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  1. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.53 | 440 points by itvision 7 hours ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.07 3 | 922 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids (wired.com)
    ×1.48 21 | 13 points by worik 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.04 4 | 162 points by neversaydie 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.89 5 | 109 points by baranul 6 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.70 6 | 244 points by tsak 10 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.32 | 105 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.30 13 | 67 points by Audiophilip 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.60 2 | 162 points by collinmanderson 8 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.89 10 | 170 points by tedsanders 10 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.27 2 | 351 points by Footkerchief 11 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Almost no skill required to cook a steak (sydorets.com)
    ×1.90 2 | 293 points by yusyd 12 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.93 12 | 187 points by willcarkner 11 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.29 2 | 76 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.53 16 | 26 points by koolhead17 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park (indiatimes.com)
    ×2.08 7 | 46 points by rmason 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (wsj.com)
    ×4.19 14 | 98 points by boplicity 3 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.54 11 | 262 points by Wirbelwind 15 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.98 18 | 23 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.65 25 | 26 points by indyjo 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
    ×1.33 7 | 96 points by luu 9 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×1.59 16 | 116 points by laurentiurad 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.77 19 | 235 points by dsubburam 7 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 22 | 91 points by davidmckayv 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.09 10 | 69 points by bschne 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Shades of Meaning (2018) (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.22 71 | 3 points by mkmk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.92 28 | 104 points by hasheddan 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 19 | 227 points by binyu 18 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.87 29 | 68 points by mpweiher 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.29 28 | 458 points by apitman 8 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 38 | 89 points by tchalla 14 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.03 43 | 77 points by jandrewrogers 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.46 46 | 163 points by nanochess 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.23 17 | 141 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    ×0.39 64 | 15 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com/mattdeeds)
    ×0.84 4 | 41 points by mdeeds 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.66 11 | 659 points by DarkContinent 22 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.08 19 | 68 points by john_strinlai 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.98 9 | 463 points by atan2 20 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.37 53 | 8 points by purestatelabs 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.27 50 | 111 points by msephton 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×0.25 82 | 12 points by jdkee 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.83 1 | 915 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer (keel-iot.eu)
    ×0.43 82 | 9 points by fcravio 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom (motortrend.com)
    ×2.63 2 | 14 points by thehoff 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners (reuters.com)
    ×2.76 19 | 26 points by voxadam 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015) (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.48 58 | 34 points by dima55 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself (sawyerhood.com)
    ×2.99 18 | 13 points by sawyerjhood 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.05 1 | 827 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 887 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
    ×1.02 62 | 20 points by danschuller 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.60 39 | 243 points by Xeophon 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.74 61 | 68 points by skogstokig 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I built fingerprint unlock for Mac (no Magic Keyboard) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.50 6 | 7 points by Timothee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.36 95 | 68 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.98 15 | 440 points by speckx 1 day ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.61 72 | 65 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.39 62 | 162 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents (thenextweb.com)
    ×2.24 2 | 20 points by FireBeyond 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock (github.com/palamim)
    ×1.50 68 | 36 points by leopalamim 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.14 71 | 102 points by Jare 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The DISTINCT in Your COUNT (boringsql.com)
    ×1.28 16 | 24 points by gmcabrita 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.46 9 | 32 points by layer8 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)
    ×0.47 57 | 38 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)
    ×1.85 16 | 81 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.50 45 | 222 points by weli 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.32 10 | 409 points by lladnar 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.92 3 | 420 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.84 68 | 141 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.63 20 | 27 points by beardyw 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Goiânia Accident (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.95 15 | 15 points by ycollet 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.95 3 | 425 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.44 58 | 75 points by rowbin 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×2.86 12 | 212 points by microtonal 21 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.63 7 | 647 points by speckx 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
    ×1.19 27 | 59 points by quuxplusone 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.12 75 | 444 points by pmg101 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.36 57 | 222 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.65 8 | 323 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.83 63 | 126 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.12 57 | 148 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (2020) (twz.com)
    ×1.43 1 | 11 points by delichon 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.08 43 | 188 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×0.89 55 | 100 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.82 56 | 79 points by oryx1729 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (techdirt.com)
    ×3.36 17 | 52 points by hn_acker 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.06 24 | 520 points by ahamez 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.01 14 | 285 points by greyblake 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.48 41 | 124 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.02 9 | 7 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.81 57 | 105 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???