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Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing (browserbuddy.com)

×0.35 72 #41 | 44 points by alien0006 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car (openwheelworld.net)

×1.26 57 #50 | 127 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

×0.75 55 #74 | 133 points by rushingcreek 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners (github.com/SJRiz)

×0.74 52 #47 | 83 points by indigodaddy 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? (cybertec-postgresql.com)

×0.80 53 #44 | 43 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/nubskr)

×1.03 49 #55 | 139 points by janicerk 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format (github.com/Daninet)

×0.89 49 #56 | 111 points by daninet 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)

×2.60 45 #42 | 217 points by klipitkas 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
8086 Microcode Browser (nand2mario.github.io)

×1.11 43 #76 | 144 points by zdw 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feynman vs. Computer (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.73 44 #58 | 81 points by cgdl 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing (medium.com)

×0.30 67 #17 | 5 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's the deal with Euler's identity? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×0.57 48 #33 | 34 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) (railsdesigner.com)

×0.81 42 #67 | 86 points by amalinovic 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia (frontiersin.org)

×0.80 42 #59 | 107 points by ashishgupta2209 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some models of reality are bolder than others (cjauvin.github.io)

×0.49 43 #80 | 23 points by cjauvin 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025 (nnethercote.github.io)

×1.25 47 #77 | 7 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? (chrisbako.com)

×0.91 42 #64 | 52 points by ChrisbyMe 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later (onlyrecipeapp.com)

×1.10 41 #38 | 168 points by AwkwardPanda 23 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All the Way Down (futilitycloset.com)

×0.89 40 #72 | 94 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fighting the age-gated internet (wired.com)

×1.85 39 #28 | 242 points by geox 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels (github.com/StardustOS)

×0.94 40 #26 | 93 points by transpute 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Functional Quadtrees (lbjgruppen.com)

×0.78 38 #57 | 128 points by lbj 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server (isc.org)

×0.93 37 #83 | 124 points by doener 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nice Functions [pdf] (mit.edu)

×0.37 40 #86 | 11 points by tzury 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL (github.com/deepreinforce-ai)

×0.72 37 #27 | 120 points by dzign 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Brussels writes so many laws (siliconcontinent.com)

×1.25 38 #45 | 47 points by amadeuspagel 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics (quantamagazine.org)

×1.08 33 #84 | 168 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)

×2.32 33 #39 | 387 points by rgun 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast trigram based code search (github.com/sourcegraph)

×0.64 36 #35 | 40 points by cv_h 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A most important mustard (asimov.press)

×0.73 33 #78 | 39 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017) (cyberdemon.org)

×0.62 33 #88 | 25 points by dmazin 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why WinQuake exists and how it works (fabiensanglard.net)

×1.55 31 #79 | 151 points by wicket 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
At IT School with Apple Lisa (wordpress.com)

×0.50 35 #25 | 35 points by fabiojava 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet (brocas.org)

×1.03 29 #87 | 139 points by coffee-- 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fat-Tailed Sheep on the First Fleet; Australia's First Sheep (singletonmills.com)

×0.50 38 #48 | 8 points by Y_Y 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (arxiv.org)

×3.03 27 #19 | 611 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multivox: Volumetric Display (github.com/AncientJames)

×1.42 26 #22 | 297 points by jk_tech 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python (github.com/raaidrt)

×0.56 29 #15 | 57 points by raaid-rt 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void (askmike.org)

×1.46 21 #32 | 67 points by askmike 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (entropicthoughts.com)

×1.91 19 #18 | 471 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault) (arraying.de)

×0.98 18 #82 | 43 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSS now has an if() conditional function (caniuse.com)

×2.10 15 #20 | 198 points by aanthonymax 15 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi (airoboticist.blog)

×0.89 16 #23 | 52 points by observer2022 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death (arstechnica.com)

×1.17 15 #14 | 121 points by mikhael 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)

×2.48 12 #31 | 504 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (pcpartpicker.com)

×2.94 11 #66 | 494 points by zekrioca 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years (topspeed.com)

×1.72 11 #81 | 166 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks (lyra.horse)

×1.70 11 #12 | 246 points by spartanatreyu 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)

×1.33 11 #11 | 168 points by benbreen 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again (prestonbyrne.com)

×0.97 10 #49 | 81 points by parliament32 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (evclinic.eu)

×1.96 9 #8 | 309 points by mikelabatt 13 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)

×3.31 7 #63 | 803 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)

×2.04 7 #7 | 424 points by CharlesW 13 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (theverge.com)

×3.91 6 #52 | 936 points by evolve2k 1 day ago | 795 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything (kraa.io)

×1.78 11 #5 | 18 points by levmiseri 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UniFi 5G (ui.com)

×1.29 7 #4 | 180 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards (neurips.cc)

×1.25 6 #24 | 135 points by ivansavz 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long (conwaylife.com)

×2.32 4 #89 | 517 points by nooks 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)

×3.13 4 #21 | 263 points by cheeseblubber 15 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles (nim-lang.org)

×1.26 5 #10 | 38 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making RSS More Fun (matduggan.com)

×1.89 7 #3 | 20 points by salmon 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto (dineshpandiyan.com)

×1.35 3 #9 | 81 points by flexdinesh 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests (cnn.com)

×0.62 3 #65 | 4 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)

×2.14 1 #53 | 246 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most technical problems are people problems (joeschrag.com)

×2.16 2 #2 | 47 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???