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  1. MIT Living Wage Calculator (mit.edu)
    ×2.84 1 | 82 points by bear_with_me 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
    ×6.29 4 | 599 points by x01 6 hours ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
    ×1.72 4 | 291 points by tokyobreakfast 4 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
    ×2.06 6 | 259 points by udit99 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    ×1.37 7 | 110 points by aleyan 3 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.70 22 | 39 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
    ×1.03 12 | 164 points by ananas-dev 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.71 15 | 104 points by waihtis 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)
    ×0.76 15 | 32 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
    ×1.14 16 | 69 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom (ferrari.com)
    ×1.52 2 | 58 points by kaizenb 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    ×1.17 8 | 167 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.90 19 | 66 points by IgorPartola 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.90 11 | 128 points by Nezteb 1 hour ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.90 7 | 329 points by tombh 10 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (wordpress.com)
    ×0.49 29 | 18 points by sebg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sandboxels (neal.fun)
    ×2.01 16 | 59 points by 2sf5 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL (github.com/jnidzwetzki)
    ×0.51 31 | 11 points by mariuz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Testing Ads in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×5.03 18 | 149 points by davidbarker 1 hour ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.75 16 | 62 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How I've run major projects (2025) (benkuhn.net)
    ×0.19 58 | 4 points by thomascountz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. An articulated archer automaton [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 22 | 8 points by Teever 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    ×1.47 17 | 132 points by znah 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×2.58 14 | 557 points by linolevan 20 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.31 41 | 233 points by david927 22 hours ago | 797 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
    ×5.48 22 | 418 points by MattIPv4 4 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
    ×2.60 13 | 229 points by redman25 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.62 11 | 59 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×2.38 19 | 242 points by azhenley 15 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media (thejournal.ie)
    ×1.94 15 | 69 points by DyslexicAtheist 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.76 6 | 125 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (durham.ac.uk)
    ×0.74 30 | 65 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.84 21 | 59 points by bookman10 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.83 17 | 52 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you (theregister.com)
    ×4.59 8 | 46 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
    ×3.48 2 | 5 points by cdrnsf 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
    ×1.79 19 | 58 points by arrowsmith 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
    ×1.77 3 | 163 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.99 2 | 103 points by pul 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
    ×0.88 30 | 113 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×4.12 2 | 1040 points by chwtutha 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×2.03 42 | 219 points by aaronng91 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    ×1.37 25 | 177 points by muggermuch 20 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.03 183 | 1 points by anthonykrivonos 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
    ×2.33 16 | 199 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×1.11 32 | 157 points by bobbiechen 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.71 29 | 293 points by ariaalam 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tessellation Kit (2016) (sciencevsmagic.net)
    ×0.64 35 | 50 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)
    ×1.13 37 | 171 points by tosh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
    ×1.02 41 | 123 points by gtsnexp 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.85 14 | 268 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
    ×0.81 46 | 82 points by jimbauwens 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
    ×1.71 32 | 293 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.88 55 | 137 points by pocksuppet 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers (github.com/vhscom)
    ×0.42 27 | 29 points by vhsdev 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)
    ×1.17 50 | 197 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×1.00 40 | 163 points by nullcathedral 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses (theguardian.com)
    ×3.40 37 | 25 points by billybuckwheat 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.78 43 | 109 points by mattst88 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×4.35 13 | 481 points by weaksauce 21 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.33 27 | 781 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 839 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance (senate.gov)
    ×4.03 32 | 53 points by Swizec 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×1.02 55 | 136 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.93 49 | 157 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.80 52 | 94 points by nwparker 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit (haproxy.com)
    ×1.00 8 | 14 points by owenthejumper 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.53 4 | 16 points by gdad 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
    ×1.86 9 | 217 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.21 2 | 326 points by adunk 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×1.75 57 | 271 points by valyala 2 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries (reuters.com)
    ×2.59 16 | 47 points by nis0s 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers (theguardian.com)
    ×1.19 3 | 10 points by slow_typist 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)
    ×2.62 2 | 304 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Advogato (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.19 6 | 19 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.82 2 | 208 points by vinnyglennon 23 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) (cleancoder.com)
    ×0.88 19 | 44 points by andrewjf 13 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.89 23 | 260 points by ingve 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down (wsj.com)
    ×2.20 4 | 92 points by KnuthIsGod 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GitHub Is Down (downdetector.tr)
    ×0.95 36 | 5 points by bakigul 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)
    ×1.02 42 | 143 points by jingkai_he 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Thought-Terminating Cliché (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.76 30 | 115 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
    ×2.56 26 | 310 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
    ×0.67 52 | 89 points by pacod 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods (reallyeli.com)
    ×0.73 61 | 18 points by reallyeli 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
    ×1.95 8 | 182 points by tosh 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
    ×2.62 3 | 405 points by awaaz 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev)
    ×2.86 | 151 points by frizlab 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height (jamanetwork.com)
    ×0.89 62 | 22 points by wjb3 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
    ×3.78 8 | 390 points by Ezhik 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
    ×1.36 38 | 130 points by molszanski 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???