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  1. GPT-5 (openai.com)
    ×7.46 64 | 2053 points by rd 1 week ago | 2478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fight Chat Control (fightchatcontrol.eu)
    ×7.59 50 | 1455 points by tokai 6 days ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (theverge.com)
    ×6.57 34 | 1446 points by Handy-Man 5 days ago | 1115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file (al3rez.com)
    ×5.29 37 | 1365 points by al3rez 5 days ago | 784 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context (anthropic.com)
    ×4.80 19 | 1308 points by adocomplete 4 days ago | 690 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson)
    ×4.26 79 | 1124 points by wompapumpum 1 week ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (instavm.io)
    ×4.19 76 | 1123 points by mkagenius 1 week ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act (bbc.com)
    ×4.36 47 | 1095 points by phlummox 5 days ago | 850 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (theguardian.com)
    ×5.71 27 | 1077 points by nemoniac 2 days ago | 874 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (ffmpeg.org)
    ×3.91 14 | 1005 points by rilawa 3 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords (danielh.cc)
    ×5.04 96 | 986 points by max__dev 1 week ago | 789 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Debian 13 “Trixie” (debian.org)
    ×5.72 71 | 959 points by ducktective 1 week ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness (slashdot.org)
    ×5.52 24 | 914 points by MilnerRoute 2 days ago | 591 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Vibechart (vibechart.net)
    ×4.92 91 | 873 points by datadrivenangel 1 week ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Code is all you need (dwyer.co.za)
    ×3.91 56 | 836 points by sixhobbits 5 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
    ×4.06 9 | 823 points by marcjschmidt 3 days ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why LLMs can't really build software (zed.dev)
    ×4.66 6 #81 | 816 points by srid 2 days ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI (googleblog.com)
    ×3.14 5 #77 | 795 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol (nginx.org)
    ×3.11 16 | 787 points by phickey 3 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (dlazaro.ca)
    ×3.05 82 | 779 points by dlazaro 1 week ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.07 27 | 759 points by pr337h4m 3 days ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. PYX: The next step in Python packaging (astral.sh)
    ×3.05 15 | 745 points by the_mitsuhiko 3 days ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? (josefprusa.com)
    ×3.49 43 | 698 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How I code with AI on a budget/free (wuu73.org)
    ×3.06 83 | 691 points by indigodaddy 6 days ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Good system design (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.68 2 #5 | 677 points by dondraper36 14 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Try and (yale.edu)
    ×2.86 73 | 658 points by treetalker 6 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings (wilsonl.in)
    ×2.96 48 | 652 points by wilsonzlin 4 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. This website is for humans (localghost.dev)
    ×4.43 26 | 641 points by charles_f 3 days ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.02 110 | 640 points by Philpax 1 week ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations (wikimediafoundation.org)
    ×2.94 62 | 633 points by danso 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second (hyperknot.com)
    ×2.94 88 | 607 points by hyperknot 1 week ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer (drobinin.com)
    ×3.65 12 #47 | 590 points by valzevul 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (nasa.gov)
    ×3.88 101 | 584 points by LorenDB 1 week ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Search all text in New York City (alltext.nyc)
    ×2.96 46 | 578 points by Kortaggio 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
    ×2.95 102 | 565 points by superasn 1 week ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.74 7 | 556 points by ingve 4 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Historical Tech Tree (historicaltechtree.com)
    ×2.50 118 | 543 points by louisfd94 1 week ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why are there so many rationalist cults? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×3.64 55 | 533 points by glenstein 4 days ago | 899 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta (archive.org)
    ×12.98 68 | 521 points by icw_nru 5 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cursed Knowledge (immich.app)
    ×3.59 119 | 515 points by bqmjjx0kac 1 week ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The future of large files in Git is Git (tylercipriani.com)
    ×2.51 3 #36 | 514 points by thcipriani 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report (chromium.org)
    ×2.70 72 | 513 points by alexcos 5 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack (twitter.com/p3b7_)
    ×4.07 57 | 503 points by treyd 4 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Framework Desktop is a beast (hey.com)
    ×3.56 94 | 494 points by lemonberry 1 week ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.28 86 | 486 points by ModelForge 6 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security (rtl-sdr.com)
    ×2.45 124 | 485 points by lq9AJ8yrfs 1 week ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Getting good results from Claude Code (dzombak.com)
    ×2.80 114 | 484 points by ingve 1 week ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers (lwn.net)
    ×2.28 63 | 477 points by pabs3 4 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (openculture.com)
    ×2.24 1 #52 | 476 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI is different (antirez.com)
    ×3.04 5 #38 | 467 points by grep_it 21 hours ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GPT-5 for Developers (openai.com)
    ×2.36 125 | 467 points by 6thbit 1 week ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole (bytemash.net)
    ×2.56 120 | 465 points by jcusch 1 week ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place (engineering.fyi)
    ×2.36 87 | 464 points by indiehackerman 6 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Blurry rendering of games on Mac (colincornaby.me)
    ×2.01 3 | 447 points by bangonkeyboard 2 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police (nytimes.com)
    ×7.09 74 | 445 points by Tadpole9181 5 days ago | 746 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography (openssh.com)
    ×1.93 77 | 445 points by throw0101d 5 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. PuTTY has a new website (putty.software)
    ×2.30 2 #26 | 438 points by GalaxySnail 18 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US (apple.com)
    ×2.25 13 | 439 points by thm 2 days ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
    ×2.34 52 | 430 points by nativeforks 3 days ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network (techno-fandom.org)
    ×2.15 85 | 430 points by pilingual 5 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.09 104 | 429 points by vismit2000 1 week ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.01 117 | 427 points by tosh 1 week ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application (mitchellh.com)
    ×2.06 | 424 points by tosh 2 days ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England (sky.com)
    ×3.41 45 | 423 points by amarcheschi 3 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Windows XP Professional (win32.run)
    ×2.38 134 | 417 points by pentagrama 1 week ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account (edka.io)
    ×1.80 4 #48 | 416 points by camil 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×1.97 70 | 415 points by SerCe 4 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×2.29 11 | 411 points by dhooper 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems (medium.com)
    ×3.33 108 | 409 points by yodon 1 week ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (mit.edu)
    ×1.97 122 | 404 points by anarbadalov 1 week ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.33 133 | 401 points by emschwartz 1 week ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (eidel.io)
    ×3.03 135 | 397 points by olieidel 1 week ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.39 39 | 389 points by reaperducer 3 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court (malwarebytes.com)
    ×4.58 20 | 383 points by amarcheschi 2 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OCaml as my primary language (xvw.lol)
    ×1.98 43 | 380 points by nukifw 3 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building Bluesky comments for my blog (natalie.sh)
    ×1.89 138 | 380 points by g0xA52A2A 1 week ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian (lwn.net)
    ×2.37 23 | 379 points by lemper 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cursor CLI (cursor.com)
    ×2.21 136 | 376 points by gonzalovargas 1 week ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive (ghacks.net)
    ×2.56 65 | 374 points by warrenm 4 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. LLMs aren't world models (yosefk.com)
    ×2.40 99 | 368 points by ingve 6 days ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What does Palantir actually do? (wired.com)
    ×3.46 30 | 367 points by mudil 2 days ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition (projecthyperion.org)
    ×1.98 141 | 367 points by codeulike 1 week ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind (derekthompson.org)
    ×2.37 92 | 356 points by purgator 6 days ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable (arxiv.org)
    ×1.90 67 | 355 points by Cynddl 4 days ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications (eye.security)
    ×1.83 109 | 355 points by the1bernard 1 week ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.95 116 | 355 points by hhs 1 week ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Do Things That Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.81 27 #34 | 352 points by bschne 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer (github.com/embedpdf)
    ×2.26 17 | 346 points by bobsingor 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text (github.com/denizsafak)
    ×1.83 105 | 346 points by mzehrer 6 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients (keckmedicine.org)
    ×3.07 51 | 343 points by geox 3 days ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???