | 38 points by indigodaddy 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)
    ×2.83 7 | 39 points by pilingual 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic [pdf] (itu.dk)
    ×1.40 25 | 8 points by jbarrow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023) (zuthof.nl)
    ×1.06 9 | 191 points by walterbell 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects (github.com/QAInsights)
    ×0.79 37 | 9 points by qainsights 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories (aikido.dev)
    ×1.68 11 | 236 points by robinhouston 15 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (salk.edu)
    ×1.95 13 | 81 points by anjel 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files (github.com/jtsylve)
    ×0.58 38 | 8 points by luu 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books (alexerhardt.com)
    ×4.15 7 | 113 points by aerhardt 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 10 | 31 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data (zzk273.github.io)
    ×1.36 19 | 133 points by danielmorozoff 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nasdaq's Shame (keubiko.substack.com)
    ×4.86 23 | 222 points by imichael 5 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro (kenschutte.com)
    ×1.66 3 | 137 points by ks2048 10 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (r2d3.us)
    ×1.79 | 331 points by vismit2000 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS (towlion.github.io)
    ×0.66 26 | 11 points by baijum 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites (ulmer457718.substack.com)
    ×0.78 24 | 31 points by gaplong 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2 (dashbit.co)
    ×0.95 16 | 37 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)
    ×1.11 9 | 106 points by herodotus 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers (ephemchat.vercel.app)
    ×1.03 3 | 14 points by zRinexD 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis (theculturenewspaper.com)
    ×1.45 25 | 135 points by RickJWagner 15 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300 (firthemouse.github.io)
    ×0.54 35 | 61 points by FirTheMouse 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (microsoft.com)
    ×2.26 22 | 63 points by susam 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
    ×3.27 19 | 267 points by svara 12 hours ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data (signet.watch)
    ×0.79 29 | 108 points by mapldx 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account (github.com/EvanZhouDev)
    ×1.16 7 | 39 points by EvanZhouDev 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)
    ×0.77 35 | 76 points by octetta 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019) (righto.com)
    ×0.85 39 | 85 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Autoresearch Hub (autoresearchhub.com)
    ×0.67 30 | 39 points by EvgeniyZh 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Civic opinion sharing to promote democracy (ourpublicvoice.org)
    ×1.12 55 | 7 points by devpromgr 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×4.22 27 | 190 points by Amorymeltzer 10 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Kangina (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.03 30 | 94 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published (github.com/fabraix)
    ×0.71 17 | 20 points by zachdotai 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) (hnlyman.github.io)
    ×0.73 31 | 80 points by hnlyman 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com/novatic14)
    ×2.78 23 | 386 points by ZacnyLos 17 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Grandparents are glued to their phones [video] (bbc.com)
    ×2.67 30 | 191 points by tartoran 10 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pulsed High-Power Radio Energy Can Cause Harmful Effects on the Brain (2024) (nih.gov)
    ×2.53 18 | 13 points by greesil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform (office.eu)
    ×4.45 38 | 265 points by campuscodi 9 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product (macbudkowski.com)
    ×2.25 17 | 232 points by kiwieater 16 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.39 42 | 131 points by bensouthwood 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages (jvns.ca)
    ×1.05 30 | 95 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Human Organ Atlas (science.org)
    ×1.02 41 | 85 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rack-mount hydroponics (lj.am)
    ×1.87 2 | 333 points by cdrnsf 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. MCP is dead; long live MCP (chrlschn.dev)
    ×2.29 29 | 259 points by CharlieDigital 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal (psypost.org)
    ×2.32 20 | 23 points by geox 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2023) (gardenandgun.com)
    ×0.44 54 | 10 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.60 1 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It (quickchat.ai)
    ×1.37 8 | 21 points by piotrgrudzien 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.75 43 | 338 points by timhh 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories (wordpress.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 107 points by picafrost 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents (github.com/jmilinovich)
    ×1.22 65 | 11 points by jmilinovich 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How kernel anti-cheats work (s4dbrd.github.io)
    ×2.37 1 | 342 points by davikr 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×4.53 2 | 1189 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.18 55 | 127 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO (ayushtambde.com)
    ×0.78 55 | 85 points by at2005 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (denizcemonduygu.com)
    ×0.23 79 | 6 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (sebi.io)
    ×2.53 6 | 302 points by sebi_io 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988 (kubicki.org)
    ×0.86 64 | 67 points by kosmavision 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Webpage Has Instructions. The Agent Has Your Credentials (openguard.sh)
    ×0.93 32 | 31 points by everlier 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm (robertsdotpm.github.io)
    ×1.68 | 208 points by Uptrenda 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 9 Mothers Defense (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 (nullr0ute.com)
    ×0.98 49 | 117 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Slicing Bezier Surfaces (fatih-erikli-potato.github.io)
    ×0.60 61 | 37 points by fatih-erikli-cg 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
    ×0.93 54 | 114 points by Velocifyer 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ (charlespetzold.com)
    ×3.13 39 | 353 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene (le-brun.eu)
    ×0.62 81 | 3 points by laurentlb 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Library of Short Stories (libraryofshortstories.com)
    ×1.16 47 | 111 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence (umd.edu)
    ×1.29 19 | 81 points by ohjeez 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (bbc.com)
    ×1.21 3 | 163 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) (johndcook.com)
    ×1.10 | 143 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SuperTux 0.7.0 (github.com/SuperTux)
    ×2.65 20 | 60 points by pentagrama 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.88 8 | 1464 points by ricardbejarano 2 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023) (csis.org)
    ×1.55 54 | 166 points by msuniverse2026 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content (stripes.com)
    ×2.86 38 | 170 points by geox 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft (airbus.com)
    ×1.55 5 | 178 points by phasnox 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)
    ×0.95 58 | 136 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design (thelastfarm.substack.com)
    ×3.60 37 | 59 points by greenie_beans 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: HN Skins – Available Skins: Cafe, Courier, London, Midnight, Terminal (github.com/susam)
    ×1.08 67 | 4 points by susam 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???