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  1. Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard (pron.github.io)
    ×1.79 1 | 89 points by AriFordsham 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Jane Street: Socratic Tutor (github.com/janestreet)
    ×3.04 2 | 344 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anthropic IPO (anthropic.com)
    ×5.12 2 | 119 points by josephljohnston 1 hour ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console (codeberg.org)
    ×2.44 2 | 153 points by orhunp_ 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tim Peters has died (python.org)
    ×5.05 2 | 1273 points by ayhanfuat 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev)
    ×2.30 4 | 482 points by zenincognito 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server (wiz.io)
    ×2.23 4 | 254 points by soheilpro 10 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AWS emulator (github.com/aws)
    ×3.48 | 882 points by super_linear 18 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock (nozomi.space)
    ×2.57 10 | 41 points by mkopec 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter (bacarella.com)
    ×2.28 11 | 515 points by mbac32768 20 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Code Smells of Desperation (2023) (os2museum.com)
    ×0.77 23 | 8 points by sammatilda 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang (wsj.com)
    ×8.12 7 | 1107 points by jbredeche 14 hours ago | 1489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Gemini Decisions API (blog.google)
    ×2.83 5 | 465 points by iamdelirium 18 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine (getlazarus.org)
    ×1.27 8 | 66 points by sysrpl 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.44 6 | 577 points by herpderperator 15 hours ago | 601 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Lock Your GitHub Actions (hugovk.dev)
    ×1.95 4 | 274 points by gslin 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Grote Reber and the 'Square Kilometre Array' Near Bothwell, Tasmania (2017) (researchgate.net)
    ×0.46 32 | 11 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (aircad.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 46 points by peetle 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes (curtin.edu.au)
    ×1.73 39 | 5 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Emacs in the Age of Magic (commandlinesystems.com)
    ×1.77 6 | 254 points by ggcr 16 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Utah Teapot (utah.edu)
    ×1.37 22 | 163 points by cobbal 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden (jatorre.github.io)
    ×1.92 10 | 112 points by jatorre 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Legocam: My Lego webcam from 2000, working on a modern Mac (benjamin.ie)
    ×0.85 1 | 27 points by benkelly 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2 (av.github.io)
    ×2.33 8 | 405 points by everlier 23 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site? (pietromiotti.com)
    ×4.26 10 | 1005 points by eyvindn 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs (github.com/tylertms)
    ×1.17 12 | 116 points by iceboundrock 13 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Did Life Begin in an RNA World? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.92 21 | 69 points by acossta 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.33 16 | 216 points by zerop 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.67 11 | 257 points by brownrout 20 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×1.00 29 | 119 points by thefox96 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card (kate.land)
    ×1.75 25 | 315 points by lae 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Darling Development Update – Q4 2026 (darlinghq.org)
    ×0.48 33 | 28 points by tech234a 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lean Grimoire (wordpress.com)
    ×0.82 24 | 49 points by smilelamp 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.50 19 | 288 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.87 7 | 42 points by lermontov 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (atuin.sh)
    ×1.31 26 | 224 points by linsomniac 22 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Jensen's (Nvidia) Adventure (wheresyoured.at)
    ×3.08 20 | 10 points by vitorfblima 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund (termsheetplease.com)
    ×1.53 5 | 230 points by bolau 17 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.45 33 | 533 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start (incoherency.co.uk)
    ×0.71 44 | 40 points by edward 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him (nytimes.com)
    ×5.82 28 | 379 points by louiereederson 14 hours ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents
    ×0.45 65 | 56 points by alanjm23 19 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. We need more goat sacrifices (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.60 25 | 205 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Brief History of Sierra Online (2017) (retrofreakreviews.com)
    ×0.81 41 | 53 points by freshtake 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Stingray Fish Laser (stingray.no)
    ×0.63 33 | 31 points by tptacek 10 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Flying on Green: Why Farmers Are Turning to Drones for Cover Crop Seeding (agweb.com)
    ×0.70 44 | 59 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The hardest notes to find on the guitar (gitori.com)
    ×0.70 54 | 67 points by udit99 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026 (apple.com)
    ×1.95 5 | 155 points by tech234a 18 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Learjet Repo Man (2009) (salon.com)
    ×0.58 37 | 41 points by HR01 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A2UI 1.0 (googleblog.com)
    ×2.00 37 | 30 points by zeroasterisk 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly (massimo-nocentini.github.io)
    ×0.84 31 | 130 points by xkriva11 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI makes it 'close to impossible' to assess university coursework,regulator says (theguardian.com)
    ×3.08 39 | 9 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Porting my Electron app to Rust: 675 MB to 91 MB (sayjot.xyz)
    ×1.91 63 | 21 points by mohakbajaj 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation (apple.com)
    ×0.86 58 | 72 points by zerop 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×4.72 11 | 1172 points by skittleson 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git (nayak.im)
    ×0.52 51 | 34 points by nayak 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (moertel.com)
    ×1.73 34 | 273 points by palsecam 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
    ×1.48 18 | 118 points by azhenley 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (cmu.edu)
    ×0.95 44 | 77 points by num42 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.58 33 | 1257 points by vismit2000 3 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (ibm.com)
    ×0.67 38 | 54 points by gok 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.89 36 | 103 points by 0xdeadf1sh 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore (devonestes.com)
    ×2.07 33 | 73 points by sevenseacat 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
    ×2.24 41 | 286 points by Yorothegoat 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Making the Iron Giant Live (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×0.48 55 | 20 points by vinhnx 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.54 7 | 924 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×1.77 35 | 198 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.55 41 | 146 points by adrbn 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The tiny transmitter tracking monarch butterflies' migration, Canada to Mexico (begiant.ca)
    ×0.54 49 | 40 points by upofadown 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tools for exploring the souls of large language models (oshea00.github.io)
    ×0.99 26 | 51 points by r00tanon 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you (theverge.com)
    ×3.40 37 | 362 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery (github.com/lukks)
    ×0.99 36 | 79 points by LuKks 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com/klad-app)
    ×1.02 27 | 79 points by ambewas 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave (gatezh.com)
    ×1.87 8 | 390 points by js2 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. EventSourcingDB 1.3.0 Is Available (eventfoundation.io)
    ×0.57 56 | 46 points by goloroden 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×0.87 41 | 119 points by d3Xt3r 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×2.55 4 | 556 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I Accidentally Became a Millionaire (lyra.horse)
    ×4.66 29 | 94 points by OuterVale 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Every AI Model Will Ship as a Torrent (pirateface.co)
    ×3.95 52 | 30 points by llmmadness 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.95 24 | 62 points by Rochus 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (vulncheck.com)
    ×2.54 6 | 456 points by panic 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.67 39 | 64 points by artrax 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (p0pcycle.com)
    ×1.33 43 | 150 points by moooooky 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.62 30 | 266 points by pixelpoet 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.24 38 | 275 points by FinnLobsien 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.66 33 | 248 points by leugim 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models (github.com/OpenTSLM)
    ×0.82 28 | 50 points by rjakob 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.20 46 | 209 points by rustyhancock 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker (theguardian.com)
    ×1.54 52 | 168 points by sorokod 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???