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  1. this css proves me human (will-keleher.com)
    ×1.53 1 | 111 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma (plasma-bigscreen.org)
    ×2.70 2 | 24 points by PaulHoule 26 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper (consultwithgriff.com)
    ×1.23 5 | 31 points by PretzelFisch 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) (thelydianstone.com)
    ×0.83 18 | 14 points by miki_tyler 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Math Notepad (mathnotepad.com)
    ×1.41 15 | 43 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Shady World of IP Leasing (acid.vegas)
    ×1.67 13 | 41 points by alibarber 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (anthropic.com)
    ×3.13 9 | 454 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com/moongate-community)
    ×1.12 17 | 218 points by squidleon 10 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android (opencamera.org.uk)
    ×1.43 18 | 202 points by tetris11 10 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (twitter.com/JosephPolitano)
    ×5.17 9 | 682 points by enraged_camel 6 hours ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Apache Otava (apache.org)
    ×1.26 13 | 74 points by djoldman 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
    ×0.38 37 | 34 points by sam_palus 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The worst acquisition in history, again (profgmedia.com)
    ×2.29 6 | 81 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Payphone Go (walzr.com)
    ×1.97 14 | 296 points by walz 12 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ada 2022 (adaic.org)
    ×1.08 4 | 97 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (science.org)
    ×1.92 39 | 7 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Art Bits from HyperCard (somnolescent.net)
    ×1.37 4 | 44 points by TigerUniversity 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Triplet Superconductor (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.73 24 | 45 points by jonbaer 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. CT Scans of Health Wearables (lumafield.com)
    ×1.25 10 | 173 points by radeeyate 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Astra: An open-source observatory control software (github.com/ppp-one)
    ×0.79 18 | 77 points by pppone 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale (ieee.org)
    ×1.08 13 | 89 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor (libresprite.github.io)
    ×1.46 14 | 247 points by nicoloren 15 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The disappearing Form D (2018) (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.28 57 | 5 points by eatonphil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anthropic, please make a new Slack (fivetran.com)
    ×4.91 19 | 171 points by georgewfraser 4 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs (cornell.edu)
    ×2.96 16 | 493 points by Anon84 10 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (github.com/elder-plinius)
    ×2.00 14 | 101 points by mvdwoord 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Good Bad ISPs (torproject.org)
    ×1.22 18 | 90 points by rzk 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
    ×0.63 31 | 76 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com)
    ×6.20 27 | 931 points by morsch 10 hours ago | 914 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM (github.com/taiseiue)
    ×0.64 22 | 18 points by taiseiue 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. We might all be AI engineers now (yasint.dev)
    ×2.23 24 | 159 points by sn0wflak3s 15 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. TypeScript 6.0 RC (microsoft.com)
    ×2.82 19 | 75 points by johnz 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again
    ×3.61 11 | 7 points by shannoncc 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×0.88 17 | 55 points by es617 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)
    ×1.74 6 | 130 points by fortran77 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Htmx Infinite Scroll (alchemists.io)
    ×1.95 45 | 13 points by speckx 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)
    ×2.42 27 | 79 points by eatonphil 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard (aresluna.org)
    ×1.45 34 | 123 points by tobr 16 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.50 34 | 27 points by kwitczak 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. System76 on Age Verification Laws (system76.com)
    ×3.92 15 | 800 points by LorenDB 20 hours ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Supertoast tables (hatchet.run)
    ×0.67 12 | 45 points by abelanger 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon (crowdsupply.com)
    ×0.80 45 | 68 points by ZiiS 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.21 31 | 178 points by armandhammer10 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Evaluating Godot (2023) (caseyyano.com)
    ×0.97 51 | 9 points by Trung0246 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.30 28 | 62 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
    ×3.73 7 | 980 points by mudkipdev 1 day ago | 777 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nobody ever got fired for using a struct (feldera.com)
    ×1.38 47 | 141 points by gz09 22 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What if AI just makes us work harder? (ft.com)
    ×2.55 18 | 20 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Codex Security: now in research preview (openai.com)
    ×3.35 33 | 17 points by ancarda 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds (scribd.com)
    ×5.12 46 | 92 points by coloneltcb 2 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Manual to Phil Zimmermans PGPfone Circa 1996 [pdf] (philzimmermann.com)
    ×0.61 67 | 5 points by smalltorch 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Utah's online porn tax proposal poses a major threat to civil liberties (techdirt.com)
    ×2.03 9 | 15 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
    ×4.53 4 | 870 points by marvinborner 1 day ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation (runxiyu.org)
    ×0.73 24 | 99 points by weinzierl 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.88 43 | 60 points by ToddWBurgess 15 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hack Club is hiring 40 teenagers on a paid gap year (hackclub.com)
    ×1.00 58 | 5 points by sadeshmukh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape (aps.org)
    ×0.78 49 | 58 points by akshatjiwan 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government (schneier.com)
    ×1.71 | 14 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.36 51 | 486 points by smartbit 10 hours ago | 659 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions (seafloor.pages.dev)
    ×0.33 50 | 18 points by marcohaber 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Image manipulation with convolution using Julia (medium.com)
    ×0.58 43 | 40 points by AhmadHamze 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app (alibaba.github.io)
    ×0.91 55 | 137 points by simon_luv_pho 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
    ×2.91 3 | 601 points by edf13 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund (reuters.com)
    ×2.97 29 | 54 points by itbeho 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (404media.co)
    ×2.90 15 | 519 points by ece 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Charge a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger (2012) [pdf] (ti.com)
    ×0.31 41 | 34 points by theblazehen 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Modembin – A pastebin that encodes your text into real FSK modem audio (modembin.com)
    ×1.15 32 | 21 points by a13x57 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
    ×1.13 40 | 95 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.13 | 465 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling
    ×0.39 76 | 56 points by Gobhanu 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×7.02 5 | 1950 points by dm 2 days ago | 2292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
    ×1.49 44 | 239 points by ZacnyLos 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Good software knows when to stop (writizzy.com)
    ×2.42 2 | 529 points by ssaboum 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (acm.org)
    ×0.51 70 | 7 points by blakepelton 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.60 8 | 12 points by LorenDB 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Stupidly Obscure Programming in a Troubled Time (2018) (podsnap.com)
    ×0.31 66 | 19 points by luu 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Data Center Intelligence at the Price of a Laptop (tomtunguz.com)
    ×0.73 72 | 4 points by djha-skin 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
    ×1.06 51 | 45 points by cfmcdonald 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.87 57 | 77 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
    ×3.72 4 | 932 points by gonzalovargas 2 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude's Cycles [pdf] (stanford.edu)
    ×2.81 46 | 820 points by fs123 3 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)
    ×0.97 55 | 32 points by laurex 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (happel.ai)
    ×0.82 39 | 59 points by nill0 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (anthropic.com)
    ×2.17 13 | 312 points by jjwiseman 1 day ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. When Using AI Leads to "Brain Fry" (hbr.org)
    ×1.48 2 | 14 points by dracula_x 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenTitan Shipping in Production (googleblog.com)
    ×1.16 29 | 126 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests (406.fail)
    ×1.92 10 | 285 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.68 44 | 82 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels (fossforce.com)
    ×0.57 58 | 70 points by brideoflinux 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???