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  1. Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
    ×3.23 | 277 points by jfb 1 hour ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×2.47 2 | 447 points by razin 5 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Fable ban was never about a jailbreak (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.69 1 | 96 points by amarant 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)
    ×0.87 7 | 49 points by EDM115 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)
    ×1.50 9 | 187 points by rdmuser 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (slashdot.org)
    ×3.30 3 | 109 points by arnejenssen 1 hour ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack)
    ×3.88 6 | 676 points by apitman 11 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (microsoft.com)
    ×1.95 11 | 430 points by paulmooreparks 11 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)
    ×0.78 14 | 54 points by nate 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Infineon to open fab in Germany as part of sovereignty push (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.75 69 | 6 points by SanjayMehta 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. But yak shaving is fun (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.16 27 | 15 points by parksb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.35 4 | 36 points by speckx 53 minutes ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)
    ×0.98 26 | 113 points by 0x000xca0xfe 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave (sabareesh.com)
    ×0.85 13 | 35 points by sabareesh 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator (unicorn-engine.org)
    ×0.77 26 | 44 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak (theregister.com)
    ×5.07 7 | 418 points by _tk_ 7 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb (richardosgood.com)
    ×2.60 15 | 525 points by sohkamyung 17 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)
    ×5.71 8 | 282 points by itsmarcelg 5 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz (twitter.com/fguzmanai)
    ×1.77 1 | 9 points by laxmena 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (theverge.com)
    ×2.91 1 | 8 points by neilfrndes 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The history of butterfly swimming (swimming.org)
    ×0.55 26 | 14 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (microsoft.com)
    ×0.84 24 | 85 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)
    ×5.61 7 | 1467 points by lwhsiao 20 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org (strivemath.org)
    ×0.94 10 | 89 points by apulkit6 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)
    ×4.28 20 | 178 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I Love the Computer (michaelenger.com)
    ×1.55 37 | 287 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I Fired Google (theartofdoingstuff.com)
    ×3.04 20 | 106 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds (bsky.app)
    ×1.17 10 | 17 points by handelaar 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
    ×1.58 19 | 111 points by Cider9986 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence (qwen.ai)
    ×1.58 76 | 7 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today (theguardian.com)
    ×1.55 14 | 66 points by defrost 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (heikkilotvonen.com)
    ×0.98 21 | 121 points by california-og 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.21 29 | 150 points by alexis-d 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible (gmalandrakis.com)
    ×1.88 26 | 267 points by l0new0lf-G 19 hours ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Iroh 1.0 (iroh.computer)
    ×4.90 10 | 1324 points by chadfowler 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My Homelab AI Dev Platform (rsgm.dev)
    ×1.66 50 | 349 points by rsgm 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why I email complete strangers (goodinternetmagazine.com)
    ×1.40 40 | 203 points by karakoram 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.92 8 | 1209 points by cloudking 1 day ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes (notnotp.com)
    ×1.99 41 | 240 points by chmaynard 20 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)
    ×1.74 21 | 149 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins (monash.edu)
    ×1.92 49 | 343 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed) (tinywind.io)
    ×4.00 7 | 954 points by tinywind 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Cohere's First Model for Developers (cohere.com)
    ×1.18 53 | 130 points by hmokiguess 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Swish – Jupyter-like computational notebook for SWI-Prolog (swi-prolog.org)
    ×0.50 70 | 5 points by ux266478 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)
    ×1.46 55 | 226 points by mfiguiere 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)
    ×1.02 62 | 165 points by lkanwoqwp 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What every coder should know about gamma (2016) (johnnovak.net)
    ×0.91 71 | 113 points by sph 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SpaceX Set to Overtake Amazon in Value as It Soars for Third Day (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.18 15 | 6 points by pera 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude Corps (anthropic.com)
    ×1.52 60 | 151 points by Mustan 22 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with 'no social media, no browser' (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.29 10 | 5 points by neilfrndes 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
    ×0.37 99 | 57 points by AtmosXR 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (fata.dev)
    ×0.78 78 | 106 points by djoume 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?
    ×0.90 9 | 23 points by javhu 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis (grassdx.com)
    ×0.73 79 | 71 points by andrewbr 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)
    ×0.91 70 | 142 points by zdw 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens? (moments-of-now.com)
    ×0.34 73 | 10 points by throwaway81523 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.19 16 | 16 points by frb 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. US battery manufacturing output continues to break records (stlouisfed.org)
    ×1.58 26 | 219 points by epistasis 20 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Boot Naked Linux (zoic.org)
    ×1.13 65 | 129 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hetzner Price Adjustment (hetzner.com)
    ×2.86 7 | 518 points by tuhtah 1 day ago | 707 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ (kobzol.github.io)
    ×1.16 58 | 139 points by nicoburns 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Openrouter Fusion API (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.32 69 | 210 points by tdchaitanya 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Europe Wants Digital Sovereignty. 2,165 Polish Organisations Show the Gap (ciphercue.com)
    ×0.87 53 | 11 points by adulion 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.89 63 | 96 points by ledoge 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (shonczinner.github.io)
    ×0.74 56 | 55 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.39 69 | 187 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SharkClean MCP (github.com/a-funk)
    ×0.34 75 | 14 points by afunk 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Adobe Alternatives: list of alternatives for Adobe software (github.com/KenneyNL)
    ×0.94 33 | 5 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.82 63 | 210 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. An O(x)Caml book that runs (kcsrk.info)
    ×0.84 68 | 55 points by anirudh24seven 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Fox to buy Roku (wsj.com)
    ×2.00 27 | 350 points by thm 1 day ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)
    ×3.47 51 | 146 points by bartekrutkowski 7 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Because of this walking ritual? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.26 2 | 34 points by monkey_monkey 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Paul Graham Is Strawmanning the Left's Argument Against Billionaires (onodi.co)
    ×4.15 26 | 20 points by tonyonodi 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Your ePub Is fine (andreklein.net)
    ×3.43 21 | 890 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI (machine0.io)
    ×0.89 65 | 90 points by bwm 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap (ishmeetbindra.com)
    ×1.17 35 | 75 points by arzh2 16 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? (github.com/sammysltd)
    ×1.36 50 | 137 points by smashini 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Honeypot Design (bruceediger.com)
    ×0.84 64 | 21 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can't explain it six months later (venturebeat.com)
    ×0.94 8 | 7 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit (ernesernesto.github.io)
    ×0.93 70 | 115 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B (salesforce.com)
    ×1.67 21 | 321 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. KDE Plasma 6.7 Released (kde.org)
    ×5.49 29 | 48 points by jrepinc 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)
    ×2.96 10 | 324 points by schu 23 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CrankGPT (crankgpt.com)
    ×3.57 30 | 590 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Joy That Is Being Lost (davegriffith.substack.com)
    ×0.96 18 | 4 points by cspags 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (narracomm.com)
    ×1.28 10 | 117 points by thelonelyborg 16 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.49 23 | 18 points by dstala 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B (wheresyoured.at)
    ×4.53 32 | 116 points by spking 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???