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  1. Don't Paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
    ×5.19 | 175 points by pjerem 1 hour ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (microsoft.com)
    ×2.38 | 162 points by luu 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.32 | 839 points by rvz 16 hours ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×2.08 | 206 points by mayoff 8 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×3.09 | 635 points by database64128 15 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.55 | 557 points by Animux 16 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.81 1 | 147 points by gavide 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.43 10 | 131 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (sprocketfox.io)
    ×4.05 | 904 points by kareiva 22 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.65 10 | 266 points by jonesy827 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker (sprocketfox.io)
    ×1.41 14 | 206 points by 1e1a 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.38 | 259 points by fg137 12 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Chauffeur Problem (uh.edu)
    ×1.12 11 | 17 points by leowoo91 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Casio F-B100W-1A (casio.com)
    ×2.66 7 | 381 points by __fst__ 18 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.89 7 | 166 points by jumploops 12 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (yassa9.github.io)
    ×2.17 7 | 476 points by yassa9 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (os8088.com)
    ×1.00 24 | 91 points by jggonz 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
    ×2.25 29 | 265 points by handfuloflight 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. PostgreSQL for Everything (raphaelbauer.com:443)
    ×2.19 10 | 369 points by karlmush 20 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mathematics in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.29 29 | 168 points by jonbaer 18 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (snarky.ca)
    ×0.52 23 | 12 points by Ravencentric 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era (theverge.com)
    ×1.02 43 | 67 points by animalcule 14 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The little-known winstart.bat batch file (microsoft.com)
    ×1.13 22 | 118 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.57 57 | 76 points by guyb3 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (github.com/cesarblum)
    ×0.67 41 | 23 points by sigalor 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (bizibah.com)
    ×1.47 22 | 274 points by gurov 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs (github.com/safer-rust)
    ×0.34 41 | 4 points by rendaw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)
    ×0.91 10 | 83 points by tobr 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.21 19 | 56 points by tybulewicz 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs (jeremymorrell.dev)
    ×1.12 16 | 151 points by coloneltcb 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.24 54 | 150 points by j4mie 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement (ornith.ai)
    ×1.27 11 | 197 points by CommonGuy 19 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Simulacra and Simulation (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.35 3 | 67 points by soupspaces 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel (inco.ai)
    ×1.02 16 | 87 points by mike-the-brain 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
    ×6.27 21 | 1556 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (colorado.edu)
    ×4.51 25 | 575 points by downbad_ 18 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.49 24 | 397 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rewriting in Rust (jetbrains.com)
    ×2.16 12 | 68 points by worik 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 33 | 30 points by E-Reverance 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) (kolja.rs)
    ×1.83 14 | 214 points by nk_kolja 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma (twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan)
    ×4.10 25 | 562 points by heydenberk 20 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pressed Penny Machine Map (pennypresses.net)
    ×0.83 22 | 63 points by willmeyers 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS (github.com/ofdryads)
    ×1.81 34 | 11 points by ashenke 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5 (github.com/vixhal-baraiya)
    ×1.21 19 | 130 points by dhorthy 19 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 34 | 245 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025) (ludens.cl)
    ×0.72 44 | 46 points by crorella 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. IDE Nostalgia (2022) (davidsmaynard.com)
    ×1.06 26 | 50 points by dmaynard 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 (grapheneos.social)
    ×2.96 31 | 604 points by exceptione 22 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite (phys.org)
    ×0.97 51 | 126 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)
    ×1.47 28 | 175 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How Kubernetes Probes Work (ngrok.com)
    ×1.29 2 | 128 points by cyndunlop 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Aluminum Frame PC Fan Corsi-Rosenthal Build (2023) (itsairborne.com)
    ×0.74 56 | 26 points by walterbell 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×2.11 63 | 320 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.30 5 | 72 points by ErenayDev 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library (github.com/DioxusLabs)
    ×1.06 32 | 112 points by robin_reala 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.01 48 | 179 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.71 41 | 61 points by florianherrengt 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
    ×5.45 21 | 1367 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 685 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo (fetzu.ch)
    ×1.22 29 | 23 points by fetzu 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good? (tipiirai.com)
    ×4.93 42 | 146 points by tipiirai 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
    ×4.51 22 | 915 points by nichochar 1 day ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI usage patterns in software teams (linear.app)
    ×1.40 57 | 188 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated (abc.net.au)
    ×3.41 56 | 145 points by ahonhn 7 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code (wired.com)
    ×2.28 33 | 13 points by divbzero 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
    ×1.53 47 | 114 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices (mit.edu)
    ×0.63 56 | 35 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How do payments work in the US, China, and Brazil? (andrewacomb.substack.com)
    ×1.92 25 | 37 points by acombandrew 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/RyanCodrai)
    ×1.36 39 | 294 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (reuters.com)
    ×6.96 56 | 72 points by thm 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Introducing MicroLighter (daverupert.com)
    ×0.69 31 | 45 points by tobr 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.16 14 | 457 points by sunils34 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×2.12 43 | 282 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.74 50 | 31 points by albertpedersen 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.68 60 | 311 points by sharts 2 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector (bram.us)
    ×1.24 28 | 23 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rules of good social skills (2025) (liamrosen.com)
    ×1.89 25 | 110 points by bilsbie 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AWS London gets a new AZ (EU-west-2d) (reddit.com)
    ×1.12 7 | 3 points by znpy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Two Factions of C++ (2024) (herecomesthemoon.net)
    ×1.04 53 | 68 points by signa11 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ADHD charity complains about Channel 4 documentary (bbc.com)
    ×1.18 62 | 7 points by choult 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com/katiahayati)
    ×1.29 37 | 150 points by wkfauna 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Digital Immortality (dogdogfish.com)
    ×1.21 32 | 32 points by matthewsharpe3 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (acm.org)
    ×0.81 45 | 88 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
    ×1.45 46 | 264 points by andrewjanke 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
    ×1.28 58 | 170 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (arxiv.org)
    ×1.54 54 | 38 points by nunodonato 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (signalbloom.ai)
    ×1.49 51 | 34 points by GodelNumbering 19 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 33 | 26 points by Luc 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (yale.edu)
    ×5.48 5 | 885 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 953 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/DenisSergeevitch)
    ×1.73 14 | 373 points by phoenix120 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.04 4 | 658 points by haunter 2 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???