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  1. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
    ×2.49 1 | 152 points by Michelangelo11 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Knuth reward check (thomas-huehn.com)
    ×0.85 9 | 102 points by Curiositry 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
    ×1.49 6 | 47 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
    ×0.79 21 | 26 points by merksittich 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com/rociiu)
    ×1.36 11 | 208 points by rociiu 9 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)
    ×2.11 3 | 64 points by arkj 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
    ×1.76 14 | 52 points by oskarth 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (windows.com)
    ×1.57 19 | 126 points by smokel 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (opengroup.org)
    ×2.25 8 | 196 points by john_alan 9 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×3.23 9 | 245 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
    ×0.85 19 | 29 points by EA-3167 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.42 6 | 22 points by ingve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
    ×2.88 10 | 641 points by modinfo 20 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
    ×0.64 20 | 54 points by nateb2022 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
    ×2.30 17 | 369 points by g-b-r 17 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Triple-A Minesweeper (mikelacher.com)
    ×5.81 8 | 1312 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Bitwarden Dual License Model (bitwarden.com)
    ×2.57 12 | 290 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal (github.com/lzprograma)
    ×0.40 205 | 3 points by Engineercom 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Takeshi's Castle (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.47 12 | 37 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
    ×1.85 20 | 36 points by ghuntley 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
    ×1.30 1 | 53 points by b-man 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
    ×2.54 8 | 161 points by colinprince 7 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How Protein Took over the World (ft.com)
    ×1.57 8 | 39 points by thm 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (popvax.com)
    ×2.20 9 | 95 points by jajoosam 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
    ×1.10 20 | 40 points by kgolubic 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (usenix.org)
    ×2.01 16 | 282 points by ortusdux 19 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years (phys.org)
    ×1.34 32 | 108 points by geox 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
    ×2.27 16 | 356 points by baal80spam 10 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
    ×3.27 23 | 69 points by astlouis44 2 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.25 33 | 170 points by jsomers 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text (datocms.com)
    ×0.65 47 | 50 points by steffoz 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
    ×4.77 3 | 1330 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 685 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)
    ×2.42 7 | 219 points by tonymet 12 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
    ×1.96 19 | 400 points by simplyalec 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.56 4 | 4 points by makerdiety 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors (righto.com)
    ×1.51 32 | 9 points by pwg 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (theguardian.com)
    ×4.01 27 | 134 points by NewJazz 5 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
    ×1.04 46 | 129 points by peter_d_sherman 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (wordpress.com)
    ×1.69 53 | 185 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (broadinstitute.org)
    ×1.54 36 | 152 points by luu 20 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
    ×2.39 13 | 424 points by tosh 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
    ×1.10 54 | 179 points by piratebroadcast 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.96 45 | 275 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web (projecttimestamper.org)
    ×0.85 17 | 38 points by arthuredelstein 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020) (nature.com)
    ×1.17 70 | 117 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)
    ×0.96 60 | 115 points by khaosdoctor 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Sorry, I'm in a meeting (iminafleeting.com)
    ×4.49 6 | 993 points by splintersio 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
    ×4.07 35 | 108 points by utiiiD 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Our $445M Series D (oxide.computer)
    ×2.85 2 | 687 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Computers Cannot Make Decisions (cateat.fish)
    ×2.09 13 | 188 points by heavensteeth 14 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
    ×0.86 85 | 97 points by jacobedawson 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing? (transitions.substack.com)
    ×1.12 21 | 3 points by fsndz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The state of systemd: 2026 edition (lwn.net)
    ×0.76 98 | 4 points by hnrprtlpdb 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.62 11 | 9 points by raffael_de 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. MrBeast 'Spends Millions Reverse Engineering the Algorithms on Each Platform' (barchart.com)
    ×2.69 19 | 26 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Programming Isn't Special (glyph.im)
    ×2.22 56 | 252 points by ingve 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
    ×1.52 45 | 161 points by miletus 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.20 25 | 648 points by gumby 23 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (vt.edu)
    ×1.49 8 | 89 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to head into VR without wearing a headset (kyushu-u.ac.jp)
    ×0.70 38 | 65 points by Betelbuddy 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks (senate.gov)
    ×3.12 10 | 48 points by DeepLogin 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (dgt.is)
    ×4.38 2 | 1109 points by jonotime 2 days ago | 976 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
    ×1.47 15 | 85 points by xyproto 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×1.80 15 | 410 points by franze 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (dexerto.com)
    ×4.15 24 | 943 points by ck2 2 days ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    ×4.95 57 | 1348 points by OfficialTurkey 3 days ago | 1526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
    ×3.41 14 | 946 points by gmays 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator (typeincube.com)
    ×0.77 14 | 51 points by eustoria 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
    ×0.94 50 | 65 points by debo_ 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (reddit.com)
    ×2.26 73 | 286 points by pyduan 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond (shrub.industries)
    ×0.35 83 | 20 points by shrub900 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Software developers are not okay (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×2.86 23 | 39 points by theHocineSaad 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (nbcphiladelphia.com)
    ×2.98 8 | 204 points by Zambyte 22 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
    ×4.29 12 | 921 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.33 9 | 480 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Put a price on breakthroughs (alexwang.ai)
    ×0.71 63 | 30 points by ketothekingdom 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.53 10 | 353 points by trakkstar 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Yes, and (htmx.org)
    ×3.69 12 | 766 points by Michelangelo11 2 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Policing sex in public toilets in 1930s London (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
    ×3.03 12 | 18 points by Bluestein 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
    ×1.32 58 | 205 points by md224 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. M7.6 Earthquake in Panama (usgs.gov)
    ×1.43 19 | 161 points by gslin 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com/WallStreetApes)
    ×2.00 11 | 185 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.01 37 | 62 points by piotrgrabowski 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape (euronews.com)
    ×1.60 15 | 207 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    ×1.57 64 | 230 points by andreynering 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.34 82 | 14 points by benbreen 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.36 65 | 401 points by 6bitquant 3 days ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (microsoft.com)
    ×2.32 3 | 196 points by lisajaloza 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Once: Cache CLI commands (github.com/alex0ptr)
    ×0.67 56 | 94 points by baquero 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.86 72 | 152 points by Hooke 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???