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  1. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.93 | 167 points by Meleagris 2 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (space.com)
    ×2.60 | 78 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.71 | 514 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×2.58 | 150 points by moelf 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.92 4 | 280 points by piotrgrabowski 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×3.17 6 | 46 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night (runnersworld.com)
    ×3.86 3 | 27 points by aanet 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    ×1.48 8 | 169 points by aagha 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×4.77 5 | 493 points by RickJWagner 15 hours ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)
    ×2.42 5 | 185 points by moonikakiss 9 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)
    ×1.00 16 | 152 points by MarcoDewey 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.02 7 | 417 points by delduca 10 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.20 9 | 168 points by artninja1988 11 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.90 21 | 282 points by inigyou 20 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)
    ×3.04 8 | 152 points by Bender 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    ×0.87 22 | 57 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.77 8 | 119 points by cckolon 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.89 19 | 57 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    ×1.99 11 | 263 points by poly2it 17 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)
    ×3.07 7 | 7 points by dnnehgf 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.34 19 | 174 points by m3h 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.41 27 | 113 points by jnord 15 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.89 25 | 21 points by peterkelly 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.23 21 | 151 points by stagas 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)
    ×3.09 4 | 739 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.20 8 | 182 points by v0id_isgood 15 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.65 31 | 57 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    ×0.72 35 | 36 points by 4pkjai 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
    ×3.02 18 | 396 points by petercooper 13 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
    ×0.63 43 | 55 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.85 1 | 895 points by itvision 1 day ago | 669 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Curlese, Five Years Later (hypertesto.me)
    ×0.60 28 | 15 points by rovr138 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×1.08 49 | 5 points by sunrisepeak 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
    ×2.01 10 | 24 points by yk 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (righto.com)
    ×0.46 59 | 26 points by geerlingguy 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Building community out of strangers (2023) (tracydurnell.com)
    ×0.53 49 | 37 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.81 64 | 229 points by willcarkner 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
    ×0.84 28 | 68 points by rramadass 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (stackdump.com)
    ×0.75 20 | 67 points by m_kos 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.11 38 | 210 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)
    ×1.12 36 | 133 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.55 58 | 54 points by jasim 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
    ×3.42 7 | 1143 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What is a product? (onwrite.app)
    ×0.89 47 | 97 points by rogix 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.94 1 | 656 points by tsak 1 day ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.86 62 | 76 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store (abeautifulsite.net)
    ×1.78 16 | 9 points by claviska 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.23 50 | 144 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader (ma-r-s.com)
    ×1.65 63 | 6 points by ma-r-s 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×0.85 99 | 3 points by Wilsoniumite 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 44 | 76 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)
    ×2.02 3 | 336 points by rmason 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I watched 13 legal pages for two weeks, three of them changed (indiehackers.com)
    ×1.19 16 | 3 points by antoniustyo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.70 71 | 88 points by indyjo 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reverse Jevons Paradox (mht.wtf)
    ×0.87 66 | 56 points by martinhath 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.31 50 | 293 points by _da_ 9 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Jujutsu 0.44.0 (jj-vcs.dev)
    ×3.14 72 | 13 points by tosh 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.10 26 | 203 points by Audiophilip 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.18 6 | 299 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. "It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)
    ×1.77 67 | 59 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.87 7 | 399 points by dsubburam 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.48 6 | 496 points by Footkerchief 1 day ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.35 51 | 17 points by benbreen 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.05 60 | 110 points by bschne 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.34 37 | 185 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.29 68 | 180 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.58 7 | 309 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.28 65 | 126 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.16 40 | 143 points by sebg 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×0.95 56 | 72 points by champagnepapi 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.63 7 | 687 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx (rafa.ee)
    ×0.76 70 | 91 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.81 2 | 254 points by baranul 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.70 62 | 44 points by MBCook 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)
    ×5.13 67 | 861 points by defrost 17 hours ago | 823 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 938 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 591 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.89 33 | 74 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How to Not Write Parsers (crtschin.com)
    ×1.29 77 | 13 points by Thom2503 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Target Is Slicing Open Pokémon Card Boxes Before They're Sold to Deter Scalpers (ign.com)
    ×2.65 18 | 12 points by TMWNN 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.92 65 | 95 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.06 2 | 849 points by colesantiago 2 days ago | 922 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.50 11 | 330 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? (economist.com)
    ×2.16 66 | 37 points by reasonableklout 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How the Underground (of Seattle) Came to Be (undergroundtour.com)
    ×0.76 88 | 4 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.98 5 | 486 points by atan2 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode (twitter.com/ClaudeDevs)
    ×1.70 5 | 19 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
    ×1.47 15 | 274 points by collinmanderson 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mailüfterl (Early Transistorized Computer) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 14 | 11 points by wolfi1 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.11 71 | 449 points by pmg101 4 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)
    ×2.17 28 | 401 points by yusyd 1 day ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???