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  1. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×3.75 | 280 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (dthain.github.io)
    ×2.18 1 | 154 points by AlexeyBrin 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
    ×1.31 8 | 32 points by jandeboevrie 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Plight of the Martian Farmer (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×0.96 6 | 9 points by zdw 41 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
    ×0.78 9 | 37 points by hyperific 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)
    ×1.06 12 | 45 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×2.97 5 | 439 points by nozzlegear 14 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.36 8 | 230 points by dabinat 12 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
    ×1.71 13 | 27 points by captain_dfx 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×3.34 6 | 42 points by neilfrndes 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×0.88 71 | 3 points by thm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
    ×1.00 22 | 115 points by ankitg12 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.08 | 51 points by ViktorEE 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×1.77 1 | 133 points by cenazoic 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×2.35 8 | 14 points by amichail 56 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
    ×1.35 11 | 94 points by ustad 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
    ×1.64 15 | 120 points by edward 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×2.03 19 | 53 points by enz 8 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
    ×0.68 40 | 4 points by matteocontrini 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)
    ×8.23 15 | 135 points by stavros 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)
    ×2.71 15 | 108 points by RickJWagner 4 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pi squared is nearly 10 (mihai.page)
    ×1.15 4 | 44 points by freediver 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Megawatts by Microwave (computer.rip)
    ×0.76 27 | 59 points by eternauta3k 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Moby Dick Workout (2022) (hogbaysoftware.com)
    ×1.17 18 | 86 points by helloplanets 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.89 6 | 621 points by asronline 21 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)
    ×1.28 2 | 54 points by foxhill 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
    ×1.51 26 | 128 points by ementally 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)
    ×0.90 30 | 72 points by jruohonen 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Atomic Force Microscope [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.29 23 | 108 points by mhb 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.27 24 | 84 points by iacguy 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.12 2 | 336 points by maille 18 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Functional Programming in hica (hica.dev)
    ×0.91 3 | 39 points by cladamski79 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. About the Digital Art (tricivenola.com)
    ×0.57 44 | 28 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics (forwardscattering.org)
    ×1.03 33 | 21 points by Ono-Sendai 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.87 41 | 70 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Drone Autonomy (2021) (cggonzalez.com)
    ×1.22 44 | 74 points by cgg1 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. My ASN Journey series (2024) (animmouse.com)
    ×0.68 46 | 36 points by antonalekseev 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CNN Lite (cnn.com)
    ×3.07 14 | 12 points by empressplay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×1.69 27 | 76 points by MaysonL 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
    ×1.43 7 | 171 points by hhs 18 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. SigMap: 97% token reduction for AI coding sessions (sigmap.io)
    ×1.11 65 | 12 points by handfuloflight 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)
    ×2.02 25 | 104 points by handfuloflight 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector (wordpress.com)
    ×0.49 88 | 16 points by stmw 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.91 3 | 489 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.85 14 | 508 points by Cider9986 23 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.32 21 | 654 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A gender-swap EarthBound for my daughter (2025) (reddad.net)
    ×1.99 42 | 27 points by Sajarin 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dungeon KeeperFX 1.4.0 with Multiplayer Released (keeperfx.net)
    ×1.56 63 | 15 points by MrJagil 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.90 21 | 140 points by petethomas 22 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
    ×1.37 29 | 124 points by wrxd 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
    ×1.45 86 | 10 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code (ryelang.org)
    ×1.06 20 | 25 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×0.95 44 | 109 points by msephton 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Particle Box – Kinetic Molecular Theory Simulator (prepok.com)
    ×0.58 53 | 20 points by vaibhav1312 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
    ×2.50 7 | 252 points by ciconia 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×1.91 8 | 210 points by leemoore 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×1.88 7 | 182 points by Breadmaker 23 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×2.15 2 | 223 points by tosh 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×1.62 4 | 311 points by chatmasta 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)
    ×1.23 41 | 122 points by yyyk 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.77 48 | 69 points by liffik 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Dark mode with web standards (olliewilliams.xyz)
    ×1.28 9 | 26 points by thm 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him (cailey.substack.com)
    ×5.41 40 | 62 points by FinnLobsien 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (theregister.com)
    ×2.61 20 | 6 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 82 | 27 points by logickkk1 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Engineer in the Half-Space (yusufaytas.com)
    ×2.79 45 | 33 points by yusufaytas 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.14 47 | 117 points by enz 9 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
    ×0.77 62 | 62 points by rtolkachev 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Binary Coverage the Wrong Way (redvice.org)
    ×0.43 80 | 10 points by matt_d 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.52 57 | 53 points by toilet 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Concentration of power in AI is a risk, by Andy Konwinski (xcancel.com)
    ×2.01 4 | 18 points by alecco 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.74 54 | 59 points by tobr 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    ×2.82 15 | 559 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.06 7 | 446 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Lion, The Witch, and the audacity of recruiters (hauleth.dev)
    ×1.84 30 | 10 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. It's not me, it's the compiler (parsa.wtf)
    ×1.37 18 | 85 points by SVI 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.74 47 | 330 points by indy 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. "Stop Moralizing AirCon": How Institutions Shift Responsibility onto Individuals (jdjayne.substack.com)
    ×4.35 18 | 21 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GetSuperpower, an installable skill tree for coding agents (github.com/0xroylee)
    ×1.14 63 | 8 points by 1997roylee 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×7.07 38 | 97 points by shpat 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (endbasic.dev)
    ×0.54 72 | 31 points by jmmv 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Vespa at 80 (cbc.ca)
    ×1.35 13 | 169 points by cf100clunk 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Top Companies in the Global Hybrid Memory Cube High-Bandwidth Memory Market (sphericalinsights.com)
    ×0.86 83 | 5 points by peter_d_sherman 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Width vs. Depth: Speculating on the Margin (doubleword.ai)
    ×0.76 28 | 14 points by somnial 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Arrest 0.2.1, an HTTP client with data validation (github.com/s-bose)
    ×0.80 48 | 7 points by s-bose 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
    ×1.24 11 | 37 points by cpncrunch 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (archive.org)
    ×1.09 63 | 116 points by wslh 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com/Llucs)
    ×0.60 59 | 13 points by Llucs 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LLM's as a Different Kind of Intelligence (handmadeoasis.com)
    ×0.98 60 | 8 points by RamtinJ95 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???