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  1. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.44 1 | 48 points by ronbenton 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.34 5 | 47 points by bilsbie 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.05 13 | 13 points by spdegabrielle 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.29 4 | 376 points by Narishma 8 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×2.65 8 | 545 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    ×0.96 23 | 74 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite" (breakintochat.com)
    ×1.28 28 | 11 points by bananaboy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.91 15 | 15 points by sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)
    ×1.26 18 | 93 points by Bluestein 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×1.14 12 | 47 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.62 10 | 226 points by mlenhard 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.26 6 | 271 points by hruvhwe 6 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (wolfram.com)
    ×0.76 29 | 11 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    ×1.28 5 | 111 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
    ×5.09 12 | 45 points by walrus01 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.91 21 | 63 points by homarp 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×0.98 26 | 86 points by emptybits 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×2.87 8 | 102 points by root-parent 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)
    ×0.75 26 | 65 points by lermontov 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 30 | 48 points by tobr 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.47 9 | 538 points by pentagrama 12 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.61 18 | 199 points by zacharyozer 5 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.22 14 | 286 points by stagas 8 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.74 57 | 11 points by hardlianotion 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.96 30 | 87 points by austinallegro 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.41 56 | 26 points by brod_ie 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    ×0.70 42 | 85 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.53 1 | 158 points by toomuchtodo 10 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    ×1.26 36 | 134 points by txrx0000 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    ×1.68 29 | 272 points by pdet 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone (brennan.day)
    ×1.03 1 | 10 points by OuterVale 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 3 | 9 points by eig 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.84 8 | 140 points by brandonb 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    ×1.54 19 | 140 points by abelanger 16 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.37 48 | 25 points by samclemens 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×4.14 17 | 360 points by Alifatisk 13 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (wunc.org)
    ×0.60 43 | 25 points by yareally 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.56 35 | 263 points by felixbraun 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
    ×0.62 45 | 64 points by sbulaev 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.12 26 | 82 points by ghuntley 5 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires (continuum-app.xyz)
    ×1.39 15 | 3 points by charleswcho 59 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.95 42 | 147 points by ropbear 4 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.60 10 | 5 points by gradus_ad 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.06 54 | 111 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.80 21 | 178 points by lentil_soup 10 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
    ×1.22 51 | 180 points by AnodicElegy 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    ×1.90 23 | 77 points by riskone 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (slowtravelberlin.com)
    ×0.90 19 | 15 points by yitchelle 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)
    ×3.16 9 | 413 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.72 19 | 17 points by wertyk 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×1.14 5 | 73 points by karakoram 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (falstad.com)
    ×0.94 57 | 65 points by pykello 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Kindred Sciences Unveils First Dogs Genetically Edited to Remove Dog Allergen (businesswire.com)
    ×1.54 1 | 5 points by ca98am79 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
    ×2.57 10 | 292 points by ingve 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.61 38 | 156 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)
    ×1.58 15 | 180 points by maxutility 23 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them (davidepiffer.com)
    ×3.70 9 | 594 points by rzk 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
    ×1.19 49 | 118 points by ingve 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Israeli minister calls for killing '30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly (aljazeera.com)
    ×8.92 55 | 24 points by LAC-Tech 55 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Asus Bike Booster (asus.com)
    ×2.96 23 | 611 points by wiradikusuma 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.73 50 | 81 points by johnsillings 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×5.15 4 | 1410 points by erdaltoprak 2 days ago | 783 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter (cnbc.com)
    ×2.43 20 | 36 points by johnbarron 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What I Learned Securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (sniffnet.app)
    ×0.24 71 | 15 points by dmit 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×0.83 85 | 4 points by bosmarcel 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
    ×9.34 56 | 86 points by healsdata 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 67 | 51 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records (treasury.gov)
    ×2.54 18 | 35 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
    ×0.85 45 | 67 points by xalfotis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.44 17 | 290 points by gmays 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)
    ×2.08 9 | 479 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
    ×2.58 9 | 322 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.76 17 | 6 points by beanaroo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.25 3 | 443 points by tosh 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.45 14 | 1152 points by pella 2 days ago | 573 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
    ×0.45 70 | 28 points by adm4 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LibreOffice Conference 2026 Schedule (documentfoundation.org)
    ×1.50 1 | 17 points by mmarian 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.66 73 | 7 points by kajm 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Connecting my Illumos box to a Japanese ISP (skalski.dev)
    ×1.52 69 | 17 points by mskalski 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)
    ×3.43 40 | 115 points by thunderbong 12 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Health benefits of Tai Chi (harvard.edu)
    ×1.60 38 | 37 points by helloplanets 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An image can overflow (master.dev)
    ×0.93 50 | 60 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)
    ×0.69 43 | 55 points by turtushig22 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com/wmww)
    ×1.05 41 | 81 points by schmorptron 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.27 11 | 377 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server (github.com/mldsveda)
    ×0.90 57 | 18 points by vedaant00 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.84 55 | 102 points by uecker 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nauru, the 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero (abcnews.com)
    ×1.26 14 | 5 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers (bipluk.com)
    ×0.48 44 | 34 points by halfradaition 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???