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  1. Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
    ×4.34 | 852 points by ibraheemdev 5 hours ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (openttd.org)
    ×2.39 | 68 points by jandeboevrie 59 minutes ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com/KittenML)
    ×1.51 2 | 119 points by rohan_joshi 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How to Not Pay Your Taxes (taylor.town)
    ×2.25 4 | 39 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place (ofcom.org.uk)
    ×3.22 6 | 28 points by longislandguido 59 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
    ×0.94 11 | 128 points by defrost 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. World Happiness Report 2026 (worldhappiness.report)
    ×1.73 7 | 51 points by ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019) (consequence.net)
    ×1.34 4 | 180 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
    ×0.45 21 | 15 points by wweissbluth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Prompt Injecting Contributing.md (glama.ai)
    ×1.83 8 | 54 points by statements 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Shape of Inequalities (andreinc.net)
    ×0.81 11 | 60 points by nomemory 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (github.com/adamamyl)
    ×3.20 9 | 199 points by adamamyl 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (skypilot.co)
    ×1.92 6 | 28 points by hopechong 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (tigsource.com)
    ×1.29 29 | 12 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety (googleblog.com)
    ×2.44 11 | 15 points by 0xedb 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
    ×0.42 28 | 14 points by Visweshyc 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (iroh.computer)
    ×2.27 7 | 7 points by od0 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)
    ×6.22 14 | 913 points by antonymoose 8 hours ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI (fabian-kuebler.com)
    ×1.24 14 | 17 points by FabianCarbonara 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.71 7 | 40 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.68 7 | 58 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (bbc.com)
    ×2.89 1 | 54 points by mosura 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API (github.com/traccar)
    ×0.83 9 | 36 points by tananaev 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What if Python was natively distributable? (medium.com)
    ×0.97 10 | 32 points by bzurak 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.56 17 | 288 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence (ramtrack.eu)
    ×1.43 14 | 55 points by nu11r0ut3 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
    ×0.15 71 | 5 points by axotopia 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Monuses and Heaps (doisinkidney.com)
    ×0.43 32 | 9 points by aebtebeten 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 (ieee.org)
    ×0.90 42 | 95 points by baruchel 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)
    ×3.77 1 | 743 points by matthest 18 hours ago | 900 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Gluon: Explicit Performance (lei.chat)
    ×0.28 62 | 16 points by matt_d 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How many branches can your CPU predict? (lemire.me)
    ×1.52 7 | 102 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com/alainnothere)
    ×1.76 35 | 222 points by xlayn 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews (icml.cc)
    ×1.33 7 | 172 points by sergdigon 8 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)
    ×3.36 4 | 549 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (susam.net)
    ×1.70 41 | 341 points by susam 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence (uni.lu)
    ×0.94 8 | 9 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.89 48 | 362 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.54 52 | 194 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets (politico.com)
    ×1.30 5 | 58 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)
    ×2.41 44 | 354 points by visiwig 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Mavera – Predict audience response with GANs, not LLM sentiment (mavera.io)
    ×0.15 83 | 4 points by jaxline506 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: RustFS – Migrate from MinIO via simple binary replacement (rustfs.dev)
    ×1.77 60 | 9 points by elvinagy 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com/iliazintchenko)
    ×1.10 39 | 157 points by chaisan 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf] (cwi.nl)
    ×0.66 29 | 72 points by ivanbelenky 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 'Your Frustration Is the Product' (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.31 31 | 257 points by llm_nerd 6 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
    ×1.65 45 | 267 points by bblcla 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)
    ×1.84 1 | 270 points by staticvar 16 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.90 61 | 75 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (unc.edu)
    ×3.67 8 | 952 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead (ndea.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)
    ×2.76 3 | 222 points by adrianwaj 14 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps (borderhold.io)
    ×0.64 63 | 49 points by sgolem 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Twelve-Tone Composition (johndcook.com)
    ×0.44 51 | 25 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Isn't Killing Developers–It's Creating a $10T Maintenance Crisis (rakiabensassi.substack.com)
    ×2.71 1 | 21 points by rakiabensassi 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Social media makes people unhappy – World Happiness Report (dw.com)
    ×1.18 6 | 11 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)
    ×2.19 9 | 476 points by Stwerner 21 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)
    ×1.22 79 | 136 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)
    ×1.26 48 | 189 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SereneDB's C++ search engine is the fastest on search benchmarks (serenedb.com)
    ×3.07 21 | 28 points by gnusi 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (qualys.com)
    ×1.11 56 | 143 points by askl 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)
    ×1.43 71 | 128 points by jgalt212 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.18 27 | 7 points by mywacaday 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 2025 Turing award given for quantum information science (acm.org)
    ×0.89 54 | 127 points by srvmshr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A comprehensive database of categories and their properties (catdat.app)
    ×1.05 85 | 34 points by mathgenius 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends (github.com/ndroo)
    ×0.70 65 | 81 points by verelo 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)
    ×3.16 5 | 472 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer (nightingale.cafe)
    ×2.80 20 | 562 points by rzzzzru 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What 81,000 people want from AI (anthropic.com)
    ×2.73 17 | 176 points by dsr12 13 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. TigerFS – A Filesystem Backed by PostgreSQL (tigerfs.io)
    ×1.23 89 | 41 points by hahahacorn 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Canada slips in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use (cbc.ca)
    ×1.42 11 | 24 points by Fricken 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)
    ×1.51 73 | 169 points by apitman 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A BEAM-native personal autonomous AI agent built on Elixir/OTP (github.com/thatsme)
    ×1.20 89 | 31 points by ahamez 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ripl – A unified 2D/3D engine for Canvas, SVG, WebGPU, and the Terminal (ripl.rocks)
    ×0.55 87 | 5 points by andrewcourtice 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US national debt surges past $39 Trillion (apnews.com)
    ×6.12 69 | 56 points by Betelbuddy 1 hour ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science (arxiv.org)
    ×1.40 80 | 191 points by aanet 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Top AI models underperform in languages other than English (economist.com)
    ×1.45 17 | 18 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (reuters.com)
    ×3.49 58 | 230 points by geox 7 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen (xda-developers.com)
    ×1.83 10 | 21 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Using calculus to do number theory (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×1.09 58 | 131 points by cpp_frog 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mistral AI Releases Forge (mistral.ai)
    ×3.49 20 | 717 points by pember 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why Cloudflare rule order matters? (brzozowski.io)
    ×1.09 5 | 61 points by redfr0g 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.18 23 | 792 points by crtasm 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source (github.com/joaoh82)
    ×0.99 59 | 100 points by joaoh82 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) (om.co)
    ×2.14 24 | 257 points by aamederen 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE (thijsverreck.com)
    ×0.80 53 | 83 points by thijsverreck 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)
    ×2.43 9 | 400 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel (rovarma.com)
    ×1.21 69 | 161 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Decade of Slug (terathon.com)
    ×2.87 15 | 740 points by mwkaufma 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video] (twitter.com/toddsaunders)
    ×1.10 80 | 28 points by mighty-fine 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???