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  1. SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (xorvoid.com)
    ×1.62 6 | 69 points by valyala 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.59 11 | 21 points by gnufx 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I write games in C (yes, C) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 116 points by valyala 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Speed up responses with fast mode (claude.com)
    ×1.34 7 | 39 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Software factories and the agentic moment (strongdm.ai)
    ×1.84 11 | 79 points by mellosouls 6 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The F Word (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×1.86 8 | 21 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (spritely.institute)
    ×1.10 12 | 141 points by AlexeyBrin 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)
    ×1.18 7 | 89 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
    ×3.50 11 | 847 points by klaussilveira 23 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. First Proof (arxiv.org)
    ×1.31 12 | 62 points by samasblack 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
    ×4.16 13 | 1084 points by xnx 1 day ago | 617 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)
    ×0.78 6 | 60 points by thelok 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)
    ×0.97 13 | 90 points by onurkanbkrc 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)
    ×2.42 11 | 227 points by jesperordrup 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
    ×3.24 5 | 510 points by theblazehen 12 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? (windowscentral.com)
    ×2.93 11 | 39 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.33 16 | 314 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version (github.com/Momciloo)
    ×1.24 5 | 25 points by momciloo 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (alaindichiappari.dev)
    ×3.18 11 | 248 points by alainrk 8 hours ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. 72M Points of Interest (marksblogg.com)
    ×0.82 16 | 34 points by marklit 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com/suitenumerique)
    ×4.55 18 | 604 points by nar001 7 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.31 5 | 175 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Selection Rather Than Prediction (voratiq.com)
    ×0.31 27 | 11 points by languid-photic 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System (rs-online.com)
    ×0.83 15 | 45 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)
    ×1.16 29 | 123 points by videotopia 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021) (archive.org)
    ×0.28 26 | 20 points by brudgers 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev (github.com/sandys)
    ×0.50 37 | 28 points by sandGorgon 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Where did all the starships go? (datawrapper.de)
    ×2.13 9 | 90 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Learning from context is harder than we thought (tencent.com)
    ×1.46 48 | 208 points by limoce 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox (github.com/valdanylchuk)
    ×1.54 21 | 282 points by isitcontent 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Hackers (1995) Animated Experience (hackers-1995.vercel.app)
    ×2.99 11 | 563 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com/pydantic)
    ×1.86 16 | 293 points by dmpetrov 23 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info (sheldonbrown.com)
    ×2.31 20 | 434 points by ostacke 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
    ×1.19 21 | 157 points by matheusalmeida 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. An Update on Heroku (heroku.com)
    ×3.26 10 | 476 points by lstoll 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)
    ×2.41 13 | 356 points by eljojo 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use (vecti.com)
    ×1.94 6 | 370 points by vecti 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.71 25 | 379 points by aktau 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler (fosdem.org)
    ×0.66 33 | 43 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
    ×1.16 25 | 7 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (si.edu)
    ×1.03 44 | 71 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What Is Ruliology? (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.87 31 | 72 points by helloplanets 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How to effectively write quality code with AI (heidenstedt.org)
    ×2.29 15 | 311 points by i5heu 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection (lesswrong.com)
    ×3.78 23 | 38 points by julkali 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams (kirkville.com)
    ×5.27 16 | 1136 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 1 | 4 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)
    ×1.96 22 | 330 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems (writtte.com)
    ×0.63 50 | 4 points by lasgawe 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Dark Alley Mathematics (szczepan.org)
    ×1.15 31 | 115 points by quibono 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing (infisical.com)
    ×1.48 26 | 174 points by vmatsiiako 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.17 19 | 2303 points by HellsMaddy 2 days ago | 1005 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession (forbes.com)
    ×6.57 50 | 256 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (googleblog.com)
    ×1.20 35 | 81 points by gfortaine 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.08 30 | 85 points by kmm 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents (smooth.sh)
    ×0.71 51 | 95 points by antves 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads (mirageos.org)
    ×0.63 44 | 40 points by romes 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FORTH? Really!? (rescrv.net)
    ×0.89 42 | 72 points by rescrv 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.80 35 | 84 points by phreda4 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.56 25 | 10 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why I Joined OpenAI (brendangregg.com)
    ×3.29 14 | 196 points by SerCe 19 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2 (medium.com)
    ×0.17 65 | 7 points by andmarios 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.67 33 | 33 points by bikenaga 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years (bbc.com)
    ×2.94 57 | 188 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content (niemanlab.org)
    ×3.13 5 | 554 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. WebView performance significantly slower than PWA (chromium.org)
    ×1.42 38 | 48 points by denysonique 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GPT-5.3-Codex (openai.com)
    ×5.70 22 | 1509 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)
    ×1.39 40 | 182 points by EvgeniyZh 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved (bhusalmanish.com.np)
    ×1.30 33 | 158 points by okchildhood 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy (caltech.edu)
    ×0.92 36 | 146 points by dagurp 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. My AI Adoption Journey (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.03 | 925 points by anurag 2 days ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.93 39 | 26 points by neogoose 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Evolution of car door handles over the decades (newatlas.com)
    ×0.59 61 | 49 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash (notifox.com)
    ×1.50 50 | 28 points by Meetvelde 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How virtual textures work (shlom.dev)
    ×0.69 45 | 44 points by betamark 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements (biotradingarena.com)
    ×0.60 71 | 29 points by dchu17 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Early Christian Writings (earlychristianwritings.com)
    ×3.18 5 | 180 points by dsego 23 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust (github.com/artifact-keeper)
    ×1.10 35 | 154 points by bsgeraci 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing (wsj.com)
    ×2.62 16 | 43 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.82 32 | 53 points by nwparker 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Don't rent the cloud, own instead (comma.ai)
    ×4.57 1 | 1189 points by Torq_boi 2 days ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Plasma Effect (2016) (4rknova.com)
    ×0.71 51 | 85 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Planetary Roller Screws (humanityslastmachine.com)
    ×0.69 42 | 46 points by everlier 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site) (ashbyhq.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler (anthropic.com)
    ×3.26 6 | 718 points by modeless 2 days ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) (newworker.org)
    ×1.35 31 | 204 points by doruk101 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop (design-milk.com)
    ×1.01 18 | 15 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone (bbc.com)
    ×3.91 27 | 60 points by __natty__ 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing (yimbyaction.org)
    ×3.08 6 | 186 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Product and design are the new bottlenecks (jampa.dev)
    ×1.01 36 | 68 points by jampa 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants (ieee.org)
    ×1.14 7 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???