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  1. Trans-Taiga Road:The farthest you can get from a town on a road in North America (jamesbayroad.com)
    ×1.75 2 | 74 points by jason_pomerleau 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian (nature.com)
    ×0.92 4 | 64 points by A_D_E_P_T 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app (cnet.com)
    ×2.88 2 | 34 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) (mgdproductions.com)
    ×2.03 4 | 465 points by ajdude 14 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling (jhuapl.edu)
    ×0.94 16 | 32 points by mcswell 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art (asciimoon.com)
    ×1.48 6 | 172 points by zayat 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io)
    ×1.64 13 | 65 points by hundredwatt 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect (glass3d.dev)
    ×2.03 9 | 248 points by kris-kay 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Conversations with a Hit Man (atavist.com)
    ×1.73 13 | 23 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Couchers is officially out of beta (couchers.org)
    ×1.47 9 | 165 points by laurentlb 10 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation (jidonline.org)
    ×1.51 23 | 59 points by gnabgib 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What to build instead of AI agents (decodingml.substack.com)
    ×2.37 8 | 107 points by giuliomagnifico 4 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.71 15 | 102 points by tysone 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON (github.com/c4pt0r)
    ×2.44 21 | 22 points by c4pt0r 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
    ×6.09 13 | 260 points by geox 7 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.98 20 | 46 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful (jonmagic.com)
    ×1.45 6 | 17 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel (janestreet.com)
    ×3.27 27 | 66 points by Ne02ptzero 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Zen of Quakerism (2016) (friendsjournal.org)
    ×1.00 23 | 98 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Features of D That I Love (chatha.dev)
    ×2.04 23 | 91 points by vips7L 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD (overclock3d.net)
    ×0.87 29 | 76 points by ZenithExtreme 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go (maypok86.github.io)
    ×1.30 11 | 88 points by maypok86 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients (ki.se)
    ×2.06 9 | 307 points by justacrow 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A list is a monad (alexyorke.github.io)
    ×1.35 16 | 121 points by polygot 13 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) (w3.org)
    ×2.32 10 | 456 points by theandrewbailey 17 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Escher's art and computer science (github.com/gritzko)
    ×0.69 32 | 42 points by signa11 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. MindsDB (YC W20) is hiring an AI solutions engineer (greenhouse.io)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase (cnbc.com)
    ×4.63 17 | 437 points by ceejayoz 15 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (morrick.me)
    ×1.91 39 | 125 points by freediver 20 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Efficient set-membership filters and dictionaries based on SAT (github.com/NationalSecurityAgency)
    ×0.56 41 | 36 points by keepamovin 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Evidence of a 12,800-year-old shallow airburst depression in Louisiana (scienceopen.com)
    ×1.18 6 | 100 points by keepamovin 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm (2019) (troubles.md)
    ×0.69 35 | 35 points by Bogdanp 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms (noemamag.com)
    ×0.48 44 | 19 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers (nytimes.com)
    ×3.70 21 | 386 points by stephendause 15 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bridging Shopify and Shipstation on Heroku: A Story of Custom Fulfillment (kevinhq.com)
    ×1.26 78 | 3 points by kevinhq 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Nightmares Linked to Faster Ageing and Premature Mortality (emjreviews.com)
    ×1.80 46 | 8 points by gnabgib 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Reuleaux Kinematic Mechanisms Collection (cornell.edu)
    ×0.43 48 | 20 points by gyomu 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.91 43 | 108 points by LorenDB 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Meet Bionode (microship.com)
    ×1.17 59 | 13 points by naves 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The "personal computer" model scales better than the "terminal" model (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.22 1 | 20 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) (troof.blog)
    ×1.51 7 | 115 points by julianh65 15 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands (srlabs.de)
    ×0.51 38 | 71 points by mschuster91 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. BCPL (2022) (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.74 29 | 19 points by AlexeyBrin 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.66 15 | 22 points by miles 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs (arxiv.org)
    ×2.06 7 | 308 points by buyucu 21 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I'm dialing back my LLM usage (zed.dev)
    ×4.26 28 | 363 points by sagacity 15 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Chatbot Flow Editor – Visual tool for designing conversation flows (github.com/enumura1)
    ×0.49 57 | 35 points by enumura 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks (token.security)
    ×1.10 7 | 96 points by ArielSimon 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News (josh.ing)
    ×2.27 45 | 219 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How large are large language models? (github.com/rain-1)
    ×1.60 13 | 244 points by rain1 18 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
    ×0.70 8 | 8 points by EliotHerbst 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Spider-Robot for Surgical Interventions (2024) (neosciencehub.com)
    ×0.18 78 | 5 points by zdw 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.48 43 | 89 points by kozika 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. You Must Listen to RFC 2119 (ericwbailey.website)
    ×2.12 47 | 18 points by pavel_lishin 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Figma files for proposed IPO (figma.com)
    ×2.52 1 | 498 points by kualto 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ? (sapiens.org)
    ×0.75 47 | 92 points by gaws 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Law360 mandates reporters use AI "bias" detection on all stories (niemanlab.org)
    ×1.21 8 | 53 points by 12_throw_away 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews (truestar.pro)
    ×2.39 3 | 388 points by doppio19 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sparsity Is Cool (tilderesearch.com)
    ×0.79 70 | 4 points by krackers 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Flint, Michigan replaces most lead pipes 10 years after Michigan water crisis (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.35 7 | 14 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Seven Heresies of "Rationality" (sofiechan.com)
    ×1.30 75 | 8 points by anon_wyly 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. IntyBASIC: A Basic Compiler for Intellivision (nanochess.org)
    ×0.47 49 | 27 points by joemanaco 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google Ordered to Pay $315M for Taking Data from Idle Android Phones (reuters.com)
    ×3.12 19 | 35 points by m463 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite (turso.tech)
    ×3.14 54 | 22 points by vlod 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares (theguardian.com)
    ×11.94 64 | 71 points by NomDePlum 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
    ×2.46 36 | 62 points by jshchnz 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network (jobsbyreferral.com)
    ×1.18 45 | 163 points by nicksergeant 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million (calvin.sh)
    ×5.59 44 | 1427 points by c249709 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. All high value work is deep work, and all motivation is based on belief (reddit.com)
    ×2.59 18 | 11 points by Crier1002 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I made a 2D game engine in Dart (bullseye2d.org)
    ×0.99 37 | 90 points by joemanaco 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Three Ubisoft chiefs found guilty of enabling culture of sexual harassment (theguardian.com)
    ×2.70 2 | 42 points by freddier 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules (arxiv.org)
    ×0.94 50 | 132 points by vblanco 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Unburnt Clues: Spectral Signs of a Double Detonation (astrobites.org)
    ×1.69 62 | 5 points by raattgift 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' (wired.com)
    ×2.64 1 | 329 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Graph Theory Applications in Video Games (claranguyen.me)
    ×1.03 52 | 112 points by haywirez 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.06 19 | 28 points by greenie_beans 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers (reuters.com)
    ×2.67 31 | 169 points by petethomas 17 hours ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history (bigthink.com)
    ×6.73 71 | 104 points by yowzadave 5 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas (iop.org)
    ×1.74 11 | 175 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Opasm, an Assembly REPL (github.com/aedrax)
    ×0.95 68 | 13 points by aedrax 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 'There is a problem': Meta users complain of being shut out of their accounts (bbc.com)
    ×1.88 17 | 8 points by mikece 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×0.94 28 | 57 points by zeristor 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pixel 6a gets a mandatory Android update next week with battery reduction (9to5google.com)
    ×2.06 8 | 24 points by leoff 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Open Source 1.7tb Dataset of What AI Crawlers Are Doing (huggingface.co)
    ×2.70 22 | 9 points by catsanddogsart 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers [pdf] (2011) (unr.edu)
    ×0.47 11 | 14 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 | 146 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.31 55 | 125 points by exiguus 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.82 54 | 71 points by sega_sai 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted (github.com/openfiletax)
    ×2.16 39 | 236 points by elijahwright_ 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
    ×1.02 54 | 82 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???