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  1. Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)
    ×10.02 | 157 points by garycomtois 51 minutes ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)
    ×0.97 4 | 74 points by dotcoma 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.40 1 | 81 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com/scanaislop)
    ×1.29 2 | 51 points by Heavykenny 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)
    ×5.13 8 | 1157 points by philips 19 hours ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Local Git Remotes (cblgh.org)
    ×1.17 4 | 30 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×1.11 9 | 26 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is This Sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
    ×1.12 9 | 64 points by ColinEberhardt 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (kog.ai)
    ×1.67 1 | 104 points by NicoConstant 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You (buildingbetter.tech)
    ×2.78 14 | 245 points by ankitg12 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Orchestrating AI code review at scale (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.37 18 | 70 points by pramodbiligiri 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) (winans.io)
    ×2.77 12 | 495 points by mattrighetti 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter (core77.com)
    ×1.19 15 | 28 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.10 6 | 1654 points by craigmart 21 hours ago | 1289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
    ×2.17 15 | 12 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Expertise in the Age of AI (moderndescartes.com)
    ×1.27 39 | 4 points by brilee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.37 13 | 69 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.30 20 | 116 points by goranmoomin 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com/robinostlund)
    ×3.22 13 | 295 points by Kwastie 8 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com/HeidiSQL)
    ×1.64 37 | 78 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback (reuters.com)
    ×1.82 7 | 8 points by onemoresoop 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (mpi.nl)
    ×1.05 31 | 96 points by vi_sextus_vi 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
    ×2.91 21 | 143 points by xyzal 3 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents (tensorzero.com)
    ×0.52 17 | 10 points by GabrielBianconi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ten Basic Clouds (noaa.gov)
    ×1.25 27 | 167 points by nopg 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web (wterm.dev)
    ×1.48 36 | 22 points by m3h 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (greenend.org.uk)
    ×1.72 15 | 291 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)
    ×3.16 17 | 444 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT (ezfurigana.com)
    ×1.04 47 | 5 points by epitrochoid413 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)
    ×1.71 31 | 355 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (404media.co)
    ×2.41 18 | 9 points by pavel_lishin 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe (uio.no)
    ×2.18 15 | 51 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.41 41 | 228 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com/nasaspaceflight)
    ×3.68 15 | 370 points by enraged_camel 13 hours ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×1.31 47 | 174 points by b-man 21 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Barthelme, the Houstonian (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.52 42 | 18 points by Caiero 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT (taoofmac.com)
    ×1.34 46 | 261 points by zdw 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.80 17 | 480 points by possibilistic 16 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Permanent Upper Crow (jasonwu.ink)
    ×1.23 45 | 205 points by whiteblossom 23 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (github.com/bytecodealliance)
    ×0.91 68 | 102 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building durable workflows on Postgres (dbos.dev)
    ×1.94 2 | 335 points by KraftyOne 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down (nixos.org)
    ×0.71 47 | 73 points by agnishom 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos (blog.youtube)
    ×4.67 6 | 1296 points by nopg 1 day ago | 797 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Phloto for My Photo Flow (cceckman.com)
    ×0.40 54 | 40 points by evakhoury 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.57 75 | 79 points by lucamrtl 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years (nytimes.com)
    ×3.16 15 | 26 points by saikatsg 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq? (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.50 27 | 13 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)
    ×2.74 11 | 336 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 (nextcloud.com)
    ×1.16 72 | 7 points by madspindel 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.88 17 | 230 points by drewda 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight (inpursuit.substack.com)
    ×0.33 73 | 12 points by samclemens 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What Gets Kept (newyorker.com)
    ×0.56 48 | 66 points by lermontov 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS (waspdev.com)
    ×0.56 49 | 24 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (bitburner-official.github.io)
    ×0.90 47 | 106 points by agmater 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.23 72 | 164 points by burntsushi 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Don't shoot for the moon: aiming for above average is key to success (theguardian.com)
    ×1.50 22 | 6 points by oatlgr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
    ×3.33 17 | 353 points by meetpateltech 20 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com/yujonglee)
    ×0.25 67 | 5 points by yujonglee 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America (science.org)
    ×2.68 59 | 70 points by etiam 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The most unlikely school bag (carryology.com)
    ×1.26 32 | 130 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey (phoronix.com)
    ×1.11 3 | 25 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The and Wonderful Evolution of the Waterproof Jacket (carryology.com)
    ×1.07 41 | 27 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Lone Lisp Heap (matheusmoreira.com)
    ×1.03 46 | 87 points by stevekemp 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024) (science.org)
    ×1.64 1 | 227 points by o4c 21 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS (github.com/highpost)
    ×0.82 57 | 76 points by highpost 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.40 6 | 336 points by jjp 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Some Like It Literary (nytimes.com)
    ×0.47 64 | 26 points by samclemens 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. My "Writerdeck" Is a Typewriter (kamranjon.com)
    ×1.10 74 | 7 points by kamranjon 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.19 4 | 87 points by freediver 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 66 | 144 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DeepSeek Slashes AI Costs to Cents (businessanalytics.substack.com)
    ×2.06 12 | 13 points by dstala 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.57 61 | 72 points by danAtElodin 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Warm up your MacBook (2019) (z3ugma.github.io)
    ×1.01 66 | 135 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Micromania: The Whole Truth about Home Computers (1984) (taff.org.uk)
    ×0.59 61 | 27 points by sohkamyung 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.17 12 | 428 points by stagas 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar (ieee.org)
    ×0.73 61 | 79 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Azure – Multi Service degradation in West US 2 region (status.microsoft)
    ×1.89 | 6 points by exizt88 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 14 | 3 points by bilsbie 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Windows 95 contained a workaround for a SimCity 2000 memory bug (maketecheasier.com)
    ×1.22 7 | 8 points by cgeier 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck (alexanderbjoy.com)
    ×0.65 72 | 101 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (yahoo.com)
    ×2.66 9 | 62 points by voxadam 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025) (imaginarytext.ca)
    ×0.83 58 | 117 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024) (thonking.ai)
    ×0.95 62 | 172 points by tosh 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) (thran.uk)
    ×2.01 21 | 478 points by speckx 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021) (servethehome.com)
    ×0.84 69 | 115 points by teleforce 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) (jonaharagon.com)
    ×2.12 30 | 364 points by Panda_ 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Social Animus (justine.lol)
    ×1.80 6 | 101 points by jart 18 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock (ipvm.com)
    ×1.63 11 | 113 points by jhonovich 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS (brennan.day)
    ×0.99 52 | 143 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???