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  1. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.41 3 | 93 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
    ×1.06 18 | 9 points by icwtyjj 21 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
    ×2.07 8 | 53 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
    ×1.59 11 | 206 points by ssgodderidge 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
    ×0.81 33 | 5 points by lirbank 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)
    ×1.17 7 | 98 points by Alifatisk 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ghidra by NSA (github.com/NationalSecurityAgency)
    ×1.98 10 | 251 points by handfuloflight 8 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×2.71 3 | 96 points by dvrp 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
    ×1.18 20 | 28 points by varjag 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Visual Introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
    ×0.78 37 | 9 points by 0bytematt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.97 22 | 8 points by kianN 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.82 11 | 199 points by enz 2 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.36 14 | 323 points by danielhanchen 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×3.57 23 | 18 points by ragall 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.18 7 | 62 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Privilege is bad grammar (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.17 8 | 92 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
    ×0.42 14 | 13 points by swesnow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
    ×2.02 4 | 57 points by presbyterian 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation (chrislewis.au)
    ×0.46 86 | 4 points by knackers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.81 24 | 6 points by neogoose 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. History of AT&T Long Lines (telephoneworld.org)
    ×1.10 14 | 39 points by p_ing 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.56 10 | 45 points by turth 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    ×6.88 14 | 1304 points by novemp 14 hours ago | 805 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview (lux.camera)
    ×1.19 6 | 58 points by patrikcsak 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
    ×2.28 19 | 446 points by harel 7 hours ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)
    ×1.29 7 | 182 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
    ×0.31 63 | 4 points by yichab0d 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Sideprocalypse (hal.se)
    ×1.57 7 | 138 points by headalgorithm 6 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×4.52 19 | 269 points by righthand 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Robert Duvall has died (nytimes.com)
    ×3.35 27 | 86 points by glimshe 2 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)
    ×0.90 33 | 54 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com/HenryNdubuaku)
    ×1.00 11 | 40 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.94 18 | 100 points by mpcsb 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Wiretext – ASCII Wireframe Creator (wiretext.app)
    ×1.07 62 | 3 points by helloplanets 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
    ×0.87 4 | 141 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing (github.com/preservim)
    ×1.36 9 | 133 points by gurjeet 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
    ×3.36 19 | 323 points by beardyw 9 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.34 28 | 8 points by mprast 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)
    ×2.89 37 | 96 points by tilt 1 hour ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter (slyka.net)
    ×1.53 16 | 22 points by e145bc455f1 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.05 17 | 117 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found (cnn.com)
    ×0.46 29 | 22 points by YeGoblynQueenne 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
    ×1.44 51 | 4 points by muzzy19 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    ×5.34 18 | 1363 points by mfiguiere 23 hours ago | 1046 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 (dexerto.com)
    ×1.79 20 | 37 points by magoghm 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
    ×1.04 27 | 117 points by luu 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.59 35 | 50 points by only-one1701 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp (iwillig.me)
    ×1.10 66 | 5 points by _emacsomancer_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
    ×1.24 18 | 128 points by telotortium 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss (abc.net.au)
    ×2.29 9 | 6 points by bookofjoe 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space (observablehq.com)
    ×1.05 47 | 10 points by miyuru 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.68 45 | 47 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
    ×1.87 24 | 277 points by futurecat 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    ×1.41 34 | 155 points by luu 20 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.17 55 | 18 points by mustaphah 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
    ×1.05 25 | 144 points by andsoitis 18 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    ×3.31 8 | 658 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish (macrumors.com)
    ×2.80 16 | 26 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16 (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.85 9 | 16 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com/pocketblue)
    ×1.09 47 | 139 points by nikodunk 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
    ×4.45 45 | 315 points by dClauzel 8 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 355 points by prophylaxis 22 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How the sound of sport is being reimagined for deaf fans (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 1 | 6 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hearing aids didn't boost memory tests but dementia risk dropped (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.09 11 | 5 points by geox 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    ×3.33 4 | 787 points by deevus 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.71 49 | 99 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment (axios.com)
    ×3.45 19 | 41 points by defmacr0 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.26 33 | 166 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    ×0.71 44 | 85 points by srcreigh 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com/TechPaula)
    ×1.64 | 401 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Audio is the one area small labs are winning (amplifypartners.com)
    ×1.82 1 | 301 points by rocauc 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.76 11 | 287 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    ×3.94 5 | 934 points by panic 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Bots Have Hijacked Substack Likes and Restacks (zimberthink.substack.com)
    ×1.79 6 | 7 points by samjones33 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. VX7 – Open-source Yamaha DX7 emulator written in Python (github.com/gpasquero)
    ×0.95 67 | 4 points by gpasquero 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×0.90 58 | 116 points by tosh 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.69 7 | 267 points by b44 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
    ×0.70 47 | 58 points by PaulHoule 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SCM as a database for the code (github.com/gritzko)
    ×1.18 66 | 88 points by gritzko 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×2.99 6 | 422 points by magoghm 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.80 38 | 103 points by gmays 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
    ×1.09 21 | 16 points by 101008 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021) (medium.com)
    ×0.58 29 | 33 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com/gpasquero)
    ×0.71 38 | 90 points by gpasquero 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform (matduggan.com)
    ×2.08 51 | 6 points by speckx 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. State Department orders nonprofit libraries stop passport applications (apnews.com)
    ×1.29 13 | 5 points by xbryanx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
    ×0.89 8 | 102 points by kyars 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How DSQL makes sure sequences scale (benjscho.dev)
    ×0.38 28 | 10 points by steepben 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    ×2.39 28 | 142 points by informal007 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???