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  1. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
    ×2.82 | 388 points by alexharri 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
    ×2.54 3 | 70 points by iamwil 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
    ×0.76 13 | 56 points by 1659447091 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
    ×1.27 11 | 145 points by tin7in 7 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.70 2 | 246 points by rendall 5 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
    ×1.49 8 | 120 points by originalankur 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.55 13 | 608 points by robertvc 20 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/PABannier)
    ×1.12 13 | 92 points by el_pa_b 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
    ×2.15 5 | 67 points by glimshe 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.99 3 | 59 points by 7777777phil 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    ×3.02 11 | 892 points by todotask2 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
    ×1.03 56 | 4 points by kurinikku 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
    ×3.40 7 | 222 points by doener 6 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
    ×1.84 11 | 93 points by c420 9 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    ×3.25 11 | 644 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Escaping the trap of US tech dependence (disconnect.blog)
    ×2.85 5 | 12 points by laurex 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020) (freep.com)
    ×0.67 10 | 26 points by rmason 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    ×1.71 15 | 201 points by tobr 16 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes (systemstack.dev)
    ×1.11 6 | 7 points by entaloneralie 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go (dsifry.github.io)
    ×0.44 69 | 3 points by dsifry 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)
    ×0.67 4 | 5 points by sinak 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.08 17 | 7 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.88 18 | 445 points by jaas 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
    ×3.39 14 | 133 points by smurda 6 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Architecture for Disposable Systems (tuananh.net)
    ×0.74 1 | 39 points by tuananh 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    ×1.51 22 | 186 points by GaggiX 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999) (doom2.net)
    ×0.21 62 | 3 points by Lammy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (npr.org)
    ×2.56 16 | 65 points by backpackerBMW 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.22 8 | 75 points by OgsyedIE 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    ×2.40 1 | 322 points by vitaelabitur 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.13 23 | 153 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
    ×1.51 19 | 114 points by tripdout 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Microwave – Native iOS app for videos on ATproto (apple.com)
    ×0.45 11 | 31 points by sinned 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    ×2.16 16 | 124 points by newbebee 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (google.com)
    ×1.09 31 | 142 points by linolevan 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 (aomedia.org)
    ×1.46 13 | 47 points by breve 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use (cortwave.github.io)
    ×0.75 20 | 27 points by cortwave 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
    ×2.02 22 | 260 points by cebert 23 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. STFU (github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna)
    ×5.53 21 | 933 points by tanelpoder 23 hours ago | 555 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    ×1.12 44 | 125 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
    ×0.87 52 | 57 points by indigodaddy 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)
    ×1.00 43 | 80 points by svilen_dobrev 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
    ×1.24 39 | 89 points by npmipg 18 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
    ×1.12 42 | 144 points by jamesgresql 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    ×1.18 31 | 107 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    ×0.97 54 | 87 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
    ×1.00 46 | 77 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
    ×1.74 43 | 247 points by samuel246 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
    ×1.09 45 | 147 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
    ×1.57 5 | 354 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×0.50 56 | 13 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
    ×0.53 58 | 79 points by christalwang 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
    ×2.23 7 | 542 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 51 | 24 points by basilikum 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×1.14 42 | 149 points by dmvaldman 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
    ×3.48 12 | 292 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.17 45 | 912 points by susam 2 days ago | 2334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com/loresuso)
    ×0.79 53 | 97 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests (github.com/Use-Tusk)
    ×0.43 53 | 29 points by jy-tan 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Beebo, a wave simulator written in C (sr.ht)
    ×0.83 15 | 54 points by anon25783 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022) (mit.edu)
    ×0.77 45 | 18 points by arunc 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code (github.com/21st-dev)
    ×0.60 52 | 65 points by Bunas 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 319 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
    ×1.69 | 303 points by p44v9n 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
    ×2.10 7 | 279 points by tosh 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AWS Duvet: a bidirectional link between implementation and specification (awslabs.github.io)
    ×0.64 70 | 10 points by forks 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine (theweek.com)
    ×1.99 54 | 73 points by Digit-Al 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls (data4democracy.substack.com)
    ×2.38 27 | 10 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender (github.com/openfunkHQ)
    ×1.04 50 | 33 points by rishikeshs 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage (culpium.com)
    ×2.18 7 | 763 points by speckx 2 days ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Artisanal Code (sunnyamrat.com)
    ×0.98 44 | 20 points by sunnyam 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention (nature.com)
    ×1.48 33 | 27 points by lonelyasacloud 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Our approach to advertising (openai.com)
    ×3.72 22 | 258 points by rvz 22 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
    ×1.53 6 | 400 points by gpi 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice (kyutai.org)
    ×2.77 1 | 620 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada (ctvnews.ca)
    ×1.27 2 | 71 points by debo_ 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.83 2 | 356 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. CLI's completion should know what options you've typed (hackers.pub)
    ×0.58 64 | 23 points by dahlia 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP (github.com/syncguy)
    ×0.95 58 | 137 points by Oxodao 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Alignment Game (2023) (dmvaldman.github.io)
    ×0.55 59 | 35 points by dmvaldman 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fitdrop: Personal exploration of fashion from 1980 to 2025 (fitdrop.cc)
    ×0.70 19 | 16 points by num42 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
    ×0.65 40 | 92 points by ThierryBuilds 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem (svelte.dev)
    ×0.89 47 | 180 points by tobr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.61 25 | 60 points by ImJasonH 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
    ×1.05 10 | 127 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
    ×3.11 5 | 584 points by us321 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console (wiz.io)
    ×1.21 53 | 150 points by uvuv 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.47 56 | 24 points by 8organicbits 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.57 54 | 27 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???