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  1. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.90 | 603 points by MaxMussio 7 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
    ×1.52 3 | 84 points by marojejian 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
    ×2.08 | 38 points by leonickson 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.51 | 482 points by milkshakes 11 hours ago | 750 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.53 1 | 539 points by bryanmikaelian 14 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.70 5 | 23 points by wofo 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.28 | 130 points by whoishiring 6 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.59 12 | 172 points by ascorbic 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
    ×1.17 7 | 74 points by jandeboevrie 6 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.27 11 | 81 points by whoishiring 7 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.75 1 | 64 points by pmg101 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
    ×2.60 11 | 414 points by mpweiher 18 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (comfy.org)
    ×1.48 9 | 274 points by vblanco 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.06 12 | 138 points by roryirvine 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
    ×2.11 4 | 287 points by nikolay_sivko 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. 200 Milliseconds (thenodebook.com)
    ×2.69 7 | 220 points by dimitarpanov 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.98 20 | 57 points by austinallegro 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.06 17 | 30 points by Jimmc414 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)
    ×1.33 11 | 177 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
    ×3.51 11 | 149 points by fiddlosopher 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode (wordpress.com)
    ×0.74 25 | 27 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
    ×0.59 23 | 63 points by BenceRed 10 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.82 11 | 317 points by KolmogorovComp 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (rootsofprogress.org)
    ×2.67 29 | 14 points by frozenseven 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (defector.com)
    ×1.96 16 | 211 points by ohjeez 17 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.40 14 | 201 points by Anon84 17 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)
    ×1.19 12 | 97 points by ksec 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com/SwagSoftware)
    ×1.26 14 | 55 points by skibz 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (mcgill.ca)
    ×2.13 15 | 136 points by audreyfei 8 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.61 1 | 427 points by mertbio 22 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Battle of the Beams (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.48 1 | 41 points by petethomas 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
    ×1.50 19 | 74 points by yusufozkan 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.70 33 | 47 points by ashleypeacock 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Apple Calculator Language (wadetregaskis.com)
    ×0.98 10 | 36 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
    ×4.64 18 | 1059 points by ai2027 1 day ago | 573 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ioskeley Mono (github.com/ahatem)
    ×2.22 55 | 13 points by carlos-menezes 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.67 38 | 33 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kelly Criterion Simulator (kellysimulator.com)
    ×0.98 10 | 60 points by aleyan 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (jfrog.com)
    ×3.24 31 | 704 points by ymir_e 16 hours ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×1.02 28 | 130 points by adulion 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Potomac River Midair Collision (medium.com)
    ×3.22 5 | 75 points by mplanchard 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.73 27 | 7 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. SearXNG in Rust (github.com/MikeLuu99)
    ×0.95 19 | 59 points by dluuuu 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)
    ×1.21 3 | 69 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.51 41 | 39 points by screm 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×2.00 42 | 113 points by kiyanwang 21 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
    ×0.82 29 | 51 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)
    ×0.52 58 | 29 points by peter_d_sherman 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Train Simulator Controller (z80.me)
    ×1.02 40 | 99 points by austinallegro 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)
    ×0.83 20 | 105 points by NickySlicks 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Kraid is a now a real compiler (collabora.com)
    ×0.49 69 | 30 points by losgehts 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.50 41 | 50 points by meysamazad 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.65 56 | 40 points by aofeisheng 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ASCII Today (ascii.today)
    ×1.86 30 | 38 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The true power of regular expressions (2012) (npopov.com)
    ×0.85 45 | 77 points by uneven9434 19 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Don't start a startup with the goal of getting acquired (raymondyxu.com)
    ×1.42 77 | 7 points by greenfish6 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
    ×1.05 24 | 119 points by nnx 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
    ×2.08 34 | 266 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status (digdir.no)
    ×1.81 34 | 86 points by e12e 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Telegram says app restored on Apple's App Store (reuters.com)
    ×2.10 33 | 10 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.65 13 | 10 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
    ×1.03 46 | 124 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
    ×1.20 34 | 172 points by jeninh 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (abc.net.au)
    ×1.90 77 | 202 points by CHB0403085482 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
    ×7.62 63 | 1711 points by ngruhn 21 hours ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers (yegge.ai)
    ×2.34 6 | 11 points by networked 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com/johnsonjh)
    ×0.63 68 | 94 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Boarding China's Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)
    ×2.29 30 | 43 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 59 | 87 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.36 67 | 27 points by msephton 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (andreagrandi.it)
    ×1.13 40 | 144 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×1.47 20 | 233 points by paavohtl 21 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×1.66 21 | 176 points by emilesilvis 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (mattbeton.com)
    ×0.90 52 | 132 points by nmstoker 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pangram – AI Detector (pangram.com)
    ×1.53 83 | 4 points by bartekurbanski 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
    ×0.80 33 | 70 points by uneven9434 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
    ×1.55 35 | 245 points by c-oreills 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Walk on Decomposed Subdomains (clementjambon.github.io)
    ×0.62 35 | 44 points by E-Reverance 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
    ×0.44 57 | 27 points by fagnerbrack 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The myth of Snow Leopard (rubenerd.au)
    ×1.18 63 | 121 points by speckx 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Palantir Shares Jump on 'Otherworldly' Sales, Improved Forecast (wsj.com)
    ×2.96 25 | 6 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Read the novels and forget everything else (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×1.23 48 | 134 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×2.79 24 | 610 points by delichon 1 day ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Seven Russian banks have moved to a certificate authority run by the state (zona.media)
    ×3.22 36 | 27 points by mtty 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. KDE Itinerary (kde.org)
    ×3.95 31 | 19 points by 0x54MUR41 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell (arxiv.org)
    ×0.39 73 | 26 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What is the actual point of agentic commerce? (talkshi.com)
    ×1.65 60 | 6 points by greenfish6 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×1.93 30 | 334 points by nuwandavek 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ideas over Implementation (boz.com)
    ×0.66 81 | 4 points by duck 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???