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  1. The Cypherpunk Library (cypherpunkbooks.com)
    ×1.57 | 137 points by yu3zhou4 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Dopamine Fracking (igerman.cc)
    ×3.39 1 | 430 points by igmn 9 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.42 8 | 184 points by 882542F3884314B 8 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A Family Project (2022) (bittersoutherner.com)
    ×1.37 4 | 42 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Zig Structs of Arrays (2024) (andreashohmann.com)
    ×1.35 13 | 18 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
    ×3.74 4 | 692 points by gavinray 17 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? (reeserichardson.blog)
    ×2.68 8 | 58 points by mhrmsn 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Spherical Voronoi Diagram (jasondavies.com)
    ×1.18 15 | 33 points by marysminefnuf 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs (teenage.engineering)
    ×1.46 3 | 230 points by vthommeret 10 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Richard Scolyer Has Died (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 10 | 89 points by nicwilson 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (ranpara.net)
    ×1.61 5 | 214 points by DevarshRanpara 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Playing with Vision Embeddings (prestonbjensen.com)
    ×1.47 9 | 81 points by prestoj 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot (safedep.io)
    ×1.53 21 | 11 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Amber Tree: A Middle Ground Between Rowan Red and Green Trees (gplane.win)
    ×1.40 41 | 5 points by gplane 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The EU Open Source Strategy (europa.eu)
    ×4.62 10 | 98 points by vrganj 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections (science.org)
    ×1.93 2 | 198 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OneDrive data now has an expiry date (ms365news.com)
    ×2.17 13 | 98 points by taubek 4 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (algorithmichiring.github.io)
    ×1.36 9 | 114 points by drchiu 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) (nik.art)
    ×1.85 18 | 252 points by herbertl 18 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation (github.com/markusheimerl)
    ×0.65 32 | 39 points by markusheimerl 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.06 4 | 256 points by bkazez 15 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank (computerweekly.com)
    ×3.92 16 | 72 points by robtherobber 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision (runtimewire.com)
    ×3.11 16 | 305 points by yogthos 10 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com/melastmohican)
    ×1.56 6 | 132 points by melastmohican 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (microsoft.com)
    ×0.61 39 | 33 points by soheilpro 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.62 25 | 206 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com/devenjarvis)
    ×2.22 22 | 331 points by devenjarvis 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)
    ×1.81 29 | 401 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
    ×2.63 12 | 432 points by howToTestFE 17 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (bearblog.dev)
    ×5.82 17 | 1023 points by poisonfountain 23 hours ago | 965 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Splash Is a Colour Format (todepond.com)
    ×0.68 120 | 68 points by tobr 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.65 30 | 68 points by omblivion 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Giant Floating Victorian Drydock (mastermariners.org.au)
    ×0.95 7 | 30 points by dtj1123 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight (radioworld.com)
    ×1.82 61 | 184 points by pkaeding 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests (reuters.com)
    ×2.20 11 | 119 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
    ×0.95 38 | 133 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003) (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.45 38 | 15 points by userbinator 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (righto.com)
    ×0.62 42 | 88 points by elpocko 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
    ×2.40 37 | 291 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background (1worldflag.com)
    ×1.97 14 | 122 points by davidbarker 10 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (ycombinator.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
    ×0.86 36 | 82 points by aself101 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960) (mit.edu)
    ×0.81 20 | 42 points by rballpug 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Do agents.md files help coding agents? (twitter.com/rasbt)
    ×1.41 13 | 46 points by smushback 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Doing Nothing at Work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.03 10 | 14 points by Sukram21 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (podman.io)
    ×1.27 37 | 119 points by daesorin 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024) (ydb.tech)
    ×0.91 26 | 81 points by b-man 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.71 19 | 504 points by predkambrij 23 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible (yahoo.com)
    ×1.93 13 | 96 points by mikhael 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
    ×1.35 9 | 137 points by maxloh 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.86 48 | 705 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1087 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com/garethgeorge)
    ×1.18 33 | 97 points by flexagoon 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. History of CentOS (theregister.com)
    ×2.37 10 | 7 points by sohkamyung 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
    ×1.23 49 | 157 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
    ×0.96 34 | 142 points by supermatou 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A visual introduction to kernel functions (kelvinpaschal.com)
    ×0.71 45 | 45 points by Kelvinidan 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding (phoronix.com)
    ×2.52 12 | 113 points by Bender 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.09 32 | 148 points by kkm 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.71 34 | 186 points by zeech 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.07 36 | 165 points by gscott 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Technical details of the attack described by Markoff in NYT (kohala.com)
    ×0.84 56 | 9 points by jruohonen 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 36 | 171 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Back end is full of hidden workflows (unmeshed.io)
    ×0.60 49 | 16 points by jusonchan81 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.66 17 | 273 points by babuskov 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)
    ×2.34 51 | 221 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Nightwatch, The open-source, read-only AI SRE (github.com/ninoxAI)
    ×1.02 52 | 23 points by egorferber 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    ×1.43 43 | 115 points by old_sound 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
    ×0.76 45 | 70 points by ChrisGammell 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab (acs.org)
    ×1.08 50 | 123 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
    ×1.70 16 | 212 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (bbc.com)
    ×2.39 6 | 141 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    ×2.00 15 | 291 points by pramodbiligiri 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. KNN early termination in Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)
    ×0.35 59 | 12 points by snikolaev 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    ×0.77 30 | 77 points by le_chuck 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
    ×1.07 39 | 54 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (safia.rocks)
    ×0.52 46 | 41 points by ankitg12 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)
    ×1.98 5 | 83 points by 7777777phil 16 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (ft.com)
    ×2.59 28 | 56 points by JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com/a-yiorgos)
    ×0.67 49 | 51 points by nextos 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
    ×1.89 4 | 411 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (kdab.com)
    ×0.48 53 | 35 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    ×1.76 6 | 251 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×3.17 48 | 309 points by toephu2 2 days ago | 897 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.72 36 | 45 points by iamnothere 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.79 42 | 51 points by yorwba 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.44 60 | 175 points by emschwartz 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Vim Classic 8.3 Released (vim-classic.org)
    ×1.83 48 | 51 points by tempodox 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
    ×1.37 33 | 184 points by uonr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×4.20 7 | 928 points by 0xkato 2 days ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.65 60 | 82 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???