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  1. Flipdiscs (flipdisc.io)
    ×2.24 1 | 288 points by skogstokig 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce (nytimes.com)
    ×2.03 2 | 54 points by wslh 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (medium.com)
    ×3.96 | 828 points by ca98am79 13 hours ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
    ×3.50 3 | 517 points by koshyjohn 14 hours ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
    ×2.46 1 | 312 points by bjhess 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
    ×1.59 5 | 164 points by kweezar 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) (robbowen.digital)
    ×2.20 6 | 84 points by hisamafahri 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The Prompt API (chrome.com)
    ×1.74 6 | 133 points by gslin 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Three constraints before I build anything (jordanlord.co.uk)
    ×2.03 4 | 217 points by nervous_north 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting (slicker.me)
    ×1.11 17 | 19 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com/WeebLabs)
    ×1.70 56 | 4 points by BoingBoomTschak 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
    ×1.58 5 | 269 points by dd23 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
    ×1.50 6 | 127 points by ddrmaxgt37 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design (hawaii.edu)
    ×0.73 14 | 34 points by o4c 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Box to save memory in Rust (dystroy.org)
    ×1.29 15 | 135 points by emschwartz 13 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.70 15 | 309 points by kmdupree 20 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
    ×2.99 7 | 392 points by berkeleyjunk 13 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (amasci.com)
    ×0.34 55 | 6 points by ludicrousdispla 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book (github.com/ebrandi)
    ×1.41 19 | 88 points by myth_drannon 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination (vice.com)
    ×2.31 15 | 49 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Mystery Cpuid Bit (os2museum.com)
    ×0.47 28 | 16 points by userbinator 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
    ×1.25 57 | 138 points by gurjeet 21 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.16 19 | 137 points by pwim 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
    ×5.58 15 | 700 points by jeremyccrane 18 hours ago | 843 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.07 1 | 70 points by evanklem2004 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (bbc.com)
    ×1.50 18 | 113 points by reconnecting 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.82 9 | 213 points by 1659447091 13 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Revocation of X.509 Certificates (apnic.net)
    ×0.85 12 | 41 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core (tingouw.com)
    ×0.92 29 | 76 points by MrBuddyCasino 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.11 31 | 146 points by 2DcAf 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
    ×1.27 4 | 226 points by j0r0b0 18 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
    ×1.01 25 | 131 points by PLenz 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American (forbes.com)
    ×3.26 18 | 5 points by rzk 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. MoQ Boy (moq.dev)
    ×0.75 38 | 61 points by mmcclure 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 (epicresearch.org)
    ×1.67 27 | 22 points by salkahfi 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (alejandro.pe)
    ×0.56 47 | 31 points by alejandrohacks 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) (macchaffee.com)
    ×1.76 40 | 111 points by Wingy 19 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023) (si.edu)
    ×0.52 32 | 10 points by radeeyate 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.14 13 | 38 points by drio 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
    ×1.41 34 | 216 points by yak32 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.04 21 | 621 points by elisaado 23 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)
    ×2.36 20 | 74 points by jonbaer 8 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
    ×4.12 31 | 613 points by jamesponddotco 17 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)
    ×0.77 44 | 52 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.13 42 | 46 points by trebeljahr 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The QEII garden – built from its own ruins – opens in Regent's Park (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.78 49 | 24 points by zeristor 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Music of the BBC Microcomputer System (acornelectron.co.uk)
    ×0.64 53 | 21 points by eightb 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The fastest Linux timestamps (hmpcabral.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 61 points by hmpc 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. When your digital life vanishes (newyorker.com)
    ×1.35 17 | 61 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×1.73 39 | 102 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist (Health Intelligence) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.33 16 | 755 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection (v8.dev)
    ×0.53 53 | 41 points by plow-tycoon 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.54 15 | 176 points by rodarima 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    ×1.65 36 | 228 points by iamwil 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025) (fosdem.org)
    ×0.66 56 | 55 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color (barwypowstania.pl)
    ×2.35 23 | 149 points by keiferski 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.56 44 | 27 points by iliabara 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards (npmjs.com)
    ×1.25 52 | 84 points by okovooo 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft (ft.com)
    ×1.83 39 | 103 points by donsupreme 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.65 47 | 165 points by offbyone42 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    ×1.24 56 | 165 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Last of the Lost Generation (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.54 47 | 20 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
    ×1.60 17 | 301 points by sph 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one (pcworld.com)
    ×3.68 36 | 43 points by Garbage 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ELI: Explain Like I'm for any ArXiv Paper (voxos.ai)
    ×1.09 60 | 16 points by Falimonda 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×0.70 47 | 82 points by subset 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Voice Modems (computer.rip)
    ×0.64 54 | 12 points by K7PJP 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.69 60 | 76 points by jger15 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
    ×0.94 23 | 106 points by Jach 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sloppy Copies (markround.com)
    ×0.90 23 | 62 points by dev_hugepages 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Hokusai and Tesselations (ndl.go.jp)
    ×1.18 58 | 141 points by srean 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (happyfellow.dev)
    ×1.59 42 | 194 points by thehappyfellow 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
    ×1.42 43 | 154 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.41 10 | 497 points by gwerbret 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
    ×2.86 35 | 235 points by luckman212 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: AgentSwarms – free hands-on playground to learn agentic AI, no setup (agentswarms.fyi)
    ×0.99 58 | 15 points by rohan044 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.73 28 | 549 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    ×1.98 34 | 248 points by zdw 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    ×1.92 12 | 414 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI appears to be funding it (modelrepublic.substack.com)
    ×3.62 17 | 36 points by Teever 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) (github.com/sachitrafa)
    ×0.97 34 | 88 points by SachitRafa 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. DeepSeek v4 (deepseek.com)
    ×8.10 1 | 2068 points by impact_sy 3 days ago | 1593 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Principia Softwarica: Fundamental Literate System Programs (principia-softwarica.org)
    ×1.16 44 | 17 points by pratikdeoghare 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
    ×0.68 36 | 60 points by t-3 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
    ×3.34 20 | 342 points by gasull 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (hypertalking.com)
    ×2.64 2 | 607 points by stephen-hill 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)
    ×1.23 49 | 80 points by mji 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.42 47 | 175 points by adunk 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (matthewbrunelle.com)
    ×2.11 7 | 359 points by speckx 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???