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  1. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    ×3.07 | 175 points by systima 1 hour ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.47 | 110 points by therepanic 1 hour ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
    ×2.22 1 | 147 points by saikatsg 4 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (wordpress.com)
    ×2.05 3 | 360 points by subset 8 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 6 | 52 points by root-parent 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    ×1.13 18 | 12 points by jxmorris12 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.91 2 | 142 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? (acm.org)
    ×1.26 4 | 27 points by adunk 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.49 5 | 35 points by softwaredoug 2 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
    ×1.28 | 37 points by supo 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
    ×1.94 2 | 46 points by BerislavLopac 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.97 7 | 47 points by mb1699 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How to Read More Books (scotto.me)
    ×2.76 10 | 183 points by silcoon 4 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Understanding the Odin Programming Language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.30 9 | 126 points by AlexeyBrin 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Deir El-Medina Strikes (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.02 12 | 18 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
    ×1.14 19 | 9 points by georgex7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×0.81 13 | 37 points by raahelb 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com/hasenj)
    ×1.07 9 | 56 points by hsn915 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.49 3 | 240 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.96 16 | 259 points by compiler-guy 15 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (github.com/cereblab)
    ×5.49 8 | 360 points by jhoho 15 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
    ×1.77 23 | 11 points by brryant 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly (buildnectar.com)
    ×1.91 9 | 13 points by blakeburnette 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (ieee.org)
    ×1.57 7 | 123 points by zaikunzhang 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (umd.edu)
    ×0.52 29 | 19 points by num42 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.06 11 | 68 points by MrBruh 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.67 31 | 24 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×3.04 19 | 73 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com/schollz)
    ×1.54 23 | 18 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Abject Praise (infrequently.org)
    ×0.40 33 | 11 points by genericlemon24 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (bruits.org)
    ×0.80 37 | 39 points by nateb2022 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)
    ×0.94 29 | 54 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.11 20 | 141 points by cosmtrek 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 6 months to live for open models (interconnects.ai)
    ×2.14 8 | 10 points by g42gregory 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs (danq.me)
    ×2.34 14 | 10 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.46 53 | 24 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.36 25 | 125 points by ming13 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
    ×0.59 61 | 12 points by tibordp 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
    ×1.84 18 | 229 points by jamiebeach 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State (austinvernon.site)
    ×3.83 22 | 34 points by delichon 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Fable extended until 19 July (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×5.94 33 | 54 points by protoman3000 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)
    ×2.72 2 | 3 points by Tomte 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.43 66 | 12 points by sshwarts 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
    ×0.72 49 | 39 points by davikr 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Agent Harness Engineering (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.59 36 | 16 points by fagnerbrack 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)
    ×1.57 18 | 34 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.66 65 | 41 points by dmit 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Communities turn to barter-style crop swaps to combat cost-of-living crisis (abc.net.au)
    ×1.73 8 | 5 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×2.05 35 | 260 points by downwithdisease 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: VectorSim Tool for Visualizing DSP (dsp-coach.com)
    ×0.79 94 | 3 points by jason_s 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein's theory its most precise test yet (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.68 13 | 12 points by Logans_Run 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×0.91 54 | 68 points by rellem 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.66 3 | 327 points by tionis 21 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (ilograph.com)
    ×1.68 24 | 101 points by billyp-rva 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.04 31 | 84 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Gina Gallery of International Naive Art (ginagallery.com)
    ×0.65 9 | 28 points by o4c 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Noto: A Typeface for the World (google.com)
    ×1.73 20 | 15 points by geox 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy (nature.com)
    ×0.81 51 | 33 points by ColinWright 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. W11 Copilot tells you what's slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.04 17 | 9 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.16 6 | 356 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 49 | 125 points by Anon84 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×0.97 54 | 73 points by hydrogen7800 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. South Korea's hottest new bachelors are chip workers (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.07 24 | 3 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.31 5 | 332 points by ingve 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×3.14 17 | 185 points by nradov 16 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.86 8 | 5 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) (marc.info)
    ×1.93 52 | 55 points by turrini 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.63 6 | 5 points by tekdude 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)
    ×2.00 10 | 40 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com/Wren6991)
    ×1.42 9 | 197 points by mariuz 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.67 44 | 189 points by acley 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
    ×4.39 53 | 99 points by alexpls 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Samsung is pushing users to train AI with their personal health data or lose it (howtogeek.com)
    ×2.47 9 | 9 points by croes 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (github.com/jacobobryant)
    ×1.10 38 | 146 points by jacobobryant 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The cowboys of crypto: Wyoming ropes a $1 stablecoin (post-gazette.com)
    ×1.56 85 | 4 points by greyface- 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.74 5 | 13 points by ethanpil 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Litert.js, Google's High Performance Web AI Inference (googleblog.com)
    ×1.50 84 | 4 points by kordlessagain 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid (uscap.org)
    ×3.22 11 | 119 points by thenerdhead 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Is DAAD Ready? (ngpaws.com)
    ×1.50 86 | 4 points by doener 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com/Vadale)
    ×0.29 58 | 6 points by grauk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×3.42 46 | 908 points by vforno 3 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.11 21 | 95 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. HairGlimpse (hairglimpse.com)
    ×1.58 88 | 4 points by lawrenceTang 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Sears Modern Homes (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.83 8 | 13 points by aragonite 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)
    ×2.18 67 | 5 points by subset 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. An explanation of our search results (archive.org)
    ×0.97 18 | 11 points by abj908 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Count Binface the Game (binfacegame.co.uk)
    ×1.05 93 | 3 points by dawildcat 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (amazon.com)
    ×1.33 55 | 130 points by xlmnxp 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.41 62 | 28 points by lioeters 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???