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  1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
    ×6.91 68 #84 | 1163 points by baranul 1 day ago | 584 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.76 27 #81 | 806 points by nicholasjbs 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
    ×3.52 14 #55 | 688 points by vitaut 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Transcribe.cpp (cjpais.com)
    ×3.21 2 #10 | 639 points by sebjones 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)
    ×2.48 12 #37 | 576 points by mbustamanter 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
    ×3.01 29 | 554 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)
    ×4.17 11 #32 | 552 points by sbochins 22 hours ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings (petapixel.com)
    ×5.30 19 #33 | 544 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)
    ×2.76 13 #40 | 434 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025) (velvetshark.com)
    ×6.49 54 | 433 points by miniBill 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (stackexchange.com)
    ×3.27 11 #51 | 423 points by secretslol 1 day ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Qwen 3.8 (twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen)
    ×3.81 #1 | 408 points by nh43215rgb 7 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
    ×1.90 1 | 331 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (mataroa.blog)
    ×4.64 20 #35 | 323 points by subset 14 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)
    ×4.64 44 | 301 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.33 5 | 282 points by st_goliath 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Better and Cheaper Than IPTV (github.com/stupside)
    ×1.99 1 #18 | 263 points by xonery 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (acm.org)
    ×2.12 7 #29 | 263 points by Ygg2 22 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)
    ×1.46 7 #73 | 247 points by couAUIA 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Codex Resets (codex-resets.com)
    ×2.02 7 #16 | 244 points by denysvitali 16 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)
    ×1.85 17 #69 | 240 points by bbg2401 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)
    ×1.74 9 #58 | 239 points by ykev 23 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)
    ×1.50 25 #76 | 239 points by nerdypepper 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/BadChemical)
    ×1.67 11 | 229 points by BadChemical 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard (chipweinberger.com)
    ×2.89 1 #3 | 210 points by chipweinberger 5 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Qwen 3.8 Max Preview (qwencloud.com)
    ×2.23 86 | 212 points by lebovic 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)
    ×1.75 13 #19 | 211 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law (texasattorneygeneral.gov)
    ×3.32 17 | 198 points by letmevoteplease 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
    ×2.43 19 | 196 points by hmm37 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
    ×1.60 28 #83 | 190 points by lalitmaganti 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.58 24 | 169 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.67 2 #6 | 167 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (reuters.com)
    ×3.86 34 | 166 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.37 24 #60 | 164 points by Kudos 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.68 39 #65 | 163 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Classic Amiga titles, free to download (downer.tech)
    ×1.20 18 #24 | 155 points by doener 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)
    ×1.51 36 | 155 points by guybedo 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
    ×1.55 30 | 154 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k (github.com/openai)
    ×2.37 3 #8 | 146 points by AmazingTurtle 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)
    ×1.40 32 #88 | 144 points by zdw 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 (minecraft.net)
    ×1.86 1 #2 | 128 points by ObviouslyFlamer 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years (sky.com)
    ×2.64 13 | 126 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust (github.com/tokio-rs)
    ×1.37 37 | 121 points by wertyk 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.04 31 #87 | 117 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
    ×0.97 40 | 113 points by lortex 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fake food delivery site for the dopamine (reddit.com)
    ×2.08 9 | 106 points by guerrilla 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week (boilingsteam.com)
    ×2.58 10 | 106 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Typing Speed Test, but for Developers (0s.is)
    ×1.22 19 #52 | 102 points by hronecviktor 20 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500 (reotrucks.com)
    ×1.74 39 #38 | 99 points by b_mc2 21 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill (fda.gov)
    ×1.70 35 #70 | 93 points by mgh2 13 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×3.68 47 | 91 points by cromka 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators (workspaces.xyz)
    ×0.83 53 | 91 points by ryangilbert 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)
    ×1.40 51 | 89 points by j2kun 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)
    ×0.78 45 #47 | 88 points by drdator 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 32 #82 | 87 points by sciences44 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The US grocery slowdown is real (bain.com)
    ×4.39 45 | 85 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says (theguardian.com)
    ×7.44 49 | 82 points by barbazoo 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup (arxiv.org)
    ×1.17 34 #41 | 81 points by vicgalle_ 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)
    ×1.00 44 | 81 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×0.73 49 #57 | 81 points by zdw 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)
    ×0.81 42 | 80 points by radeeyate 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
    ×0.69 40 #53 | 78 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists' (forbes.com)
    ×6.22 52 | 75 points by chaps 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (unc.edu)
    ×2.23 7 | 74 points by geox 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens (quesma.com)
    ×1.81 25 #31 | 72 points by bkotrys 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.49 55 | 72 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Designing emoji for the way we communicate today (blog.google)
    ×0.97 57 | 72 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Harness Engineering (github.com/lopopolo)
    ×1.94 11 #80 | 71 points by handfuloflight 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise (xcancel.com)
    ×7.30 9 | 70 points by like_any_other 23 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The death and rebirth of my home server (hootr.club)
    ×1.37 #13 | 68 points by steinuil 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years (springer.com)
    ×5.94 60 | 68 points by OutOfHere 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.96 54 | 67 points by jamesgill 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.06 51 #36 | 66 points by minimaxir 20 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (mataroa.blog)
    ×6.96 35 | 66 points by bertman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves (macworld.com)
    ×3.35 43 | 66 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig (moonstone.sh)
    ×0.97 46 | 66 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Judge a book by its first pages (uncovered.ink)
    ×0.93 5 #74 | 63 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf] (tug.org)
    ×0.97 24 #56 | 62 points by amichail 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.53 21 | 61 points by tedggh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering (sutch.net)
    ×3.59 50 | 60 points by ssutch3 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard (humanrightsfirst.org)
    ×3.85 61 | 60 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned (andros.dev)
    ×2.00 3 #9 | 59 points by andros 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Flock Safety had a car journalist stalked, wrongly accused, and detained (thedrive.com)
    ×5.97 63 | 55 points by monksy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO (ft.com)
    ×2.94 22 | 54 points by ethanhawksley 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Deepsec (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.23 2 #71 | 50 points by handfuloflight 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated (perforce.com)
    ×1.35 62 | 49 points by TZubiri 7 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research (ft.com)
    ×2.93 8 | 49 points by JumpCrisscross 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.69 30 #23 | 48 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Even Microsoft couldn't make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM (theverge.com)
    ×3.23 3 | 45 points by GeekyBear 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LG monitors installing adware on Windows PCs (techradar.com)
    ×4.88 65 | 45 points by 0xC0ncord 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???