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  1. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com/ValveSoftware)
    ×1.22 14 | 1834 points by davikr 3 days ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” (chadnauseam.com)
    ×6.73 42 | 1794 points by pie_flavor 5 days ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
    ×5.65 43 | 1349 points by lumerina 5 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (bbc.com)
    ×4.91 1 #1 | 1222 points by helsinkiandrew 17 hours ago | 834 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. My Life in Weeks (ginatrapani.org)
    ×3.95 78 | 960 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
    ×8.32 30 | 853 points by perihelions 2 days ago | 1634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger (google.com)
    ×2.54 1 | 823 points by karel-3d 2 days ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (dlazaro.ca)
    ×1.07 41 | 811 points by dlazaro 4 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
    ×6.23 60 | 789 points by confusing3478 4 days ago | 753 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
    ×3.08 9 #47 | 779 points by akanet 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)
    ×1.37 3 | 769 points by cyndunlop 2 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
    ×2.55 57 | 759 points by fanf2 5 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days (github.com/deepseek-ai)
    ×4.16 67 | 733 points by ahsmha_ 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I found a backdoor into my bed (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×5.40 15 #20 | 725 points by riverdroid 16 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order (whitehouse.gov)
    ×1.54 17 | 704 points by martialg 3 days ago | 1263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (bitecode.dev)
    ×2.82 32 | 694 points by bertdb 3 days ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers (uchu.style)
    ×2.86 75 | 673 points by NetOpWibby 5 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" (kernel.org)
    ×3.86 22 #80 | 640 points by mustache_kimono 2 days ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.33 23 #41 | 628 points by isaacfrond 22 hours ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Grok3 Launch [video] (x.com)
    ×1.24 56 | 625 points by travelhead 4 days ago | 1348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.82 13 | 612 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
    ×2.66 77 | 609 points by picture 5 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
    ×3.99 81 | 598 points by Trasmatta 5 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. XOR (greenend.org.uk)
    ×1.33 53 | 589 points by mariuz 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find (techxplore.com)
    ×3.14 92 | 575 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport (cbc.ca)
    ×3.24 64 | 568 points by jaredwiener 4 days ago | 704 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS (caddyserver.com)
    ×3.24 83 | 565 points by huang_chung 5 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pi-hole v6 (pi-hole.net)
    ×1.78 46 | 564 points by tkuraku 3 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. My LLM codegen workflow (harper.blog)
    ×3.04 50 | 492 points by lolptdr 3 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Apple Debuts iPhone 16e (apple.com)
    ×1.29 19 | 488 points by dm 2 days ago | 803 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation (cosive.com)
    ×1.10 65 | 487 points by tashicorp 4 days ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago (bbc.com)
    ×7.26 91 | 487 points by niuzeta 6 days ago | 786 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org)
    ×3.30 95 | 486 points by doener 6 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration (cea.fr)
    ×0.75 51 | 484 points by mpweiher 3 days ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Jane Street's Figgie card game (figgie.com)
    ×2.08 105 | 473 points by eamag 6 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. We are the builders (wethebuilders.org)
    ×6.97 67 #68 | 468 points by ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds (yale.edu)
    ×3.78 103 | 450 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks (wololo.net)
    ×1.75 113 | 450 points by zdw 1 week ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.15 8 | 445 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com)
    ×2.25 98 | 443 points by krykp 6 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations (scripton.dev)
    ×0.98 59 | 441 points by nightcraft 3 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor (microsoft.com)
    ×1.58 21 | 440 points by eksu 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
    ×1.97 8 #67 | 439 points by sshh12 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby (github.com/mastra-ai)
    ×0.75 28 | 433 points by calcsam 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch (patentlyapple.com)
    ×3.19 20 #62 | 430 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.85 54 | 418 points by Hooke 3 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected (tuhs.org)
    ×0.64 37 #69 | 415 points by henry_flower 2 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450 (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.86 19 #50 | 404 points by 9woc 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
    ×3.77 87 | 401 points by Tijdreiziger 5 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life (johnnydecimal.com)
    ×2.60 7 #10 | 391 points by debone 17 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1 (docker.com)
    ×2.60 7 #44 | 385 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach (scottsmitelli.com)
    ×3.79 67 | 379 points by smitelli 3 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.26 90 | 379 points by NaOH 5 days ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com)
    ×2.35 18 | 373 points by clumsysmurf 2 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development (otago.ac.nz)
    ×2.93 111 | 369 points by vyrotek 6 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th (reddit.com)
    ×3.63 94 | 368 points by andyjohnson0 5 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards (wired.com)
    ×6.97 24 | 366 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 672 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist (research.google)
    ×0.88 39 | 365 points by Jimmc414 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Generative AI Con (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.97 76 | 365 points by nimbleplum40 4 days ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Perplexity Deep Research (perplexity.ai)
    ×2.18 112 | 365 points by vinni2 6 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers (github.com/subtrace)
    ×0.92 36 | 364 points by adtac 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Moving on from 18F (ethanmarcotte.com)
    ×1.23 62 | 357 points by mkeeter 3 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf] (rtestardi.github.io)
    ×1.73 99 | 357 points by burgerone 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×3.34 19 #25 | 350 points by hermitcrab 11 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
    ×1.78 84 | 348 points by xmprt 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers (pyspur.dev)
    ×2.13 13 #79 | 346 points by t55 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Watt The Fox? (43z.one)
    ×1.96 116 | 343 points by h43z 6 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode (ubicloud.com)
    ×0.68 45 | 338 points by ngalstyan4 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988) (caltech.edu)
    ×2.12 7 #3 | 333 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why Ruby on Rails still matters (contraption.co)
    ×2.62 9 #5 | 327 points by philip1209 14 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
    ×1.65 32 #40 | 325 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision (nature.com)
    ×1.85 82 | 325 points by walterbell 6 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface (filepilot.tech)
    ×5.27 69 | 323 points by vjekoslav 3 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset (arxiv.org)
    ×2.02 14 #27 | 321 points by joshwa 14 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.90 10 | 320 points by ingve 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
    ×3.00 97 | 320 points by techlover14159 5 days ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. United States Power Outage Map (poweroutage.us)
    ×1.85 101 | 320 points by jonbaer 5 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Every .gov Domain (flatgithub.com)
    ×1.54 7 #46 | 310 points by KoftaBob 22 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? (civileats.com)
    ×2.23 35 | 310 points by greenie_beans 2 days ago | 841 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
    ×2.04 85 | 307 points by nafnlj 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
    ×2.58 100 | 305 points by throwaway19577 5 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 (github.com/b4rtaz)
    ×2.01 118 | 305 points by b4rtazz 6 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
    ×1.69 14 #57 | 303 points by sebg 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. OpenEuroLLM (openeurollm.eu)
    ×2.97 11 | 303 points by richardfontana 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.37 24 | 301 points by SerCe 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A secret poker game you can play on the subway (prfalken.dev)
    ×1.09 48 | 298 points by oktcho 3 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Thoughts on Daylight Computer (jon.bo)
    ×1.14 61 | 293 points by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve 3 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control (figure.ai)
    ×1.42 3 | 292 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
    ×1.60 21 #8 | 291 points by lis 19 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 50 Years of Travel Tips (kk.org)
    ×2.29 115 | 291 points by marban 5 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???