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  1. Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model (meta.ai)
    ×4.07 | 298 points by riordan 2 hours ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  2. Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)
    ×1.87 | 53 points by jottinger 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  3. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×2.62 1 | 329 points by etoxin 7 hours ago | 191 comments | ??? ???
  4. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (lwn.net)
    ×1.23 1 | 30 points by prakashqwerty 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  5. 50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×1.41 9 | 5 points by jonathanmkeegan 11 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  6. Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes (squeak.org)
    ×2.24 | 16 points by fniephaus 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  7. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
    ×2.59 6 | 25 points by xeonmc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  8. What Happened to HackerOne? (teknogeek.io)
    ×1.98 2 | 285 points by hipparchus 10 hours ago | 145 comments | ??? ???
  9. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com/shinyquagsire23)
    ×1.25 12 | 115 points by LorenDB 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  10. Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
    ×0.99 10 | 45 points by amatheus 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  11. An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (dsprelated.com)
    ×1.16 13 | 69 points by q7m 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)
    ×1.32 5 | 125 points by MrRowTheBoat 9 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  13. Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app (bobdahacker.com)
    ×4.35 6 | 14 points by colesantiago 43 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  14. DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years (twitter.com/thdxr)
    ×2.27 6 | 13 points by delduca 44 minutes ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  15. Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com/ben-z)
    ×0.68 58 | 7 points by helsinkiandrew 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  16. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.16 13 | 31 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  17. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×3.37 5 | 705 points by laurentiurad 17 hours ago | 450 comments | ??? ???
  18. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    ×2.31 23 | 324 points by jader201 21 hours ago | 231 comments | ??? ???
  19. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.08 16 | 108 points by craigkerstiens 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 17 | 272 points by david927 19 hours ago | 938 comments | ??? ???
  21. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.65 34 | 255 points by Klaster_1 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  22. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.45 50 | 17 points by parksb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  23. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
    ×1.53 22 | 102 points by LelouBil 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  24. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.12 37 | 110 points by smartmic 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  25. A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (irishtimes.com)
    ×3.68 22 | 51 points by ohaodha 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  26. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
    ×0.87 49 | 68 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  27. Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
    ×0.72 43 | 41 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  28. Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.12 24 | 346 points by ike_usawa 1 day ago | 299 comments | ??? ???
  29. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×2.14 24 | 176 points by gregsadetsky 18 hours ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  30. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.96 27 | 122 points by berghoffer 16 hours ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  31. Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI (twitter.com/finkd)
    ×1.36 15 | 16 points by bakigul 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  32. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×2.79 23 | 254 points by sbehere 9 hours ago | 262 comments | ??? ???
  33. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.36 26 | 164 points by hexomancer 19 hours ago | 78 comments | ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com/KaiPereira)
    ×0.46 44 | 18 points by kaipereira 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  35. The Ambition Project (betonit.ai)
    ×0.94 49 | 52 points by herbertl 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  36. Slap ROM Patcher (nyuu.page)
    ×0.49 53 | 23 points by apsec112 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  37. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
    ×0.99 5 | 72 points by dango2506 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  38. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.58 20 | 582 points by akyuu 21 hours ago | 525 comments | ??? ???
  39. "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.76 41 | 65 points by Thevet 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  40. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
    ×1.29 18 | 134 points by simonpure 17 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  41. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.22 52 | 150 points by tremguy 1 day ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.75 59 | 117 points by Rochus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  43. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.89 13 | 140 points by mef 16 hours ago | 120 comments | ??? ???
  44. Meta releases Muse Glimmer, 30B parameter open-weight edge model (twitter.com/finkd)
    ×3.34 19 | 13 points by tejus_vignesh 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  45. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 49 | 65 points by jackdoe 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  46. How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.79 56 | 68 points by tintinnabula 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  47. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.81 69 | 99 points by Lammy 1 day ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  48. The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)
    ×1.47 12 | 119 points by yu3zhou4 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  49. An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.74 83 | 4 points by runningmike 5 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content (theguardian.com)
    ×3.02 14 | 22 points by Markoff 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  51. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.42 80 | 23 points by tosh 15 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (dpreview.com)
    ×2.40 8 | 105 points by anigbrowl 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  53. Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" (github.com/transmission)
    ×1.61 71 | 38 points by jonatanholmgren 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  54. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.79 21 | 62 points by nlpnerd 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  55. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.86 85 | 96 points by Eloissssss 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  56. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.42 20 | 517 points by seg6 1 day ago | 243 comments | ??? ???
  57. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.46 7 | 259 points by Thorondor 22 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  58. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.30 79 | 121 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  59. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×1.24 54 | 130 points by michaefe 1 day ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  60. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.69 51 | 95 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 175 comments | ??? ???
  61. Crickets as pets (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.96 47 | 84 points by Michelangelo11 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  62. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×0.94 81 | 94 points by frozenseven 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  63. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.79 40 | 588 points by satvikpendem 23 hours ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  64. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
    ×0.61 61 | 51 points by eighttrigrams 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  65. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.37 27 | 504 points by groomlake 1 day ago | 290 comments | ??? ???
  66. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    ×1.13 21 | 145 points by Kiboneu 23 hours ago | 112 comments | ??? ???
  67. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (wordpress.com)
    ×0.58 78 | 33 points by ijustlovemath 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  68. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.52 41 | 253 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 164 comments | ??? ???
  69. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.15 30 | 189 points by gukoff 1 day ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  70. Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease (consciousnesslibrary.org)
    ×1.33 68 | 22 points by elliotec 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  71. How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness? (danluu.com)
    ×1.78 68 | 7 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  72. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.99 26 | 274 points by evo_9 21 hours ago | 233 comments | ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    ×0.64 49 | 33 points by johnchinjew 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  74. As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing (apnews.com)
    ×1.72 26 | 17 points by geox 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  75. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.44 73 | 54 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.63 71 | 41 points by login588 1 day ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  77. When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.83 43 | 43 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  78. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.78 13 | 368 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  79. Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD (netbsd.org)
    ×1.05 26 | 8 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  80. Hetzner Experiments Platform: Inference API (hetzner.com)
    ×1.89 13 | 13 points by sparkling 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  81. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
    ×1.04 29 | 169 points by BruceEel 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  82. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.75 59 | 161 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  83. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.88 29 | 68 points by shayonj 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×0.62 62 | 32 points by dosinga 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  85. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.13 23 | 193 points by iamnothere 21 hours ago | 95 comments | ??? ???
  86. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.66 17 | 205 points by doubletwoyou 1 day ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  87. EGA and Me: A Complicated Relationship (reanthsoft.com)
    ×0.77 70 | 6 points by doener 12 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  88. From rubber boots to Copa: When MicroProse Soccer revolutionized football (spillhistorie.no)
    ×0.47 64 | 5 points by TMWNN 9 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.22 21 | 900 points by senko 1 day ago | 557 comments | ??? ???
  90. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.33 17 | 1069 points by RickJWagner 3 days ago | 1302 comments | ??? ???