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  1. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
    ×3.74 | 741 points by daveoc64 6 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.05 | 287 points by MitPitt 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com/devdotfast)
    ×1.34 2 | 142 points by sidharthkmenon 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.75 | 162 points by an0malous 4 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Fearless SIMD v1.0 (linebender.org)
    ×1.64 4 | 121 points by verdagon 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
    ×2.55 7 | 136 points by jbotz 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
    ×2.59 | 27 points by iacguy 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (arusekk.pl)
    ×1.59 3 | 31 points by arusekk 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
    ×2.65 1 | 141 points by ahmedhossamdev 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.20 6 | 34 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria (rackcrunch.com)
    ×1.53 20 | 9 points by terrybyte 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) (grantland.com)
    ×1.20 7 | 11 points by neonate 37 minutes ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? (ahelwer.ca)
    ×1.23 10 | 66 points by ahelwer 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The forgotten battle of East Lansing (eastlansinginfo.news)
    ×1.22 8 | 69 points by rmason 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)
    ×1.86 10 | 66 points by xnx 4 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
    ×2.00 21 | 16 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (electrek.co)
    ×3.51 10 | 124 points by cisc 7 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] (iacr.org)
    ×0.64 23 | 36 points by int0x29 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 340 points by ReturnoftheHack 10 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Geothermal heat map of US hot springs (soakingsprings.com)
    ×1.36 13 | 62 points by armenarmen 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.87 35 | 33 points by miguelrios 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (afr.com)
    ×1.73 35 | 58 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com/christianrowlands)
    ×0.99 23 | 77 points by 882542F3884314B 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
    ×1.66 48 | 220 points by snikolaev 15 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963 (github.com/pkimpel)
    ×0.41 19 | 46 points by abrax3141 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem (xkeeper.net)
    ×1.11 16 | 12 points by panic 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.97 20 | 38 points by 91awebsi 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity (cell.com)
    ×2.47 26 | 125 points by lormayna 3 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.07 6 | 42 points by aray07 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (aalto.fi)
    ×1.06 13 | 201 points by pillars 11 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. California is chasing wealth that has feet (landeconomics.org)
    ×1.23 42 | 5 points by idbnstra 57 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem (instacloud.com)
    ×1.06 27 | 26 points by tonychang430 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016) (robot-daycare.com)
    ×0.45 42 | 20 points by loughnane 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Lambda MicroEgg (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.48 5 | 54 points by philzook 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.97 13 | 31 points by emurlin 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS (github.com/driceroland)
    ×1.17 28 | 57 points by metrofun 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop (wordpress.com)
    ×0.46 58 | 21 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×3.18 33 | 227 points by hermitcrab 5 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.10 25 | 258 points by nonfamous 8 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us (theguardian.com)
    ×5.37 22 | 96 points by YeGoblynQueenne 9 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023) (thecretefleet.com)
    ×0.32 64 | 17 points by nixass 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
    ×1.50 14 | 125 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.62 25 | 43 points by voxadam 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (coredump.cx)
    ×0.91 42 | 109 points by Luc 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley (verysane.ai)
    ×7.81 21 | 57 points by martythemaniak 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 (techworkersinquiry.org)
    ×1.33 66 | 8 points by utiiiD 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. When the Debugger Lies (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.75 49 | 64 points by hasheddan 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned (kotaku.com)
    ×2.59 5 | 7 points by MBCook 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
    ×2.13 43 | 516 points by avidly 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
    ×1.30 44 | 152 points by erichocean 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Best LLM for every budget, updated daily (terrydjony.com)
    ×2.81 30 | 155 points by terryds 7 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (qualcomm.com)
    ×2.47 9 | 587 points by aaronday 22 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.35 19 | 201 points by adunk 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.11 65 | 14 points by leonagano 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.31 54 | 139 points by CharlesW 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. If you don't have the factories, you lose the expertise (lemire.me)
    ×2.46 11 | 28 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
    ×1.86 26 | 177 points by NaOH 9 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.05 22 | 131 points by simonpure 8 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Year of Internal Tools (geocod.io)
    ×0.85 66 | 58 points by thecodemonkey 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
    ×2.29 7 | 373 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.47 50 | 26 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hail is a multibillion-dollar problem – and could get worse (hcn.org)
    ×2.13 3 | 4 points by littlexsparkee 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (anthropic.com)
    ×3.01 8 | 755 points by raahelb 1 day ago | 777 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants (nature.com)
    ×1.72 4 | 14 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)
    ×1.55 56 | 54 points by Hooke 13 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Is A.I. Above the Law? (newyorker.com)
    ×3.33 11 | 46 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers (medium.com)
    ×2.06 16 | 131 points by ArielSimon 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.17 60 | 146 points by Retro_Dev 23 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack (notesfrompoland.com)
    ×4.40 11 | 159 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta VR Glasses (meta.com)
    ×3.18 1 | 477 points by polymorph1sm 21 hours ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GPT-6 Sol is like GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6 Luna is like GPT-5.6 Asteroid (twitter.com/i)
    ×2.24 1 | 13 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)
    ×0.70 72 | 69 points by nanochess 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.28 61 | 149 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Women Who Sold Books Door to Door (jstor.org)
    ×0.83 56 | 62 points by herbertl 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (arxiv.org)
    ×1.77 13 | 301 points by JohnHammersley 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (microsoft.com)
    ×1.05 64 | 167 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error (votebeat.org)
    ×2.98 37 | 85 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tech leaders to UN: For sake of humanity, please control the AI tech we created (apnews.com)
    ×1.25 15 | 5 points by ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Programming Tutorials Are Dead (robrace.dev)
    ×3.07 53 | 36 points by polysaturate 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
    ×6.32 4 | 1762 points by OfficialTurkey 2 days ago | 839 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering (madhukaraphatak.in)
    ×1.10 49 | 105 points by phatak-dev 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
    ×1.65 15 | 301 points by Rapzid 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History (wsj.com)
    ×2.26 2 | 19 points by tolugenius 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.31 7 | 30 points by philistine 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Astronomers capture an unprecedented view of gas giant formation in action (phys.org)
    ×2.31 7 | 5 points by PeterCorless 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Restaurants Are Using AI to Advertise Their Food and It's Making People Sick (wsj.com)
    ×2.06 13 | 4 points by victor106 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
    ×1.06 65 | 143 points by zuckerborg0101 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude Opus 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.60 1 | 1791 points by km144 2 days ago | 1113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
    ×1.94 25 | 326 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???