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  1. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)
    ×2.02 7 | 270 points by cpcloud 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ??? ???
  2. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (zgp.org)
    ×0.95 9 | 32 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 39 comments | ??? ???
  3. Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)
    ×2.73 9 | 186 points by MallocVoidstar 5 hours ago | 491 comments | ??? ???
  4. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.77 10 | 45 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  5. Farewell, Rust for web (yieldcode.blog)
    ×2.15 5 | 65 points by skwee357 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  6. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com/Veirt)
    ×1.19 7 | 79 points by forinti 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  7. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging (hankgreen.com)
    ×3.84 1 | 40 points by ZeroGravitas 30 minutes ago | 24 comments | ??? ???
  8. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
    ×1.83 11 | 240 points by SteveHawk27 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ??? ???
  9. Pebble Production: February Update (repebble.com)
    ×1.45 9 | 231 points by smig0 8 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  10. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.05 18 | 163 points by benbreen 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  11. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (anthropic.com)
    ×0.81 27 | 55 points by jbredeche 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  12. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)
    ×1.34 18 | 148 points by simondanisch 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  13. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza (technologizer.com)
    ×0.93 16 | 16 points by vontzy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app (github.com/fjrevoredo)
    ×0.76 23 | 95 points by holyknight 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ??? ???
  15. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban (oban.pro)
    ×0.92 24 | 102 points by sorentwo 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  16. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (kodiak64.co.uk)
    ×0.96 18 | 98 points by atan2 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  17. Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists (aftermath.site)
    ×2.53 4 | 24 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  18. University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (texastribune.org)
    ×2.28 4 | 7 points by bhouston 22 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  19. Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial (wsj.com)
    ×2.42 2 | 100 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  20. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale (planetscale.com)
    ×0.93 15 | 55 points by Ozzie_osman 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  21. AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)
    ×5.46 20 | 363 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 226 comments | ??? ???
  22. Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation (sagepub.com)
    ×0.43 43 | 29 points by paraschopra 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  23. Voith Schneider Propeller (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.07 34 | 97 points by Luc 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  24. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup (theregister.com)
    ×4.65 20 | 146 points by freitasm 1 hour ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  25. 15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)
    ×1.23 47 | 194 points by fp64enjoyer 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ??? ???
  26. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory (github.com/sstraust)
    ×0.81 36 | 59 points by sammy0910 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  27. Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (stepfun.com)
    ×1.57 36 | 201 points by kristianp 18 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  28. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
    ×0.97 53 | 89 points by exvi 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
    ×0.19 64 | 6 points by acarminati 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  30. California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves (adafruit.com)
    ×2.97 27 | 147 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 124 comments | ??? ???
  31. YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users (pcmag.com)
    ×1.76 7 | 14 points by ripe 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  32. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) (borischerny.com)
    ×1.01 9 | 73 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 64 comments | ??? ???
  33. Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
    ×3.28 2 | 784 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 406 comments | ??? ???
  34. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts (tempus-word.de)
    ×1.11 63 | 101 points by muzzy19 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  35. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (claude.com)
    ×4.24 10 | 588 points by theahura 18 hours ago | 725 comments | ??? ???
  36. Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked (404media.co)
    ×2.11 10 | 16 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  37. Kumo: Cloudflare's UI Component Library (kumo-ui.com)
    ×1.44 10 | 9 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  38. How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)
    ×1.01 61 | 130 points by thunderseethe 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  39. America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks (governance.fyi)
    ×1.40 23 | 160 points by guardianbob 6 hours ago | 220 comments | ??? ???
  40. South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (theguardian.com)
    ×5.67 35 | 224 points by Geekette 2 hours ago | 123 comments | ??? ???
  41. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France (historytoday.com)
    ×1.02 3 | 91 points by Thevet 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ??? ???
  42. -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C (llvm.org)
    ×1.20 10 | 96 points by thefilmore 8 hours ago | 90 comments | ??? ???
  43. Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security engineer to harden healthcare infra (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  44. The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges (jacobin.com)
    ×1.83 3 | 18 points by wahnfrieden 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  45. Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.54 9 | 8 points by lisper 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  46. Famous Signatures Through History (signatory.app)
    ×0.65 9 | 38 points by elliotbnvl 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  47. 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)
    ×2.15 3 | 434 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 263 comments | ??? ???
  48. Netbase: A port of the NetBSD utilities for Linux (github.com/littlefly365)
    ×0.85 91 | 3 points by jaypatelani 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  49. Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (zyedidia.github.io)
    ×0.84 53 | 68 points by userbinator 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  50. Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up (techoversight.org)
    ×3.62 4 | 33 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  51. Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift (semafor.com)
    ×2.86 10 | 7 points by everybodyknows 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  52. What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents (georgeguimaraes.com)
    ×2.47 52 | 121 points by ellieh 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ??? ???
  53. All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)
    ×1.09 60 | 99 points by mirawelner 22 hours ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  54. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search (github.com/dmtrKovalenko)
    ×0.76 49 | 64 points by neogoose 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  55. Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands (xcancel.com)
    ×2.75 10 | 36 points by doener 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  56. CTO says 93% of developers use AI, but productivity is still 10% (shiftmag.dev)
    ×2.94 47 | 56 points by taubek 1 hour ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  57. Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
    ×1.99 1 | 446 points by jfantl 1 day ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  58. Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.02 18 | 14 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  59. Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way (phys.org)
    ×0.82 50 | 37 points by bikenaga 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  60. Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash (inquirer.com)
    ×2.64 27 | 41 points by coloneltcb 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  61. DOGE Track (dogetrack.info)
    ×7.43 46 | 308 points by donohoe 8 hours ago | 172 comments | ??? ???
  62. R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.68 63 | 93 points by tosh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (github.com/a11ce)
    ×1.20 37 | 78 points by a11ce 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  64. If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
    ×4.48 | 881 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 383 comments | ??? ???
  65. Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017) (bowdoin.edu)
    ×0.21 71 | 10 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  66. Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.85 64 | 87 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  67. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
    ×2.15 21 | 160 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 128 comments | ??? ???
  68. Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)
    ×1.84 12 | 370 points by idoxer 1 day ago | 209 comments | ??? ???
  69. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.82 9 | 1324 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 1200 comments | ??? ???
  70. Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
    ×2.01 1 | 456 points by sz4kerto 1 day ago | 235 comments | ??? ???
  71. Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×3.01 19 | 262 points by tuananh 19 hours ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  72. Helicobacter Pylori: A Nobel Pursuit? (nih.gov)
    ×1.02 13 | 10 points by o4c 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  73. Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell (lilush.link)
    ×1.06 23 | 42 points by ksymph 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
    ×1.02 47 | 100 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 48 comments | ??? ???
  75. AI made coding more enjoyable (weberdominik.com)
    ×2.80 55 | 82 points by domysee 4 hours ago | 81 comments | ??? ???
  76. What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (acm.org)
    ×0.89 50 | 96 points by underscoreF 1 day ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  77. The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI (learningloom.substack.com)
    ×2.19 6 | 37 points by atomicnature 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  78. DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.85 4 | 309 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 147 comments | ??? ???
  79. Berkshire Hathaway reduces Apple stake as Warren Buffett officially retires (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.29 10 | 6 points by ksec 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  80. Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript (blackboard.sh)
    ×2.50 6 | 151 points by merlindru 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  81. Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast (stoolap.io)
    ×0.57 48 | 27 points by murat3ok 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  82. How microbes Got Their Crawl (Asgards: Origins of eukaryotes) (nytimes.com)
    ×1.24 29 | 5 points by marojejian 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  83. Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)
    ×0.78 52 | 86 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  84. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (github.com/jake-stewart)
    ×2.17 14 | 484 points by tosh 1 day ago | 202 comments | ??? ???
  85. TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×0.97 61 | 126 points by sylwester 1 day ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  86. Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
    ×0.57 56 | 83 points by ekrsulov 1 day ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  87. Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)
    ×3.91 | 743 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 385 comments | ??? ???
  88. Why are AI leaders fleeing? (computerworld.com)
    ×1.78 4 | 7 points by CrankyBear 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (microsoft.com)
    ×5.38 38 | 342 points by anonymous908213 21 hours ago | 208 comments | ??? ???
  90. I traced 3,177 API calls to see what 4 AI coding tools put in the context window (theredbeard.io)
    ×1.38 70 | 4 points by theredbeard 8 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???