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  1. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)
    ×3.53 | 530 points by u1hcw9nx 6 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)
    ×3.32 | 636 points by iamflimflam1 9 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (treybastian.com)
    ×2.31 4 | 46 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (signalusers.org)
    ×1.72 6 | 109 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (interconnects.ai)
    ×0.99 14 | 30 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    ×1.50 10 | 169 points by eigenspace 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.95 8 | 390 points by Levitating 12 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (apple.com)
    ×3.60 5 | 39 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Is It Greg? (github.com/antoineleclair)
    ×1.96 3 | 26 points by antoineleclair 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)
    ×2.51 12 | 325 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    ×1.56 18 | 11 points by rasengan0 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.90 22 | 99 points by david927 9 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.21 7 | 58 points by ilamont 6 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (wisc.edu)
    ×0.81 14 | 67 points by walrus01 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI is not a normal technology (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.36 12 | 14 points by theahura 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (katjahoyer.uk)
    ×0.78 25 | 34 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (honisoit.com)
    ×1.07 34 | 10 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    ×2.67 12 | 395 points by vinhnx 17 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×0.90 64 | 4 points by knowablemag 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (wikisource.org)
    ×1.95 11 | 55 points by gregsadetsky 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.50 16 | 171 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.61 16 | 216 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears (myday24.com)
    ×0.61 33 | 16 points by tomasslavicek 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)
    ×1.06 20 | 142 points by chiassedu80 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI Robots – When will they be in our homes (ieee.org)
    ×1.39 53 | 5 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts (science.org)
    ×1.34 27 | 11 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why is privacy so hard? (acm.org)
    ×1.14 20 | 33 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    ×0.88 24 | 63 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (thevidmarket.com)
    ×0.63 51 | 4 points by ryanpere2298 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The contagion of fear (dtrace.org)
    ×3.58 27 | 158 points by elffjs 4 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    ×3.36 | 4 points by andsoitis 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    ×0.78 17 | 43 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)
    ×0.37 41 | 7 points by akkartik 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) (youtube.com)
    ×0.94 16 | 80 points by binyu 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.71 23 | 365 points by TheJCDenton 11 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    ×2.38 10 | 531 points by taubek 19 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    ×0.64 63 | 59 points by kevvok 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com/DavidSacks)
    ×4.02 24 | 279 points by kolanos 10 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.64 31 | 62 points by lumpa 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.07 35 | 281 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (utk.edu)
    ×0.58 38 | 35 points by azhenley 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    ×0.81 24 | 116 points by blincoln 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    ×0.54 42 | 50 points by xlmnxp 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.59 43 | 71 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    ×1.32 9 | 182 points by ichacas 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident (bostonscientific.com)
    ×1.35 69 | 5 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I Stabilized Never Type (ihatereality.space)
    ×2.27 11 | 4 points by birdculture 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The End of Friday Nights with Friends (sagepub.com)
    ×1.17 68 | 5 points by marojejian 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems (mpg.de)
    ×1.14 86 | 3 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos (juandecos.github.io)
    ×2.79 36 | 10 points by chaostaco 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. LG says we're fake news [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.99 37 | 317 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    ×3.11 9 | 598 points by jonifico 1 day ago | 657 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Rat and Mouse Gazette: Nursing Care (1996) (rmca.org)
    ×0.83 87 | 3 points by joebig 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
    ×0.84 19 | 66 points by DamnInteresting 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL (query.farm)
    ×1.41 69 | 6 points by rustyconover 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.07 32 | 568 points by mikemcquaid 18 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Signal Distilled (signaldistilled.com)
    ×0.87 91 | 3 points by mattrcarroll 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT (reuters.com)
    ×2.90 18 | 12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    ×4.13 51 | 408 points by robinpie 9 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Dep-radius, know which dependency updates touch your code (npmjs.com)
    ×0.96 90 | 3 points by imadjourney 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. After Math (wordpress.com)
    ×2.08 41 | 133 points by throwaway81523 23 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI Forces You to Commit to Your Initial Belief (idiallo.com)
    ×1.72 6 | 3 points by walterbell 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.61 50 | 54 points by matt_d 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Three AI Pills (wordpress.com)
    ×1.86 44 | 6 points by maxutility 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)
    ×1.69 30 | 106 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
    ×2.27 62 | 54 points by contact9879 2 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Meta$^N$: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Emergent Depth (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 69 | 4 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. DeepSeek Peak Hours (sivaram.dev)
    ×1.39 50 | 5 points by denysvitali 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Fossil: Private Branches (fossil-scm.org)
    ×1.24 15 | 4 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)
    ×1.44 19 | 172 points by lopopolo 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain (petrelvoyage.com)
    ×0.72 46 | 6 points by desktopentree 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) (openai.com)
    ×3.55 61 | 60 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How Google Sees Your Site (miloslavhomer.cz)
    ×0.81 54 | 18 points by ArcHound 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.29 12 | 13 points by fortran77 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)
    ×1.21 43 | 70 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener (1989) [pdf] (monoskop.org)
    ×1.67 44 | 6 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)
    ×5.99 44 | 754 points by xena 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap (high5apps.github.io)
    ×2.33 9 | 596 points by juliantigler 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SCH: An affordable sandbox for Coding Agents in your AWS account (c-daniele.github.io)
    ×1.95 46 | 6 points by cdani 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (aresluna.org)
    ×1.57 21 | 98 points by leephillips 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh (minifigs-studio.vercel.app)
    ×0.75 62 | 9 points by fvitas 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Former CIA official found with $40M in gold bars reaches tentative plea deal (apnews.com)
    ×2.38 21 | 11 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)
    ×1.66 21 | 212 points by eiln 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Terminal multiplexer and experimental Wayland compositor for browsers (blit.sh)
    ×1.51 62 | 5 points by williamstein 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.65 43 | 66 points by dgellow 8 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?
    ×0.65 7 | 7 points by mondobe 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Opportunistic AI detects colorectal cancer using routine, noncontrast CT (radiologybusiness.com)
    ×1.34 11 | 4 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (brown.edu)
    ×2.15 34 | 458 points by wcrichton 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (github.com/Foadsf)
    ×1.04 34 | 110 points by petalmind 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run (phys.org)
    ×0.82 48 | 61 points by wglb 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???