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  1. How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
    ×1.02 3 | 51 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (meta.com)
    ×2.32 7 | 500 points by yks 14 hours ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
    ×1.05 4 | 43 points by whoami_nr 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (nyu.edu)
    ×7.83 8 | 1655 points by procedurecall 1 day ago | 701 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
    ×0.99 10 | 116 points by mdp2021 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.69 18 | 43 points by cisc 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
    ×2.41 4 | 325 points by cat-whisperer 12 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme (codeberg.org)
    ×0.71 44 | 6 points by jjba23 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
    ×2.18 9 | 560 points by utiiiD 18 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
    ×0.94 9 | 47 points by porridgeraisin 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.59 16 | 198 points by Topfi 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration (openreview.net)
    ×1.02 14 | 158 points by paimapi 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (ericgoldman.org)
    ×2.79 7 | 78 points by progval 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×1.66 18 | 403 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.82 14 | 218 points by Cider9986 2 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
    ×1.08 13 | 78 points by bpierre 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.66 6 | 438 points by domhudson 19 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.94 8 | 362 points by _alternator_ 12 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (openai.com)
    ×6.41 14 | 1259 points by tedsanders 16 hours ago | 1004 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
    ×1.26 22 | 248 points by stared 18 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.84 20 | 57 points by saikatsg 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety (politico.eu)
    ×5.04 14 | 11 points by taubek 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The origins of Partner’s computer case (racunalniski-muzej.si)
    ×0.70 23 | 33 points by markostamcar 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
    ×0.37 22 | 33 points by tobr 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (lanparty.house)
    ×3.32 18 | 513 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (acm.org)
    ×0.53 40 | 19 points by rramadass 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Topological Picture Book, Rendered (e-infinity.space)
    ×1.26 12 | 102 points by mathgenius 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.04 35 | 126 points by metrofun 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.64 44 | 54 points by neehao 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades (hackaday.com)
    ×1.09 30 | 180 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
    ×3.01 11 | 340 points by vertigoruntime 14 hours ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs (github.com/argonautlabsai)
    ×1.90 11 | 258 points by Argonautlabs 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.21 21 | 229 points by animeshchouhan 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker (thran.uk)
    ×0.75 38 | 45 points by HeckFeck 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.63 48 | 70 points by uecker 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.02 17 | 156 points by ifz 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tracing np.add, all the way down (veitheller.de)
    ×0.71 45 | 56 points by luu 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture (glocq.com)
    ×0.69 37 | 66 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (nytimes.com)
    ×1.45 22 | 168 points by robinhouston 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. FreeBSD 14.5-Release (freebsd.org)
    ×1.30 45 | 128 points by joshcsimmons 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Getting your hands dirty is good for you (bbc.com)
    ×1.50 29 | 230 points by HatchedLake721 23 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.38 46 | 27 points by rietta 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reverse Engineering an ASIC (kjartanvandriel.github.io)
    ×0.97 36 | 55 points by burekqueen 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome (deepmind.google)
    ×0.69 51 | 84 points by fady0 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.64 1 | 238 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.71 38 | 98 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GrapheneOS on AI Usage (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.50 59 | 42 points by garo-pro 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.69 33 | 82 points by collinmanderson 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts (vale.rocks)
    ×1.40 20 | 233 points by patadune 23 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mistral raises €3B (mistral.ai)
    ×4.57 17 | 822 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com/hilbertspaess)
    ×10.93 48 | 562 points by yurivish 8 hours ago | 735 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger (techdirt.com)
    ×3.28 21 | 366 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. YouTube cracks down on 'AI ghost creators' (semafor.com)
    ×1.79 16 | 10 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.62 37 | 76 points by rramadass 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
    ×1.88 42 | 55 points by miguelacevedo 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How well do agents use test/verification techniques? (danluu.com)
    ×1.25 46 | 183 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I'm going back to coding by hand
    ×3.03 19 | 9 points by trencedamp 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors (jerf.org)
    ×0.67 42 | 42 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Disappointed Optimists (cwodtke.com)
    ×0.68 42 | 65 points by adrianhoward 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis (weirdgloop.org)
    ×3.22 3 | 549 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance (harvard.edu)
    ×2.11 47 | 115 points by jodacola 7 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Extracting Steering Vectors from J space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)
    ×0.56 48 | 62 points by martianvoid 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.61 76 | 9 points by zdw 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (mcpherrin.ca)
    ×2.27 2 | 497 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Picolibrary: A Small Press (novalis.org)
    ×0.58 57 | 61 points by luu 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Adults Aren't Coming (nume.ca)
    ×2.44 18 | 7 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: VolAnti – Open-source acoustic detector for fibre-optic FPV drones (github.com/agamrossen)
    ×0.52 63 | 9 points by agamrossen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (arm.com)
    ×0.61 61 | 82 points by Re-Tails 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)
    ×3.97 11 | 1037 points by sonicrocketman 2 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.54 2 | 248 points by Animats 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.10 69 | 204 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Emacs Bedrock 2.0 (lambdaland.org)
    ×1.80 43 | 184 points by ashton314 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Cognition (Devin) raises $2B at $48B valuation (cognition.com)
    ×0.66 67 | 21 points by meco 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. "Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations (matthewritch.com)
    ×1.40 49 | 29 points by mdritch 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models (appliedcompute.com)
    ×0.70 45 | 73 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. John Margolies' photographs of roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.00 50 | 126 points by duck 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.33 19 | 62 points by Bender 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.35 31 | 282 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Y Combinator Early Access Network (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.83 8 | 78 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (youtube.com)
    ×6.20 6 | 895 points by treve 2 days ago | 998 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box (github.com/senoff)
    ×1.07 47 | 28 points by senoff 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jellyfin 12.0 (jellyfin.org)
    ×4.07 31 | 598 points by 0xC0ncord 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out 'industrial-scale' theft (cnn.com)
    ×3.53 58 | 4 points by jllyhill 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Flock worker calls police on investigator filming public camera installation (atlantanewsfirst.com)
    ×3.34 10 | 42 points by driverdan 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (bbc.com)
    ×3.49 30 | 13 points by vinni2 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program (logicola.org)
    ×0.29 59 | 21 points by kotk 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Space Force Uniform Is Inspired by Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers' (deadline.com)
    ×2.69 23 | 30 points by alex_young 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    ×1.54 28 | 257 points by zdw 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (404media.co)
    ×3.43 55 | 342 points by abraham 18 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby (theverge.com)
    ×5.93 73 | 535 points by sbulaev 17 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???