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  1. Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (inkandswitch.com)
    ×1.08 3 | 52 points by justinweiss 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline (openpath.quest)
    ×4.24 | 307 points by PinkG 1 hour ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Dead Economy Theory (owenmcgrann.com)
    ×2.12 11 | 14 points by WillDaSilva 26 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)
    ×0.85 11 | 98 points by dotcoma 4 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×0.95 18 | 55 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.12 6 | 106 points by ColinWright 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)
    ×4.53 4 | 38 points by AndrewKemendo 40 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com/nasaspaceflight)
    ×3.54 22 | 399 points by enraged_camel 14 hours ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (404media.co)
    ×1.46 2 | 44 points by pavel_lishin 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (kog.ai)
    ×1.46 15 | 126 points by NicoConstant 6 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.98 5 | 37 points by leopoldj 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You (buildingbetter.tech)
    ×2.62 21 | 285 points by ankitg12 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Orchestrating AI code review at scale (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.18 28 | 87 points by pramodbiligiri 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.16 5 | 1679 points by craigmart 23 hours ago | 1304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)
    ×5.16 8 | 1206 points by philips 20 hours ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter (core77.com)
    ×0.89 21 | 40 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.95 36 | 135 points by goranmoomin 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Local Git Remotes (cblgh.org)
    ×0.95 | 55 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors (theshamblog.com)
    ×0.55 36 | 8 points by scottshambaugh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web (wterm.dev)
    ×1.05 49 | 36 points by m3h 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say (frontiersin.org)
    ×2.17 44 | 14 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents (tensorzero.com)
    ×0.35 40 | 15 points by GabrielBianconi 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
    ×2.52 16 | 169 points by xyzal 5 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com/robinostlund)
    ×2.99 3 | 317 points by Kwastie 10 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (mpi.nl)
    ×0.98 48 | 102 points by vi_sextus_vi 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ten Basic Clouds (noaa.gov)
    ×1.24 44 | 177 points by nopg 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.17 10 | 78 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT (ezfurigana.com)
    ×0.54 35 | 14 points by epitrochoid413 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Step 3.7 Flash (stepfun.com)
    ×1.92 45 | 10 points by tarruda 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (technion.ac.il)
    ×1.03 64 | 10 points by hsuduebc2 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com/HeidiSQL)
    ×1.43 46 | 85 points by peter_d_sherman 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)
    ×3.15 7 | 458 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claude Opus 4.8 distilled Alibaba Qwen models (twitter.com/maxforai)
    ×2.48 7 | 12 points by simjnd 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people (andrej.sh)
    ×1.04 67 | 6 points by andrejsshell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Don't Build Your Own Lisp (github.com/no-defun-allowed)
    ×1.10 86 | 6 points by tmtvl 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Expertise in the Age of AI (moderndescartes.com)
    ×1.13 21 | 48 points by brilee 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.30 70 | 176 points by b-man 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster (theargumentmag.com)
    ×3.31 11 | 9 points by Michelangelo11 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Is This Sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
    ×1.10 11 | 79 points by ColinEberhardt 5 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) (winans.io)
    ×2.72 6 | 507 points by mattrighetti 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.89 35 | 37 points by watermelon0 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe (uio.no)
    ×1.83 11 | 54 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.67 10 | 486 points by possibilistic 18 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Barthelme, the Houstonian (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.44 72 | 18 points by Caiero 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (github.com/bytecodealliance)
    ×0.88 89 | 102 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building durable workflows on Postgres (dbos.dev)
    ×1.92 12 | 336 points by KraftyOne 21 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (google.com)
    ×1.18 31 | 3 points by downbad_ 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 (nextcloud.com)
    ×1.07 80 | 12 points by madspindel 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down (nixos.org)
    ×0.69 66 | 74 points by agnishom 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)
    ×8.94 50 | 603 points by garycomtois 2 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos (blog.youtube)
    ×4.68 16 | 1299 points by nopg 1 day ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.55 94 | 79 points by lucamrtl 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)
    ×2.71 1 | 341 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Phloto for My Photo Flow (cceckman.com)
    ×0.40 70 | 41 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.82 7 | 236 points by drewda 16 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.22 96 | 166 points by burntsushi 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What Gets Kept (newyorker.com)
    ×0.56 68 | 67 points by lermontov 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (bitburner-official.github.io)
    ×0.89 65 | 108 points by agmater 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
    ×3.28 2 | 356 points by meetpateltech 22 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (greenend.org.uk)
    ×1.70 1 | 294 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America (science.org)
    ×2.67 80 | 77 points by etiam 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS (waspdev.com)
    ×0.57 65 | 26 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)
    ×0.33 90 | 13 points by samclemens 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Nvidia Tax (cringely.com)
    ×1.28 19 | 7 points by HotGarbage 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)
    ×1.73 16 | 361 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years (nytimes.com)
    ×2.72 17 | 32 points by saikatsg 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The most unlikely school bag (carryology.com)
    ×1.25 50 | 131 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq? (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.39 26 | 16 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.40 33 | 229 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US clean energy is booming and unraveling at the same time (electrek.co)
    ×2.29 2 | 7 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Lone Lisp Heap (matheusmoreira.com)
    ×1.02 65 | 88 points by stevekemp 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024) (science.org)
    ×1.63 12 | 227 points by o4c 22 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com/scanaislop)
    ×1.19 65 | 63 points by Heavykenny 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com/yujonglee)
    ×0.21 85 | 5 points by yujonglee 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS (github.com/highpost)
    ×0.81 73 | 76 points by highpost 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.39 3 | 337 points by jjp 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The and Wonderful Evolution of the Waterproof Jacket (carryology.com)
    ×0.99 61 | 27 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.19 25 | 89 points by freediver 16 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey (phoronix.com)
    ×1.02 18 | 25 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Some Like It Literary (nytimes.com)
    ×0.46 78 | 26 points by samclemens 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT (taoofmac.com)
    ×1.34 23 | 263 points by zdw 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Permanent Upper Crow (jasonwu.ink)
    ×1.24 24 | 210 points by whiteblossom 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. My "Writerdeck" Is a Typewriter (kamranjon.com)
    ×0.82 86 | 7 points by kamranjon 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 78 | 145 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Don't shoot for the moon: aiming for above average is key to success (theguardian.com)
    ×0.95 10 | 6 points by oatlgr 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Warm up your MacBook (2019) (z3ugma.github.io)
    ×1.00 79 | 135 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.57 74 | 73 points by danAtElodin 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.18 23 | 431 points by stagas 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar (ieee.org)
    ×0.72 74 | 79 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???