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  1. Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
    ×2.11 1 | 297 points by thepoet 4 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×1.73 3 | 41 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×2.84 | 353 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
    ×1.23 3 | 73 points by NKosmatos 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
    ×2.09 5 | 153 points by dash2 4 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×4.12 6 | 885 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.25 5 | 259 points by floathub 7 hours ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×2.72 | 350 points by gavide 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
    ×1.32 6 | 54 points by signa11 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)
    ×1.14 15 | 24 points by garo-pro 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
    ×1.03 6 | 63 points by toebee 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.07 1 | 421 points by dares2573 10 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
    ×1.57 3 | 60 points by ra7 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×1.52 | 80 points by colinprince 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism (wespiser.com)
    ×1.34 14 | 14 points by wespiser_2018 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×1.28 7 | 74 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (hardcoded.net)
    ×0.88 19 | 16 points by vicek22 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×1.08 9 | 57 points by jakelsaunders94 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
    ×2.28 1 | 135 points by aakil 6 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) (super-nova.co.jp)
    ×0.38 21 | 13 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
    ×3.04 5 | 189 points by rcymerys 9 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)
    ×0.90 17 | 19 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com/aravpanwar)
    ×1.01 25 | 38 points by unprovable 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.89 10 | 111 points by neom 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.51 48 | 44 points by cainxinth 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.86 6 | 184 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (plos.org)
    ×0.51 38 | 22 points by Ariarule 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.82 5 | 63 points by rhgraysonii 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.81 16 | 52 points by eatonphil 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.94 13 | 450 points by Cider9986 18 hours ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 7 | 91 points by pppone 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing (gus-massa.blogspot.com)
    ×0.62 21 | 25 points by gus_massa 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
    ×0.84 43 | 54 points by karma_daemon 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him (wsvn.com)
    ×1.84 54 | 12 points by madihaa 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×5.83 32 | 599 points by throw7 8 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (lithub.com)
    ×0.64 66 | 10 points by prismatic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants (cnn.com)
    ×1.26 7 | 72 points by jader201 5 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.79 37 | 35 points by baruchel 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)
    ×1.99 15 | 45 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.62 3 | 200 points by marcomezzavilla 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.45 5 | 235 points by spankibalt 13 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (eth.limo)
    ×0.62 42 | 26 points by fbrusch 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rust Glancer (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.00 56 | 5 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
    ×0.74 39 | 67 points by ksec 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)
    ×0.54 45 | 11 points by bobbiechen 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com/proliferate-ai)
    ×0.87 2 | 33 points by pablo24602 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (circleback.ai)
    ×0.69 16 | 35 points by arguiot 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Thailand Resisted Colonization (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.52 41 | 8 points by karakoram 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I Just Want to Search (0xsid.com)
    ×2.07 30 | 88 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.75 4 | 69 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (wolfoo2931.github.io)
    ×0.89 45 | 10 points by WolfOliver 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)
    ×1.09 35 | 102 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Making stinkarm stink less, or more – userspace armv7 emulator (xnacly.me)
    ×0.10 69 | 7 points by xnacly 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Agent Access Model (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.67 81 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction (github.com/omarfakih1)
    ×0.89 59 | 4 points by omarfakih 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OTel Isn't Going Well (and I Made a Spreadsheet About It) (matduggan.com)
    ×0.75 86 | 5 points by hn_acker 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Volcanoes That Made History (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×0.64 75 | 4 points by knowablemag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. c100 (caligra.com)
    ×1.55 36 | 101 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Does whispering to agents in docs help? (passo.uno)
    ×0.54 7 | 27 points by theletterf 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.49 51 | 114 points by osnium123 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.53 80 | 8 points by domenkozar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How we built a proxy to migrate Kafka producers with zero downtime (warpstream.com)
    ×1.67 43 | 16 points by exposition 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LFM2.5-DSpark: Up to 3.2x Faster Inference from H100 to MacB (liquid.ai)
    ×0.59 85 | 5 points by Alephinitesimal 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.85 62 | 16 points by chilipepperhott 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.81 32 | 225 points by mtokmak06 21 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)
    ×1.88 38 | 96 points by erikschoster 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.19 3 | 3 points by dthread3 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.99 60 | 52 points by olexsmir 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 98 | 279 points by nunodonato 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nothing Doing (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.72 43 | 29 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (killscreen.com)
    ×1.04 63 | 21 points by keiferski 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.49 116 | 57 points by yousefh409 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.14 5 | 142 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (coredump.cx)
    ×0.93 41 | 23 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.77 77 | 8 points by jardy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Omacom Foundation launches with $8M (omarchy.org)
    ×2.45 66 | 153 points by djfergus 5 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The US techlash is real (ft.com)
    ×2.89 30 | 43 points by thm 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Most of the Fastest-Growing Megacities Will Soon Be in Africa (ourworldindata.org)
    ×2.54 14 | 8 points by karakoram 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.94 10 | 1003 points by emctech 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.49 67 | 203 points by speckx 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cosine similarity is dead. Long live cosine similarity (2025) (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.63 62 | 12 points by j0selit0 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles (theverge.com)
    ×3.78 15 | 16 points by doener 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.70 37 | 284 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.62 26 | 621 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.19 25 | 970 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Readers can't identify watermarked AI text (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.23 6 | 6 points by dmarto 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. One Night in Uzbekistan (columbia.edu)
    ×2.42 15 | 8 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.29 27 | 841 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I'm Sick of Reading AI-Written Posts (medium.com)
    ×3.79 33 | 10 points by gurjeet 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???