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  1. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)
    ×3.65 | 615 points by u1hcw9nx 7 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (treybastian.com)
    ×2.05 2 | 90 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)
    ×3.36 | 669 points by iamflimflam1 10 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (signalusers.org)
    ×1.68 7 | 131 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.13 9 | 51 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.97 10 | 403 points by Levitating 13 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (apple.com)
    ×3.34 3 | 73 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    ×1.46 10 | 177 points by eigenspace 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 12 | 25 points by rasengan0 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)
    ×2.50 12 | 341 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×1.00 20 | 14 points by knowablemag 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.76 24 | 112 points by david927 10 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.12 6 | 77 points by ilamont 8 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (honisoit.com)
    ×1.28 19 | 24 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (wisc.edu)
    ×0.78 19 | 70 points by walrus01 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (katjahoyer.uk)
    ×0.83 28 | 43 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    ×4.42 15 | 42 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.52 21 | 182 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.64 19 | 227 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Robots – When will they be in our homes (ieee.org)
    ×1.15 34 | 13 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    ×1.36 27 | 7 points by fdeth 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)
    ×1.05 25 | 145 points by chiassedu80 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (wikisource.org)
    ×1.85 11 | 66 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Is It Greg? (github.com/antoineleclair)
    ×2.14 18 | 53 points by antoineleclair 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (thevidmarket.com)
    ×0.48 48 | 7 points by ryanpere2298 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts (science.org)
    ×1.25 20 | 19 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    ×0.84 23 | 51 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    ×0.87 30 | 67 points by rzk 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)
    ×0.51 38 | 12 points by akkartik 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The contagion of fear (dtrace.org)
    ×3.69 25 | 183 points by elffjs 5 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    ×2.38 2 | 533 points by taubek 20 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 25 | 81 points by binyu 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    ×0.65 63 | 61 points by kevvok 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.71 21 | 372 points by TheJCDenton 12 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×3.97 20 | 284 points by kolanos 11 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    ×0.81 32 | 117 points by blincoln 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    ×2.66 5 | 400 points by vinhnx 19 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.63 38 | 62 points by lumpa 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping (securityaffairs.com)
    ×3.80 13 | 7 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    ×0.53 45 | 50 points by xlmnxp 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (utk.edu)
    ×0.60 41 | 37 points by azhenley 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident (bostonscientific.com)
    ×1.05 71 | 6 points by teleforce 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears (myday24.com)
    ×0.58 19 | 19 points by tomasslavicek 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    ×1.34 12 | 185 points by ichacas 17 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.07 38 | 286 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.59 40 | 72 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LG says we're fake news [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.01 36 | 325 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos (juandecos.github.io)
    ×2.36 36 | 13 points by chaostaco 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    ×3.13 4 | 605 points by jonifico 1 day ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL (query.farm)
    ×1.27 69 | 8 points by rustyconover 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.06 26 | 573 points by mikemcquaid 19 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Dep-radius, know which dependency updates touch your code (npmjs.com)
    ×0.79 90 | 4 points by imadjourney 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
    ×0.89 22 | 71 points by DamnInteresting 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The End of Friday Nights with Friends (sagepub.com)
    ×1.34 51 | 8 points by marojejian 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. After Math (wordpress.com)
    ×2.06 42 | 135 points by throwaway81523 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    ×4.16 48 | 416 points by robinpie 10 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.60 54 | 54 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Meta$^N$: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Emergent Depth (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 73 | 5 points by Anon84 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT (reuters.com)
    ×2.56 6 | 14 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems (mpg.de)
    ×0.66 92 | 3 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×1.67 18 | 107 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996) (rmca.org)
    ×0.56 95 | 3 points by joebig 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups (apnews.com)
    ×3.57 23 | 6 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
    ×1.45 23 | 174 points by lopopolo 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Signal Distilled (signaldistilled.com)
    ×0.59 94 | 3 points by mattrcarroll 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Three AI Pills (wordpress.com)
    ×1.69 42 | 7 points by maxutility 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    ×2.33 1 | 597 points by juliantigler 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)
    ×5.98 33 | 757 points by xena 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. DeepSeek Peak Hours (sivaram.dev)
    ×1.00 65 | 5 points by denysvitali 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I Stabilized Never Type (ihatereality.space)
    ×1.09 1 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
    ×1.66 27 | 213 points by eiln 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.59 8 | 100 points by leephillips 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.15 43 | 459 points by wcrichton 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain (petrelvoyage.com)
    ×0.65 52 | 6 points by desktopentree 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (github.com/Foadsf)
    ×1.04 45 | 110 points by petalmind 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) (openai.com)
    ×3.68 59 | 65 points by Jimmc414 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.65 28 | 67 points by dgellow 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.70 13 | 9 points by mondobe 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh (minifigs-studio.vercel.app)
    ×0.80 62 | 10 points by fvitas 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener (1989) [pdf] (monoskop.org)
    ×1.30 53 | 6 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)
    ×1.19 40 | 70 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run (phys.org)
    ×0.82 48 | 61 points by wglb 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.31 9 | 14 points by fortran77 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI Forces You to Commit to Your Initial Belief (idiallo.com)
    ×1.09 16 | 3 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SCH: An affordable sandbox for Coding Agents in your AWS account (c-daniele.github.io)
    ×1.56 54 | 6 points by cdani 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A misalignment of AI in mathematics (mathandai.org)
    ×4.66 5 | 1223 points by meredydd 2 days ago | 1201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)
    ×0.89 50 | 127 points by pwg 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Terminal multiplexer and experimental Wayland compositor for browsers (blit.sh)
    ×1.22 65 | 5 points by williamstein 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System (github.com/OSPreservProject)
    ×0.39 40 | 19 points by EvanAnderson 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold (wired.com)
    ×1.11 54 | 142 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???