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  1. Microgpt explained interactively (growingswe.com)
    ×2.34 5 | 45 points by growingswe 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
    ×2.79 2 | 470 points by oli5679 8 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How to talk to anyone, and why you should (theguardian.com)
    ×1.71 19 | 13 points by Looky1173 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×6.31 5 | 1543 points by tambourine_man 19 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
    ×1.17 8 | 104 points by glth 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
    ×2.39 1 | 121 points by ejholmes 3 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (amazon.com)
    ×3.71 5 | 93 points by earthboundkid 1 hour ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
    ×2.16 6 | 330 points by mschnell 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)
    ×1.90 10 | 60 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference (pyrefly.org)
    ×0.70 15 | 31 points by ocamoss 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×3.40 12 | 752 points by golfer 23 hours ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The third era of AI software development (twitter.com/mntruell)
    ×2.03 38 | 7 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Flightradar24 for Ships (flexport.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 133 points by chromy 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Gzpeek: Tool to Parse Gzip Metadata (evanhahn.com)
    ×0.95 15 | 13 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How Dada enables internal references (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.42 26 | 15 points by vrnvu 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)
    ×1.66 16 | 46 points by bariumbitmap 6 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (gimp.org)
    ×1.09 17 | 94 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
    ×0.56 24 | 28 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (sciencedaily.com)
    ×3.07 11 | 159 points by gradus_ad 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.69 23 | 24 points by stevehiehn 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.35 10 | 188 points by vismit2000 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (acs.org)
    ×0.86 13 | 59 points by keepamovin 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)
    ×0.93 33 | 77 points by jpineman 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. This System Can Go Fuck Itself and Burn in Hell (shawnfromportland.substack.com)
    ×3.80 9 | 9 points by SirensOfTitan 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more (servo.org)
    ×1.64 9 | 36 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
    ×2.91 19 | 377 points by nickk81 8 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
    ×1.08 9 | 108 points by joelsiks 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
    ×1.14 19 | 119 points by evakhoury 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.22 22 | 554 points by adilmoujahid 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (googleblog.com)
    ×0.94 33 | 87 points by tptacek 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
    ×3.38 14 | 104 points by beabetterdev 6 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com/cabsav456)
    ×5.01 31 | 99 points by doener 1 hour ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
    ×4.19 23 | 498 points by doener 13 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
    ×0.93 36 | 66 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
    ×2.91 3 | 620 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.36 57 | 24 points by LukeB42 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×0.71 40 | 47 points by herbertl 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts (robservatory.com)
    ×1.87 30 | 294 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (inconspicuous.info)
    ×1.05 37 | 133 points by mrngm 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.56 35 | 334 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
    ×1.02 33 | 95 points by rmoff 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. PureBasic: The Quiet Survivor (medium.com)
    ×1.81 13 | 3 points by svenfaw 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days (matthewphillips.info)
    ×1.56 25 | 36 points by MatthewPhillips 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)
    ×1.74 9 | 333 points by ksec 22 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×0.91 38 | 92 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.40 41 | 276 points by jbdamask 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×1.09 44 | 249 points by RyanShook 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×2.80 9 | 351 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.05 40 | 204 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. World Chess Championship matches have not had an on-board checkmate since 1929 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.04 16 | 6 points by haunter 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
    ×6.73 14 | 416 points by andsoitis 22 hours ago | 807 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.40 24 | 918 points by guilamu 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.53 7 | 439 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.03 44 | 162 points by cckolon 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.13 45 | 231 points by tosh 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.81 45 | 138 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.72 13 | 1159 points by lavp 1 day ago | 2540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.56 54 | 85 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.38 14 | 1381 points by eoskx 1 day ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.73 56 | 79 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.38 42 | 267 points by zdw 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (threejs.org)
    ×0.56 51 | 41 points by ryker2000 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Deterministic Programming with LLMs (mcherm.com)
    ×0.74 46 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) (acm.org)
    ×0.80 43 | 46 points by vinhnx 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)
    ×0.58 41 | 68 points by kelseyfrog 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)
    ×1.40 76 | 8 points by evolve2k 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
    ×1.11 44 | 144 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.11 46 | 241 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart (vox.com)
    ×1.64 8 | 19 points by stared 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 'Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA' (fortune.com)
    ×1.74 37 | 10 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
    ×1.10 31 | 143 points by simedw 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.32 20 | 805 points by WalterSobchak 2 days ago | 704 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 4,500 Physicians Agree (About Bacon) (machielreyneke.com)
    ×3.51 8 | 50 points by machielrey 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
    ×0.58 46 | 77 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×9.45 49 | 2594 points by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago | 827 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Inside Anthropic's Killer-Robot Dispute with The Pentagon (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.42 37 | 10 points by eoskx 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
    ×2.66 10 | 160 points by pabs3 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK's net emissions (theguardian.com)
    ×1.71 30 | 9 points by devonnull 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. More cows, more wives (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.89 48 | 92 points by oxw 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Cathode Ray Tube site (crtsite.com)
    ×1.09 68 | 5 points by joebig 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.29 33 | 164 points by JuniperMesos 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)
    ×2.54 5 | 506 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment (a-cup-of.coffee)
    ×0.81 51 | 114 points by mrtedbear 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)
    ×3.29 14 | 530 points by mksglu 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.20 43 | 225 points by shad42 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.61 53 | 116 points by ppnpm 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)
    ×0.67 42 | 114 points by zdw 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.24 30 | 256 points by cwwc 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×5.60 31 | 1153 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???