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  1. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
    ×3.43 | 57 points by outlier99 30 minutes ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×1.93 | 181 points by Philpax 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.31 10 | 427 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.46 14 | 52 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How to save a life without knowing CPR (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×1.84 17 | 26 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.97 21 | 115 points by Vosporos 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
    ×1.38 28 | 75 points by mkornaukhov 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.94 18 | 56 points by delphidolphin 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.91 3 | 38 points by smilelamp 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×6.26 21 | 382 points by emptybits 15 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
    ×1.57 26 | 49 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.33 7 | 71 points by hising 1 hour ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.05 33 | 164 points by 0xedb 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Third Way of Using Linux (hisvirusness.com)
    ×1.08 64 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi (npr.org)
    ×2.18 1 | 32 points by momentmaker 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse (cbc.ca)
    ×4.48 9 | 47 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.18 30 | 119 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.67 8 | 83 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.38 4 | 213 points by benbreen 7 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Beating the compiler (2024) (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.87 29 | 57 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (ess-news.com)
    ×1.56 4 | 46 points by msalsas 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.51 40 | 94 points by lode 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.65 12 | 381 points by finnlab 8 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. WSL containers is now generally available – Windows Developer Blog (windows.com)
    ×1.93 | 9 points by abdelhousni 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (ft.com)
    ×3.04 19 | 84 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) (techarp.com)
    ×0.26 57 | 10 points by userbinator 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.15 37 | 88 points by tiagod 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)
    ×2.39 | 218 points by roflcopter69 10 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.55 6 | 445 points by clan 13 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.37 40 | 240 points by rdmuser 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×2.71 28 | 155 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.50 33 | 389 points by wiso 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.62 49 | 41 points by andre15silva 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.45 9 | 296 points by Vaslo 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Tao of Backup (taobackup.com)
    ×1.93 32 | 255 points by vntok 22 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)
    ×3.86 32 | 235 points by brokensegue 3 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The designer lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×1.99 5 | 78 points by farslan 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.84 49 | 69 points by pykello 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)
    ×2.35 9 | 111 points by Tomte 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)
    ×3.16 32 | 190 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
    ×1.10 22 | 130 points by eustoria 5 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users (insufferable.dev)
    ×2.42 6 | 15 points by garo-pro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.60 64 | 8 points by abe94 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.98 48 | 79 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.24 25 | 324 points by dachworker 10 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.40 8 | 124 points by AlexeyBrin 12 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Infidel goes wild (zarfhome.com)
    ×1.14 42 | 177 points by tobr 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS (theverge.com)
    ×0.88 20 | 4 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.69 11 | 30 points by JamesCoyne 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)
    ×4.48 9 | 745 points by privacyisntdead 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.94 66 | 116 points by shannadige 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)
    ×0.61 42 | 28 points by adityamukho 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com/Niko1221)
    ×3.53 3 | 907 points by snehesht 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons (mozilla.org)
    ×1.92 4 | 31 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.69 2 | 511 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 667 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash (niklasroy.com)
    ×1.34 43 | 230 points by r0r0 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.39 56 | 138 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
    ×1.41 33 | 100 points by sssilver 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (redhat.com)
    ×1.93 13 | 150 points by tomncooper 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.97 49 | 115 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×1.08 39 | 12 points by linesofcode 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites (articlesofinterest.substack.com)
    ×0.70 42 | 54 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (scienceux.org)
    ×0.84 47 | 72 points by s4074433 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple and a Hacker's Future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.85 30 | 169 points by maguay 11 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Another step towards Elm 1.0 (elm-lang.org)
    ×1.80 11 | 23 points by wheatBread 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.55 63 | 137 points by zdw 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (motorsport.com)
    ×2.24 7 | 279 points by llm_nerd 19 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 44 | 97 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.12 45 | 162 points by allenleee 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.62 56 | 56 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx (bernat.ch)
    ×1.97 13 | 187 points by renehsz 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Dutch government to ban smartphones from schools (nltimes.nl)
    ×1.85 8 | 6 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.33 55 | 146 points by knuckleheads 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex (alexalejandre.com)
    ×0.80 51 | 55 points by veqq 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.83 28 | 50 points by greghn 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.51 1 | 17 points by ortusdux 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)
    ×0.79 43 | 84 points by pepys 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)
    ×1.23 58 | 120 points by rkagerer 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com/net4people)
    ×1.04 40 | 85 points by timbill 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
    ×2.22 25 | 98 points by jgx0 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.70 8 | 926 points by paveworld 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Siemens Slams the Door Shut on Promising Open-Source Radioss Project (phoronix.com)
    ×1.80 7 | 4 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.84 50 | 58 points by zero_k 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Page Table Memory Consumption (frn.sh)
    ×1.07 38 | 73 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A map of every lighthouse (mapped.earth)
    ×1.44 12 | 192 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (wiley.com)
    ×1.23 8 | 99 points by thelastgallon 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.59 36 | 246 points by citelao 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Results from the ASIC puzzle (janestreet.com)
    ×1.05 26 | 98 points by eru 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.61 41 | 225 points by geoffbp 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???