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  1. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×6.75 | 1467 points by kibae 9 hours ago | 1227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×6.33 | 1491 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (gwern.net)
    ×0.99 8 | 31 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.44 1 | 491 points by altertable 9 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
    ×1.94 1 | 20 points by johntfella 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.93 6 | 235 points by feb 9 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools (agentconnect.md)
    ×2.31 | 11 points by kaonashi-tyc-01 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (mit.edu)
    ×1.83 1 | 35 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
    ×0.38 28 | 9 points by Sniffnoy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (discoverwildlife.com)
    ×1.56 15 | 193 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly (babyloniantwins.com)
    ×1.55 11 | 226 points by rabahs 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out (armature.tech)
    ×1.77 1 | 133 points by screm 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models (ifm.ai)
    ×1.43 10 | 271 points by karimf 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.39 18 | 145 points by thread_id 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
    ×2.71 7 | 504 points by thinkingemote 13 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
    ×0.52 81 | 4 points by fedecaccia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)
    ×2.43 19 | 227 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (cbc.ca)
    ×1.68 8 | 68 points by colinprince 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Xanadu was waiting for agents (zed.dev)
    ×1.17 22 | 100 points by nsm 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom (jactl.io)
    ×0.65 38 | 15 points by jaccomo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (tasklet.ai)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.87 4 | 84 points by gumby 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Unusual Suspects (neal.fun)
    ×1.38 4 | 131 points by beeperboy95 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.19 31 | 106 points by yurivish 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×2.27 20 | 300 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md)
    ×1.34 16 | 54 points by thekevintang 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions (yalereview.org)
    ×0.65 43 | 62 points by lermontov 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.25 12 | 181 points by vignesh_warar 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The asteroid currently hitting front end web development (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.49 2 | 100 points by codechicago277 9 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How to get a free .arpa domain (hawksley.dev)
    ×1.38 34 | 129 points by ethanhawksley 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The browser's main thread is expensive (kciter.so)
    ×2.09 18 | 384 points by kciter 20 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.09 13 | 351 points by halcdev 13 hours ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Static Allocation, Constant Work (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.95 29 | 110 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.97 54 | 88 points by jjgreen 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
    ×0.38 65 | 12 points by busymom0 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. VC isn't VC anymore (anildash.com)
    ×3.69 19 | 248 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Move in C++ without a std:move (andreasfertig.com)
    ×0.64 33 | 38 points by dalvrosa 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Unified Arabic (worksthatwork.com)
    ×1.08 43 | 67 points by spacebuffer 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What I learned from my mom (1941-2026) (experimentalliving.substack.com)
    ×1.83 29 | 254 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Dextroproporphan: An Analogue for a Better Dextromethorphan? (monfak.top)
    ×0.63 50 | 32 points by znano 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Invisible Companies (colossus.com)
    ×1.21 35 | 168 points by ltononro 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face (cnbc.com)
    ×2.62 9 | 303 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. “We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy” (aresluna.org)
    ×0.66 48 | 56 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014) (yahoo.com)
    ×1.26 54 | 151 points by DamonHD 21 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Working to Make Python Lazy (iscinumpy.dev)
    ×0.84 30 | 34 points by js2 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Audacity 4.0 (github.com/audacity)
    ×4.59 41 | 1081 points by ClydeN 17 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.81 21 | 47 points by Animats 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ITA Controlled English (CE) (github.com/ce-store)
    ×0.35 61 | 10 points by teleforce 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel (nytimes.com)
    ×2.54 15 | 12 points by telotortium 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LLMs and self-referentiality (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.16 88 | 72 points by mavdol04 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Models Don't Go Rogue (cyberneticforests.com)
    ×1.15 38 | 17 points by cdrnsf 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Parque Arqueológico do Solstício (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.59 64 | 57 points by nycdatasci 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary (zcu.cz)
    ×0.38 71 | 24 points by nairboon 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
    ×0.73 88 | 115 points by lloydarmbrust 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.00 30 | 20 points by MontagFTB 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Intrusive linked lists (2019) (data-structures-in-practice.com)
    ×0.69 50 | 81 points by tripdout 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade (nyc.gov)
    ×3.15 14 | 33 points by DeepLogin 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Hugging Face open-sources Funes, a local-first memory layer for coding agents (huggingface.co)
    ×3.65 34 | 6 points by fourfire 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. My practical approach to surfing the web safely (molily.de)
    ×0.47 69 | 18 points by ethanhawksley 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom (tuta.com)
    ×4.55 22 | 113 points by krunck 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food (lithub.com)
    ×0.81 49 | 93 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×1.80 8 | 384 points by komape 21 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Computer Museum of America reclamation project (computer-museum.org)
    ×0.80 58 | 110 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×4.07 7 | 1143 points by bratao 1 day ago | 655 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wikimedia Workers Overwhelmingly Win Union with 93% Yes Vote (wired.com)
    ×5.07 14 | 14 points by taftfartley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB (smallrun.net)
    ×0.32 73 | 17 points by LouDNL 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (ssrn.com)
    ×2.79 48 | 14 points by Karrot_Kream 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.02 89 | 91 points by JulianPGough 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×3.28 18 | 15 points by throwaway_30yo 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An 'Exercise Pill' Just Cleared Its First Human Test (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.89 18 | 5 points by tempestn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.42 4 | 679 points by bvaldivielso 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform (werwolv.net)
    ×0.87 51 | 20 points by WerWolv 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Claude for Commerce Agents (claude.com)
    ×1.28 52 | 60 points by ashazal 18 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.93 60 | 7 points by softwarewright 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't (ploum.net)
    ×3.38 44 | 241 points by speckx 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.69 55 | 8 points by fastest963 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal (newsguild.org)
    ×2.41 48 | 253 points by ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked) (worldofmatthew.com)
    ×0.42 65 | 21 points by worldofmatthew 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 51 | 115 points by MrOrelliOReilly 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
    ×2.24 21 | 503 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters (404media.co)
    ×3.08 9 | 23 points by text0404 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond (reason.com)
    ×5.65 52 | 239 points by softwaredoug 14 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra (cnbc.com)
    ×4.51 68 | 252 points by maskil 10 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)
    ×0.93 69 | 142 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×5.19 10 | 1404 points by denysvitali 2 days ago | 1372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×1.56 65 | 190 points by amunozo 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.11 63 | 133 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents
    ×0.29 34 | 27 points by anshchokshi 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
    ×1.16 63 | 15 points by matthieu_bl 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Three-LLM: Three.js-based WebGPU LLM inference engine (ben3d.ca)
    ×0.58 56 | 10 points by bhouston 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???