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Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm (github.com/NullVoxPopuli)

×0.59 79 #40 | 71 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI (github.com/llama-farm)

×0.59 78 #30 | 99 points by mhamann 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orcas are bringing humans gifts (newscientist.com)

×1.41 74 #83 | 160 points by wslh 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What makes 5% of AI agents work in production? (motivenotes.ai)

×1.05 71 #65 | 122 points by AnhTho_FR 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arc – high-throughput time-series warehouse with DuckDB analytics (github.com/Basekick-Labs)

×0.40 69 #80 | 25 points by ignaciovdk 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)

×0.96 68 #35 | 109 points by apeytavin 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis (wiz.io)

×0.68 65 #73 | 134 points by mihau 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead (nytimes.com)

×1.35 64 #75 | 238 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half (arstechnica.com)

×1.41 63 #50 | 262 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High-fat diet impairs memory by autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Drosophila (plos.org)

×1.27 66 #71 | 22 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dopaminergic Modulation of Short-Term Associative Memory in C. Elegans (wiley.com)

×0.59 67 #89 | 8 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Encrypt – Ten Years of Community Support (letsencrypt.org)

×2.00 65 #78 | 20 points by milkglass 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf] (lua.org)

×1.18 56 #29 | 214 points by welovebunnies 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Brain Navigates New Spaces by 'Darting' Between Reality and Mental Maps (yale.edu)

×0.92 63 #52 | 13 points by XzetaU8 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout (jacobsherin.com)

×0.73 56 #51 | 92 points by jasim 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DidMySettingsChange – A tool that checks changed windows settings (github.com/nolesapex)

×0.81 56 #64 | 41 points by nolesapex 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chess.com regional pricing: A case study (mobeigi.com)

×1.27 54 #57 | 112 points by mobeigi 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tcl-Lang Showcase (tcl-lang.org)

×0.76 54 #55 | 117 points by luismedel 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding Stride Scheduling to Xv6 (nickchandler.dev)

×0.69 55 #79 | 19 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? (alexmolas.com)

×1.43 50 #56 | 164 points by alexmolas 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Erlang ARM32 JIT is born (grisp.org)

×1.04 48 #48 | 161 points by plainOldText 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The case for an iceberg-native database (warpstream.com)

×0.45 54 #37 | 20 points by richieartoul 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) (stackexchange.com)

×1.03 48 #46 | 97 points by susam 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer (fu-berlin.de)

×0.73 47 #76 | 76 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mondrian introduction to functional optics (marcosh.github.io)

×0.65 46 #84 | 81 points by marcosh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)

×1.08 47 #34 | 141 points by K2L8M11N2 19 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects (pdoc.dev)

×0.51 44 #88 | 113 points by joshdavham 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)

×2.17 44 #21 | 443 points by luisb 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Deno as my game engine (tubatuba.net)

×0.99 43 #82 | 169 points by phaser 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Functional Threading "Macros" (aartaka.me)

×0.82 44 #74 | 65 points by GarethX 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Packing the world for longest lines of sight (tombh.co.uk)

×1.18 45 #24 | 115 points by tombh 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom (economist.com)

×1.27 42 #42 | 141 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The First 6100 Qubit Array at Room Temperature (caltech.edu)

×0.86 48 #68 | 7 points by oldfuture 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry (motor1.com)

×1.82 36 #63 | 191 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans (theguardian.com)

×0.92 38 #25 | 112 points by rjknight 14 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does gradient descent work? (centralflows.github.io)

×1.86 36 #31 | 296 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global Village Construction Set (opensourceecology.org)

×1.24 37 #22 | 168 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interactive Double Pendulum Playground (theabbie.github.io)

×0.59 39 #49 | 27 points by melector 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A PhD in Snapshots (rbharath.github.io)

×0.69 39 #36 | 38 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An illustrated introduction to linear algebra (ducktyped.org)

×2.16 30 #19 | 394 points by egonschiele 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene (nature.com)

×0.55 36 #14 | 26 points by ano-ther 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks (alexiajm.github.io)

×1.71 27 #26 | 271 points by guybedo 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 (ikeamuseum.com)

×2.01 20 #17 | 448 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022) (geoffchappell.com)

×1.02 20 #85 | 70 points by Lammy 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos (scientificamerican.com)

×1.27 20 #16 | 118 points by baruchel 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers (nullpt.rs)

×1.85 16 #23 | 310 points by nullpt_rs 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting (github.com/sharkdp)

×1.88 13 #61 | 181 points by Olshansky 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally (timelinize.com)

×2.61 12 #20 | 522 points by mholt 22 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How To Start Bug Bounties (2021) (medium.com)

×0.65 45 #9 | 3 points by redbell 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)

×2.08 11 #15 | 297 points by praptak 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant (nationalpost.com)

×4.59 10 #32 | 546 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (qualcomm.com)

×4.53 10 #7 | 1239 points by janjongboom 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe engineering (simonwillison.net)

×3.29 10 #12 | 455 points by janpio 18 hours ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model (blog.google)

×2.34 9 #10 | 565 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Say Goodbye (mooreds.com)

×1.42 13 #18 | 16 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries (theverge.com)

×1.54 12 #6 | 28 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (joins.com)

×7.14 7 #72 | 2053 points by ksec 2 days ago | 917 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) (windscribe.com)

×2.42 5 #81 | 660 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) (thecascade.dev)

×2.21 5 #66 | 735 points by loughnane 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript (github.com/irony)

×1.85 5 #5 | 178 points by urvader 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of the Bird 2024/25 (thunderbird.net)

×0.77 8 #44 | 6 points by mzur 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Naveen Rao's new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation (techcrunch.com)

×1.02 5 #87 | 4 points by fcpguru 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 (nobelprize.org)

×1.69 3 #4 | 170 points by pykello 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades (cbsnews.com)

×2.36 3 #2 | 172 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet (guru3d.com)

×4.27 1 #1 | 717 points by baobun 6 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???