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  1. Solarpunk is happening in Africa (climatedrift.substack.com)
    ×4.47 14 #72 | 1160 points by JoiDegn 1 day ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (heise.de)
    ×6.09 65 | 954 points by Projectiboga 1 day ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. End of Japanese community (mozilla.org)
    ×4.65 39 | 947 points by phantomathkg 1 day ago | 750 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. You should write an agent (fly.io)
    ×3.93 8 #28 | 932 points by tabletcorry 22 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model (moonshotai.github.io)
    ×3.40 #33 | 850 points by nekofneko 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ratatui – App Showcase (ratatui.rs)
    ×3.32 4 #59 | 738 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair (nottingham.ac.uk)
    ×3.31 7 #90 | 653 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk (binnenlandsbestuur.nl)
    ×3.55 25 #63 | 610 points by vincvinc 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Leaving Meta and PyTorch (soumith.ch)
    ×2.66 9 #4 | 590 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Two billion email addresses were exposed (troyhunt.com)
    ×2.50 2 #32 | 575 points by esnard 22 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model (book.sv)
    ×2.85 10 #25 | 529 points by costco 23 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Fond Farewell (farmersalmanac.com)
    ×2.34 11 #6 | 491 points by erhuve 15 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams (sherwood.news)
    ×5.81 14 #17 | 468 points by donohoe 6 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Game design is simple (raphkoster.com)
    ×2.81 8 #24 | 452 points by vrnvu 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser (github.com/dillo-browser)
    ×1.81 14 | 439 points by nazgulsenpai 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced (reddit.com)
    ×3.23 4 | 381 points by hentrep 1 day ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others (ctvnews.ca)
    ×1.82 18 | 373 points by randycupertino 2 days ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products (ikea.com)
    ×3.36 22 | 327 points by lemoine0461 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What the hell have you built (sacha.house)
    ×4.49 6 | 315 points by sachahjkl 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.74 18 | 312 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (electrek.co)
    ×3.91 20 | 281 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale (wordpress.com)
    ×1.28 | 261 points by nabla9 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site (josh.mn)
    ×2.77 18 #40 | 235 points by zuhayeer 11 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Eating stinging nettles (rachel.blog)
    ×1.30 8 #81 | 233 points by rzk 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 (medium.com)
    ×1.25 36 | 233 points by ashvardanian 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating (ras.ac.uk)
    ×1.63 31 #29 | 232 points by chrka 21 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful (arnon.dk)
    ×3.75 3 | 227 points by arnon 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Swift on FreeBSD Preview (swift.org)
    ×1.28 3 #78 | 224 points by glhaynes 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Note on Fil-C (dreamwidth.org)
    ×2.01 12 #58 | 223 points by signa11 17 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How I am deeply integrating Emacs (joshblais.com)
    ×1.48 45 #62 | 219 points by signa11 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.71 38 | 217 points by thinkcontext 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] (urv.cat)
    ×1.39 39 #87 | 192 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion (investinglive.com)
    ×9.07 29 | 191 points by donsupreme 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation (openmw.org)
    ×2.20 3 #12 | 185 points by agluszak 5 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI Slop vs. OSS Security (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.81 7 | 184 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I Love OCaml (mccd.space)
    ×1.89 4 #3 | 177 points by art-w 4 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.76 1 | 163 points by treadump 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs (karltryggvason.com)
    ×0.87 8 | 163 points by kalli 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. LLMs encode how difficult problems are (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 39 #43 | 162 points by stansApprentice 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains (vt.edu)
    ×1.41 14 #73 | 161 points by stevenjgarner 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault (bbc.com)
    ×8.54 26 | 154 points by onemoresoop 19 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell (github.com/matisojka)
    ×1.12 47 #64 | 148 points by iagooar 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown (cnbc.com)
    ×5.57 39 | 145 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) (h4x0r.org)
    ×0.91 42 | 142 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 (apnews.com)
    ×4.84 3 #5 | 132 points by c420 2 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona (bigislandnow.com)
    ×2.16 25 | 132 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire (motherjones.com)
    ×3.57 19 | 131 points by hhs 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Learning Loop and LLMs (martinfowler.com)
    ×2.38 15 | 129 points by johnwheeler 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore (rawl.rocks)
    ×0.75 55 #60 | 119 points by vitaly-pavlenko 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted (wired.com)
    ×6.47 1 | 118 points by randycupertino 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Parallel Search API (parallel.ai)
    ×0.93 36 #68 | 118 points by lukaslevert 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' (nytimes.com)
    ×3.46 9 #13 | 117 points by pretext 3 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We chose OCaml to write Stategraph (stategraph.dev)
    ×1.31 1 #15 | 114 points by lawnchair 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036 (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.51 10 | 110 points by jmward01 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios (int10h.org)
    ×0.88 57 | 110 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenDesk – a flexible all-in-one office suite for the public sector (opendesk.eu)
    ×2.80 12 | 109 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time (coffee.link)
    ×3.42 #1 | 97 points by PhilKunz 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dead Framework Theory (aifoc.us)
    ×1.64 26 #41 | 91 points by jhuleatt 15 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' (theguardian.com)
    ×9.94 4 | 85 points by mykowebhn 20 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.36 15 #31 | 83 points by flail 5 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers (restofworld.org)
    ×2.00 60 | 83 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced (frenchclasses.com)
    ×2.34 26 | 81 points by detectivestory 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist (breakthroughjournal.org)
    ×3.63 62 | 78 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. UK outperforms US in creating unicorns from early stage VC investment (cityam.com)
    ×1.82 19 | 75 points by mmarian 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. HTML Slides with notes (neocities.org)
    ×1.21 39 #45 | 73 points by Curiositry 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump (reuters.com)
    ×4.26 65 | 72 points by moosedman 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: TabPFN-2.5 – SOTA foundation model for tabular data (priorlabs.ai)
    ×0.73 33 #85 | 71 points by onasta 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23% (empirical.health)
    ×2.69 66 | 71 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself (cnn.com)
    ×7.77 68 | 70 points by nh43215rgb 6 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.96 50 #75 | 70 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.27 68 | 70 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IRS halts Direct File and points to other free services (wsj.com)
    ×5.11 5 | 65 points by anigbrowl 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades (afr.com)
    ×5.26 45 | 65 points by speckx 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×3.43 67 | 65 points by moosedman 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Claude Is Down (claude.com)
    ×2.73 55 #70 | 60 points by agrocrag 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.12 3 #47 | 59 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Video games can alter reality (scitech.org.au)
    ×1.79 42 #86 | 54 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189 (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×1.29 58 #42 | 54 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. US layoffs for October surge to two-decade high (reuters.com)
    ×6.58 54 | 52 points by geox 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Gmail AI gets more intrusive (daveverse.org)
    ×2.97 3 #2 | 51 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events (andrewarrow.dev)
    ×0.61 67 #61 | 51 points by fcpguru 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software (github.com/jeremyaboyd)
    ×0.81 52 #34 | 50 points by azhenley 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Say Hi to Kit (firefox.com)
    ×2.82 52 | 50 points by 14113 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads (reuters.com)
    ×5.03 53 | 50 points by StayTrue 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer (amitzalcher.github.io)
    ×0.80 69 | 47 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years (landaire.net)
    ×1.80 53 #53 | 46 points by signa11 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Is Vibe Coding Dying? (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×3.53 23 | 45 points by spking 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I'm Making a Small RPG and I Need Feeback Regarding Performance (jslegenddev.substack.com)
    ×1.01 2 #26 | 44 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Erlang Meets Idris: Cure Programming Language (cure-lang.org)
    ×1.08 61 | 44 points by delitrem 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Notes on Being a Man (profgalloway.com)
    ×6.10 85 | 43 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???