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  1. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.42 2 | 258 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
    ×2.47 3 | 353 points by ai2027 4 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)
    ×1.38 4 | 55 points by KraftyOne 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
    ×3.51 2 | 206 points by tomzorz 3 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)
    ×2.34 4 | 73 points by tnisonoff 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)
    ×1.74 4 | 47 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)
    ×7.28 6 | 312 points by dickfickling 1 hour ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
    ×3.30 6 | 368 points by tedsanders 2 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
    ×1.81 2 | 55 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.22 5 | 120 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)
    ×3.22 7 | 181 points by Areibman 2 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.55 | 141 points by javaeeeee 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (googleblog.com)
    ×3.56 3 | 290 points by dmantis 9 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com/MemoireMorte)
    ×0.77 42 | 9 points by sciences44 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)
    ×0.66 41 | 9 points by patrickhulin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.78 4 | 21 points by cgorlla 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
    ×0.60 31 | 59 points by marinoseliades 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
    ×1.18 1 | 102 points by bmacho 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost (github.com/experientiallabs)
    ×1.59 4 | 50 points by SilenN 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 134 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms (supapool.io)
    ×0.74 20 | 13 points by kevo1ution 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)
    ×3.11 1 | 173 points by arto 8 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)
    ×1.82 4 | 122 points by ryannevius 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality (ieee.org)
    ×0.73 11 | 29 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
    ×0.93 | 106 points by notarobot123 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.94 6 | 42 points by karakoram 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The lost civic life of movie rental stores (mit.edu)
    ×1.49 10 | 62 points by facundo_olano 6 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.36 14 | 57 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What would it mean to see a new color? (newyorker.com)
    ×1.43 18 | 9 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)
    ×1.97 6 | 220 points by alberto-m 12 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents (github.com/yashmahajan10)
    ×0.38 39 | 8 points by yashmahajan10 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com/n67094)
    ×0.62 12 | 50 points by n67094 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com/AminBlg)
    ×1.49 28 | 4 points by navs 38 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Toot.community is shutting down (jorijn.com)
    ×1.33 7 | 35 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.62 1 | 116 points by jjgreen 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)
    ×1.47 3 | 102 points by Thom2503 7 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't (ti.org)
    ×1.34 57 | 5 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? (rusty.today)
    ×0.56 15 | 36 points by rustyconover 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again (github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper)
    ×0.74 12 | 37 points by hamza_rehman 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.86 25 | 56 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Uefa to boycott FIFA competitions if Infantino's proposal goes through (bbc.com)
    ×1.65 61 | 3 points by jamesblonde 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. 3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
    ×1.39 7 | 92 points by mushstory 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
    ×0.85 3 | 114 points by benn_88 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An LLM-assisted security review of GlobaLeaks: 41 findings for $3,140 (isgroup.biz)
    ×1.02 48 | 5 points by ascii 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine (bsid.io)
    ×0.91 12 | 47 points by jackedEngineer 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 31 | 25 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part two: the bugfix (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.08 48 | 5 points by gpjt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Azulejo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.91 10 | 168 points by Amorymeltzer 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
    ×1.29 13 | 69 points by laurentiurad 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)
    ×1.44 14 | 53 points by blenderob 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Glass Famine (edconway.substack.com)
    ×1.33 34 | 109 points by baud147258 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures (certisfy.com)
    ×0.40 38 | 20 points by Edmond 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)
    ×4.64 35 | 118 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984) (hex.ooo)
    ×0.86 18 | 45 points by kamma4434 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Zeno's Paradox of AI (negativezone.github.io)
    ×1.37 44 | 4 points by negativezone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I made a term-a11y: accessible spinners and progress bars for CLI tools (github.com/zaydea805)
    ×1.07 62 | 3 points by zay_dea 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (wiz.io)
    ×1.15 11 | 55 points by uvuv 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib) (github.com/grafana)
    ×0.98 17 | 53 points by matryer 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. You can't solve computer use by ignoring the interface (steelmanlabs.com)
    ×1.36 15 | 59 points by mpavlov 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US oil inventories fall to 'precariously low' level as Iran war disrupts supply (ft.com)
    ×5.00 47 | 27 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits (carolinacloud.io)
    ×0.89 32 | 56 points by bojangleslover 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 'Talk Is Cheap': Wall Street Delivers Harsh Verdict on Warsh Fed (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.05 23 | 6 points by petethomas 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The first watch featuring computer functions (seiko-design.com)
    ×1.03 24 | 80 points by stefanv 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser (jiegou.ai)
    ×0.49 51 | 4 points by smperng 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (github.com/YoanWai)
    ×1.19 8 | 85 points by yoanwaidev 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Making a mesh dance to music with its Laplacian eigenmodes (hughparry.com)
    ×1.00 67 | 3 points by HughParry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Handling environment variables in Emacs on OS X and Linux (seds.nl)
    ×1.09 52 | 4 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mark Zuckerberg is becoming the king of the 'side quest' (ft.com)
    ×2.20 42 | 13 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea (atomarine.co)
    ×1.14 32 | 40 points by ndr 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Agent Authentication and Authorization (IETF Internet-Draft) (ietf.org)
    ×0.47 66 | 3 points by jhgaylor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)
    ×2.57 21 | 584 points by YeGoblynQueenne 22 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Citadel buys most of Situational's stock holdings after AI share rout (reuters.com)
    ×2.29 48 | 12 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Kagi releases official Kagi Assistant apps (kagi.com)
    ×1.13 38 | 5 points by PhilippGille 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x (leaddev.com)
    ×2.77 44 | 14 points by champagnepapi 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenAI revenue in July topped all of Q2 driven by GPT-5.6 release (cnbc.com)
    ×1.26 23 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)
    ×2.13 15 | 189 points by _doctor_love 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Inkling-Small (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×4.50 54 | 23 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)
    ×3.62 38 | 800 points by robbiet480 23 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I asked Claude to reimplement Apple's LZRAVEN codec in C, conformance-tested (github.com/anat0m1a)
    ×0.71 41 | 5 points by anat0m1a 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much (theregister.com)
    ×2.75 51 | 6 points by beardyw 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
    ×1.08 3 | 16 points by peterldowns 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Metal-graph: Metal-native graph analytics for Apple Silicon (github.com/tabulai)
    ×1.42 65 | 3 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Delivery workers made $104M more in tips after NYC began enforcing new law (nydailynews.com)
    ×2.91 52 | 29 points by spopejoy 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis (humprog.org)
    ×0.59 46 | 8 points by tosh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. ESP32-C6 Power Consumption: Arduino vs. Zephyr vs. ESP-IDF Comparison (qoitech.com)
    ×0.98 43 | 56 points by hasheddan 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two (n16f.net)
    ×0.83 30 | 56 points by billiob 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What it means for an API to be RESTful (andros.dev)
    ×1.35 10 | 30 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.47 34 | 875 points by gitpusher42 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (wsj.com)
    ×3.93 61 | 42 points by mudil 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???