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  1. What Happened to HackerOne? (teknogeek.io)
    ×2.24 | 86 points by hipparchus 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×2.81 | 494 points by laurentiurad 8 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
    ×1.77 2 | 16 points by dango2506 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.16 | 47 points by craigkerstiens 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.32 4 | 200 points by david927 10 hours ago | 712 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    ×2.24 12 | 216 points by jader201 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
    ×0.97 24 | 30 points by klaussilveira 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.13 18 | 65 points by smartmic 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.67 16 | 205 points by Klaster_1 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.97 4 | 92 points by berghoffer 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.79 16 | 40 points by Thevet 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
    ×1.65 8 | 22 points by LelouBil 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
    ×1.21 9 | 88 points by simonpure 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.76 29 | 41 points by jackdoe 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.29 13 | 120 points by hexomancer 10 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.11 19 | 237 points by ike_usawa 16 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (dpreview.com)
    ×3.25 14 | 66 points by anigbrowl 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The German Mittelstand (kieranvelasquez.substack.com)
    ×0.80 27 | 19 points by Michelangelo11 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.39 61 | 15 points by tosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.46 13 | 420 points by akyuu 12 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.27 31 | 134 points by tremguy 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.76 34 | 108 points by Rochus 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Ambition Project (betonit.ai)
    ×0.85 28 | 14 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.71 33 | 47 points by tintinnabula 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language (memelang.net)
    ×0.73 12 | 8 points by bri-holt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×1.85 3 | 90 points by gregsadetsky 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (cnbc.com)
    ×5.05 10 | 12 points by cramer4next 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.80 57 | 88 points by Lammy 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    ×1.10 12 | 133 points by Kiboneu 14 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
    ×0.63 52 | 46 points by eighttrigrams 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)
    ×1.57 21 | 106 points by yu3zhou4 7 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    ×0.73 23 | 31 points by johnchinjew 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.68 17 | 236 points by Thorondor 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes (nytimes.com)
    ×2.03 13 | 53 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" (github.com/transmission)
    ×2.37 54 | 25 points by jonatanholmgren 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.78 30 | 575 points by satvikpendem 14 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Crickets as pets (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.04 17 | 81 points by Michelangelo11 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (wordpress.com)
    ×0.60 76 | 29 points by ijustlovemath 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×1.29 40 | 125 points by michaefe 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. If experience is the goal, then you always win (startingfromnix.com)
    ×1.83 1 | 69 points by jger15 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices (raed.dev)
    ×0.89 45 | 21 points by Raed667 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.22 19 | 188 points by iamnothere 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.11 80 | 86 points by Eloissssss 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance (arks.org)
    ×0.41 83 | 8 points by cxr 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.08 30 | 248 points by evo_9 12 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.11 32 | 76 points by johnbarron 16 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.35 1 | 493 points by seg6 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.83 20 | 37 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.34 73 | 113 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Weather balloon to the stratosphere with a Raspberry Pi computer (github.com/stratopi-org)
    ×1.79 10 | 5 points by nodesocket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.15 10 | 185 points by gukoff 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×0.97 72 | 90 points by frozenseven 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×0.66 58 | 30 points by dosinga 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.87 12 | 63 points by shayonj 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com/nMaroulis)
    ×0.44 65 | 17 points by nmaroulis21 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.51 21 | 246 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease (consciousnesslibrary.org)
    ×1.20 46 | 13 points by elliotec 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cross-compilation with Wails (2025) (chriswheeler.dev)
    ×0.21 89 | 8 points by auraham 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.36 11 | 496 points by groomlake 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.63 71 | 38 points by login588 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Blender MCP maintainer GitHub account hacked (twitter.com/sidahuj)
    ×2.77 29 | 15 points by babuskov 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.49 78 | 49 points by 1659447091 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
    ×1.01 11 | 162 points by BruceEel 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.81 17 | 25 points by sbulaev 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s (npr.org)
    ×2.32 16 | 23 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.67 5 | 202 points by doubletwoyou 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.80 5 | 362 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CRT-TV-Emulator (github.com/AARomanov1985)
    ×1.04 51 | 11 points by xterminal 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)
    ×4.23 61 | 115 points by chirau 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Popular WPForms Lite put a backdoor in their plugin (twitter.com/SybreWaaijer)
    ×3.01 12 | 15 points by hackerbeat 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite (github.com/nsrht)
    ×1.15 1 | 31 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Lawyers using "AI" could face sanctions including costs for fake citations (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.84 1 | 17 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness (antigma.ai)
    ×1.39 68 | 29 points by ubermon 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards (nytimes.com)
    ×2.85 44 | 84 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.75 53 | 155 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×3.66 22 | 60 points by Doriell 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.20 33 | 874 points by senko 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.04 6 | 430 points by shaunpud 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.37 16 | 441 points by bhavansig 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account (unyolo.io)
    ×0.59 52 | 17 points by hosolmaz 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Literary Sins (thedial.world)
    ×0.76 28 | 26 points by lermontov 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.28 11 | 1054 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 1288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
    ×2.03 7 | 177 points by bohaska 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp (unherd.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 42 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (abc.net.au)
    ×3.42 61 | 52 points by stared 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.00 38 | 329 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.83 4 | 422 points by 882542F3884314B 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.72 75 | 102 points by mef 7 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.13 11 | 783 points by tosh 2 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager (theregister.com)
    ×1.98 54 | 70 points by joebuckwilliams 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???