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  1. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.01 | 523 points by bilsbie 11 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. On A.I. regulation and messaging (twitter.com/DarioAmodei)
    ×1.77 | 74 points by jacquesm 4 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The continuing "Q collar" scandal (columbia.edu)
    ×1.38 15 | 21 points by luu 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.52 6 | 526 points by Narishma 18 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.76 2 | 309 points by ropbear 13 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.54 11 | 134 points by sudo_cowsay 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×2.91 6 | 671 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.24 12 | 35 points by benbreen 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.93 10 | 89 points by erickhill 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.00 11 | 90 points by spdegabrielle 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
    ×1.74 6 | 94 points by the-mitr 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (google.com)
    ×2.48 11 | 133 points by dt3ft 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    ×1.00 22 | 123 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)
    ×0.75 19 | 25 points by mkmk 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
    ×0.92 27 | 48 points by gumby 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes (outsideonline.com)
    ×1.26 29 | 9 points by cwwc 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery (github.com/chainguard-dev)
    ×0.68 69 | 3 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
    ×3.67 15 | 187 points by lumpa 7 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.77 5 | 295 points by mlenhard 20 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.30 31 | 67 points by hardlianotion 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com/crabbuild)
    ×1.02 17 | 46 points by forhappy 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.54 14 | 525 points by stagas 17 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.68 33 | 5 points by vlowrian 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.26 4 | 157 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (epfl.ch)
    ×0.41 56 | 12 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.87 23 | 94 points by homarp 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.45 18 | 370 points by zacharyozer 14 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×0.99 25 | 116 points by emptybits 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 41 | 69 points by tobr 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×1.09 42 | 81 points by karakoram 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.44 20 | 190 points by ronbenton 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.64 20 | 662 points by pentagrama 22 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×3.05 17 | 213 points by root-parent 13 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)
    ×0.79 29 | 88 points by lermontov 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.09 21 | 49 points by _delirium 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×1.13 8 | 73 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.96 34 | 104 points by austinallegro 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    ×1.23 36 | 146 points by txrx0000 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    ×1.07 43 | 74 points by adjohu 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    ×1.50 25 | 152 points by abelanger 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
    ×5.42 36 | 232 points by walrus01 10 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
    ×0.61 52 | 68 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×4.13 22 | 402 points by Alifatisk 22 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    ×1.70 40 | 87 points by riskone 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 14 | 202 points by lentil_soup 19 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.35 56 | 27 points by samclemens 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (falstad.com)
    ×0.90 54 | 70 points by pykello 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)
    ×1.54 30 | 186 points by maxutility 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (wunc.org)
    ×0.55 49 | 29 points by yareally 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×5.17 4 | 1419 points by erdaltoprak 2 days ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.56 18 | 188 points by toomuchtodo 19 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.70 52 | 83 points by johnsillings 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (slowtravelberlin.com)
    ×0.97 37 | 25 points by yitchelle 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (github.com/cesarblum)
    ×1.85 74 | 12 points by sigalor 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever (bbc.com)
    ×2.91 20 | 36 points by tartoran 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 68 | 55 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.81 21 | 156 points by brandonb 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.18 44 | 314 points by hruvhwe 15 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023) (pbs.org)
    ×0.36 40 | 8 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.46 19 | 1158 points by pella 3 days ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.57 15 | 269 points by felixbraun 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.45 24 | 293 points by gmays 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nobody Knows Anything (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×1.23 42 | 11 points by gtirloni 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)
    ×2.10 5 | 485 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.27 9 | 451 points by tosh 2 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.52 9 | 22 points by eig 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges' (militarytimes.com)
    ×2.51 9 | 16 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Health benefits of Tai Chi (harvard.edu)
    ×1.72 44 | 46 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub secure open source fund (sniffnet.app)
    ×0.26 72 | 17 points by dmit 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
    ×2.59 4 | 331 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons (duti.dev)
    ×2.66 68 | 50 points by mindracer 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×4.56 10 | 971 points by numeri 3 days ago | 859 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.31 1 | 387 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
    ×1.22 17 | 184 points by AnodicElegy 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.02 20 | 112 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com/wmww)
    ×1.04 40 | 84 points by schmorptron 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
    ×0.44 69 | 29 points by adm4 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.84 52 | 102 points by uecker 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×1.08 54 | 11 points by bosmarcel 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.34 68 | 12 points by kajm 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
    ×1.97 6 | 277 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)
    ×0.68 38 | 56 points by turtushig22 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Connecting my Illumos box to a Japanese ISP (skalski.dev)
    ×1.41 64 | 21 points by mskalski 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them (davidepiffer.com)
    ×3.80 38 | 619 points by rzk 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)
    ×3.21 29 | 429 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
    ×1.16 37 | 132 points by chatchan 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
    ×1.22 49 | 131 points by bbayles 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.56 52 | 141 points by privong 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Legbar – live AI agent sessions beside GitHub CI, in one terminal (github.com/gmhoward9289-ops)
    ×1.65 66 | 4 points by gmhoward9289 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???