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  1. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×5.15 | 902 points by tambourine_man 9 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
    ×2.13 1 | 66 points by mschnell 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
    ×2.42 1 | 28 points by joelsiks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.16 1 | 60 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×3.23 2 | 573 points by golfer 13 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet (kuber.studio)
    ×0.85 8 | 13 points by kuberwastaken 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
    ×1.28 2 | 37 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (googleblog.com)
    ×1.46 14 | 22 points by tptacek 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
    ×3.33 7 | 153 points by doener 3 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)
    ×1.67 3 | 280 points by ksec 12 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
    ×2.70 5 | 509 points by bewal416 17 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.07 8 | 487 points by adilmoujahid 18 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×1.07 16 | 65 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (inconspicuous.info)
    ×1.10 19 | 92 points by mrngm 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” Alerts (robservatory.com)
    ×1.85 17 | 242 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
    ×0.89 24 | 37 points by rmoff 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.50 24 | 297 points by adamnemecek 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)
    ×3.13 21 | 412 points by mksglu 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×1.09 30 | 238 points by RyanShook 21 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×0.90 51 | 5 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×3.14 3 | 311 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.34 28 | 243 points by jbdamask 21 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.05 23 | 190 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (threejs.org)
    ×0.53 52 | 26 points by ryker2000 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (acm.org)
    ×1.02 29 | 35 points by vinhnx 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.62 15 | 377 points by lostmsu 14 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×1.72 8 | 14 points by adlrocha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.84 33 | 131 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
    ×8.86 17 | 283 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.49 22 | 835 points by guilamu 18 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Deterministic Programming with LLMs (mcherm.com)
    ×0.77 28 | 56 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.57 45 | 80 points by Hooke 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×1.54 32 | 280 points by dinvlad 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.79 45 | 74 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)
    ×0.57 23 | 61 points by kelseyfrog 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.05 21 | 154 points by cckolon 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.14 27 | 226 points by tosh 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
    ×2.73 21 | 129 points by pabs3 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.89 18 | 1126 points by lavp 1 day ago | 2444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI Safety Farce (seanpedersen.github.io)
    ×2.17 28 | 11 points by sean_pedersen 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.49 18 | 1366 points by eoskx 1 day ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.37 36 | 256 points by zdw 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
    ×1.10 38 | 132 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
    ×1.07 23 | 130 points by simedw 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
    ×0.57 41 | 72 points by elvis70 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.10 44 | 235 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster (amd.com)
    ×1.65 3 | 61 points by mindcrime 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.13 14 | 18 points by neilfrndes 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×9.40 39 | 2572 points by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago | 816 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.30 6 | 793 points by WalterSobchak 1 day ago | 677 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10% (sciencedaily.com)
    ×3.30 15 | 73 points by gradus_ad 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.32 37 | 159 points by JuniperMesos 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)
    ×2.52 1 | 494 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (wired.com)
    ×2.36 9 | 278 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
    ×0.79 59 | 107 points by mrtedbear 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100 (theguardian.com)
    ×0.34 63 | 25 points by mitchbob 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Monitor the Situation (monitor-the-situation.com)
    ×1.20 61 | 26 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.60 63 | 113 points by ppnpm 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2 (github.com/jonwiggins)
    ×0.67 6 | 57 points by jawiggins 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
    ×0.65 43 | 108 points by zdw 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.21 33 | 247 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×5.60 32 | 1139 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.19 43 | 220 points by shad42 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev)
    ×2.21 22 | 320 points by gronky_ 22 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities (fortune.com)
    ×3.03 30 | 103 points by geox 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.08 4 | 556 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. More Cows, More Wives (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.91 28 | 91 points by oxw 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it (mataroa.blog)
    ×1.17 44 | 36 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com/junevm)
    ×0.44 48 | 54 points by unsorted2270 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Let's discuss sandbox isolation (shayon.dev)
    ×0.88 46 | 164 points by shayonj 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system (github.com/thatipamula-jashwanth)
    ×0.32 49 | 22 points by Jashwanth01 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Life Cycle of Money (bohyen.space)
    ×0.72 19 | 75 points by nanacnote 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.64 58 | 115 points by chunkles 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail (unfudged.io)
    ×0.88 50 | 129 points by cyrusradfar 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.59 7 | 620 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×0.95 45 | 163 points by spacey 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.60 53 | 275 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cracking the Python Monorepo (gafni.dev)
    ×0.99 31 | 21 points by amcvitty 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.48 59 | 58 points by sarelta 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967) (jstor.org)
    ×0.44 29 | 33 points by Hooke 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
    ×1.13 41 | 190 points by lqs_ 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.84 22 | 41 points by NathanFlurry 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×1.42 42 | 196 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.45 39 | 216 points by evakhoury 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.76 29 | 291 points by rendx 2 days ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.75 47 | 137 points by mousepad12 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
    ×3.22 4 | 563 points by zhisme 2 days ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. For bar duty at his hockey club, he built a fair schedule generator (medium.com)
    ×0.97 9 | 3 points by ge0ffrey 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.54 45 | 94 points by rikk3rt 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???