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  1. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×5.34 | 1433 points by haunter 18 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×5.03 | 1163 points by diebillionaires 17 hours ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.41 1 | 142 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×2.82 6 | 251 points by whatisabcdefgh 12 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.16 4 | 89 points by stereo-highway 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
    ×1.61 22 | 9 points by suoken 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe (cringeout.com)
    ×1.51 1 | 13 points by CringeOut 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (aresluna.org)
    ×1.64 2 | 33 points by frizlab 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.35 2 | 602 points by e12e 18 hours ago | 657 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.29 9 | 110 points by SpyCoder77 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
    ×1.32 4 | 43 points by mindcrime 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 9 | 47 points by jonbaer 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
    ×2.15 10 | 39 points by segmenta 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.99 10 | 20 points by darkrishabh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×1.09 19 | 11 points by TMWNN 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×2.24 10 | 20 points by wojtczyk 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (google.com)
    ×2.09 3 | 305 points by unforgivenpasta 16 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
    ×1.45 7 | 258 points by stevekrouse 16 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
    ×1.17 8 | 56 points by chabad360 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.86 12 | 224 points by bstrama 17 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.90 12 | 49 points by petethomas 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.85 7 | 43 points by isaacfrond 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
    ×1.16 24 | 103 points by dmos62 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
    ×1.59 19 | 150 points by ks2048 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.02 27 | 163 points by ozkatz 18 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
    ×0.74 38 | 60 points by zeech 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.08 19 | 135 points by benanne 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.58 3 | 193 points by elonlit 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.93 51 | 75 points by jonbaer 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.62 25 | 19 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.93 1 | 276 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
    ×3.04 19 | 311 points by s1291 14 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.86 8 | 50 points by LabsLucas 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
    ×0.76 50 | 136 points by jandeboevrie 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens (noetik.blog)
    ×0.42 56 | 21 points by crescit_eundo 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×1.01 26 | 73 points by asmodios 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.97 24 | 132 points by oahmadov 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.77 67 | 89 points by gmays 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.56 16 | 556 points by Anon84 23 hours ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.66 2 | 635 points by rolph 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
    ×4.99 29 | 368 points by jeromechoo 14 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×5.28 29 | 459 points by meetpateltech 17 hours ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.39 | 1674 points by john-doe 2 days ago | 1105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×3.07 5 | 656 points by signa11 1 day ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
    ×0.79 32 | 96 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×1.00 48 | 130 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Who edited the date stamp of this post (xcancel.com)
    ×1.77 18 | 3 points by razodactyl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.35 4 | 458 points by hakonjdjohnsen 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.28 49 | 7 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.78 80 | 141 points by mtricot 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
    ×2.54 11 | 347 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.67 14 | 667 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.81 4 | 449 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.03 1 | 737 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Google tools for customizing searches (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
    ×0.83 31 | 74 points by maxutility 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
    ×1.03 57 | 125 points by omarsar 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (sciencehistory.org)
    ×0.52 51 | 58 points by benbreen 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)
    ×2.68 23 | 188 points by thunderbong 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense (togetherloop.com)
    ×0.85 56 | 6 points by DoctorOW 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.54 9 | 237 points by notsentient 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion (therecord.media)
    ×1.54 3 | 40 points by PaulHoule 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition (theguardian.com)
    ×1.89 3 | 70 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
    ×1.62 15 | 255 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Proton Meet (proton.me)
    ×2.64 14 | 130 points by Einenlum 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.18 8 | 331 points by veeti 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
    ×1.25 59 | 6 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.45 4 | 219 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We programmed a program to program new programs (2011) (smbc-comics.com)
    ×2.30 24 | 30 points by Georgelemental 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works (kevinwebber.ca)
    ×1.01 52 | 23 points by kw3b 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.30 17 | 60 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.21 9 | 482 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×0.99 62 | 138 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.10 3 | 138 points by cainxinth 21 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Taphouse – A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew (multimodalsolutions.gr)
    ×1.61 61 | 11 points by jupe69 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Compressed Cognition: The Cost of Faster Coding (adamtornhill.substack.com)
    ×0.83 26 | 3 points by nephrenka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)
    ×2.05 5 | 367 points by nohell 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.65 12 | 232 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.56 39 | 259 points by ingve 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)
    ×2.21 3 | 530 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.32 52 | 223 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.12 15 | 421 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×2.30 44 | 73 points by BiraIgnacio 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
    ×1.88 27 | 74 points by iristenteije 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Building the deployment tool I wish I had (ruuda.nl)
    ×0.99 35 | 40 points by ruuda 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.13 39 | 69 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.03 2 | 34 points by epistasis 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
    ×2.77 2 | 376 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 9 | 324 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
    ×4.39 15 | 475 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???