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  1. GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)
    ×2.39 3 | 375 points by mbustamanter 6 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)
    ×2.96 7 | 42 points by sbochins 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)
    ×1.54 2 | 122 points by nerdypepper 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (acm.org)
    ×2.18 3 | 104 points by Ygg2 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)
    ×1.86 5 | 99 points by bbg2401 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)
    ×2.16 6 | 85 points by barry-cotter 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.34 17 | 6 points by minimaxir 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)
    ×1.62 9 | 142 points by aanet 7 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
    ×0.78 14 | 35 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)
    ×1.51 10 | 167 points by couAUIA 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)
    ×1.75 5 | 100 points by ykev 3 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.47 7 | 596 points by vitaut 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
    ×6.68 11 | 808 points by baranul 9 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×0.70 20 | 45 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (nytimes.com)
    ×1.12 7 | 38 points by danso 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)
    ×0.86 12 | 33 points by drdator 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500 (reotrucks.com)
    ×2.56 14 | 46 points by b_mc2 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey (imaxxing.io)
    ×1.11 3 | 14 points by andrewtorkbaker 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (stackexchange.com)
    ×3.69 8 | 302 points by secretslol 8 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)
    ×0.39 48 | 4 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner (github.blog)
    ×0.66 6 | 35 points by ascertain 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.87 3 | 767 points by nicholasjbs 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.54 10 | 50 points by LabsLucas 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (reactormag.com)
    ×0.62 13 | 18 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.35 10 | 117 points by Kudos 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.46 12 | 197 points by parksb 16 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Fake food delivery site for the dopamine (reddit.com)
    ×2.44 13 | 61 points by guerrilla 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)
    ×4.57 21 | 208 points by robtherobber 5 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years (sky.com)
    ×2.29 14 | 73 points by austinallegro 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 18 | 64 points by sciences44 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (unc.edu)
    ×2.40 13 | 45 points by geox 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.30 23 | 262 points by st_goliath 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/BadChemical)
    ×1.70 27 | 198 points by BadChemical 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
    ×1.85 20 | 313 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.66 6 | 1256 points by nprateem 1 day ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read (github.com/waaldev)
    ×0.81 25 | 55 points by waaldev 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains (in-toto.io)
    ×0.71 39 | 57 points by Erenay09 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.76 12 | 132 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.00 34 | 98 points by herbertl 18 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm (30fps.net)
    ×0.63 41 | 32 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
    ×1.64 28 | 170 points by lalitmaganti 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Freya 0.4 – Rust GUI library (freyaui.dev)
    ×1.96 4 | 6 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)
    ×0.85 41 | 74 points by radeeyate 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. British runner Josh Kerr smashes 27-year-old men's mile record (espn.com)
    ×1.53 3 | 6 points by linuxfan2718 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders (rogerdickey.com)
    ×0.75 21 | 43 points by rogerdickey 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.59 24 | 155 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
    ×2.26 2 | 509 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)
    ×1.44 30 | 130 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved (nytimes.com)
    ×1.33 3 | 3 points by gmays 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)
    ×0.87 38 | 66 points by bkardell 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)
    ×7.36 9 | 2056 points by vincent_s 2 days ago | 1185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Overtraining as the path to human-like AI (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.41 9 | 7 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Roko's Dancing Basilisk (conman.org)
    ×0.35 52 | 7 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)
    ×1.40 31 | 110 points by wertyk 22 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
    ×1.57 24 | 152 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)
    ×2.16 5 | 207 points by subinalex 20 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.76 28 | 44 points by tedggh 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI's new political donor class is outspending Big Tech's last one (sfstandard.com)
    ×1.79 18 | 8 points by roddylindsay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.69 37 | 42 points by MeetingsBrowser 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy (sashachapin.substack.com)
    ×2.05 16 | 12 points by eatitraw 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO (ft.com)
    ×2.69 36 | 32 points by ethanhawksley 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
    ×0.94 35 | 107 points by lortex 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
    ×2.57 15 | 470 points by rellem 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
    ×1.14 25 | 171 points by tusksm 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.89 44 | 107 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)
    ×1.74 5 | 264 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.18 11 | 391 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Camera Chase Vehicle (transistor-man.com)
    ×2.09 27 | 244 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.09 38 | 132 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (kaggle.com)
    ×3.20 12 | 464 points by twerkmeister 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
    ×2.97 41 | 537 points by gnabgib 21 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks (github.com/tucan9389)
    ×0.83 1 | 52 points by tucan9389 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week (boilingsteam.com)
    ×2.35 42 | 88 points by ekianjo 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators (workspaces.xyz)
    ×0.83 44 | 88 points by ryangilbert 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.70 25 | 10 points by cwbuilds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
    ×0.98 52 | 68 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.76 40 | 98 points by duha 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.93 37 | 108 points by thm 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025) (velvetshark.com)
    ×6.26 72 | 395 points by miniBill 8 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: ride-recap, teaching a LLM my taste to automate cycling highlights (iandmacomber.com)
    ×1.18 60 | 4 points by iandmacomber 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GitRoot (gitroot.dev)
    ×1.40 42 | 11 points by ilreb 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Engineering Peace (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.72 5 | 14 points by jkly 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (lobste.rs)
    ×3.49 22 | 214 points by abetusk 23 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
    ×2.47 21 | 191 points by hmm37 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)
    ×1.59 50 | 188 points by speckx 2 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/CharmingBlaze)
    ×0.87 35 | 70 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)
    ×2.12 43 | 301 points by JeremyTheo 2 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Three workers digging in a field outside the data center (sign2.nl)
    ×0.86 60 | 10 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.76 47 | 70 points by enz 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???