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  1. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com/Niko1221)
    ×2.89 2 | 487 points by snehesht 8 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)
    ×3.62 1 | 132 points by privacyisntdead 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A map of every lighthouse (mapped.earth)
    ×1.54 2 | 131 points by karakoram 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.65 2 | 96 points by sensanaty 1 hour ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)
    ×1.04 5 | 41 points by pepys 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.91 1 | 19 points by signa11 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around (gruberbuilds.workers.dev)
    ×2.01 1 | 18 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Results from the ASIC puzzle (janestreet.com)
    ×1.88 3 | 54 points by eru 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
    ×0.68 15 | 11 points by davidwshao 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.34 4 | 145 points by r0r0 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A man who listens to whales (blue-continuum.com)
    ×1.08 50 | 7 points by dnetesn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.63 | 769 points by paveworld 20 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 6 | 23 points by simonjgreen 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting (birdshistory.com)
    ×0.76 25 | 10 points by Heidi_70 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Page Table Memory Consumption (frn.sh)
    ×1.24 7 | 16 points by shellpipe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.30 12 | 125 points by allenleee 12 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The evolution of effective altruism (economist.com)
    ×1.96 9 | 39 points by bazzmt 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo (seriot.ch)
    ×0.94 13 | 27 points by beefburger 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.90 21 | 12 points by zero_k 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.94 12 | 47 points by shannadige 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.57 4 | 263 points by vinhnx 17 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.92 35 | 39 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.58 13 | 443 points by speckx 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What is going on with ceiling fans (mcmansionhell.com)
    ×3.74 38 | 146 points by colinprince 18 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.89 54 | 67 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed (fog-bank.org)
    ×0.58 25 | 9 points by rdmuser 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
    ×2.34 19 | 326 points by kmeh 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
    ×1.27 60 | 122 points by simonjgreen 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.49 19 | 111 points by knuckleheads 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    ×3.57 24 | 362 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 654 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com/net4people)
    ×2.03 12 | 12 points by timbill 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Heilbronn Problem (tejstead.com)
    ×0.97 5 | 57 points by tejstead 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.85 12 | 305 points by CosmoWenman 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)
    ×0.80 1 | 102 points by rdmuser 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.39 40 | 98 points by rkagerer 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Second Chances (nybooks.com)
    ×0.76 19 | 9 points by samclemens 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs (joshua.hu)
    ×1.22 33 | 74 points by chanux 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.67 18 | 350 points by trwhite 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager (whec.com)
    ×1.58 38 | 264 points by gscott 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.26 43 | 53 points by 6bitquant 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. TurboPython – A Python-to-C++ Compiler (tpy-lang.org)
    ×1.72 58 | 8 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken (theatlantic.com)
    ×5.47 17 | 446 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search (jetbrains.com)
    ×1.64 30 | 31 points by saikatsg 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The dot and the Swarm: Benefitting from the bitter lesson (oneusefulthing.org)
    ×0.51 32 | 6 points by bluepeter 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.70 30 | 21 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.60 23 | 223 points by citelao 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.57 30 | 577 points by elffjs 21 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (plover.com)
    ×0.51 46 | 12 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.67 31 | 207 points by geoffbp 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) (play.date)
    ×1.16 35 | 67 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
    ×1.60 46 | 121 points by young_mete 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (runescape.com)
    ×1.68 10 | 146 points by droidjj 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×3.25 28 | 429 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system (github.com/vlang)
    ×1.98 17 | 4 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Your body of work thinks back at you (photoni.st)
    ×1.03 44 | 95 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)
    ×1.19 39 | 194 points by romac 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 (radical-elements.com)
    ×1.75 44 | 158 points by lexx 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023) (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 46 | 67 points by bobajeff 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to hack time, with C2PA (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×0.68 50 | 58 points by Retr0id 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer (github.com/mikesart)
    ×0.99 4 | 69 points by luu 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop recreated in the browser (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×1.66 53 | 9 points by wiso 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? (thoreaubasic.com)
    ×0.96 49 | 88 points by Gorsefound 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×2.01 6 | 153 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler (github.com/andreasfertig)
    ×1.23 43 | 169 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) (darbiansphotography.com)
    ×0.96 41 | 147 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Does Costco Cause Cancer? (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×2.75 3 | 11 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
    ×3.73 18 | 650 points by bastitx 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.00 60 | 67 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×0.95 36 | 112 points by edverma2 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill (cbc.ca)
    ×3.52 30 | 27 points by throw0101a 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×0.58 53 | 40 points by effects 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding (halide.cx)
    ×0.86 47 | 67 points by computerbuster 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (recoil.org)
    ×0.71 59 | 47 points by avsm 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Thought as a Technology (2016) (cognitivemedium.com)
    ×0.60 56 | 13 points by tobr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family (aboutamazon.com)
    ×1.21 46 | 46 points by seam_carver 21 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.06 55 | 88 points by nor-and-or-not 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)
    ×2.27 58 | 99 points by actfrench 9 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. To grieve, or not to grieve? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.21 75 | 163 points by stabbles 2 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Make Tmux the OS (matduggan.com)
    ×2.26 34 | 218 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (eff.org)
    ×3.23 10 | 797 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. New York City should carefully measure a new tree (willmeye.rs)
    ×0.98 29 | 80 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    ×0.89 40 | 66 points by KomoD 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tiny Brutalism (itch.io)
    ×2.04 54 | 211 points by abetusk 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Muse Gadgets (muse.ai)
    ×1.63 41 | 247 points by anant 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
    ×1.58 50 | 307 points by pietroppeter 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Holes (1996-2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.89 55 | 59 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (newgrounds.com)
    ×2.24 7 | 457 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Softmax function and its derivative (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.85 45 | 40 points by costco 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (nytimes.com)
    ×3.41 3 | 664 points by CoryOndrejka 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???