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  1. Your Website Is Not for You (websmith.studio)
    ×1.59 6 | 16 points by pumbaa 54 minutes ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
    ×0.82 4 | 38 points by mayerwin 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  3. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
    ×2.25 1 | 144 points by sleepingNomad 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  4. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.46 12 | 617 points by the-mitr 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ??? ???
  5. Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
    ×3.24 1 | 134 points by simianwords 3 hours ago | 162 comments | ??? ???
  6. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)
    ×1.10 18 | 86 points by giuliomagnifico 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  7. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
    ×2.67 13 | 519 points by ori_b 19 hours ago | 416 comments | ??? ???
  8. If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
    ×1.61 7 | 20 points by matricaria 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  9. OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
    ×1.28 19 | 108 points by zero-lab 9 hours ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  10. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
    ×1.92 19 | 406 points by j12y 19 hours ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  11. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)
    ×2.44 6 | 371 points by ilamont 15 hours ago | 193 comments | ??? ???
  12. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.23 10 | 63 points by smaddrellmander 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  13. A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025) (btxx.org)
    ×1.20 4 | 23 points by bradley_taunt 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  14. The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023) (skysedge.com)
    ×1.21 6 | 35 points by tzury 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  15. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.61 12 | 59 points by gbourne1 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  16. Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.50 24 | 120 points by herbertl 11 hours ago | 93 comments | ??? ???
  17. Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (xcancel.com)
    ×4.63 12 | 26 points by andruby 54 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  18. How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)
    ×2.20 19 | 440 points by chmaynard 22 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  19. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)
    ×6.30 7 | 1192 points by elmean 21 hours ago | 659 comments | ??? ???
  20. Auto Polo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.29 6 | 74 points by canjobear 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  21. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.38 30 | 117 points by zikani_03 13 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  22. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
    ×1.66 19 | 290 points by elvis70 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ??? ???
  23. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.18 12 | 641 points by Cider9986 15 hours ago | 267 comments | ??? ???
  24. Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac (ieee.org)
    ×0.60 41 | 36 points by oldnetguy 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  25. Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine (lovable.dev)
    ×3.05 2 | 23 points by vikeri 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  26. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
    ×1.84 27 | 328 points by vok 22 hours ago | 144 comments | ??? ???
  27. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.65 25 | 159 points by armadsen 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  28. Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
    ×1.83 17 | 212 points by patrickhulin 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  29. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h (canonical.com)
    ×3.25 19 | 76 points by jtlebigot 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  30. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.38 30 | 152 points by ethagnawl 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  31. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.03 46 | 33 points by droppedasbaby 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  32. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
    ×3.37 13 | 829 points by mpweiher 23 hours ago | 864 comments | ??? ???
  33. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
    ×1.48 24 | 285 points by scarsam 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  34. Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)
    ×1.47 27 | 142 points by KraftyOne 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  35. Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) (nikhiljha.com)
    ×0.83 19 | 36 points by ninjha 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  36. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)
    ×1.26 23 | 92 points by wglb 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  37. Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months (macrumors.com)
    ×3.38 24 | 90 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  38. Xmemory: Benchmarking Structured AI Memory Against RAG and Hybrid RAG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.94 78 | 3 points by alex_petrov 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  39. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.43 46 | 8 points by signa11 4 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  40. Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs (github.com/intel)
    ×1.00 78 | 3 points by lastdong 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  41. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.77 22 | 209 points by gpjt 21 hours ago | 149 comments | ??? ???
  42. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.50 24 | 295 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 190 comments | ??? ???
  43. American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were (derekthompson.org)
    ×2.79 39 | 112 points by ozozozd 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  44. It’s Toasted (yadin.com)
    ×1.85 23 | 49 points by dryadin 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  45. I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers (gregraiz.com)
    ×2.00 7 | 90 points by graiz 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  46. Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo (dustri.org)
    ×0.87 43 | 71 points by homebrewer 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  47. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)
    ×3.20 24 | 488 points by akyuu 20 hours ago | 193 comments | ??? ???
  48. The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.18 24 | 103 points by Sir_Twist 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  49. How People ask Claude for personal guidance (anthropic.com)
    ×1.53 43 | 12 points by pseudolus 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  50. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.26 15 | 2087 points by salkahfi 1 day ago | 675 comments | ??? ???
  51. What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.89 78 | 113 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  52. A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
    ×1.04 48 | 140 points by mostlyk 1 day ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  53. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mit.edu)
    ×0.96 42 | 94 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.52 12 | 79 points by kernalix7 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  55. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
    ×3.30 12 | 625 points by jaffathecake 1 day ago | 224 comments | ??? ???
  56. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.76 46 | 64 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  57. A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (alphaxiv.org)
    ×0.66 56 | 32 points by measurablefunc 13 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  58. Om Malik – What Microsoft's 10-Q Says About OpenAI (om.co)
    ×1.40 10 | 7 points by rmason 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  59. How we run iSCSI over the internet (scsipub.com)
    ×1.32 23 | 25 points by qdotme 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  60. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
    ×0.89 68 | 59 points by pantalaimon 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ??? ???
  61. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×5.56 17 | 1399 points by unsnap_biceps 1 day ago | 491 comments | ??? ???
  62. Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (nik.digital)
    ×0.62 58 | 32 points by OuterVale 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  63. Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
    ×1.34 56 | 25 points by wglb 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  64. Foundations of Metrology(1981) [pdf] (nist.gov)
    ×0.85 70 | 5 points by pillars 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  65. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.88 19 | 3469 points by WadeGrimridge 2 days ago | 1036 comments | ??? ???
  66. SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
    ×0.58 61 | 29 points by pmw 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  67. Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
    ×1.23 41 | 191 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 158 comments | ??? ???
  68. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  69. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
    ×1.28 36 | 200 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  70. My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
    ×0.77 51 | 82 points by g0xA52A2A 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  71. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×2.45 2 | 488 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  72. DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
    ×1.28 35 | 139 points by louisbarclay 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  73. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.59 44 | 200 points by noleary 1 day ago | 99 comments | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
    ×1.41 | 82 points by nahimn 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  75. The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.47 19 | 656 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 440 comments | ??? ???
  76. Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion That Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012) (nih.gov)
    ×1.82 7 | 3 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  77. The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.68 48 | 66 points by downbad_ 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  78. London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.97 52 | 120 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 36 comments | ??? ???
  79. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
    ×5.31 24 | 1180 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 186 comments | ??? ???
  80. Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
    ×0.88 56 | 98 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  81. Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation (spacedino.net)
    ×4.73 48 | 67 points by jfil 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  82. $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs (biohub.org)
    ×1.34 8 | 35 points by warbaker 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  83. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (talkie-lm.com)
    ×2.85 58 | 762 points by jekude 3 days ago | 325 comments | ??? ???
  84. "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
    ×0.76 47 | 84 points by dwrodri 1 day ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  85. The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.48 47 | 18 points by denismenace 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  86. Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
    ×4.35 52 | 1034 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 635 comments | ??? ???
  87. Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)
    ×1.48 25 | 217 points by ferriswil 21 hours ago | 56 comments | ??? ???
  88. GCC 16 has been released (gnu.org)
    ×2.81 30 | 295 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  89. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 60 | 133 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  90. How Semiconductors Were Made in America (siliconimist.com)
    ×0.73 34 | 45 points by johncole 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???