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  1. The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock (origami-robotics.com)
    ×1.25 4 | 28 points by shmublu 52 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
    ×2.69 16 | 21 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.54 12 | 90 points by zlatkov 3 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.61 3 | 292 points by nnx 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.78 8 | 96 points by voxadam 3 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.70 14 | 29 points by chunkles 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Let's discuss sandbox isolation (shayon.dev)
    ×1.44 10 | 27 points by shayonj 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
    ×4.73 6 | 222 points by throw0101a 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×1.35 7 | 78 points by spacey 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.84 16 | 48 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We Built Secure, Scalable Agent Sandbox Infrastructure (browser-use.com)
    ×0.97 11 | 21 points by gregpr07 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.91 10 | 349 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.14 | 119 points by shad42 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
    ×3.80 9 | 299 points by zhisme 11 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×2.44 29 | 11 points by cwwc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)
    ×1.38 5 | 149 points by lqs_ 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)
    ×1.93 12 | 56 points by iamnothere 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×4.33 10 | 71 points by WalterSobchak 5 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DOS Memory Management (os2museum.com)
    ×0.88 37 | 3 points by supermatou 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window (github.com/qwibitai)
    ×0.81 4 | 72 points by jimminyx 5 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
    ×1.11 15 | 147 points by edent 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything" (aresluna.org)
    ×1.55 2 | 40 points by bobbiechen 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Sprites on the Web (joshwcomeau.com)
    ×1.20 8 | 78 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (beyondthejoke.co.uk)
    ×4.10 24 | 107 points by nephihaha 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM (skypilot.co)
    ×1.88 14 | 60 points by hopechong 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (theguardian.com)
    ×2.91 19 | 164 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×10.38 19 | 2776 points by qwertox 21 hours ago | 1476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (wordpress.com)
    ×2.71 2 | 493 points by moultano 16 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Unfucked – version every change between commits - local-first (unfudged.io)
    ×1.04 2 | 32 points by cyrusradfar 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.61 5 | 181 points by evakhoury 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007) (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
    ×0.93 9 | 19 points by strongpigeon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×1.79 5 | 161 points by Aissen 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)
    ×0.58 12 | 18 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE (freepascal.org)
    ×1.58 9 | 62 points by mariuz 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.65 10 | 230 points by jsomers 10 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Compact disc story (1998) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.70 40 | 49 points by pipeline_peak 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users (theregister.com)
    ×3.14 27 | 108 points by nottorp 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.33 15 | 102 points by nxobject 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.84 | 241 points by rendx 13 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (danlew.net)
    ×1.39 37 | 11 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How to Allocate Memory (sdf1.org)
    ×1.10 6 | 58 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.82 10 | 574 points by tin7in 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds (getyourfuckingmoneyback.com)
    ×4.56 25 | 32 points by verdverm 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reading English from 1000 Ad (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×0.90 20 | 68 points by LAC-Tech 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount (reuters.com)
    ×2.50 3 | 4 points by Vitamin_Sushi 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style (dionisiydk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.88 24 | 64 points by mpweiher 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadline (apnews.com)
    ×2.06 9 | 12 points by infinitewars 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.57 11 | 401 points by alexmolas 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
    ×1.59 22 | 401 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (understandingai.org)
    ×4.14 45 | 216 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
    ×4.56 19 | 869 points by mlex 23 hours ago | 1011 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: SignalCend – API that resolves conflicting IoT device state in 47ms (signalcend.com)
    ×0.33 71 | 3 points by TylerArrows 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.02 28 | 117 points by nand2mario 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×0.99 31 | 60 points by sandebert 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Apple removes environmental metrics from executive pay (latimes.com)
    ×1.56 21 | 7 points by thelastgallon 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JavaScript DRMs Are Stupid and Useless (the-ranty-dev.vercel.app)
    ×0.98 42 | 10 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.48 44 | 50 points by benbreen 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)
    ×1.44 31 | 222 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Man Who Stole Infinity (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.37 47 | 16 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
    ×1.12 30 | 104 points by paultendo 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration (github.com/Frikallo)
    ×1.08 26 | 102 points by noahkay13 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.69 51 | 127 points by sxmawl 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.29 44 | 211 points by jasonpeacock 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×0.94 51 | 137 points by conesus 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I baked a pie every day for a year (theguardian.com)
    ×1.82 19 | 297 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (uml.edu)
    ×1.15 31 | 198 points by spiffytech 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.25 7 | 1260 points by hiisthisthingon 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. This time is different (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.47 46 | 184 points by speckx 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.34 62 | 129 points by mikeayles 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.56 62 | 77 points by Humanista75 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
    ×1.68 14 | 13 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.93 40 | 95 points by valyala 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.38 5 | 664 points by miki123211 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
    ×0.84 48 | 113 points by flamestro 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Implementing a clear room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code (antirez.com)
    ×1.03 35 | 49 points by antirez 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
    ×3.54 18 | 591 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI=true is an Anti-Pattern (keleshev.com)
    ×2.44 4 | 11 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025) (coderush.me)
    ×0.55 49 | 62 points by transpute 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (guidelabs.ai)
    ×0.71 55 | 74 points by luulinh90s 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. "Our programs are fun to use." (aresluna.org)
    ×1.00 75 | 5 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The world's first hydrogen double-decker bus fleet dropped (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.13 7 | 6 points by rwmj 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Purges Within China's Military Are Even Deeper Than You Think (csis.org)
    ×2.08 10 | 9 points by u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)
    ×3.88 10 | 615 points by pie_flavor 1 day ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (technically.dev)
    ×2.20 12 | 392 points by itunpredictable 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (scripps.edu)
    ×0.65 60 | 76 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case (bbc.com)
    ×1.57 32 | 84 points by cmsefton 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees (copyrightlately.com)
    ×1.92 18 | 8 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.02 40 | 121 points by tosh 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (ieee.org)
    ×2.59 6 | 667 points by tintinnabula 2 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???