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Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)

×0.60 110 #67 | 59 points by LolWolf 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The state of ARM64 on Windows in 2026 (ssg.dev)

×0.61 122 #69 | 6 points by sedatk 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)

×0.90 100 #87 | 126 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)

×0.96 99 #85 | 181 points by bring-shrubbery 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (youtube.com)

×0.99 96 #82 | 130 points by cyrc 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Road to a Billion-Token Context (acm.org)

×0.88 98 #66 | 60 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent (github.com/boldsoftware)

×1.14 119 #46 | 6 points by indigodaddy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum (github.com/stacklok)

×0.28 111 #60 | 9 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)

×1.12 93 #89 | 113 points by bschoepke 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life (quantamagazine.org)

×0.80 95 #55 | 98 points by worldvoyageur 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)

×1.31 92 #70 | 178 points by softservo 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)

×1.13 90 #61 | 149 points by heresie-dabord 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)

×1.33 89 #64 | 208 points by miohtama 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introduction to Atom (w3.org)

×1.05 83 #77 | 130 points by susam 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)

×1.05 83 #52 | 160 points by TapamN 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)

×1.46 77 #84 | 65 points by andsoitis 21 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)

×1.47 73 #90 | 197 points by mobeigi 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions (jim-nielsen.com)

×1.56 73 #83 | 83 points by OuterVale 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SprintiQ – open-source sprint planning for Claude Code (github.com/SprintiQ-Incorporated)

×0.79 89 #42 | 8 points by sprintiq 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A little comparison between R and Kap (dhsdevelopments.com)

×0.50 68 #44 | 25 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)

×1.30 54 #40 | 191 points by o4c 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025) (reiner.org)

×1.03 52 #43 | 128 points by jxmorris12 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)

×1.48 50 #71 | 216 points by jdgr 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Visible Zorker: Zork 3 (eblong.com)

×1.05 49 #32 | 62 points by zarlez 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)

×0.85 47 #22 | 108 points by Ariarule 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World's biggest RC A380 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.93 44 #75 | 100 points by NaOH 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)

×0.53 55 #27 | 17 points by kn81198 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025) (arxiv.org)

×0.90 46 #24 | 42 points by bearseascape 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A desktop made for one (isene.org)

×2.39 38 #73 | 430 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)

×0.75 43 #31 | 59 points by lsferreira42 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DAG Workflow Engine (github.com/vivekg13186)

×0.77 39 #86 | 59 points by blobmty 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)

×0.97 36 #35 | 140 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation (sierra.ai)

×1.16 36 #29 | 97 points by doppp 12 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest (thebuild.com)

×0.65 57 #15 | 7 points by Wingy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)

×1.39 28 #18 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buffon's needle problem visualized (ivanludvig.dev)

×0.72 35 #33 | 14 points by IvanLudvig 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)

×1.88 24 #68 | 471 points by nullagent 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? (lucasaguiar.xyz)

×2.05 58 #17 | 4 points by isfttr 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Boy Advance Dev: Link Cable Networking (mattgreer.dev)

×2.58 20 #88 | 22 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)

×1.44 17 #12 | 250 points by antirez 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)

×1.73 15 #72 | 364 points by samcollins 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×1.00 18 #10 | 69 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)

×1.19 28 #9 | 10 points by cadito 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com/pyinfra-dev)

×1.69 15 #23 | 238 points by wowi42 15 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)

×1.56 15 #11 | 234 points by littlexsparkee 12 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)

×1.08 15 #8 | 179 points by bearsyankees 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations (fuelinsight.co.uk)

×1.28 14 #26 | 167 points by theazureguy 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Networking Doesn't Work (os2museum.com)

×0.79 18 #7 | 20 points by kencausey 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Re: Slow USB storage device? (util-Linux-ng, 2010) (marc.info)

×0.97 16 #38 | 12 points by juliusdavies 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jonathan Swift's Last Joke (newyorker.com)

×0.99 12 #37 | 36 points by samizdis 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Monero’s proof of work works (alcazarsec.com)

×1.86 10 #20 | 254 points by alcazar 13 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering (thebulletin.org)

×3.21 14 #79 | 6 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)

×3.78 7 #78 | 550 points by dryadin 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers (heise.de)

×2.07 8 #65 | 47 points by hmokiguess 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (proofnews.org)

×2.52 8 #59 | 8 points by g8oz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims (nature.com)

×2.34 4 #76 | 40 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

×2.31 4 #5 | 158 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)

×1.83 3 #3 | 324 points by Sean-Der 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)

×4.22 2 #74 | 840 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)

×3.73 2 #57 | 579 points by bjhess 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)

×1.28 16 #6 | 5 points by averi 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting (pulitzer.org)

×1.88 3 #4 | 27 points by jay_kyburz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

×1.70 2 #1 | 59 points by raphaelcosta 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)

×2.45 1 #62 | 30 points by latchkey 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts (bloomberg.com)

×1.45 1 #41 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???