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  1. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao (wordpress.com)
    ×2.15 1 | 263 points by subset 5 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How to Read More Books (scotto.me)
    ×2.99 1 | 47 points by silcoon 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A no-brainer for protecting your brain (economist.com)
    ×3.71 | 34 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Understanding the Odin Programming Language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.46 3 | 91 points by AlexeyBrin 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Don't You Mean Extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.40 1 | 26 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery (ieee.org)
    ×1.69 2 | 85 points by zaikunzhang 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.07 4 | 142 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×1.13 4 | 11 points by raahelb 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×1.73 | 13 points by mb1699 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Gina Gallery of International Naive Art (ginagallery.com)
    ×0.84 8 | 25 points by o4c 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.48 2 | 55 points by MrBruh 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.02 4 | 226 points by compiler-guy 12 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (bruits.org)
    ×1.20 18 | 27 points by nateb2022 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.54 33 | 17 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)
    ×1.15 9 | 41 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.65 9 | 312 points by tionis 18 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.18 5 | 131 points by cosmtrek 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.94 36 | 6 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (umd.edu)
    ×0.53 63 | 4 points by num42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.44 9 | 112 points by ming13 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.17 17 | 340 points by adletbalzhanov 23 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)
    ×2.13 12 | 11 points by Tomte 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.60 53 | 7 points by sshwarts 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
    ×1.87 4 | 212 points by jamiebeach 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
    ×0.78 23 | 34 points by davikr 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An explanation of our search results (archive.org)
    ×1.23 6 | 6 points by abj908 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/Wren6991)
    ×1.45 17 | 192 points by mariuz 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.70 63 | 38 points by dmit 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×1.71 6 | 311 points by theMackabu 20 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
    ×1.02 48 | 102 points by c-c-c-c-c 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×0.97 49 | 67 points by rellem 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com/Vadale)
    ×0.32 70 | 5 points by grauk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.05 19 | 80 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (nature.com)
    ×0.89 38 | 31 points by ColinWright 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×2.10 29 | 256 points by downwithdisease 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.82 35 | 228 points by prtk25 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)
    ×2.40 21 | 36 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×1.02 58 | 73 points by hydrogen7800 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
    ×1.62 26 | 30 points by alexpls 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.30 40 | 230 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sears Modern Homes (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.88 4 | 5 points by aragonite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.94 70 | 137 points by wolfi1 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 51 | 125 points by Anon84 20 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×3.27 24 | 179 points by nradov 12 hours ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.29 5 | 323 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (ilograph.com)
    ×1.75 39 | 96 points by billyp-rva 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.70 56 | 187 points by acley 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)
    ×1.11 50 | 145 points by jacobobryant 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (uscap.org)
    ×3.37 13 | 114 points by thenerdhead 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.42 79 | 28 points by lioeters 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Internet freedom is fading in the new era of social control (bigthink.com)
    ×2.93 15 | 5 points by arrowsmith 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 2 | 4 points by ethanpil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The families using tech to help grandma stay independent longer (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.09 15 | 5 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.13 22 | 94 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Optimization Solver as a Service (quicopt.com)
    ×0.78 72 | 49 points by paddi91 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh (amber-lang.com)
    ×1.18 75 | 86 points by _superposition_ 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Handheld gaming PCs are cooked (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.80 2 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.35 72 | 130 points by xlmnxp 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.42 60 | 907 points by vforno 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics (davidobando.github.io)
    ×2.14 73 | 38 points by mashally 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
    ×3.62 30 | 227 points by downbad_ 17 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.01 63 | 84 points by lukas9 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.91 3 | 97 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025 (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.59 14 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. This Factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work (npr.org)
    ×1.90 24 | 4 points by andrewl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.43 51 | 88 points by cbrewster 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.94 24 | 10 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×4.17 43 | 45 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Atari ST Advertising – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)
    ×1.54 18 | 9 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.80 78 | 36 points by tejusarora 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later (mattmichie.com)
    ×1.21 82 | 23 points by influx 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.20 46 | 1138 points by pompomsheep 3 days ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Perfectly Hitting the Wrong Target: The Story of an AI Code Review Benchmark (hexmos.com)
    ×2.36 6 | 5 points by atomicnature 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)
    ×3.34 30 | 307 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.77 75 | 93 points by poupeaua 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.82 21 | 738 points by speckx 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.84 69 | 50 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Your code is fast if you're lucky (tiki.li)
    ×1.64 45 | 132 points by chrka 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×0.89 62 | 55 points by targetbridge 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France (theguardian.com)
    ×3.15 66 | 73 points by YeGoblynQueenne 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.91 71 | 68 points by achairapart 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)
    ×2.24 | 93 points by daniel_iversen 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Experimental drug reverses fatty liver disease by repairing the gut (sciencedaily.com)
    ×3.80 1 | 9 points by brandonb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.71 29 | 396 points by hhs 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.27 69 | 198 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.17 22 | 1621 points by rapnie 3 days ago | 850 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×5.78 15 | 1546 points by logickkk1 2 days ago | 1097 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)
    ×1.31 19 | 98 points by guenchi 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)
    ×3.42 21 | 226 points by justswim 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???