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  1. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
    ×2.13 | 124 points by vanpra 2 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
    ×1.61 9 | 51 points by allisdust 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
    ×1.25 12 | 96 points by the-mitr 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
    ×1.57 5 | 175 points by shortcrct 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.40 9 | 53 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
    ×1.28 11 | 190 points by campuscodi 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.72 6 | 117 points by mdp2021 5 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fable and the End of the Free Lunch (dbreunig.com)
    ×2.03 1 | 70 points by dbreunig 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
    ×2.05 5 | 198 points by ryanvogel 4 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
    ×1.54 6 | 165 points by bwb 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
    ×2.53 1 | 206 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
    ×1.23 8 | 37 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
    ×4.47 11 | 555 points by dr_pardee 7 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 11 | 7 points by root-parent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
    ×2.91 9 | 79 points by tchalla 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
    ×4.01 8 | 314 points by dredmorbius 6 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F (indiatimes.com)
    ×1.62 14 | 26 points by djoldman 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) (spheron.network)
    ×0.80 12 | 14 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (elis.cc)
    ×2.68 21 | 7 points by el1s7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Predicting AI model release dates with stats (releaseoracle.xyz)
    ×0.95 12 | 16 points by akeyes6 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.98 3 | 261 points by taubek 14 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities (pew.org)
    ×0.84 34 | 13 points by softwaredoug 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI (andros.dev)
    ×0.65 26 | 11 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
    ×1.05 14 | 173 points by userbinator 15 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI and Infrastructure Engineering (omegion.dev)
    ×0.86 10 | 14 points by 0megion 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.88 29 | 14 points by gumby 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
    ×1.33 20 | 199 points by boilerupnc 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
    ×2.57 6 | 404 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II (colino.net)
    ×0.94 81 | 7 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.63 11 | 290 points by raybb 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)
    ×1.16 55 | 106 points by Sir_Twist 18 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site (wsj.com)
    ×1.81 9 | 9 points by root-parent 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
    ×1.25 11 | 150 points by zX41ZdbW 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
    ×0.87 51 | 79 points by rznicolet 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
    ×1.50 35 | 168 points by cocacola1 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
    ×0.98 10 | 73 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Isometric Plotter (laravel.cloud)
    ×0.71 74 | 6 points by lopespm 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (ft.com)
    ×3.42 26 | 55 points by naves 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Powerful extensions do not need powerful code (adayinthelifeof.nl)
    ×0.42 78 | 4 points by jaytaph 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive (yantraai.app)
    ×0.67 31 | 58 points by skylensspace 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.54 60 | 204 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
    ×1.24 13 | 48 points by mdp2021 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.12 52 | 136 points by stared 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products (doi.org)
    ×1.12 75 | 36 points by sbulaev 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Fast and Hard Code (pocoo.org)
    ×1.26 24 | 101 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mnemosyne Local hierarchical memory engine for AI agents (MCP Native) (github.com/M4F-S)
    ×0.77 68 | 6 points by mfathy7 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)
    ×1.41 61 | 172 points by grappler 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×1.54 59 | 31 points by gdcbe 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer (theregister.com)
    ×1.01 1 | 10 points by lproven 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)
    ×1.09 56 | 151 points by gnyeki 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Vintage Computer Fair West 2026 (wordpress.com)
    ×0.94 79 | 4 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)
    ×2.69 7 | 464 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Dev // Cyber Toolkit – a free floating dev/cybersecurity widget (dev-cyber-toolkit.netlify.app)
    ×0.47 93 | 3 points by axoupicsou 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
    ×1.31 35 | 122 points by speckx 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PC Tweaker (pctweaker.app)
    ×0.99 95 | 3 points by xn0time 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. IBM PC XT (Model 5160) emulator in the browser (pcjs.org)
    ×1.08 98 | 3 points by hliyan 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)
    ×0.89 70 | 150 points by asdefghyk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The WWI Plan to Turn America's Trees into Telephones (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.74 41 | 4 points by ohjeez 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hell has more than 7 circles you guys (2022) (colinmorris.github.io)
    ×2.08 9 | 21 points by Tomte 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I ran out of space extracting a RAR so I built ReclaimArc (github.com/harlixay7)
    ×0.40 80 | 4 points by harlixay7 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows (itch.io)
    ×1.50 20 | 14 points by Gorsefound 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hacker News in Uncompromised Detail (vale.rocks)
    ×2.79 2 | 20 points by OuterVale 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A Friendly Introduction to Racket (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.54 30 | 258 points by signa11 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)
    ×2.82 8 | 466 points by auraham 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb + mild cognitive impair (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.70 27 | 22 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)
    ×2.35 9 | 478 points by jemoka 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. typ.ing (typ.ing)
    ×2.33 7 | 353 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)
    ×1.25 56 | 108 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)
    ×6.28 3 | 674 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 1578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)
    ×2.04 17 | 409 points by tosh 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
    ×2.67 4 | 281 points by pjacotg 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)
    ×1.58 20 | 240 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)
    ×0.65 57 | 53 points by jardy 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Talk Like Claude Day
    ×0.59 9 | 9 points by KenPainter 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Conway's Game of Life in real life (coredump.cx)
    ×1.08 53 | 72 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.68 19 | 260 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs (monadicsheep.org)
    ×3.00 1 | 11 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Developer's Open Source Tool Strips Anthropic's New Claude Watermark (startupfortune.com)
    ×1.60 19 | 5 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)
    ×1.20 78 | 146 points by gmays 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)
    ×1.70 22 | 226 points by altmanaltman 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.26 61 | 160 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
    ×2.07 37 | 234 points by speckx 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.66 91 | 304 points by nunodonato 3 days ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Felony Bench (felonybench.com)
    ×3.37 7 | 838 points by colinprince 2 days ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
    ×5.44 4 | 1082 points by floathub 2 days ago | 1333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)
    ×0.89 49 | 72 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.65 35 | 628 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 901 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? (thejpster.org.uk)
    ×0.65 59 | 12 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hacker News RSS (hnrss.github.io)
    ×1.52 55 | 31 points by sillysaurusx 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???