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  1. Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (wordpress.com)
    ×2.13 3 | 23 points by ColinWright 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
    ×3.46 1 | 204 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
    ×2.35 2 | 20 points by adius 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Dutch Train Map Simulator (zaza.dev)
    ×2.00 3 | 31 points by zazaalaza 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (abc.net.au)
    ×5.96 3 | 56 points by robtherobber 58 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (ox.ac.uk)
    ×4.23 5 | 69 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
    ×1.65 4 | 210 points by dcminter 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
    ×2.82 | 542 points by nikolay 14 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)
    ×1.81 | 47 points by doener 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
    ×1.07 10 | 17 points by advaith08 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. llama.cpp (llama.app)
    ×3.12 5 | 237 points by kristianpaul 5 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)
    ×1.80 3 | 78 points by refp 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
    ×0.78 54 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
    ×1.41 2 | 228 points by EwanG 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
    ×3.08 2 | 626 points by quantumgarbage 21 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (nvidia.com)
    ×1.23 9 | 232 points by droidjj 14 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)
    ×3.22 11 | 438 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mojo 1.0 (modular.com)
    ×2.26 3 | 390 points by dayanruben 17 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
    ×1.81 6 | 113 points by burnto 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Grok Bot (x.ai)
    ×3.16 6 | 291 points by rvz 17 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (dronexl.co)
    ×1.62 10 | 44 points by daau 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
    ×1.02 2 | 86 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×1.88 7 | 292 points by sajomes 18 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (cbc.ca)
    ×1.09 11 | 14 points by empressplay 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)
    ×1.29 8 | 166 points by DemiGuru 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Retire the Abstractions (stanford.edu)
    ×1.07 22 | 54 points by convexstrictly 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (btp.police.uk)
    ×3.44 15 | 341 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
    ×0.97 24 | 70 points by xiaoyu2006 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (science.org)
    ×0.71 14 | 35 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)
    ×1.45 16 | 197 points by mark_l_watson 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)
    ×3.28 9 | 383 points by 0xedb 17 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (bbc.com)
    ×2.36 9 | 542 points by stevekemp 21 hours ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)
    ×1.10 5 | 74 points by jumpalongjim 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.91 15 | 47 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)
    ×1.11 26 | 163 points by thm 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CSS properties you should know for better text designs (master.dev)
    ×1.42 24 | 118 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/TheRealYT)
    ×1.03 20 | 154 points by YonathanTesfaye 19 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ethical Cold Outreach (val.town)
    ×1.37 31 | 47 points by stevekrouse 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)
    ×2.09 | 337 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.22 | 148 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.50 30 | 182 points by j0selit0 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)
    ×4.53 8 | 904 points by awnird 1 day ago | 913 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.01 23 | 59 points by saisrirampur 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Crew, a multiplayer workspace for humans and AI agents to work together (github.com/JamelHammoud)
    ×0.75 68 | 7 points by alihammoud21 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
    ×1.15 43 | 94 points by danielbilekq 21 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. RSI Simulator (paradigm.xyz)
    ×0.75 37 | 43 points by ckraeuter 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Claude marks AI-generated content (claude.com)
    ×3.36 25 | 434 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (openssh.org)
    ×1.18 11 | 113 points by voxadam 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Single-pixel width legible LCD font – Subpixel Text Encoding (msarnoff.org)
    ×1.28 2 | 5 points by adunk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. To save C, we must save ABI (2022) (thephd.dev)
    ×1.17 47 | 124 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (trykeet.com)
    ×0.44 52 | 46 points by zackashen 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
    ×1.10 43 | 165 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
    ×0.56 48 | 24 points by vismit2000 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 14 | 60 points by doener 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (meta.ai)
    ×4.39 5 | 1191 points by riordan 2 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.55 49 | 38 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Congressional Letter to Sam Altman demanding HuggingFace incident transparency [pdf] (house.gov)
    ×1.61 16 | 9 points by reasonableklout 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dropbox is an obvious PE Target? (s-1.vercel.app)
    ×1.95 39 | 57 points by Taikhoom10 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.86 6 | 430 points by swyx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.94 47 | 108 points by subset 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.75 29 | 292 points by frabonacci 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.78 35 | 117 points by shagie 11 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×2.39 33 | 270 points by tosh 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nokia Design Archive (aalto.fi)
    ×1.19 55 | 16 points by structuredPizza 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)
    ×2.87 9 | 634 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (lemonde.fr)
    ×5.44 52 | 1028 points by aziaziazi 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.38 3 | 517 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Recycle – Floppydisks (floppydisk.com)
    ×0.86 40 | 118 points by calvinmorrison 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.51 58 | 12 points by DemiGuru 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Europe is the fastest warming continent. What is to blame? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.16 21 | 3 points by ndsipa_pomu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (effort.news)
    ×3.63 26 | 651 points by slowin 1 day ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)
    ×1.10 46 | 160 points by ubermon 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.71 17 | 40 points by dangle1 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)
    ×0.59 46 | 71 points by mcptokensaver 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (medium.com)
    ×0.77 49 | 115 points by extralongdivisi 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
    ×1.25 28 | 169 points by AntiRush 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Closing Canario Terminal source code (rapha.land)
    ×0.66 53 | 44 points by atan2 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.17 2 | 26 points by Gaishan 9 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.59 16 | 8 points by joozio 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.08 35 | 182 points by WhiteDawn 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (bbc.com)
    ×2.79 9 | 403 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI (404media.co)
    ×4.72 72 | 178 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×1.07 34 | 190 points by jonathanmkeegan 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week (bbc.com)
    ×2.66 51 | 137 points by dijksterhuis 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Chicken Scheme 6.0 (call-cc.org)
    ×1.47 4 | 296 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs (github.com/bikeshaving)
    ×1.74 50 | 15 points by bikeshaving 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.04 24 | 207 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
    ×0.94 44 | 124 points by hackerBanana 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
    ×4.14 77 | 178 points by newsomix9xl 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×3.21 6 | 684 points by etoxin 2 days ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???