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  1. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)
    ×6.74 5 | 1248 points by adrianh 4 days ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nvidia won, we all lost (sebin-nyshkim.net)
    ×5.84 70 | 977 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)
    ×3.92 26 #49 | 936 points by jonkuipers 2 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com/soham_btw)
    ×8.79 87 | 932 points by sohzm 1 week ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)
    ×3.51 63 | 863 points by gasull 6 days ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)
    ×3.41 99 | 857 points by Jtsummers 1 week ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)
    ×3.81 11 | 826 points by rexpository 3 days ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com/jackjackbits)
    ×3.18 41 | 772 points by ananddtyagi 5 days ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)
    ×3.81 83 | 760 points by alihm 1 week ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)
    ×9.10 60 | 694 points by AndrewSwift 5 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (metr.org)
    ×1.00 23 #36 | 645 points by dheerajvs 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
    ×5.13 104 | 629 points by cratermoon 1 week ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)
    ×5.23 127 | 594 points by geox 1 week ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.30 1 #90 | 575 points by gausswho 2 days ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tree Borrows (ethz.ch)
    ×2.07 7 #69 | 568 points by zdw 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)
    ×2.27 43 | 566 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Hidden interface controls that affect usability (acm.org)
    ×2.49 77 | 560 points by cxr 6 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (nytimes.com)
    ×4.20 26 | 540 points by donohoe 2 days ago | 1012 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)
    ×3.93 58 | 540 points by drankl 5 days ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)
    ×2.68 59 | 536 points by BlueFalconHD 5 days ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)
    ×2.42 45 | 525 points by noperator 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)
    ×11.97 29 | 524 points by mhga 3 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)
    ×4.49 19 | 520 points by cantdutchthis 3 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)
    ×3.95 66 | 518 points by bwfan123 5 days ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics (lisagui.com)
    ×2.23 65 | 512 points by ayaros 5 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.88 53 | 492 points by pyman 4 days ago | 647 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)
    ×3.58 120 | 480 points by riffraff 1 week ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.00 19 #28 | 476 points by simonw 23 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai)
    ×1.00 7 #7 | 476 points by davidgu 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×2.79 64 | 476 points by zdw 5 days ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
    ×5.20 13 | 469 points by bundie 3 days ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.95 115 | 452 points by ingve 1 week ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)
    ×5.20 85 | 451 points by imartin2k 5 days ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago (elpais.com)
    ×3.56 75 | 439 points by leephillips 5 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Grok 4 Launch [video] (twitter.com/xai)
    ×10.70 12 #60 | 428 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.72 51 | 425 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (kbkg.com)
    ×2.29 111 | 425 points by tareqak 1 week ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The jank programming language (jank-lang.org)
    ×2.54 17 | 410 points by akkad33 5 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)
    ×4.50 6 | 404 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)
    ×2.70 100 | 388 points by wonger_ 6 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM (huggingface.co)
    ×2.06 22 | 383 points by kashifr 3 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain (sailhealth.substack.com)
    ×1.80 126 | 372 points by glasscannon 1 week ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How to Network as an Introvert (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.91 103 | 370 points by agcat 6 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I don't think AGI is right around the corner (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.69 79 | 369 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE (dgl.cx)
    ×1.65 21 | 366 points by dgl 3 days ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app (offchess.com)
    ×1.82 39 | 364 points by avadhesh18 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The death of partying in the USA (derekthompson.org)
    ×5.43 26 #47 | 357 points by tysone 1 day ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws (therecord.media)
    ×4.95 35 | 351 points by bundie 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)
    ×2.15 7 | 348 points by BerislavLopac 2 days ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone (github.com/lraton)
    ×1.71 5 #83 | 347 points by iraton 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Larry (cat) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.42 132 | 347 points by dcminter 1 week ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why English doesn't use accents (deadlanguagesociety.com)
    ×2.37 84 | 344 points by sandbach 5 days ago | 594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The first time I was almost fired from Apple (engineersneedart.com)
    ×2.42 78 | 341 points by chmaynard 1 week ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (blog.google)
    ×2.55 139 | 340 points by doomroot13 1 week ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system (newyorker.com)
    ×1.94 10 #78 | 337 points by dmazin 2 days ago | 556 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Get the location of the ISS using DNS (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.61 96 | 336 points by 8organicbits 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work (joincolossus.com)
    ×1.84 140 | 331 points by latentnumber 1 week ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.97 105 | 329 points by mustache_kimono 5 days ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation (mcp-b.ai)
    ×1.76 19 #89 | 326 points by bustodisgusto 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels (github.com/fosrl)
    ×1.00 8 #4 | 322 points by miloschwartz 23 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)
    ×8.04 42 | 321 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.72 153 | 318 points by tysone 1 week ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process (github.com/maciej-trebacz)
    ×1.88 134 | 317 points by M4v3R 1 week ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? (tedunangst.com)
    ×1.89 44 | 313 points by zdw 1 week ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal (github.com/sst)
    ×2.20 95 | 312 points by indigodaddy 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tools: Code Is All You Need (pocoo.org)
    ×2.43 144 | 311 points by Bogdanp 1 week ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System (abc.net.au)
    ×1.78 149 | 308 points by gammarator 1 week ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
    ×1.44 155 | 303 points by jshchnz 1 week ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.78 136 | 302 points by transpute 1 week ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Grok 4 (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.00 17 #41 | 299 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. When Figma starts designing us (designsystems.international)
    ×1.57 73 | 299 points by bravomartin 5 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LLMs should not replace therapists (arxiv.org)
    ×2.25 92 | 298 points by layer8 5 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×2.31 14 | 297 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking (dmitriid.com)
    ×3.82 133 | 297 points by troupo 1 week ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language (flix.dev)
    ×1.00 19 #19 | 293 points by freilanzer 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)
    ×3.07 10 | 290 points by pumbaa 2 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Wind Knitting Factory (merelkarhof.nl)
    ×1.44 143 | 288 points by bschne 1 week ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Peasant Railgun (knightsdigest.com)
    ×1.81 146 | 286 points by cainxinth 1 week ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” (thunderbird.net)
    ×3.74 71 | 285 points by TangerineDream 4 days ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (7-zip.org)
    ×1.98 17 | 282 points by doener 4 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. EverQuest (filfre.net)
    ×1.60 137 | 280 points by dmazin 1 week ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)
    ×5.25 25 | 274 points by toomuchtodo 2 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)
    ×2.31 102 | 274 points by rfarley04 1 week ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.61 121 | 273 points by littlexsparkee 6 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? (simedw.com)
    ×1.00 2 #40 | 271 points by simedw 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor (github.com/CyberTimon)
    ×1.54 23 | 268 points by l8rlump 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Graphical Linear Algebra (graphicallinearalgebra.net)
    ×1.00 8 #25 | 267 points by hyperbrainer 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi (electrek.co)
    ×3.65 116 | 264 points by JumpCrisscross 5 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.65 94 | 264 points by hilux 1 week ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024) (dynamicland.org)
    ×1.00 20 #17 | 263 points by prathyvsh 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???