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  1. When did Google get so weird? (bearblog.dev)
    ×6.51 | 186 points by sancho-panza 1 hour ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    ×2.20 | 217 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? (quora.com)
    ×0.99 7 | 28 points by midnightfish 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    ×2.13 1 | 88 points by safaelmali 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×1.32 8 | 43 points by verdagon 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Lunar Terminator Paradox (secretsauce.net)
    ×1.90 13 | 6 points by dima55 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com/deepfates)
    ×0.93 10 | 19 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    ×1.43 16 | 17 points by bingden 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (nytimes.com)
    ×1.26 3 | 173 points by danso 6 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
    ×2.46 6 | 63 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 14 | 23 points by Rochus 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
    ×1.22 10 | 120 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    ×0.98 8 | 113 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    ×1.06 4 | 80 points by hp6 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
    ×0.72 23 | 32 points by AareyBaba 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (livescience.com)
    ×0.89 14 | 36 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (ihatethefuture.com)
    ×2.22 9 | 215 points by pxx 5 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    ×2.05 9 | 330 points by blutack 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
    ×0.70 26 | 14 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    ×1.06 20 | 88 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. John Coltrane Centenary's – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes (jazzwise.com)
    ×0.95 12 | 29 points by gregsadetsky 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (aresluna.org)
    ×3.39 16 | 319 points by jandeboevrie 6 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
    ×1.30 6 | 49 points by pptadversary 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    ×1.86 11 | 68 points by ClydeN 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    ×0.89 47 | 72 points by torutofu 14 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (markdown.beauty)
    ×1.51 6 | 56 points by thiagoperes 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Allegations of US interference in Quebec election (globalnews.ca)
    ×2.56 18 | 21 points by Teever 58 minutes ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
    ×1.18 25 | 61 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.32 2 | 10 points by sans_souse 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    ×2.02 16 | 360 points by chmaynard 23 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
    ×2.67 20 | 135 points by HotGarbage 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com/InfinityLoop1308)
    ×2.05 26 | 483 points by Qision 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ten lines of code that changed my world (pixelambacht.nl)
    ×1.72 10 | 110 points by dimonomid 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
    ×5.84 31 | 294 points by zzzeek 4 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.21 30 | 64 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (sciencenews.org)
    ×1.06 20 | 89 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)
    ×2.09 20 | 382 points by jpwalsh234 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 24 | 312 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.43 28 | 24 points by zeristor 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com/rgodha24)
    ×1.26 14 | 66 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
    ×4.51 27 | 587 points by papergirl 14 hours ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.11 49 | 116 points by pseudolus 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (movingimagearchive.com)
    ×1.31 44 | 205 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (openai.com)
    ×1.67 32 | 160 points by apsec112 23 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers (smarmelling.com)
    ×1.05 73 | 4 points by smarmelling 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    ×1.49 17 | 106 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    ×1.12 52 | 173 points by parasitid 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    ×0.77 53 | 62 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators (basin.la)
    ×1.32 58 | 110 points by big_toast 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page (3d-retro.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 64 points by SouthWestAtlas 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Greatest Pun in JavaScript (shukla.io)
    ×0.51 22 | 11 points by BinRoo 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (fu-berlin.de)
    ×1.03 52 | 94 points by geox 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)
    ×1.17 45 | 108 points by pwg 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×7.83 47 | 307 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.61 53 | 22 points by AbuAssar 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    ×1.25 55 | 192 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 20 | 97 points by yu3zhou4 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (reddit.com)
    ×5.54 43 | 406 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Does Georgism work? Five years later (astralcodexten.com)
    ×2.67 25 | 483 points by silveraxe93 23 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (mesh.host)
    ×1.04 59 | 87 points by z-mach9 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (privatemode.ai)
    ×1.42 24 | 125 points by flxflx 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    ×1.29 69 | 269 points by pancomplex 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    ×2.94 19 | 235 points by kspacewalk2 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.48 66 | 267 points by mlaux 2 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.29 13 | 386 points by MC995 1 day ago | 840 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×0.90 56 | 79 points by bucket2015 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
    ×1.64 45 | 203 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Evolving programming languages in the AI era (dashbit.co)
    ×1.36 13 | 134 points by pjm331 23 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU (jia.je)
    ×1.05 48 | 127 points by jiegec 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
    ×3.02 7 | 736 points by specked-citrus 2 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)
    ×0.67 72 | 41 points by ohjeez 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
    ×2.42 30 | 279 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×0.98 43 | 54 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Alternatives to GPS are around the corner (economist.com)
    ×1.19 12 | 12 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
    ×2.08 1 | 430 points by ksec 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
    ×3.39 22 | 686 points by ezst 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (tuckerosman.com)
    ×1.53 50 | 159 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (allanrbo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.01 58 | 150 points by allanrbo 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact (casita.rs)
    ×0.89 74 | 14 points by domenkozar 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon (nostalgia.dev)
    ×0.46 33 | 23 points by stmonty 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (haskell.org)
    ×2.78 3 | 317 points by signa11 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP (propublica.org)
    ×3.29 16 | 55 points by theblazehen 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (wordpress.com)
    ×2.37 12 | 393 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Plan mode is dead (aymannadeem.com)
    ×3.24 4 | 572 points by jmvldz 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC (scrt.ch)
    ×1.25 44 | 64 points by tau255 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own (stanford.edu)
    ×0.90 56 | 37 points by famouswaffles 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev)
    ×1.19 48 | 131 points by vira28 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (ollaya.dev)
    ×2.56 6 | 601 points by Ardakilic 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Rise of Audio AR (2024) (dbreunig.com)
    ×0.48 67 | 34 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first) (gptbeyond.com)
    ×0.50 60 | 39 points by kdautaj 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???