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  1. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
    ×6.43 25 #29 | 960 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.57 2 #52 | 797 points by ropbear 1 day ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.28 7 #46 | 776 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×3.00 1 #75 | 746 points by tosh 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.51 15 | 702 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
    ×6.46 78 | 698 points by kevcampb 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
    ×7.84 #7 | 687 points by DeepLogin 15 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.64 1 #14 | 665 points by ibotty 22 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.86 13 #83 | 631 points by stagas 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.58 10 #63 | 612 points by Narishma 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.25 18 #35 | 606 points by dhruv3006 22 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
    ×2.61 3 #3 | 583 points by gavide 14 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.24 66 #87 | 549 points by SpyCoder77 22 hours ago | 938 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.14 4 #4 | 514 points by Topfi 15 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.16 11 | 463 points by zacharyozer 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×3.98 16 | 433 points by Alifatisk 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study (yale.edu)
    ×6.74 67 | 403 points by karakoram 20 hours ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.22 4 #6 | 393 points by shdon 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.72 14 #16 | 394 points by galnagli 22 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.18 27 #50 | 353 points by anana_ 19 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.53 26 #24 | 348 points by plurby 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.13 9 | 333 points by hruvhwe 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.77 25 | 327 points by mlenhard 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
    ×1.62 19 #25 | 312 points by ColinWright 22 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GitHub down again? no PR access
    ×3.44 39 | 289 points by yodon 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
    ×5.27 4 | 281 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
    ×2.47 13 #20 | 267 points by neogodless 19 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
    ×1.84 35 #47 | 263 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
    ×3.48 | 261 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
    ×2.42 1 #1 | 258 points by flaburgan 4 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
    ×1.74 15 #26 | 255 points by Gecko4072 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (bundeskartellamt.de)
    ×1.74 24 #79 | 251 points by nyku 22 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×2.81 23 | 245 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/DarioAmodei)
    ×1.44 40 #41 | 244 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.62 9 #11 | 238 points by pizzaiolo 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 18 #19 | 228 points by linggen 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.46 19 #90 | 225 points by sudo_cowsay 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.62 34 | 219 points by lentil_soup 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.50 19 | 217 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
    ×14.13 80 | 194 points by ramesh31 11 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.52 38 | 194 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
    ×1.24 36 #28 | 173 points by qingcharles 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.13 43 #84 | 172 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
    ×1.47 20 #31 | 166 points by monkey_monkey 17 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI (theregister.com)
    ×4.12 1 #2 | 162 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.72 44 | 158 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
    ×1.35 27 #30 | 154 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.09 60 #39 | 153 points by vlowrian 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
    ×9.85 35 | 152 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Anthropic's War on open source AI (twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman)
    ×3.35 23 | 147 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (404media.co)
    ×4.43 12 | 144 points by amarcheschi 22 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. People are worried about America's solvency (ft.com)
    ×7.25 2 | 143 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.86 8 #21 | 140 points by rglover 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days (theintercept.com)
    ×10.71 40 | 140 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Buy Your Friends Batteries (domenkozar.com)
    ×2.31 24 | 137 points by domenkozar 19 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)
    ×3.43 51 | 131 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
    ×1.44 2 #17 | 130 points by cyndunlop 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.82 63 #61 | 129 points by erickhill 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Banned Words List (pen.org)
    ×7.60 54 | 128 points by structuredPizza 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.61 28 | 127 points by jefurii 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
    ×7.86 22 | 123 points by tomasreimers 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.87 59 #69 | 123 points by spdegabrielle 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Self hosted email continues to steeply decline (ripe.net)
    ×3.22 13 | 119 points by minusf 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
    ×1.02 32 #65 | 116 points by untiledsource 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.86 48 | 115 points by homarp 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA (twitter.com/lydiakauppi)
    ×7.09 7 | 113 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I don't enjoy the Internet any more (btao.org)
    ×7.33 82 | 111 points by g0xA52A2A 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.82 53 #40 | 111 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    ×0.65 54 #32 | 110 points by abdik 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.90 61 | 109 points by austinallegro 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.17 19 | 106 points by haunter 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.68 #5 | 105 points by honungsburk 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×5.46 3 | 104 points by sharts 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.19 49 | 100 points by hardlianotion 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×0.97 63 #85 | 99 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.84 15 | 97 points by FinnLobsien 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (npr.org)
    ×1.28 14 | 95 points by brandonb 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.18 50 | 94 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.13 14 | 93 points by rzk 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.63 20 | 87 points by Gecko4072 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (axios.com)
    ×3.27 17 #66 | 86 points by sgustard 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.71 60 #51 | 86 points by nanochess 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    ×0.99 64 | 84 points by adjohu 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment (cnbc.com)
    ×3.71 4 | 83 points by root-parent 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.12 43 | 78 points by _delirium 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.08 45 | 77 points by beanaroo 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (independent.co.uk)
    ×5.07 66 | 77 points by NordStreamYacht 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
    ×0.73 58 #86 | 71 points by gumby 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request (foxnews.com)
    ×4.69 60 | 70 points by gist 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.46 38 #82 | 69 points by enjoyyourlife 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???