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  1. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)
    ×3.36 1 | 217 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I Changed My License (bergie.iki.fi)
    ×1.80 1 | 23 points by jllyhill 36 minutes ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do (github.com/pigeonlabsHQ)
    ×1.30 26 | 3 points by pigeonlabshq 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)
    ×2.45 1 | 437 points by zplizzi 11 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Music Theory for Programmers (runjs.app)
    ×2.37 6 | 158 points by birdculture 8 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The revolt of the reader (dtrace.org)
    ×2.77 4 | 385 points by chmaynard 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 (ibm.com)
    ×1.06 9 | 21 points by fuglede_ 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.73 6 | 17 points by gurjeet 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 (dpreview.com)
    ×0.97 9 | 72 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)
    ×1.33 12 | 71 points by firexcy 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (wordpress.com)
    ×1.41 17 | 61 points by vermaden 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (motherjones.com)
    ×6.90 11 | 135 points by vrganj 2 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices (online.fr)
    ×0.86 8 | 70 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
    ×7.81 5 | 2193 points by moultano 1 day ago | 1550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Learn Programming with OCaml (cnrs.fr)
    ×1.68 10 | 262 points by elvis70 18 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×5.27 10 | 428 points by ExMachina73 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)
    ×1.63 9 | 350 points by networked 21 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)
    ×4.27 10 | 629 points by bookmtn 14 hours ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
    ×2.98 17 | 779 points by negura 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A Computer History Time Capsule (archive.org)
    ×0.47 40 | 10 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
    ×3.38 14 | 685 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (robocurve.org)
    ×2.25 13 | 201 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)
    ×2.76 8 | 282 points by canjobear 15 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Topologist's Map of the World (futilitycloset.com)
    ×1.47 15 | 99 points by beardyw 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)
    ×1.44 28 | 178 points by torutofu 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. RecurseCenter.return() (mm-dev.rocks)
    ×0.93 14 | 53 points by evakhoury 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map (victoriametrics.com)
    ×0.91 29 | 81 points by valyala 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.19 36 | 109 points by willx86 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor (github.com/iczelia)
    ×0.97 32 | 90 points by palaiologos 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
    ×2.26 32 | 486 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. "Catching Crumbs from the Table" (nature.com)
    ×0.67 64 | 4 points by stefanpie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
    ×0.95 43 | 137 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
    ×2.02 35 | 408 points by iopapa 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks (llogiq.github.io)
    ×0.16 68 | 5 points by speckx 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward (isaraerospace.com)
    ×0.79 49 | 41 points by t43562 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber (practical.engineering)
    ×0.77 46 | 69 points by crescit_eundo 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.58 21 | 70 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.41 56 | 259 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
    ×0.91 42 | 96 points by rfarley04 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
    ×1.93 37 | 398 points by stingrae 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Singapore subway (mrt) information display types (sgtrains.com)
    ×0.59 58 | 56 points by gregorvand 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Site Is Closed on Sundays (robweychert.com)
    ×2.70 35 | 90 points by edent 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×8.04 | 2235 points by kibae 2 days ago | 2046 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)
    ×2.55 40 | 71 points by rzk 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.84 33 | 313 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
    ×3.00 1 | 756 points by jlebar 1 day ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Steffen's Polyhedron (gregegan.net)
    ×0.81 36 | 63 points by pavel_lishin 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game (michaelteter.com)
    ×1.03 2 | 82 points by michaelteter 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. .gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)
    ×1.66 5 | 172 points by der_gopher 21 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
    ×3.12 3 | 346 points by sevenseacat 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×0.79 45 | 76 points by bryanrasmussen 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×8.03 4 | 2202 points by pavel_lishin 2 days ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Obscura: Native rendering is here. No Chromium required (github.com/h4ckf0r0day)
    ×1.60 53 | 19 points by partsch 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
    ×2.44 12 | 463 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
    ×1.47 48 | 201 points by gioscarab 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)
    ×2.61 18 | 383 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison (circuitvalley.com)
    ×0.53 40 | 22 points by devoxel 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com/okf-memory)
    ×1.12 9 | 67 points by okf_memory 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)
    ×0.81 52 | 76 points by ingve 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.64 19 | 103 points by stefan_ 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy (quad9.net)
    ×0.97 56 | 128 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Can guitar frets perform multiplication? (charlespetzold.com)
    ×1.08 43 | 132 points by wibbily 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (atspotify.com)
    ×1.98 16 | 260 points by cebert 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
    ×1.18 43 | 171 points by acusti 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Responsive Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (gross.is)
    ×1.48 60 | 9 points by endtwist 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
    ×1.21 52 | 159 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)
    ×1.34 49 | 132 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.28 30 | 156 points by nojs 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Git Submodules as a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.78 51 | 89 points by ErenayDev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)
    ×3.24 46 | 282 points by robin_reala 19 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Anthropic & friends caught paying religious NGO's 3.3M for propaganda (effort.news)
    ×4.14 56 | 46 points by nullbio 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)
    ×1.02 54 | 158 points by palashawas 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)
    ×0.84 51 | 113 points by rietta 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 34 arrests made for drug trafficking at Burning Man as of Friday (rgj.com)
    ×2.40 16 | 9 points by MilnerRoute 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs (gmcgoldr.github.io)
    ×1.78 39 | 155 points by garrinm 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Write Software in Latin (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.71 27 | 46 points by akkartik 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)
    ×4.14 55 | 158 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark (nytimes.com)
    ×0.90 49 | 32 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. RSA-260 Factorized (twitter.com/penlume)
    ×1.22 29 | 137 points by samyok 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.69 11 | 687 points by altertable 2 days ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System (arxiv.org)
    ×0.73 39 | 56 points by zdw 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project (jeremykun.com)
    ×0.80 60 | 56 points by turtleyacht 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.84 63 | 22 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.88 45 | 116 points by ubolonton_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Icons as a Service (nravic.com)
    ×0.69 58 | 54 points by nravic 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)
    ×3.78 75 | 484 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.01 15 | 432 points by speckx 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 43 | 186 points by sukit 2 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ok, but does it scale? (spacetimedb.com)
    ×0.96 38 | 125 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???