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  1. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.12 | 183 points by apitman 1 hour ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.00 1 | 741 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×1.13 8 | 135 points by willcarkner 4 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me (illegal.solutions)
    ×4.93 2 | 72 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Almost no skill required to cook a steak (sydorets.com)
    ×1.99 1 | 181 points by yusyd 4 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×2.31 7 | 21 points by collinmanderson 56 minutes ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.22 13 | 40 points by tsak 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The DISTINCT in Your COUNT (boringsql.com)
    ×1.39 7 | 12 points by gmcabrita 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.59 29 | 6 points by bschne 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.67 11 | 594 points by DarkContinent 15 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×2.07 16 | 39 points by laurentiurad 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.18 | 98 points by Jeaye 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Simple Elegance of the Integrated Timing Belt Loopback Fastener (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.97 17 | 65 points by hasheddan 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.96 9 | 408 points by atan2 13 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work (jacobin.com)
    ×3.74 8 | 45 points by ughitsaaron 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.74 3 | 64 points by davidmckayv 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users (openai.com)
    ×2.11 1 | 50 points by tedsanders 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.53 11 | 199 points by binyu 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.63 1 | 209 points by Wirbelwind 8 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Building progressively enhanced forms using Htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.80 17 | 24 points by mpweiher 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×0.26 64 | 4 points by jdkee 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.78 13 | 890 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.31 19 | 60 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)
    ×3.25 10 | 17 points by m463 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.06 15 | 810 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561) (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.27 1 | 45 points by john_strinlai 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off" (gamedev.place)
    ×1.39 17 | 45 points by luu 1 hour ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)
    ×2.24 11 | 57 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.43 27 | 132 points by nanochess 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (secretsauce.net)
    ×0.44 28 | 24 points by dima55 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.94 15 | 406 points by ExMachina73 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.95 25 | 414 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.33 26 | 391 points by lladnar 1 day ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.67 33 | 315 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.64 17 | 642 points by speckx 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.03 13 | 276 points by greyblake 19 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.06 8 | 514 points by ahamez 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.24 43 | 195 points by pella 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.57 39 | 291 points by hackerBanana 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What Happened to Talenti? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.94 18 | 40 points by tysone 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.76 45 | 61 points by skogstokig 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)
    ×0.50 37 | 35 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.69 41 | 266 points by calvinfo 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (gnu.org)
    ×1.31 44 | 218 points by plaguna 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.66 50 | 65 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
    ×0.50 82 | 3 points by danschuller 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.61 25 | 234 points by Xeophon 22 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.35 84 | 65 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×3.00 2 | 424 points by speckx 1 day ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Science for Kids (ocaho.com)
    ×1.11 37 | 15 points by rahimnathwani 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.90 58 | 151 points by _____k 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.44 44 | 160 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
    ×1.08 7 | 50 points by quuxplusone 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (techdirt.com)
    ×2.83 21 | 25 points by hn_acker 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock (github.com/palamim)
    ×1.29 52 | 18 points by leopalamim 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
    ×3.87 48 | 232 points by aemerson_ 5 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×2.89 18 | 198 points by microtonal 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.23 50 | 91 points by Jare 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.48 33 | 215 points by weli 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.83 53 | 137 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (nashvillebanner.com)
    ×1.43 33 | 36 points by DeepLogin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.07 26 | 59 points by jandrewrogers 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.81 49 | 75 points by oryx1729 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.84 59 | 126 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.22 4 | 18 points by benwerd 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×0.89 49 | 97 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.13 55 | 146 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.08 35 | 186 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.47 7 | 28 points by ninko 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.33 54 | 215 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cuprate – an alternative and independent Monero node software written in Rust (github.com/Cuprate)
    ×1.03 47 | 22 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.12 75 | 439 points by pmg101 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.46 32 | 119 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (bbc.com)
    ×1.98 20 | 6 points by geox 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.82 53 | 105 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)
    ×4.36 9 | 108 points by geox 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.84 52 | 108 points by yogthos 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×1.82 61 | 82 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
    ×0.89 53 | 53 points by shuklaayush 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×7.17 76 | 165 points by Footkerchief 4 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
    ×2.29 41 | 313 points by mapping365 17 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×2.82 7 | 482 points by dzdt 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet (bbc.com)
    ×1.58 65 | 62 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.64 57 | 58 points by triska 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
    ×1.79 39 | 124 points by j4mie 12 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
    ×2.92 24 | 159 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.55 46 | 82 points by speckx 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What happens if you put work into the second dimension? (norbertkozsir.com)
    ×1.06 42 | 74 points by abelsm 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
    ×1.27 | 295 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???