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  1. OBS Studio 33 (github.com/obsproject)
    ×2.13 | 59 points by pentagrama 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (kimi.ai)
    ×3.51 | 869 points by Jowsey 14 hours ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Twelve years of distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
    ×1.98 3 | 150 points by otoolep 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
    ×1.82 | 71 points by stmonty 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Apple Music 404 Not Found (apple.com)
    ×3.89 | 725 points by frizlab 14 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
    ×5.16 9 | 1352 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
    ×1.70 7 | 51 points by westsmith 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech (block.xyz)
    ×2.78 1 | 356 points by dsr12 12 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone (calif.io)
    ×4.03 6 | 842 points by pavel_lishin 15 hours ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
    ×2.15 6 | 114 points by Ravencentric 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. CVE Tracker (0xosprey.com)
    ×1.60 8 | 158 points by Group_B 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 16 | 12 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (eff.org)
    ×2.94 9 | 396 points by hn_acker 19 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Apple Security Research Device (apple.com)
    ×3.54 6 | 33 points by neom 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
    ×2.85 8 | 89 points by klaussilveira 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Real Kevin Bacon (pudding.cool)
    ×1.86 5 | 288 points by xnx 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
    ×2.07 8 | 28 points by motionlessveloc 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.87 8 | 24 points by Teever 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
    ×1.48 5 | 62 points by martz 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
    ×1.16 16 | 74 points by eiopa 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (jefftk.com)
    ×1.53 26 | 113 points by luu 13 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.92 31 | 30 points by civicpivot 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (ediblegeography.com)
    ×0.12 77 | 3 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.77 41 | 36 points by gmays 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com)
    ×1.11 17 | 135 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How is music possible (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.29 22 | 124 points by rafaelc 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.73 17 | 86 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is this the new cyber normal? (silcock.dev)
    ×1.29 41 | 161 points by drewsberry 20 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
    ×2.05 18 | 156 points by cowlevel 7 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (yale.edu)
    ×0.73 44 | 45 points by throwaway2037 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (reddit.com)
    ×5.31 19 | 17 points by testing22321 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
    ×0.68 60 | 58 points by KraftyOne 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
    ×3.71 10 | 18 points by adityaathalye 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
    ×0.68 64 | 39 points by Bender 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    ×2.58 69 | 621 points by alphax314 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
    ×0.79 43 | 51 points by ernestrc 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) (quantum5.ca)
    ×0.75 38 | 45 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (impossiblemachines.xyz)
    ×0.71 50 | 75 points by bhaprayan 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
    ×1.68 4 | 101 points by pretext 11 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.05 10 | 35 points by gumby 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
    ×0.92 70 | 5 points by ankitg12 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reforming English Spelling (oup.com)
    ×0.59 67 | 36 points by jruohonen 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
    ×0.80 43 | 70 points by webtjb096 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. No Source Code? No Problem (acm.org)
    ×0.88 28 | 46 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    ×3.44 13 | 839 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. HumanLayer is now Open Source (hlyr.dev)
    ×2.49 60 | 20 points by dhorthy 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.20 44 | 199 points by gmays 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. LISP Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
    ×0.65 49 | 67 points by so-cal-schemer 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy (bottlecapai.com)
    ×1.46 18 | 114 points by armcat 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025) (isaacmarovitz.com)
    ×0.62 43 | 61 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' (courthousenews.com)
    ×1.99 6 | 54 points by rdmuser 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. This I Believe (1952) (awakin.org)
    ×1.02 66 | 150 points by ctoth 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-Ups (adweek.com)
    ×1.88 13 | 7 points by thm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.37 61 | 179 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com/anubhavmalhotra)
    ×0.84 69 | 95 points by animalhot 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know (rentes.github.io)
    ×1.52 89 | 25 points by jcbhmr 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.32 1 | 610 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats (cyberinsider.com)
    ×3.95 7 | 54 points by DeepLogin 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A visual introduction to information theory (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 105 | 3 points by nill0 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (modelcompare.ai)
    ×3.07 10 | 626 points by rakannimer 1 day ago | 600 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We have traits at home (axelmagn.com)
    ×0.52 65 | 49 points by Ygg2 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (utexas.edu)
    ×1.95 9 | 366 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company (symby.com)
    ×8.44 50 | 28 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Time Nuts (2005) (leapsecond.com)
    ×0.41 55 | 35 points by jacquesm 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Total Historian (theideasletter.org)
    ×0.24 86 | 21 points by benbreen 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Color Names (color.pizza)
    ×1.10 76 | 109 points by akkartik 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com/dsmurrell)
    ×1.38 22 | 220 points by dsmurrell 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×2.11 16 | 493 points by niemandhier 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.36 42 | 130 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Job loss and cortisone mania (tilschuenemann.de)
    ×1.29 2 | 176 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Jailbreaking the Switch 2 (pepsipu.com)
    ×3.90 12 | 820 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×1.73 10 | 188 points by f311a 23 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault (cio.com)
    ×5.14 19 | 14 points by wyclif 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com/oosexgang)
    ×2.28 13 | 518 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.55 2 | 53 points by njx 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Brotli vulnerability affects curl and Git (github.com/advisories)
    ×1.88 78 | 31 points by bmitch3020 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (computerworld.com)
    ×2.99 16 | 42 points by mikelgan 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx (categorica.io)
    ×0.59 89 | 9 points by foxhill 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Railpass (samismith.com)
    ×1.16 60 | 132 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I reverse engineered a board game (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.73 61 | 77 points by wuemeli 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (storagebits.workers.dev)
    ×0.82 76 | 121 points by storagebits 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.50 3 | 724 points by petecooper 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.83 77 | 135 points by wffurr 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings (nngroup.com)
    ×2.22 12 | 15 points by elwingo1 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. John Snow Cholera Data (rtwilson.com)
    ×0.68 48 | 14 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial (chrome.com)
    ×0.90 34 | 118 points by andrewstuart 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany (taler.net)
    ×1.65 16 | 357 points by dewey 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (anthropic.com)
    ×2.41 22 | 447 points by johnbender 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea (rumple.github.io)
    ×1.41 67 | 224 points by jimauthors 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com/robbietilton)
    ×0.85 14 | 70 points by scrambled 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???