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  1. Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained (github.com/pgbackrest)
    ×4.16 | 44 points by c0l0 30 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
    ×2.27 1 | 323 points by skogstokig 8 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (medium.com)
    ×4.03 2 | 861 points by ca98am79 14 hours ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com/WeebLabs)
    ×1.62 3 | 23 points by BoingBoomTschak 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
    ×3.50 5 | 538 points by koshyjohn 15 hours ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
    ×1.62 7 | 178 points by kweezar 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
    ×2.49 1 | 331 points by bjhess 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Prompt API (chrome.com)
    ×1.78 9 | 149 points by gslin 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce (nytimes.com)
    ×1.84 5 | 73 points by wslh 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) (robbowen.digital)
    ×2.09 8 | 96 points by hisamafahri 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Three constraints before I build anything (jordanlord.co.uk)
    ×2.06 5 | 231 points by nervous_north 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting (slicker.me)
    ×1.10 15 | 27 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
    ×1.57 8 | 273 points by dd23 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
    ×1.48 9 | 133 points by ddrmaxgt37 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design (hawaii.edu)
    ×0.69 25 | 36 points by o4c 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.72 20 | 316 points by kmdupree 21 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Box to save memory in Rust (dystroy.org)
    ×1.26 20 | 138 points by emschwartz 14 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
    ×0.42 53 | 9 points by ludicrousdispla 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
    ×3.09 7 | 416 points by berkeleyjunk 14 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mystery Cpuid Bit (os2museum.com)
    ×0.49 39 | 19 points by userbinator 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com/ebrandi)
    ×1.38 27 | 93 points by myth_drannon 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination (vice.com)
    ×2.11 13 | 56 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.08 8 | 75 points by evanklem2004 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
    ×1.22 58 | 139 points by gurjeet 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.15 26 | 140 points by pwim 16 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
    ×5.62 15 | 722 points by jeremyccrane 19 hours ago | 866 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (bbc.com)
    ×1.46 27 | 116 points by reconnecting 15 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.80 6 | 216 points by 1659447091 14 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core (tingouw.com)
    ×0.92 38 | 79 points by MrBuddyCasino 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Revocation of X.509 Certificates (apnic.net)
    ×0.84 22 | 44 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.15 35 | 154 points by 2DcAf 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American (forbes.com)
    ×4.19 26 | 15 points by rzk 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
    ×1.28 11 | 230 points by j0r0b0 19 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
    ×1.02 31 | 133 points by PLenz 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. MoQ Boy (moq.dev)
    ×0.74 46 | 61 points by mmcclure 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (macchaffee.com)
    ×1.75 44 | 113 points by Wingy 19 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 (epicresearch.org)
    ×1.74 31 | 26 points by salkahfi 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.42 40 | 218 points by yak32 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (alejandro.pe)
    ×0.54 48 | 31 points by alejandrohacks 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.12 24 | 39 points by drio 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.05 17 | 625 points by elisaado 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023) (si.edu)
    ×0.48 42 | 10 points by radeeyate 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×4.11 28 | 614 points by jamesponddotco 18 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
    ×2.36 16 | 77 points by jonbaer 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)
    ×0.75 46 | 52 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.14 42 | 48 points by trebeljahr 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×1.72 42 | 103 points by mooreds 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The QEII garden – built from its own ruins – opens in Regent's Park (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.74 54 | 24 points by zeristor 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.34 8 | 760 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Music of the BBC Microcomputer System (acornelectron.co.uk)
    ×0.62 55 | 21 points by eightb 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The fastest Linux timestamps (hmpcabral.com)
    ×1.19 4 | 61 points by hmpc 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. When your digital life vanishes (newyorker.com)
    ×1.32 7 | 61 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    ×1.65 39 | 229 points by iamwil 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
    ×0.52 53 | 41 points by plow-tycoon 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.53 7 | 177 points by rodarima 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (npmjs.com)
    ×1.23 55 | 84 points by okovooo 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.67 55 | 56 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color (barwypowstania.pl)
    ×2.33 14 | 150 points by keiferski 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.57 45 | 28 points by iliabara 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.63 48 | 165 points by offbyone42 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.24 58 | 166 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
    ×1.60 6 | 302 points by sph 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Last of the Lost Generation (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.53 50 | 20 points by benbreen 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one (pcworld.com)
    ×3.92 30 | 48 points by Garbage 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.70 51 | 82 points by subset 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (ft.com)
    ×1.81 41 | 103 points by donsupreme 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ELI: Explain Like I'm for any ArXiv Paper (voxos.ai)
    ×1.06 62 | 16 points by Falimonda 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.69 63 | 76 points by jger15 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×0.94 26 | 106 points by Jach 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Voice Modems (computer.rip)
    ×0.62 57 | 12 points by K7PJP 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.18 61 | 141 points by srean 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.58 43 | 194 points by thehappyfellow 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sloppy Copies (markround.com)
    ×0.91 25 | 63 points by dev_hugepages 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.41 43 | 154 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.40 3 | 497 points by gwerbret 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
    ×2.86 27 | 236 points by luckman212 21 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.72 20 | 549 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.98 36 | 248 points by zdw 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×0.96 59 | 15 points by rohan044 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.92 5 | 415 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.10 1 | 2069 points by impact_sy 3 days ago | 1593 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
    ×0.68 43 | 60 points by t-3 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.33 9 | 342 points by gasull 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI appears to be funding it (modelrepublic.substack.com)
    ×3.58 8 | 37 points by Teever 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) (github.com/sachitrafa)
    ×0.98 25 | 89 points by SachitRafa 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Principia Softwarica: Fundamental Literate System Programs (principia-softwarica.org)
    ×1.13 47 | 17 points by pratikdeoghare 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.64 3 | 607 points by stephen-hill 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.42 49 | 175 points by adunk 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.23 50 | 80 points by mji 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???