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  1. Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model (github.com/nex-agi)
    ×1.49 7 | 46 points by unrvl22 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. No, everyone is not using AI for everything (gabrielweinberg.com)
    ×2.72 1 | 211 points by yegg 2 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) (destroyallsoftware.com)
    ×1.13 10 | 149 points by subset 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Firewood Splitting Simulator (screen.toys)
    ×2.96 7 | 299 points by memalign 6 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress (dailymail.com)
    ×2.85 3 | 108 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Lisp's Influence on Ruby (tacoda.dev)
    ×1.21 6 | 140 points by tacoda 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Perlisisms (yale.edu)
    ×0.98 14 | 30 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. FarOutCompany (faroutcompany.com)
    ×0.96 12 | 57 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency (su3.io)
    ×1.21 10 | 69 points by losfair 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE (planetscale.com)
    ×1.43 12 | 57 points by hollylawly 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×1.98 4 | 64 points by iliashad 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million (swissinfo.ch)
    ×5.04 8 | 29 points by FabCH 34 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks (twitter.com/zenmagnets)
    ×2.30 7 | 92 points by lucasfcosta 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks (science.org)
    ×0.74 18 | 20 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (janestreet.com)
    ×1.40 10 | 57 points by eatonphil 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets? (arcadeblogger.com)
    ×0.84 11 | 44 points by msephton 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU (github.com/alebal123bal)
    ×0.96 11 | 21 points by alebal123bal 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How to Earn a Billion Dollars (paulgraham.com)
    ×4.15 9 | 224 points by kingstoned 5 hours ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops (mgunlogson.github.io)
    ×0.55 26 | 11 points by mgunlogson 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded (sqltoerdiagram.com)
    ×2.34 11 | 306 points by robhati 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×0.57 49 | 5 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Honda Civics and the Evil Valet (juniperspring.org)
    ×2.04 11 | 360 points by librick 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Linux 7.1 (kernel.org)
    ×3.40 9 | 25 points by berlianta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.98 7 | 65 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Extinction-Level Capitalism (matthewbutterick.com)
    ×2.75 15 | 76 points by laurex 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples (theguardian.com)
    ×1.76 11 | 46 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Don't trust large context windows (garrit.xyz)
    ×2.26 3 | 215 points by computersuck 10 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change (phys.org)
    ×0.82 29 | 63 points by indynz 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.34 6 | 38 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cloud-based LLM gold rush is ending (automato.substack.com)
    ×2.19 14 | 42 points by andrewstetsenko 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language (github.com/kekcleader)
    ×1.14 41 | 131 points by peter_d_sherman 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution (tribblix.org)
    ×0.74 33 | 71 points by naturalmovement 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pac-Man, but you're the ghost (garrit.xyz)
    ×1.93 11 | 163 points by mindracer 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GLM 5.2 Is Out (twitter.com/jietang)
    ×3.66 4 | 706 points by aloknnikhil 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.03 52 | 82 points by eatonphil 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI (pyodide.org)
    ×1.13 48 | 156 points by agriyakhetarpal 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau (desfontain.es)
    ×3.32 | 866 points by nl 1 day ago | 549 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s (manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
    ×2.94 35 | 123 points by beejiu 2 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GameBoy Workboy (tcrf.net)
    ×1.30 35 | 211 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Starmer to announce social media curfew and chatbot ban for teenagers (thetimes.com)
    ×1.63 6 | 10 points by poisonfountain 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    ×3.71 7 | 803 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models (wsj.com)
    ×5.32 8 | 760 points by ls612 1 day ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Phoenix LiveView 1.2 (phoenixframework.org)
    ×2.12 8 | 181 points by ksec 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building a serial and VGA "everything console" (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.69 56 | 54 points by classichasclass 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter (theregister.com)
    ×2.04 9 | 5 points by adam_rida 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack (phoronix.com)
    ×2.11 20 | 37 points by ImJamal 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It (digitalgrease.dev)
    ×1.86 4 | 30 points by rmadriz 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words (replicated.wiki)
    ×0.53 57 | 28 points by gritzko 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Making Claude a Chemist (anthropic.com)
    ×1.41 29 | 75 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch (chrisdevblog.com)
    ×0.75 61 | 108 points by rasz 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. LaserWriter seeds (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
    ×0.84 47 | 37 points by frizlab 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Appreciating Exif (brentfitzgerald.com)
    ×1.15 49 | 176 points by burnto 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN (cnn.com)
    ×2.96 48 | 91 points by tambourine_man 2 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 30 years of OpenBSD development, visualized (visualsource.net)
    ×1.21 68 | 10 points by pro_methe5 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Amazon says its datacenters used about 2.5B gallons of water last year (theregister.com)
    ×2.07 15 | 10 points by tcp_handshaker 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip (righto.com)
    ×1.04 53 | 128 points by pwg 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes (reuters.com)
    ×6.25 2 | 694 points by pera 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times (economist.com)
    ×1.97 4 | 419 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (phoronix.com)
    ×3.12 9 | 266 points by jeditobe 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases (sky.com)
    ×3.82 7 | 358 points by austinallegro 21 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Orthodox C++ (2016) (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×0.90 69 | 100 points by signa11 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed (github.com/tensorzero)
    ×1.57 29 | 272 points by hek2sch 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Swiss voters rejected 10M population cap proposal (reuters.com)
    ×4.93 5 | 20 points by vld_chk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Raress96/Dolby-Atmos-encoder: PoC Dolby Atmos encoder (github.com/raress96)
    ×0.80 30 | 21 points by xbmcuser 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later (medium.com)
    ×1.10 13 | 49 points by jhack 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The state of building user interfaces in Rust (areweguiyet.com)
    ×1.31 49 | 194 points by mahirsaid 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire (roman-names.com)
    ×1.47 39 | 191 points by metiscus 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration (github.com/Paca-AI)
    ×1.07 56 | 160 points by pikann22 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Automating myself out of development (thoughtfultechnologist.com)
    ×1.12 74 | 118 points by nisabek 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision (reuters.com)
    ×2.49 52 | 50 points by tartoran 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)
    ×3.58 10 | 979 points by gmays 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Codex for open source (openai.com)
    ×1.89 5 | 263 points by EvgeniyZh 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Resurrecting a soaked, corroded, and damaged Commodore SX‑64 (2025) (jerrylparker.com)
    ×0.53 73 | 30 points by hggh 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI coding at home without going broke (bochinski.dev)
    ×2.72 13 | 325 points by sbochins 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Electric motors with no rare earths (renaultgroup.com)
    ×2.87 11 | 697 points by bestouff 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Software Architecture Guide (2019) (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.78 8 | 83 points by laxmena 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Apt Encounters of the Third Kind (2021) (igor-blue.github.io)
    ×0.69 55 | 28 points by ogurechny 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.72 59 | 36 points by hhs 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Difference Between Rest and Idleness (idle.news)
    ×1.88 54 | 32 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×6.61 8 | 1707 points by jjfoooo4 2 days ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones (research.google)
    ×1.49 12 | 315 points by vikas-sharma 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reinventing Control Theory One Feature at a Time: The Fallacy of Agentic Loops (medium.com)
    ×1.85 6 | 15 points by oddish-tv 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Half-Life able to run on ReactOS (xcancel.com)
    ×1.15 64 | 16 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A whale necropolis has been found (nature.com)
    ×1.72 20 | 65 points by tigerlily 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents (bitboard.work)
    ×0.29 91 | 55 points by arcb 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Bastion – isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents (bastion.computer)
    ×1.13 47 | 24 points by almostlit 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Neat Little Vehicles That Run a Cemetery (thedrive.com)
    ×0.54 54 | 15 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Human Routers of Machine Words (borretti.me)
    ×1.37 31 | 69 points by zx321 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 (imil.net)
    ×1.95 6 | 275 points by iMil 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???