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  1. One Year of Sponsored Servo Development (servo.org)
    ×1.54 1 | 65 points by AshleysBrain 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter (wordpress.com)
    ×1.36 2 | 22 points by simianwords 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
    ×3.57 | 689 points by nonmaskable 12 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure (z.ai)
    ×3.50 2 | 25 points by whiteros_e 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
    ×1.30 2 | 169 points by Ryan5453 7 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.30 4 | 47 points by rramadass 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
    ×2.23 2 | 105 points by jakeasmith 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
    ×2.56 | 553 points by polyphilz 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Lucasart's Afterlife (wordpress.com)
    ×1.03 9 | 19 points by Bondi_Blue 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.64 1 | 436 points by krackers 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
    ×1.40 | 74 points by egberts1 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com/cloudflare)
    ×1.87 2 | 59 points by donk8r 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×2.02 3 | 238 points by afilipovski 12 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.50 1 | 522 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)
    ×1.44 15 | 114 points by Betelbuddy 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.37 7 | 205 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenAI Model Misalignment Report (openai.com)
    ×3.42 14 | 14 points by qprofyeh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.11 16 | 60 points by paimapi 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
    ×2.06 1 | 204 points by johnjwang 12 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Back to the future: modules for Guix packages (2022) (guix.info)
    ×0.62 46 | 5 points by bmacho 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
    ×1.49 11 | 94 points by gumby 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult (skywriter.blue)
    ×11.16 21 | 79 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×7.57 10 | 2162 points by arnemunthekaas 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
    ×1.89 12 | 127 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    ×1.74 4 | 108 points by jasonpeacock 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    ×1.53 | 139 points by etoxin 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
    ×3.80 8 | 404 points by berkeleyjunk 17 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (bbc.com)
    ×3.19 22 | 70 points by higginsniggins 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.43 8 | 292 points by soheilpro 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    ×1.93 19 | 190 points by herbertl 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com/browser-use)
    ×2.18 3 | 58 points by rahimnathwani 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    ×1.81 3 | 208 points by jheitmann 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.59 45 | 151 points by vinhnx 20 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (bbc.com)
    ×0.98 27 | 42 points by marc__1 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints (openai.com)
    ×3.61 41 | 12 points by theahura 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
    ×1.60 20 | 129 points by rochansinha 15 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Automattic execs signed reciprocal severance deals in Mullenweg absence (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.18 24 | 11 points by docdeek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 24 | 205 points by bananaflag 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
    ×0.86 54 | 97 points by Agentlien 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (wired.com)
    ×3.90 18 | 528 points by driverdan 20 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.65 26 | 171 points by vertigoruntime 19 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Uploading Files to the Internet in Order to Cite Them (openai.com)
    ×1.05 58 | 4 points by derbOac 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (vanityfair.com)
    ×2.30 18 | 74 points by kamaraju 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×6.73 20 | 1821 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    ×2.33 1 | 295 points by whisper2020 19 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 38 | 71 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.82 48 | 50 points by schopra909 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
    ×2.44 32 | 114 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.77 71 | 77 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 23 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.97 40 | 54 points by spathak 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 17 | 91 points by qt31415926 14 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.org)
    ×0.41 56 | 15 points by evakhoury 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    ×2.52 1 | 216 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How big are factorials? (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.75 51 | 85 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nolan Bushnell (Atari, Co-Founder) Career Interview (2006) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.37 9 | 3 points by anotherhue 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    ×0.97 67 | 40 points by kserrec 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
    ×2.84 20 | 565 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.51 40 | 204 points by luu 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
    ×2.02 12 | 351 points by inputmice 22 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.25 15 | 169 points by mococa 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
    ×0.57 55 | 49 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.39 49 | 165 points by pythonic_hell 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Salesforce Global Outage (salesforce.com)
    ×1.83 1 | 270 points by mabil 23 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.65 1 | 510 points by imwally 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state (economist.com)
    ×1.92 63 | 5 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
    ×2.37 22 | 220 points by vertigoruntime 17 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)
    ×0.85 64 | 17 points by abidlabs 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.75 45 | 74 points by joozio 21 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.49 24 | 83 points by AndrewDucker 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pangram – AI detector for text and images (pangram.com)
    ×1.42 12 | 27 points by doodlesdev 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. An update on Wayback Machine access (archive.org)
    ×2.87 | 668 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
    ×0.42 62 | 21 points by zxcvbn4038 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.83 16 | 275 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (archive.org)
    ×0.89 51 | 118 points by bananaboy 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.17 54 | 136 points by marklit 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (ploeh.dk)
    ×1.93 4 | 241 points by moneroloop2018 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
    ×0.75 29 | 31 points by oldmanrahul 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (vcfed.org)
    ×0.76 60 | 70 points by JPLeRouzic 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.10 62 | 7 points by gtCameron 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×4.69 4 | 1125 points by networked 2 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×0.77 36 | 70 points by peterldowns 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
    ×2.29 4 | 482 points by leumon 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.43 75 | 372 points by david927 3 days ago | 1179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.33 43 | 178 points by Liogra123 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (columbia.edu)
    ×0.78 50 | 61 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
    ×1.19 58 | 95 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×2.73 20 | 432 points by rkotcher 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (st-andrews.ac.uk)
    ×1.09 44 | 150 points by jzox 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×4.80 12 | 673 points by yusufozkan 2 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???