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  1. Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (sandimetz.com)
    ×3.52 3 | 24 points by rafaepta 37 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (norvig.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 38 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (beyondallreason.info)
    ×2.58 2 | 262 points by mosiuerbarso 5 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You (kevinak.se)
    ×2.00 2 | 90 points by kevinak 2 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb (wired.me)
    ×2.20 3 | 59 points by Audiophilip 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I (humprog.org)
    ×0.88 19 | 12 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Google Hits 50% IPv6 (apnic.net)
    ×2.92 | 324 points by barqawiz 8 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use (cleantechnica.com)
    ×3.16 2 | 43 points by choult 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (github.com/namgyaaal)
    ×0.96 8 | 112 points by sph 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com/mysk-research)
    ×2.97 10 | 435 points by Cider9986 18 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.10 11 | 155 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C (github.com/proteanthread)
    ×0.74 4 | 39 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The case against geometric algebra (2024) (alexkritchevsky.com)
    ×1.15 3 | 97 points by Hbruz0 5 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math (devashish.me)
    ×1.24 16 | 46 points by devashish86 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)
    ×1.58 14 | 297 points by sohkamyung 17 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)
    ×2.42 12 | 317 points by croes 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512 (zeux.io)
    ×0.91 21 | 112 points by luu 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)
    ×1.40 18 | 223 points by Sibexico 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Has Broken Hiring (hbr.org)
    ×3.07 10 | 9 points by ChrisArchitect 30 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.02 17 | 52 points by dbaupp 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)
    ×2.04 | 288 points by toilet 15 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test (bostonglobe.com)
    ×1.65 21 | 178 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.75 28 | 32 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)
    ×1.39 34 | 177 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)
    ×1.44 35 | 271 points by LowLevelMahn 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)
    ×1.35 23 | 279 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)
    ×1.24 35 | 220 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.10 26 | 63 points by dhorthy 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography (nature.com)
    ×1.18 47 | 102 points by lnyan 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Building reliable agentic AI systems (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.81 6 | 153 points by sarangk90 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Alice is impatient (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.20 36 | 135 points by birdculture 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU (philipzucker.com)
    ×0.73 50 | 57 points by andrewstuart 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
    ×1.93 6 | 104 points by jandeboevrie 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.62 6 | 219 points by cauenapier 18 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)
    ×3.03 4 | 261 points by simonpure 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)
    ×4.08 63 | 541 points by oshrimpton 2 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 34 | 214 points by shpran 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Project Fetch: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
    ×0.83 48 | 71 points by stopachka 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.94 53 | 107 points by saisrirampur 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Rich Programmer Food (2007) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
    ×2.12 1 | 4 points by tosh 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.40 42 | 135 points by overflowy 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×1.29 45 | 139 points by gr4vityWall 23 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)
    ×1.41 42 | 145 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot (ca.gov)
    ×4.59 33 | 11 points by simonpure 51 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Armstrong Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.98 43 | 41 points by userbinator 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)
    ×2.74 13 | 386 points by ridesisapis 22 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 518 points by msalsas 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project (2025) (ieee.org)
    ×0.92 47 | 30 points by asdefghyk 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Inference cost at scale with napkin math (injuly.in)
    ×1.00 57 | 82 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air (ieee.org)
    ×0.97 54 | 72 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Safe SIMD in Rust, Even on the Inside – By Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (medium.com)
    ×1.30 8 | 10 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)
    ×1.93 20 | 24 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. NOLA 'Nacular: One man's crusade to preserve New Orleans's vernacular signage (countryroadsmagazine.com)
    ×0.82 49 | 45 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (thinkgeoenergy.com)
    ×2.07 67 | 61 points by Jimmc414 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence? (thenewassociationwebmasters.blogspot.com)
    ×2.55 40 | 21 points by laurentlof 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C (github.com/oraziorillo)
    ×0.75 69 | 73 points by oraziorillo 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)
    ×1.83 66 | 250 points by Bender 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×1.00 51 | 87 points by dk189 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)
    ×2.36 61 | 199 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? (dancemagazine.com)
    ×0.83 62 | 65 points by onemind 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server (bootimus.com)
    ×1.04 55 | 119 points by car 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called 'Megapod' (electrek.co)
    ×2.25 43 | 5 points by dabinat 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.71 21 | 232 points by farhadhf 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×1.02 81 | 21 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
    ×1.05 48 | 67 points by mitchivin 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios (vawaa.com)
    ×0.92 62 | 75 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)
    ×5.24 54 | 272 points by colinprince 12 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Vulgar Materialism (borretti.me)
    ×1.90 5 | 9 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Printing Gaussian Splats (patreon.com)
    ×1.33 5 | 9 points by ilnmtlbnm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)
    ×4.14 13 | 300 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.96 1 | 188 points by nryoo 23 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic (politicshome.com)
    ×0.71 68 | 41 points by thinkingemote 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (ibm.com)
    ×1.00 68 | 122 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
    ×3.74 56 | 72 points by sxx0 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bab: A hash function for content-addressable storage (bab-hash.org)
    ×2.14 60 | 10 points by g0xA52A2A 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Web Browsers on PDAS (vale.rocks)
    ×0.58 68 | 52 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    ×4.38 11 | 951 points by ck2 2 days ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.00 65 | 154 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×2.63 24 | 17 points by lemonberry 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.57 10 | 164 points by roboror 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects (nih.gov)
    ×1.99 22 | 11 points by nephihaha 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions (github.com/confh)
    ×0.64 56 | 40 points by confis 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)
    ×3.17 52 | 209 points by vnbrs 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (wordpress.com)
    ×2.95 9 | 465 points by moultano 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.45 4 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How the Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory (sebastiangarren.com)
    ×1.07 71 | 23 points by momentmaker 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.03 64 | 85 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Human Judgment as a Specification (brownplt.org)
    ×0.77 65 | 54 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (mit.edu)
    ×0.76 61 | 64 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×0.87 84 | 104 points by mfornet 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???