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  1. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (wordpress.com)
    ×2.36 2 | 312 points by _alternator_ 6 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.71 2 | 1033 points by anonymousiam 15 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×1.67 2 | 144 points by pretext 5 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.70 6 | 159 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
    ×2.27 2 | 319 points by atgctg 11 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.16 11 | 641 points by defrost 22 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.26 6 | 56 points by Tomte 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
    ×1.73 10 | 333 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
    ×1.91 15 | 226 points by christhecaribou 15 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×2.23 4 | 239 points by homebrewer 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.48 10 | 143 points by mufeedvh 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.75 10 | 344 points by willmeyers 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
    ×0.77 22 | 15 points by rawgabbit 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
    ×2.06 14 | 450 points by ColinWright 22 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.27 11 | 185 points by MrBruh 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
    ×1.88 26 | 166 points by pretext 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
    ×1.11 19 | 85 points by mad 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Roadside Attraction (theoffingmag.com)
    ×0.40 25 | 22 points by aways 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.99 15 | 51 points by akkartik 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.38 3 | 101 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
    ×1.13 23 | 224 points by xngbuilds 19 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)
    ×3.33 20 | 92 points by edent 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
    ×1.02 16 | 75 points by geox 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
    ×2.40 35 | 349 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons (portalvr.io)
    ×0.63 26 | 20 points by gfodor 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes (visualeaf.com)
    ×0.98 14 | 10 points by RoxiHaidi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
    ×2.12 18 | 297 points by david-gpu 22 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
    ×0.83 44 | 57 points by akkartik 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push (cyberinsider.com)
    ×5.61 28 | 208 points by muse900 4 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.68 34 | 47 points by denismenace 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
    ×3.74 21 | 268 points by tcp_handshaker 12 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
    ×4.48 25 | 972 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 774 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Looking at the data behind prediction markets (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.22 13 | 107 points by kqr 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.86 11 | 362 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.85 32 | 138 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (stroustrup.com)
    ×0.86 40 | 82 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hondurasgate: US, Israeli Plot to Destabilize Mexico, Latin America (elpais.com)
    ×3.41 22 | 14 points by vrganj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.30 86 | 347 points by rustoo 2 days ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.44 13 | 1300 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 932 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.35 73 | 138 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GeoJSON (geojson.org)
    ×1.13 40 | 157 points by tosh 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service (probablydance.com)
    ×2.44 49 | 46 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
    ×0.97 32 | 128 points by ggpsv 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.72 46 | 25 points by ttouch 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)
    ×0.60 34 | 45 points by mathewpregasen 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
    ×1.70 20 | 268 points by Borkdude 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (pavementlink.ch)
    ×0.57 45 | 44 points by r1chk1t 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict (modal.com)
    ×0.39 48 | 12 points by jxmorris12 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.63 41 | 1589 points by CliffStoll 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×3.39 14 | 904 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×2.75 44 | 353 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
    ×0.71 63 | 76 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Jetro – JSON query engine for Rust (jq-like DSL with compilation and VM) (github.com/mitghi)
    ×0.85 69 | 14 points by mitghi 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com/regent-vcs)
    ×0.85 28 | 101 points by doshay 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)
    ×0.44 55 | 35 points by nezaj 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012) (blu-ray.com)
    ×0.58 49 | 6 points by susam 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster (404media.co)
    ×2.69 26 | 168 points by danso 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
    ×3.46 18 | 825 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.01 38 | 206 points by gmays 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Human typing habits and token counts (pankajpipada.com)
    ×0.74 33 | 24 points by ppipada 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal (reuters.com)
    ×2.50 33 | 216 points by scrlk 16 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Intel shares soar on Apple chip deal report (cnbc.com)
    ×2.21 8 | 7 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Poka-Yoke (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.74 16 | 13 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
    ×0.99 50 | 89 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×3.18 13 | 803 points by flipped 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Inventing Cyrillic (2024) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.54 72 | 46 points by lermontov 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dithering with CSS (ikesau.co)
    ×0.89 40 | 109 points by speckx 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
    ×2.83 3 | 757 points by speckx 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×4.87 14 | 811 points by thm 1 day ago | 707 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux (techrights.org)
    ×4.44 65 | 142 points by esaym 6 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×6.11 3 | 1725 points by haunter 2 days ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
    ×0.97 53 | 125 points by foltik 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.11 57 | 138 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.03 42 | 146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
    ×0.82 45 | 100 points by timvisee 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.09 26 | 332 points by speckx 1 day ago | 712 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.89 42 | 99 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×0.99 69 | 156 points by wojtczyk 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification (science.org)
    ×0.85 10 | 32 points by littlexsparkee 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
    ×4.58 61 | 569 points by mwheelz 21 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified (github.com/riscv-non-isa)
    ×0.98 40 | 14 points by fork-bomber 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Meta is dying. It's about time (nytimes.com)
    ×6.51 68 | 11 points by LucidLynx 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.95 49 | 286 points by SpyCoder77 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.49 14 | 577 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device (zknill.io)
    ×0.80 48 | 74 points by zknill 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
    ×3.48 75 | 676 points by ribtoks 20 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PWABuilder (pwabuilder.com)
    ×1.20 10 | 6 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron (github.com/dventimisupabase)
    ×0.27 61 | 13 points by tanelpoder 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GrapheneOS isn't vulnerable to the 3 recent Linux memory logic vulnerabilities (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.16 9 | 26 points by Cider9986 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???