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  1. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×1.84 1 | 175 points by seg6 5 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.80 4 | 83 points by jggonz 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.01 1 | 119 points by bobbiechen 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.14 6 | 345 points by groomlake 12 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    ×2.72 3 | 93 points by adletbalzhanov 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (bbc.com)
    ×1.50 1 | 29 points by cwwc 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.65 4 | 74 points by jmusall 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (nature.com)
    ×2.29 6 | 25 points by davidbarker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.01 7 | 367 points by shaunpud 14 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    ×1.37 7 | 102 points by MarcoDewey 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.40 7 | 75 points by hakkikonu 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.76 8 | 369 points by 882542F3884314B 17 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Incentives Are for Losers (experimental-history.com)
    ×4.14 17 | 9 points by bkudria 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    ×1.16 11 | 33 points by hyperific 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×1.18 19 | 10 points by frozenseven 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.47 11 | 268 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.49 14 | 148 points by electricant 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)
    ×0.91 22 | 52 points by robinpdev 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×7.24 16 | 19 points by minimaxir 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
    ×1.70 38 | 7 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    ×1.87 | 177 points by gumby 12 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
    ×0.83 24 | 50 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
    ×2.80 55 | 241 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (rajivprab.com)
    ×0.87 19 | 12 points by whack 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com/GrammaTech)
    ×0.74 17 | 27 points by aboardRat4 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.73 14 | 20 points by Eloissssss 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×5.74 22 | 623 points by senko 13 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    ×3.29 27 | 535 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.92 28 | 108 points by rfarley04 15 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.77 20 | 81 points by mfiguiere 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    ×0.75 25 | 51 points by skibz 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    ×2.31 10 | 398 points by bhavansig 18 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.35 8 | 23 points by tchalla 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.75 29 | 79 points by rahen 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What makes companies dodge taxes? (utexas.edu)
    ×2.20 46 | 5 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (oup.com)
    ×2.76 32 | 6 points by bohaska 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    ×0.81 33 | 69 points by kkgupta 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (njit.edu)
    ×1.12 13 | 31 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.11 21 | 80 points by mmoogle 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (maryland.gov)
    ×1.48 25 | 100 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S. (npr.org)
    ×3.26 17 | 14 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.34 5 | 426 points by aanet 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
    ×0.72 71 | 69 points by csmantle 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
    ×2.05 15 | 156 points by happosai 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.12 10 | 767 points by tosh 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×5.18 7 | 991 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The AI Apocalypse Is Here (compactmag.com)
    ×3.54 38 | 32 points by reasonableklout 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.82 83 | 10 points by modinfo 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
    ×1.62 72 | 6 points by divingstar 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×3.84 25 | 210 points by allenc 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP (toonk.io)
    ×0.91 38 | 34 points by bgpdude 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.27 24 | 353 points by epestr 21 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×3.88 40 | 213 points by geox 10 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
    ×2.46 5 | 361 points by wglb 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 42 | 68 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×1.53 38 | 161 points by zdw 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.66 25 | 10 points by Eloissssss 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.53 39 | 165 points by andrewpollack 11 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.96 2 | 345 points by moelf 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Python string literals are kinda funny (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.15 13 | 60 points by jandeboevrie 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.30 56 | 213 points by m3h 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.11 45 | 197 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.93 9 | 150 points by 01-_- 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×0.63 71 | 47 points by denismenace 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE (amibeingpwned.com)
    ×0.77 60 | 10 points by Doohickey-d 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.13 11 | 794 points by boplicity 2 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.74 19 | 387 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)
    ×0.46 89 | 5 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.85 3 | 7 points by spenvo 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana (nytimes.com)
    ×2.78 5 | 11 points by jihadjihad 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.98 7 | 412 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.88 4 | 923 points by itvision 2 days ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August (twitter.com/zephyr_z9)
    ×1.53 6 | 5 points by nsoonhui 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.01 15 | 524 points by delduca 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.45 13 | 492 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Monitors for Work (coker.com.au)
    ×1.37 38 | 79 points by edward 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.77 74 | 230 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.79 60 | 83 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.42 11 | 254 points by aagha 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country (npr.org)
    ×2.33 9 | 15 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind (twitter.com/DimitrisPapail)
    ×3.25 19 | 16 points by amichail 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.57 2 | 7 points by sakuraiben 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)
    ×3.75 39 | 177 points by eternalreturn 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.46 2 | 1168 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. What it was like working on LLMs and security at Meta (2022-2026) (joshuasaxe181906.substack.com)
    ×2.07 8 | 4 points by botanicalfriend 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.29 38 | 193 points by stagas 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×2.66 4 | 246 points by Bender 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.80 48 | 86 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.09 53 | 220 points by gnabgib 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GPT-4 finished training four years ago today (twitter.com/gdb)
    ×2.38 1 | 8 points by nekofneko 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???