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  1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
    ×3.44 | 611 points by nonmaskable 10 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
    ×1.29 1 | 144 points by Ryan5453 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
    ×2.50 1 | 65 points by jakeasmith 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.60 5 | 19 points by rramadass 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
    ×2.49 1 | 525 points by polyphilz 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
    ×1.44 | 54 points by egberts1 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.67 2 | 419 points by krackers 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com/cloudflare)
    ×2.10 2 | 36 points by donk8r 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×2.02 2 | 217 points by afilipovski 10 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.44 2 | 500 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
    ×1.48 9 | 101 points by Betelbuddy 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 6 | 196 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.20 12 | 52 points by paimapi 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
    ×2.11 1 | 190 points by johnjwang 10 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
    ×1.58 8 | 84 points by gumby 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    ×1.63 1 | 134 points by etoxin 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    ×1.67 7 | 88 points by jasonpeacock 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
    ×3.77 3 | 372 points by berkeleyjunk 15 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×7.53 10 | 2148 points by arnemunthekaas 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
    ×1.94 8 | 113 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.44 5 | 276 points by soheilpro 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    ×1.94 17 | 178 points by herbertl 15 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    ×1.79 4 | 196 points by jheitmann 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com/browser-use)
    ×2.44 3 | 43 points by rahimnathwani 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (bbc.com)
    ×3.72 27 | 46 points by higginsniggins 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (bbc.com)
    ×1.00 15 | 36 points by marc__1 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.60 42 | 144 points by vinhnx 18 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
    ×1.57 20 | 119 points by rochansinha 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 21 | 199 points by bananaflag 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
    ×0.83 60 | 92 points by Agentlien 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (vanityfair.com)
    ×2.30 17 | 67 points by kamaraju 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (wired.com)
    ×3.92 13 | 523 points by driverdan 18 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.64 22 | 167 points by vertigoruntime 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
    ×2.57 26 | 113 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 38 | 71 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.org)
    ×0.44 59 | 15 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    ×2.32 3 | 289 points by whisper2020 17 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.85 51 | 50 points by schopra909 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×6.73 13 | 1818 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.97 45 | 52 points by spathak 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.77 76 | 76 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 21 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.14 11 | 90 points by qt31415926 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.46 50 | 78 points by AndrewDucker 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    ×2.54 1 | 213 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How big are factorials? (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.76 52 | 85 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    ×1.04 71 | 40 points by kserrec 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.25 15 | 168 points by mococa 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
    ×0.57 57 | 48 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
    ×2.02 13 | 349 points by inputmice 20 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
    ×2.84 20 | 563 points by vertigoruntime 23 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.52 45 | 203 points by luu 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 54 | 165 points by pythonic_hell 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pangram – AI detector for text and images (pangram.com)
    ×1.49 6 | 26 points by doodlesdev 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Salesforce Global Outage (salesforce.com)
    ×1.84 4 | 270 points by mabil 21 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
    ×2.37 21 | 217 points by vertigoruntime 15 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.65 4 | 508 points by imwally 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)
    ×0.81 67 | 15 points by abidlabs 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.75 46 | 73 points by joozio 19 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
    ×0.41 70 | 20 points by zxcvbn4038 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
    ×0.77 35 | 31 points by oldmanrahul 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.85 13 | 275 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. An update on Wayback Machine access (archive.org)
    ×2.86 1 | 667 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (ploeh.dk)
    ×1.92 1 | 238 points by moneroloop2018 22 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (archive.org)
    ×0.88 59 | 117 points by bananaboy 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.16 61 | 134 points by marklit 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (vcfed.org)
    ×0.76 69 | 69 points by JPLeRouzic 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×0.77 42 | 69 points by peterldowns 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.08 63 | 6 points by gtCameron 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Paramount 'Leaks' Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked (techdirt.com)
    ×2.78 3 | 30 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×4.69 1 | 1124 points by networked 2 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents (axios.com)
    ×2.58 3 | 25 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (columbia.edu)
    ×0.78 60 | 61 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
    ×2.30 13 | 482 points by leumon 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.34 51 | 178 points by Liogra123 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Write Linters and Tools Before Code (cookie.engineer)
    ×0.91 63 | 11 points by cookiengineer 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
    ×1.17 68 | 93 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.44 80 | 372 points by david927 3 days ago | 1178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.03 21 | 138 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.28 24 | 3 points by FMecha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×2.72 22 | 429 points by rkotcher 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (st-andrews.ac.uk)
    ×1.09 47 | 149 points by jzox 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. William Buckland's Theology of Geology (historytoday.com)
    ×0.05 83 | 4 points by Petiver 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
    ×3.50 6 | 471 points by jaykru 1 day ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×4.80 16 | 672 points by yusufozkan 2 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
    ×2.49 18 | 164 points by talhof8 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI (fractalsofchange.substack.com)
    ×2.73 8 | 23 points by gz5 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Everybody's Lost Their Minds (netmeister.org)
    ×3.86 4 | 14 points by HotGarbage 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
    ×1.01 52 | 113 points by natolambert 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.25 69 | 4 points by sklargh 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???