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  1. I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
    ×4.95 1 | 274 points by dr_pardee 3 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
    ×3.36 1 | 148 points by ed-is-ai 1 hour ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
    ×1.61 1 | 98 points by shortcrct 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
    ×1.37 4 | 159 points by campuscodi 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
    ×2.14 1 | 34 points by ryanvogel 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
    ×1.66 4 | 35 points by the-mitr 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
    ×1.58 2 | 113 points by bwb 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
    ×4.19 5 | 193 points by dredmorbius 3 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.93 2 | 55 points by mdp2021 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
    ×2.65 8 | 371 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.21 10 | 195 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
    ×1.08 12 | 161 points by userbinator 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
    ×2.74 8 | 123 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
    ×0.99 2 | 51 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.96 4 | 235 points by raybb 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)
    ×2.76 16 | 450 points by felineflock 23 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
    ×1.30 14 | 177 points by boilerupnc 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (yantraai.app)
    ×0.73 17 | 52 points by skylensspace 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. We must not grant AI agents legal personhood (ft.com)
    ×2.61 5 | 8 points by andsoitis 38 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
    ×1.26 8 | 136 points by zX41ZdbW 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
    ×1.44 6 | 34 points by mdp2021 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
    ×1.59 22 | 159 points by cocacola1 17 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
    ×1.25 30 | 97 points by Sir_Twist 15 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.86 13 | 453 points by auraham 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.91 26 | 71 points by rznicolet 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fast and Hard Code (pocoo.org)
    ×1.39 10 | 99 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
    ×2.33 13 | 463 points by jemoka 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)
    ×2.04 6 | 399 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. typ.ing (typ.ing)
    ×2.34 19 | 339 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows (itch.io)
    ×1.98 8 | 4 points by Gorsefound 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
    ×2.79 16 | 272 points by pjacotg 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)
    ×1.59 30 | 235 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.67 35 | 252 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Death to px, long live ch (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.36 17 | 42 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.57 35 | 200 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.14 25 | 132 points by stared 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
    ×1.33 48 | 33 points by sbulaev 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb./mild cognitive impair (sciencedirect.com)
    ×2.33 25 | 16 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×2.00 25 | 27 points by gdcbe 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
    ×1.42 39 | 167 points by grappler 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.09 36 | 147 points by gnyeki 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)
    ×1.68 34 | 300 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
    ×1.40 11 | 122 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Hell has more than 7 circles you guys (2022) (colinmorris.github.io)
    ×2.56 5 | 11 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)
    ×0.90 50 | 150 points by asdefghyk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Friendly Introduction to Racket (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.54 19 | 254 points by signa11 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI? (pewresearch.org)
    ×1.18 3 | 5 points by champagnepapi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Universal Housing (twitter.com/christianreber)
    ×1.45 29 | 22 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)
    ×1.27 45 | 105 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.67 47 | 53 points by jardy 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? (thejpster.org.uk)
    ×0.77 64 | 11 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next? (hackaday.com)
    ×0.51 26 | 4 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×6.38 7 | 658 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 1547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Conway's Game of Life in real life (coredump.cx)
    ×1.05 46 | 67 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
    ×1.73 16 | 226 points by altmanaltman 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Physical Activity at Work Linked to Higher Dementia Rates (medpagetoday.com)
    ×1.49 19 | 5 points by Noaidi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×2.10 31 | 231 points by speckx 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.25 58 | 156 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.19 72 | 143 points by gmays 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Steve French (SMB3/CIFSFS Linux kernel maintainer) has died (phoronix.com)
    ×3.05 8 | 49 points by starkparker 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hacker News RSS (hnrss.github.io)
    ×1.61 56 | 29 points by sillysaurusx 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.36 7 | 835 points by colinprince 2 days ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)
    ×1.01 27 | 92 points by danielochoa0620 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.67 85 | 304 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.34 7 | 186 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×1.57 26 | 103 points by robpruzan 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (bbc.com)
    ×1.52 48 | 101 points by epestr 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.44 11 | 1077 points by floathub 2 days ago | 1330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)
    ×0.87 48 | 51 points by rznicolet 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (mythic.ai)
    ×0.86 49 | 58 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com/ofdryads)
    ×0.65 56 | 44 points by ashenke 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.68 23 | 627 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 900 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
    ×0.90 35 | 71 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world (readingmaps.com)
    ×0.89 23 | 42 points by hakkikonu 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.58 6 | 650 points by thepoet 2 days ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Airbus bows to remote working demands after series of strikes (theguardian.com)
    ×1.20 17 | 10 points by vrganj 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.73 36 | 132 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Software Engineering in the Agentic Era (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.69 40 | 27 points by silverpiranha 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to archive Everything and share It (aramzs.github.io)
    ×0.82 60 | 11 points by toomuchtodo 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)
    ×2.17 5 | 415 points by matklad 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.14 44 | 169 points by toebee 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com)
    ×1.21 30 | 124 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.48 8 | 414 points by underdeserver 2 days ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (soverybright.com)
    ×1.41 16 | 65 points by telecuda 23 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×3.15 59 | 67 points by giuliomagnifico 8 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Strange Allure of Fake Shopping Sites (macleans.ca)
    ×0.66 12 | 4 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Andrew Ng: "AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications" (twitter.com/AndrewYNg)
    ×2.02 39 | 23 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×3.13 2 | 669 points by gavide 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.15 44 | 134 points by ra7 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???