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  1. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×6.16 | 793 points by bradleyg223 3 hours ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (thespacereview.com)
    ×2.13 | 64 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 5 | 98 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.23 1 | 116 points by iandinwoodie 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.90 8 | 115 points by anerli 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.95 5 | 42 points by AnodicElegy 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com/tuakdotsol)
    ×3.22 9 | 110 points by rzk 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.90 7 | 50 points by luu 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 92 points by jbott 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.11 13 | 29 points by pwim 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.88 6 | 47 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 7 | 203 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Coltrane's Tone Circle (jtomschroeder.com)
    ×1.19 21 | 15 points by jtomschroeder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.75 2 | 581 points by yarapavan 13 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
    ×2.62 6 | 68 points by ArchAndStarch 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×0.86 28 | 17 points by pminimax 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.79 12 | 22 points by lashkari 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.35 27 | 27 points by leephillips 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.17 1 | 235 points by luispa 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×1.16 11 | 14 points by thanouil1411 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.08 18 | 21 points by cobbzilla 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.02 8 | 158 points by megalomanu 10 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.73 12 | 123 points by b-man 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.34 8 | 90 points by viraj_shah 7 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.03 11 | 124 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
    ×1.20 47 | 68 points by aureianimus 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.68 21 | 57 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.81 25 | 63 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.18 10 | 103 points by yedhukrishnan 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.16 19 | 73 points by kmstout 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
    ×0.99 13 | 6 points by adunk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
    ×0.49 52 | 16 points by Levitating 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.70 18 | 53 points by croes 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.81 20 | 16 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×4.54 30 | 103 points by thoughtfullyso 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.15 30 | 133 points by BurnerBurner 13 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.51 33 | 14 points by OlympicMarmoto 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (schemescape.com)
    ×1.06 20 | 9 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.00 20 | 9 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. pldb: programming languages papers (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.84 40 | 5 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.96 9 | 65 points by mogrinz 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.63 13 | 246 points by laurenth 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.18 20 | 73 points by dancablam 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.84 20 | 120 points by gvuksic 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.91 34 | 66 points by systemerror 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×0.62 63 | 5 points by cachrevolt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.46 85 | 114 points by papa-whisky 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.16 20 | 112 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (cmu.edu)
    ×1.76 3 | 33 points by Guyadou 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.90 89 | 3 points by sshah03 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.60 34 | 113 points by Zeruxe 14 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.95 85 | 93 points by primitivesuave 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka (tigrisdata.com)
    ×1.43 66 | 4 points by bootlegbilly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.97 73 | 20 points by nill0 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×3.99 30 | 27 points by paimapi 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases (theregister.com)
    ×2.75 27 | 15 points by johnshades 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.70 36 | 14 points by PLenz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.65 24 | 873 points by bryan0 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 82 | 339 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.85 37 | 12 points by richardbarosky 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (eia.gov)
    ×0.34 56 | 11 points by thelastgallon 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.58 38 | 17 points by ajoski9 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.67 48 | 200 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.78 59 | 57 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.42 29 | 423 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 829 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.64 5 | 10 points by merksittich 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.14 40 | 121 points by Baljhin 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.45 27 | 1045 points by crorella 1 day ago | 927 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.82 53 | 87 points by luu 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.56 61 | 45 points by danaris 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.23 25 | 25 points by turantekin 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Turbo Haskell (reddit.com)
    ×3.14 46 | 9 points by simonmic 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (amazon.com)
    ×1.31 8 | 9 points by daigoba66 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×0.99 50 | 75 points by seam_carver 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.50 41 | 154 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.24 44 | 145 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.33 25 | 747 points by alvis 1 day ago | 628 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.17 | 373 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 25 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Bologna Bottle (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.19 3 | 10 points by _josh_meyer_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 12 | 747 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.13 | 309 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 21 | 32 points by sdlkj- 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) (bbc.com)
    ×1.35 10 | 8 points by alentred 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.12 51 | 171 points by rossant 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.25 58 | 160 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. USPS to Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for 'Community Safety' (404media.co)
    ×3.56 34 | 9 points by dualvariable 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden's Blog (mrhaydendp.com)
    ×0.45 70 | 4 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.18 3 | 376 points by wanick 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???