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  1. Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
    ×7.01 | 539 points by bradleyg223 1 hour ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.07 4 | 63 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.21 1 | 78 points by iandinwoodie 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.89 4 | 96 points by anerli 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.25 6 | 64 points by jbott 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.94 7 | 30 points by luu 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (ieee.org)
    ×1.68 7 | 184 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.07 10 | 9 points by theanonymousone 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.73 3 | 558 points by yarapavan 11 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (faav.net)
    ×2.25 7 | 214 points by luispa 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.77 6 | 33 points by porridgeraisin 50 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (cmu.edu)
    ×1.87 16 | 27 points by Guyadou 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage (chatgpt.com)
    ×2.10 38 | 3 points by rene_d 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
    ×1.25 4 | 97 points by yedhukrishnan 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.20 7 | 142 points by megalomanu 8 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 109 points by b-man 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×0.82 56 | 6 points by pwim 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.03 5 | 114 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.23 16 | 69 points by kmstout 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
    ×1.91 9 | 11 points by ArchAndStarch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (wiley.com)
    ×0.73 13 | 51 points by croes 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
    ×0.49 25 | 10 points by OlympicMarmoto 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Dear Software Makers (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.82 5 | 18 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×5.14 23 | 83 points by thoughtfullyso 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×2.16 28 | 123 points by BurnerBurner 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com/mogrinz)
    ×0.95 10 | 60 points by mogrinz 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com/tursomari)
    ×0.97 63 | 3 points by cachrevolt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Functional Ultrasound Imaging from Scratch (neuroai.science)
    ×1.16 69 | 3 points by pminimax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.22 16 | 69 points by dancablam 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.85 18 | 119 points by gvuksic 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Recursive `Make` and `-J` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.85 56 | 9 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.65 12 | 246 points by laurenth 15 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.75 25 | 16 points by danaris 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.45 13 | 80 points by viraj_shah 5 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
    ×0.90 24 | 62 points by systemerror 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)
    ×2.17 31 | 370 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
    ×1.17 15 | 110 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.11 30 | 305 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.67 24 | 112 points by Zeruxe 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×4.16 20 | 13 points by paimapi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Chompi portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.81 63 | 7 points by lashkari 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.97 80 | 92 points by primitivesuave 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (amazon.com)
    ×1.77 15 | 7 points by daigoba66 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.57 38 | 15 points by ajoski9 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (eia.gov)
    ×0.33 48 | 10 points by thelastgallon 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.62 20 | 862 points by bryan0 22 hours ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×1.11 78 | 6 points by cobbzilla 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.18 27 | 375 points by wanick 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.40 78 | 337 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.25 39 | 275 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bologna Bottle (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 8 | 9 points by _josh_meyer_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) (bbc.com)
    ×2.04 22 | 7 points by alentred 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.15 26 | 21 points by turantekin 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.56 8 | 5 points by merksittich 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.66 45 | 197 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (bigmessowires.com)
    ×0.78 54 | 56 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.83 6 | 21 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.15 40 | 120 points by Baljhin 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reddit will block Old.Reddit.com from people who haven't used it in 6 months (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.81 53 | 33 points by throw0101a 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.41 26 | 414 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 820 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×2.93 21 | 31 points by sdlkj- 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers (phoronix.com)
    ×1.18 8 | 4 points by porridgeraisin 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.80 51 | 85 points by luu 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
    ×4.44 26 | 1041 points by crorella 1 day ago | 926 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×0.98 50 | 73 points by seam_carver 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×1.61 6 | 9 points by leephillips 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.24 44 | 144 points by birdculture 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden's Blog (mrhaydendp.com)
    ×0.56 66 | 4 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.51 40 | 153 points by thelastgallon 23 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Los Alamos Bets on Eniac: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947–1948 [pdf] (tomandmaria.com)
    ×1.22 65 | 9 points by nill0 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.32 22 | 744 points by alvis 1 day ago | 627 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 14 | 744 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 685 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Cuckoo's Egg (Book) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 3 | 4 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
    ×1.11 50 | 169 points by rossant 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.25 55 | 159 points by bketelsen 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×2.45 2 | 11 points by mikhael 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane (ft.com)
    ×2.91 4 | 22 points by alephnerd 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.69 18 | 293 points by dmux 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Homeless Community in Portland, Oregon That Became a Self-Governed Village (nytimes.com)
    ×2.78 10 | 8 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (backblaze.com)
    ×2.21 19 | 295 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.63 56 | 196 points by Thom2503 10 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.02 12 | 344 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (theguardian.com)
    ×2.27 12 | 198 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (ieee.org)
    ×2.34 6 | 577 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.48 35 | 111 points by papa-whisky 22 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
    ×0.68 61 | 61 points by joebig 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
    ×2.43 15 | 361 points by amortize 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
    ×1.92 18 | 421 points by damaru2 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Commodore 64: Mercenary (gamesexplained.com)
    ×0.72 56 | 60 points by a1r 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???