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  1. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.12 3 | 36 points by berlianta 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs (bbc.com)
    ×1.56 4 | 340 points by janpot 8 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.70 2 | 273 points by coffeemug 7 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency (blog.google)
    ×1.89 4 | 227 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (rochester.edu)
    ×2.21 12 | 205 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development (saturnci.com)
    ×1.36 13 | 106 points by laxmena 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows (mouseless.click)
    ×2.42 8 | 425 points by riddley 11 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Did Claude increase bugs in rsync? (alexispurslane.github.io)
    ×3.78 14 | 256 points by logicprog 10 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen (theregister.com)
    ×3.98 6 | 297 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things (sumnerevans.com)
    ×2.32 1 | 245 points by jsve 7 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (openreview.net)
    ×1.26 9 | 67 points by brandonb 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.22 9 | 115 points by andrehacker 6 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. "Maybe later" was a feature (arnorhs.dev)
    ×1.29 16 | 64 points by arnorhs 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.06 4 | 218 points by vquemener 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler (rubygems.org)
    ×1.10 21 | 137 points by calyhre 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS, OTAD and Two Decades of Encrypted Broadcasts (mydigitalpublication.com)
    ×1.58 25 | 43 points by lordgilman 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. India's surprise baby bust (economist.com)
    ×1.82 16 | 107 points by hakonbogen 8 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Three of our worst VC stories (twitter.com/eastdakota)
    ×2.65 16 | 164 points by orgonon 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Aging and Eye Problems (ldstephens.net)
    ×2.26 21 | 32 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search (fremaconsulting.ch)
    ×0.66 26 | 34 points by tohms 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
    ×0.52 30 | 39 points by guanming0717 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended (github.com/icflorescu)
    ×0.82 16 | 55 points by justsomehuman 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (arxiv.org)
    ×1.97 3 | 351 points by mimorigasaka 15 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com/a-yiorgos)
    ×1.16 24 | 7 points by nextos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams) (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.28 18 | 104 points by SparkyDogs 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements (redis.io)
    ×1.40 9 | 194 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers (nango.dev)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. C++: The Documentary (herbsutter.com)
    ×2.16 11 | 361 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Hacker News, Sans AI (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×3.80 28 | 123 points by chilipepperhott 2 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.18 17 | 248 points by TechTechTech 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Changing how we develop Ladybird (ladybird.org)
    ×4.65 17 | 796 points by EdwinHoksberg 16 hours ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens (github.com/zdk)
    ×1.10 34 | 100 points by zdkaster 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.15 17 | 165 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (privacyguides.net)
    ×2.61 26 | 205 points by Cider9986 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol (github.com/geo-tp)
    ×1.56 17 | 174 points by geotp 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (boxofcables.dev)
    ×1.44 32 | 191 points by haydenbarnes 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995 (passo.uno)
    ×1.23 25 | 172 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023) (historytoday.com)
    ×1.82 23 | 146 points by pepys 16 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tokugawa Japan kept 260 warlords from war for 250 years (jivx.com)
    ×2.09 61 | 7 points by momentmaker 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences (ieee.org)
    ×1.04 37 | 113 points by natalcleft 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.73 26 | 258 points by geoffbp 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Microsoft Compromised Again. Shuts Down Azure Function GitHub Actions (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×3.61 19 | 20 points by 6mile 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. P/E Tells You the Price. Reality Gap Tells You the Delusion (hstre.github.io)
    ×2.59 28 | 7 points by hstrex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver (columnar.tech)
    ×0.95 29 | 109 points by hckshr 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 39 | 206 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Do the Hardest Thing (justinjackson.ca)
    ×1.68 22 | 70 points by levhawk 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses (buchodi.com)
    ×2.71 31 | 308 points by buchodi 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once (isupmap.com)
    ×1.12 38 | 119 points by mikelgan 18 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.84 18 | 108 points by dv35z 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P (bloomberg.com)
    ×8.55 20 | 920 points by tristanj 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers (mimicscribe.app)
    ×0.84 74 | 7 points by marshalla 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. At the Autograph Show (oldster.substack.com)
    ×0.47 68 | 33 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Watching a Z80 from an RP2350 (wordpress.com)
    ×0.58 73 | 48 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Neocities domain suspended by Namecheap for unrelated court case (bsky.app)
    ×3.39 20 | 40 points by ScrapBlox 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google Buying Computing from SpaceX in $920M-a-Month Deal (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.01 18 | 27 points by berlianta 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Go Experiments Explained (alexedwards.net)
    ×0.96 58 | 80 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored (louvre.fr)
    ×0.72 72 | 59 points by rawgabbit 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other (plover.com)
    ×3.21 26 | 172 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Causes of Long Covid (science.org)
    ×2.95 21 | 151 points by maxall4 20 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.31 6 | 515 points by binyu 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] (fb.watch)
    ×1.45 2 | 299 points by jenders 22 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.51 45 | 140 points by xena 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.54 41 | 199 points by zdw 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Are Memories Transferable – Or Edible? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.20 53 | 6 points by kiwicopple 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Linear Cosine Palettes(2025) (djnavarro.net)
    ×0.82 63 | 55 points by num42 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.63 3 | 669 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement (anthropic.com)
    ×3.22 3 | 502 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. They’re made out of weights (maxleiter.com)
    ×6.09 11 | 1483 points by MaxLeiter 1 day ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub (github.com/prostomarkeloff)
    ×0.60 53 | 35 points by notmarkeloff 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis (aibenchy.com)
    ×1.66 13 | 18 points by XCSme 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.87 28 | 9 points by JohnnyZhang483 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×0.79 60 | 143 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling (scotthyoung.com)
    ×2.04 1 | 293 points by andrewstuart 1 day ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy (europa.eu)
    ×1.67 16 | 95 points by jrepinc 12 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. WiFi Time (mitxela.com)
    ×1.44 21 | 120 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mysterious Next-Gen Aircraft Allegedly Spotted Near Area 51 (theaviationist.com)
    ×4.42 31 | 10 points by jawiggins 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (dailycal.org)
    ×3.98 11 | 808 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 774 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models (magenta.withgoogle.com)
    ×0.96 40 | 62 points by selvan 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers (acs.org)
    ×0.99 44 | 102 points by gmays 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (human-made.work)
    ×2.92 33 | 48 points by supryan 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.32 49 | 305 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat (eff.org)
    ×2.68 10 | 10 points by berlianta 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fake Money Built America (blockworks.com)
    ×2.43 30 | 34 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot (fieggen.com)
    ×2.90 9 | 579 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Retro-Tech Parenting (havenweb.org)
    ×2.00 4 | 337 points by mawise 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer (theverge.com)
    ×4.09 42 | 69 points by neilfrndes 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history (apnews.com)
    ×1.26 51 | 174 points by cobbzilla 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
    ×3.93 4 | 1045 points by rvz 2 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.57 58 | 64 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images (sigwait.org)
    ×0.81 50 | 87 points by henry_flower 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???