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  1. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×3.68 | 353 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.pk)
    ×4.20 1 | 490 points by darccio 5 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article (github.com/adnanakil)
    ×2.34 2 | 49 points by aakil 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.08 | 311 points by dares2573 5 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think (8ball.space)
    ×1.05 4 | 36 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. c100 (caligra.com)
    ×2.08 2 | 18 points by tosh 25 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×2.45 | 74 points by gavide 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×5.55 6 | 323 points by throw7 2 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
    ×1.60 3 | 68 points by bkd9 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.80 3 | 51 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 5 | 36 points by pppone 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
    ×1.21 1 | 98 points by ksec 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.75 1 | 168 points by marcomezzavilla 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.77 3 | 43 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.46 4 | 204 points by spankibalt 8 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.42 5 | 15 points by cainxinth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
    ×0.80 5 | 47 points by ksec 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The B-right/V R2 Operating System (super-nova.co.jp)
    ×1.12 36 | 3 points by Bluestein 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.05 14 | 23 points by eatonphil 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
    ×0.95 4 | 22 points by karma_daemon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (toxel.com)
    ×1.23 7 | 90 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.16 1 | 133 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (coredump.cx)
    ×0.85 28 | 8 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography (theguardian.com)
    ×0.33 37 | 7 points by prismatic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com/NVIDIAAI)
    ×2.24 15 | 56 points by dsrtslnd23 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.60 | 610 points by 0xedb 20 hours ago | 706 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Nothing Doing (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.54 33 | 11 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support (plabayo.tech)
    ×0.22 38 | 6 points by gdcbe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.24 55 | 3 points by chilipepperhott 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)
    ×1.91 40 | 4 points by erikschoster 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cool Italian retro computing (in English) (retromagazine.net)
    ×1.18 56 | 3 points by christkv 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I'm Becoming AI-Blind (cymerys.com)
    ×2.76 20 | 90 points by rcymerys 3 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.05 30 | 44 points by olexsmir 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.56 25 | 102 points by osnium123 11 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (newyorker.com)
    ×1.09 5 | 49 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Convite (guidavid.com)
    ×0.58 2 | 12 points by gdss 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.81 11 | 210 points by mtokmak06 15 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.61 24 | 319 points by tyre 21 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (killscreen.com)
    ×0.66 52 | 6 points by keiferski 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (yoshuawuyts.com)
    ×0.43 48 | 7 points by dabinat 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We burned 11.7B tokens to find the best cyber AI model (aikido.dev)
    ×0.91 42 | 8 points by piotrgrabowski 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Waterfox 6.7.0 – Supernova (waterfox.com)
    ×1.42 37 | 11 points by kmfrk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.76 27 | 239 points by rafaelc 21 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Siemens PC-X (2015) (geekdot.com)
    ×0.43 30 | 13 points by naves 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
    ×2.24 23 | 436 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.56 29 | 315 points by rdmuser 10 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)
    ×0.50 95 | 55 points by yousefh409 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.73 73 | 275 points by nunodonato 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.88 27 | 288 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.81 4 | 5 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)
    ×1.47 41 | 193 points by speckx 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.71 23 | 280 points by mariuz 23 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.91 19 | 992 points by emctech 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. No IP? No Problem (ersei.net)
    ×0.69 42 | 5 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.24 25 | 824 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.11 25 | 947 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com/vivekhaldar)
    ×0.94 21 | 50 points by gandalfgeek 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Attention Through Arithmetic Intensity (changyi.fun)
    ×0.55 41 | 14 points by jxmorris12 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?
    ×0.57 20 | 6 points by dv35z 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
    ×0.80 33 | 64 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. NASA abandons orbit-boost attempt to rescue Swift space telescope (newatlas.com)
    ×2.35 33 | 9 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Apple paid $17B in taxes to Ireland after court ruling on back levies (ft.com)
    ×1.19 24 | 6 points by geoffbp 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Phantom Gains: Auditing Self-Improvement Against a Measured Null (arxiv.org)
    ×0.14 71 | 3 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
    ×2.08 15 | 350 points by danielvaughn 20 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)
    ×1.18 30 | 168 points by codedge 23 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.63 18 | 8 points by olalonde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
    ×0.81 36 | 71 points by arto 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Uber fined $966M in NL for automating driver suspensions (reuters.com)
    ×2.64 28 | 10 points by mattashii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
    ×2.31 14 | 533 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
    ×0.81 47 | 106 points by vga805 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
    ×0.98 31 | 157 points by gmays 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)
    ×0.97 26 | 109 points by hurrrr 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×1.75 6 | 289 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (autodidacts.io)
    ×1.81 30 | 10 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×1.01 18 | 75 points by wise_blood 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.26 32 | 134 points by st_goliath 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.81 17 | 350 points by luu 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.89 23 | 346 points by mayoff 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (aps.org)
    ×0.55 25 | 43 points by supermagnet 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)
    ×0.69 45 | 64 points by cassepipe 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)
    ×0.77 32 | 101 points by speckx 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
    ×12.78 68 | 1560 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Sol loves to cheat (jumploops.com)
    ×1.62 44 | 240 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns (tidalcycles.org)
    ×0.94 25 | 75 points by gjvc 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
    ×2.69 29 | 568 points by simedw 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
    ×1.69 28 | 262 points by gavide 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.51 10 | 5 points by LYFMail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
    ×1.27 45 | 144 points by TheP1000 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair (wsj.com)
    ×2.97 44 | 9 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???