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  1. Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light (iaea.org)
    ×1.64 1 | 28 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×4.18 4 | 1063 points by fnthawar2 19 hours ago | 737 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×3.30 13 | 522 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Working with Git Worktrees in Magit (emacsredux.com)
    ×0.97 14 | 44 points by srijan4 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI Agents API (openai.com)
    ×2.03 15 | 262 points by aquir 13 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead (github.com/joshenders)
    ×1.68 7 | 39 points by jenders 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)
    ×1.84 14 | 189 points by auberonedu 11 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Gemini app is now available for Windows (blog.google)
    ×0.96 7 | 48 points by quysala12 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (nasa.gov)
    ×1.99 19 | 334 points by gumby 18 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds (upsocl.com)
    ×3.01 2 | 204 points by rguiscard 8 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop (nasutton.notion.site)
    ×1.51 1 | 95 points by nasutton12 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Neijuan (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.67 7 | 18 points by vermilingua 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami (ntsb.gov:443)
    ×1.12 24 | 104 points by mckn1ght 12 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GPT‑Live‑1 in the API (openai.com)
    ×1.61 29 | 14 points by arittr 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.93 4 | 806 points by pred_ 20 hours ago | 740 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×2.00 7 | 413 points by seelos 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory (system76.com)
    ×1.51 13 | 104 points by jonifico 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (pugetsound.edu)
    ×1.79 16 | 224 points by aanet 16 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
    ×1.40 27 | 185 points by weierstass 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Neki – Sharded Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.73 15 | 243 points by simon_weber 17 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock (ft.com)
    ×5.80 18 | 33 points by mraniki 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)
    ×1.20 30 | 106 points by mariabg 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft (rustfoundation.org)
    ×3.05 9 | 673 points by mmastrac 20 hours ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? (pocoo.org)
    ×5.15 23 | 315 points by manojbajaj95 3 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.54 25 | 181 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (anthropic.com)
    ×1.70 31 | 130 points by garo-pro 16 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. So you want to use OpenRouter? (mmoustafa.com)
    ×2.52 23 | 65 points by player85 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Testing race conditions with mem access tracing and stack-based delay injection (projectzero.google)
    ×0.37 45 | 7 points by mfrw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health (cell.com)
    ×2.07 19 | 97 points by qclibre22 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning (map-yue2.github.io)
    ×1.19 4 | 94 points by sexy_seedbox 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Recursion into madness (coredump.cx)
    ×1.29 29 | 70 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored (huggingface.co)
    ×4.65 25 | 38 points by soltanov 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×0.94 31 | 92 points by Skinney 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What Comes After Git (ersc.io)
    ×2.16 3 | 47 points by tangled 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What happens when a GPU writes memory (doubleword.ai)
    ×0.89 32 | 67 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard (webb.page)
    ×0.58 42 | 26 points by NetOpWibby 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×2.83 4 | 393 points by haunter 21 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)
    ×1.69 16 | 168 points by paimapi 17 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result (geekbench.com)
    ×1.73 30 | 12 points by aurareturn 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality (vertumnus.fyi)
    ×0.64 52 | 42 points by perspectivezoom 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree (devz.cl)
    ×0.82 60 | 91 points by DanielVZ 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (lemire.me)
    ×1.15 42 | 99 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×2.53 52 | 85 points by matheusml 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models (magic.dev)
    ×1.09 27 | 114 points by ronfriedhaber 19 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
    ×0.76 51 | 61 points by cdnsteve 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants (bbc.com)
    ×3.05 37 | 210 points by lukaspetersson 8 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (deepseek.com)
    ×2.28 35 | 23 points by thatxliner 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)
    ×4.93 26 | 971 points by Liwink 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.63 50 | 28 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof (johndcook.com)
    ×2.22 23 | 164 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Herdr Studio (powerfooi.github.io)
    ×1.42 8 | 37 points by throwaway888abc 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm (jo3-l.dev)
    ×0.92 28 | 16 points by haeseong 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Creativity is the new moat (inventbuild.studio)
    ×2.11 17 | 156 points by virgil_disgr4ce 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics (specy.app)
    ×0.74 52 | 24 points by specy 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Knap – Turn Data into Markdown (knap.md)
    ×1.89 63 | 28 points by coinfused 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Macbeth and His Problems (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.60 42 | 75 points by apophatic 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×5.27 25 | 1448 points by thecosmicfrog 1 day ago | 2489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Thinking with Looped Flows (arxiv.org)
    ×1.36 75 | 4 points by E-Reverance 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Larger Pacific striped octopus (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.91 54 | 128 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.50 16 | 310 points by thelastgallon 22 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.67 56 | 42 points by ayles 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.74 54 | 48 points by snyy 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Julia 1.13 Highlights (julialang.org)
    ×2.79 39 | 22 points by postflopclarity 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Countries 15x10 Pixel Flags (github.com/igor-couto)
    ×1.22 56 | 14 points by lionello 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac (tensorsandtokens.com)
    ×0.99 11 | 25 points by etoxin 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.85 19 | 351 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Shopify acquires Tailwind (tailwindcss.com)
    ×4.11 14 | 1126 points by EdwinHoksberg 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. On Next-Gen Transformer: Loops Are Not What You Need (zartbot.github.io)
    ×1.19 58 | 25 points by matt_d 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Stockfish 19 (stockfishchess.org)
    ×1.78 8 | 275 points by atiedebee 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.00 22 | 585 points by dmitrybrant 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history (thecollector.com)
    ×0.68 40 | 50 points by mdp2021 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How My Students Think About AI (lesswrong.com)
    ×4.07 21 | 39 points by paulpauper 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.16 48 | 48 points by pavel_lishin 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.96 71 | 5 points by gumby 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.78 13 | 440 points by LeoPanthera 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft Brings "Age Verification" System to Windows (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.45 37 | 13 points by PPBear 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
    ×2.88 14 | 658 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (not-ship.com)
    ×1.25 66 | 126 points by speckx 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower (conviva.ai)
    ×1.03 62 | 37 points by rzk 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.53 59 | 30 points by ikswolzok 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The little holes in your bread are telling you something (edconway.substack.com)
    ×1.42 58 | 48 points by baud147258 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple Watch Series 12 (apple.com)
    ×1.65 26 | 275 points by Lealen 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job (basedagents.ai)
    ×1.64 62 | 4 points by maxcr 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.80 58 | 81 points by Gaishan 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GNU Radio in the browser (gnuradioworld.com)
    ×1.22 38 | 222 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
    ×1.14 36 | 134 points by thomasahle 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators (thelec.net)
    ×0.59 54 | 56 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (ieee.org)
    ×2.28 3 | 437 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 830 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Identity Verification in Japan: What Happens Behind the Scenes (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.10 67 | 4 points by pwim 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???