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Previously untranslated Einstein paper in English (cam.ac.uk)

×0.42 68 #70 | 10 points by ajw287 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small internet forums are making a comeback in Google Search (stanventures.com)

×1.21 65 #82 | 7 points by zomtorg 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (mit.edu)

×0.79 52 #48 | 77 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000 (acm.org)

×0.69 52 #51 | 65 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When electric cars were for women (ieee.org)

×0.88 51 #54 | 74 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura (thedataexchange.media)

×1.43 48 #59 | 211 points by datascientist 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup (arstechnica.com)

×0.65 49 #85 | 47 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)

×0.65 49 #72 | 48 points by creack 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×0.64 49 #83 | 40 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer (slate.com)

×0.66 49 #68 | 51 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it (sciencenorway.no)

×1.27 44 #76 | 213 points by dxs 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ant: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun irresponsibly large investment (leonlins.com)

×0.96 48 #74 | 11 points by avoidboringppl 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surviving "The Graduate" (newyorker.com)

×1.27 43 #50 | 160 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (shkspr.mobi)

×0.60 45 #29 | 62 points by n_plus_1_acc 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SS27 Color Stats (sarahconstantin.substack.com)

×0.25 47 #65 | 11 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (ycombinator.com)

×1.88 41 #87 | 418 points by sandslash 3 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Duty of a Scholar (daemonology.net)

×0.90 41 #57 | 134 points by gslin 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020 (maketecheasier.com)

×1.30 40 #40 | 170 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com/kerlenton)

×0.89 38 #71 | 96 points by kerlenton 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Altoids Project (uvdn7.github.io)

×1.16 38 #45 | 160 points by uvdn7 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning (research.google)

×1.81 34 #90 | 264 points by acossta 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI text watermarking and quality loss (keyvan.net)

×1.02 35 #80 | 67 points by danielfoster 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
William Nordhaus has died (yale.edu)

×0.82 34 #89 | 72 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024) (arxiv.org)

×1.40 34 #32 | 186 points by hapax_legomena 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)

×3.79 31 #56 | 994 points by _chall 2 days ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems) (mit.edu)

×0.97 32 #62 | 85 points by peter_d_sherman 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats (chaosmanage.github.io)

×2.48 33 #39 | 27 points by gulmothrowaway 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)

×0.71 31 #26 | 78 points by kevs3d 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's the memory latency, stupid (pivotlake.io)

×1.49 28 #43 | 254 points by ntur1337 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The She-Wolves of Jülich (historytoday.com)

×0.34 33 #25 | 17 points by Thevet 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radiation Map of the World (radiaverse.com)

×1.17 27 #22 | 139 points by slater 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology (outcrop.rocks)

×1.32 26 #24 | 163 points by headsupernova 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Email Encryption (2025) (fastmail.com)

×1.17 25 #38 | 128 points by nmjenkins 20 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019) (tedium.co)

×0.63 27 #28 | 43 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs (arxiv.org)

×0.75 25 #16 | 120 points by Anon84 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (nature.com)

×1.04 24 #20 | 129 points by croes 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bidirectional charging during grid outages (jefftk.com)

×0.76 24 #21 | 90 points by luu 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net)

×1.12 23 #10 | 145 points by bogdanoff_2 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)

×1.65 20 #11 | 180 points by FabCH 14 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)

×2.24 18 #18 | 320 points by luu 21 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ (nullprogram.com)

×0.87 19 #8 | 91 points by luu 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry (lareviewofbooks.org)

×0.72 20 #14 | 32 points by TMWNN 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Novellas with Groff (movq.de)

×0.85 17 #23 | 115 points by dverlaeckt80 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)

×1.72 16 #36 | 228 points by whyleyc 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras (sciencedaily.com)

×0.89 18 #12 | 57 points by stevenalowe 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (fz-juelich.de)

×1.66 19 #6 | 29 points by _Microft 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In LLM era, can software startup survive?

×0.96 18 #47 | 8 points by sjia 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed (github.com/raphlinus)

×0.96 15 #7 | 111 points by raphlinus 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (wired.com)

×2.72 11 #86 | 589 points by domhudson 2 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)

×8.50 11 #4 | 2357 points by karpathy 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)

×1.61 10 #78 | 332 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing (jetstream.security)

×1.88 7 #41 | 318 points by doodlesdev 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)

×6.01 6 #73 | 1716 points by kuberwastaken 3 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)

×2.63 9 #9 | 22 points by anurag 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

×2.19 5 #5 | 196 points by LecroJS 8 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)

×1.78 4 #52 | 139 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)

×0.84 7 #2 | 25 points by joonehur 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms (nytimes.com)

×3.38 4 #35 | 15 points by doener 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Martian dust presents additional risks for future crewed missions to Mars (pnas.org)

×1.02 4 #55 | 7 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (github.com/guregodevo)

×2.44 2 #44 | 432 points by guregodevo 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)

×3.47 2 #3 | 146 points by soheilpro 5 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chemical Hunger (2021) (slimemoldtimemold.com)

×0.87 2 #33 | 22 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)

×4.33 1 #1 | 1040 points by roansh 11 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???