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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.72 8 #68 | 920 points by paveworld 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com/Niko1221)
    ×3.49 2 #38 | 893 points by snehesht 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)
    ×4.49 10 #35 | 724 points by privacyisntdead 22 hours ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.59 2 #81 | 620 points by elffjs 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)
    ×3.70 3 #41 | 493 points by sensanaty 22 hours ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.17 1 | 493 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.62 14 #80 | 486 points by speckx 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    ×3.52 11 #88 | 409 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 808 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.63 3 #6 | 386 points by clan 9 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (liao.gg)
    ×2.36 12 #86 | 369 points by kmeh 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields (notoriousbfg.com)
    ×1.69 16 | 363 points by trwhite 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.56 28 #23 | 360 points by wiso 23 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.81 11 | 331 points by CosmoWenman 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.63 46 #47 | 319 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.33 5 #1 | 313 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.31 16 #21 | 311 points by dachworker 6 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.54 7 #9 | 306 points by finnlab 4 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague (themoscowtimes.com)
    ×4.76 52 #84 | 278 points by ericmay 15 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (motorsport.com)
    ×2.30 13 #48 | 276 points by llm_nerd 16 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.72 22 | 267 points by jethronethro 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.56 9 #19 | 264 points by Vaslo 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.60 46 #72 | 245 points by citelao 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
    ×2.46 35 | 237 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] (cambridge.org)
    ×3.40 38 | 233 points by skeptical1884 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.63 53 #74 | 225 points by geoffbp 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.37 37 #16 | 219 points by rdmuser 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (northeastern.edu)
    ×3.39 11 | 217 points by longhaul 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx (bernat.ch)
    ×1.96 11 #54 | 178 points by renehsz 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults (energytransition.org)
    ×4.07 12 | 175 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×2.01 33 | 165 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (runescape.com)
    ×1.64 36 #89 | 163 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Apple and a Hacker's Future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.90 17 #33 | 161 points by maguay 7 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.13 51 #55 | 160 points by allenleee 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×3.04 4 #7 | 158 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
    ×1.14 83 #50 | 152 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What Meta got right with Muse (metedata.substack.com)
    ×1.55 60 #78 | 145 points by young_mete 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.35 58 #61 | 144 points by knuckleheads 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement (huawei.com)
    ×1.10 21 #8 | 143 points by 0xedb 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)
    ×2.66 8 #5 | 140 points by roflcopter69 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×8.28 26 #13 | 140 points by emptybits 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)
    ×1.45 59 #45 | 136 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.66 72 | 134 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase (neowin.net)
    ×3.53 57 | 119 points by bundie 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline (shannadige.com)
    ×0.98 71 #37 | 116 points by shannadige 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.08 46 #51 | 109 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf] (aleph-alpha.com)
    ×1.54 60 | 109 points by yu3zhou4 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)
    ×2.34 26 | 107 points by actfrench 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)
    ×0.75 51 #77 | 107 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust (getartcraft.com)
    ×3.04 10 | 106 points by aghuang 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.94 13 | 104 points by shellpipe 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States (medium.com)
    ×6.37 56 | 99 points by sans_souse 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (wiley.com)
    ×1.26 7 #62 | 98 points by thelastgallon 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 47 #53 | 96 points by simonjgreen 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×2.00 77 | 95 points by goldenmember 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
    ×2.31 31 #64 | 94 points by jgx0 21 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
    ×1.43 25 #29 | 86 points by sssilver 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×9.75 84 | 87 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com/net4people)
    ×1.07 50 #60 | 84 points by timbill 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)
    ×0.81 51 #58 | 84 points by pepys 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (gadgetreview.com)
    ×3.78 59 | 80 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold (transportenvironment.org)
    ×3.51 46 | 79 points by geox 10 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.82 28 #73 | 79 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
    ×1.27 66 | 77 points by elffjs 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The evolution of effective altruism (economist.com)
    ×1.49 21 | 75 points by bazzmt 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.00 53 | 74 points by latein 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×1.16 5 #3 | 72 points by Vosporos 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Picard 3.0 (metabrainz.org)
    ×2.87 8 #20 | 72 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
    ×0.93 67 | 71 points by KomoD 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.08 64 #79 | 67 points by 6bitquant 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Our AI Midwife (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.39 70 | 64 points by eatitraw 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
    ×2.03 71 | 63 points by samch 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)
    ×4.54 3 #4 | 61 points by tosh 54 minutes ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How to hack time, with C2PA (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×0.67 63 | 61 points by Retr0id 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×1.49 48 #71 | 60 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.38 72 | 60 points by TeaVMFan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×4.42 73 | 59 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Gitframes (github.com/gatewai-dev)
    ×1.35 70 | 56 points by oknaslnkn 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget (wsj.com)
    ×4.63 71 | 55 points by swolpers 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.83 61 #69 | 55 points by zero_k 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman (theguardian.com)
    ×9.37 69 | 54 points by samizdis 5 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.09 40 #12 | 50 points by lode 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (404media.co)
    ×3.74 62 | 46 points by airhangerf15 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat (theverge.com)
    ×3.60 80 | 45 points by timpera 2 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.19 41 | 45 points by thunderbong 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
    ×0.64 51 #83 | 42 points by davidwshao 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life (mataroa.blog)
    ×3.03 7 | 41 points by Imustaskforhelp 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
    ×1.15 8 #2 | 40 points by eustoria 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search (jetbrains.com)
    ×1.52 50 | 39 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI (politico.com)
    ×9.45 76 | 37 points by jamesgill 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms (npr.org)
    ×2.92 9 #27 | 32 points by geox 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???