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Stanford HAI Index Report 2026 (stanford.edu)

×0.44 80 #73 | 7 points by giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)

×0.88 70 #59 | 127 points by luu 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 (collabora.com)

×0.71 66 #83 | 88 points by mfilion 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript (encore.dev)

×0.86 65 #69 | 78 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)

×2.40 61 #84 | 581 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)

×0.89 62 #74 | 91 points by flipacholas 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)

×0.68 60 #86 | 87 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anastasia (1997) live action reference material (lostmediawiki.com)

×0.53 62 #75 | 38 points by hyperific 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On hacker mindset (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

×1.35 65 #45 | 29 points by jger15 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM (github.com/nyigoro)

×0.68 60 #48 | 54 points by light_ideas 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)

×2.31 55 #88 | 273 points by dvaughan 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I just want simple S3 (feld.me)

×1.80 56 #46 | 218 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Air Powered Segment Display? [video] (youtube.com)

×1.38 55 #57 | 132 points by ProfDreamer 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears (princeton.edu)

×0.80 57 #42 | 81 points by hhs 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repository Pattern with Hygienic Macros in Scheme – Lisp (jointhefreeworld.org)

×0.45 58 #90 | 16 points by jjba23 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)

×0.76 53 #70 | 87 points by mufeedvh 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres (github.com/lasect)

×0.78 53 #50 | 65 points by adunk 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware (amd-gaia.ai)

×1.20 50 #64 | 141 points by galaxyLogic 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.36 55 #63 | 21 points by apollinaire 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)

×0.94 51 #35 | 101 points by tie-in 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev)

×1.27 49 #49 | 155 points by orhunp_ 22 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)

×1.31 46 #81 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts (github.com/skinnyjames)

×0.35 52 #54 | 19 points by zero-st4rs 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust Threads on the GPU (vectorware.com)

×1.16 44 #53 | 114 points by PaulHoule 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and implementation of DuckDB internals (duckdb.org)

×1.42 43 #44 | 175 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii (github.com/fabienmillet)

×1.53 41 #34 | 235 points by throwawayk7h 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)

×1.23 36 #71 | 168 points by cvrajeesh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com/citguru)

×1.17 32 #30 | 146 points by citguru 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer (cfallin.org)

×0.66 33 #33 | 60 points by tekknolagi 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)

×1.95 28 #85 | 105 points by sonabinu 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery (decomposition.al)

×0.54 33 #21 | 37 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nucleus Nouns (ben-mini.com)

×0.71 25 #25 | 51 points by bewal416 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go (github.com/kontext-dev)

×0.62 23 #29 | 57 points by mc-serious 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.09 19 #28 | 372 points by bumbledraven 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models (thetypicalset.com)

×1.14 20 #26 | 118 points by remilouf 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users (rozumem.xyz)

×0.80 32 #16 | 8 points by rozumem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)

×1.15 18 #37 | 120 points by rfarley04 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020) (techtinkering.com)

×0.77 20 #18 | 40 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)

×2.53 15 #67 | 443 points by t-3 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)

×2.39 15 #89 | 202 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)

×0.97 18 #23 | 40 points by pranabsarkar 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.81 18 #9 | 41 points by firloop 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×1.07 16 #8 | 99 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

×1.48 14 #22 | 211 points by zagwdt 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)

×1.02 17 #6 | 59 points by xnx 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)

×0.94 15 #14 | 80 points by zc2610 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.82 16 #10 | 35 points by focom 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.56 16 #3 | 58 points by rcarmo 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)

×2.18 10 #82 | 404 points by edent 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)

×0.96 12 #5 | 104 points by petalmind 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

×2.28 8 #76 | 468 points by ffin 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)

×1.99 7 #65 | 459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

×0.86 14 #4 | 22 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.24 7 #2 | 431 points by jrm-veris 8 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps (kelet.ai)

×0.70 7 #32 | 37 points by almogbaku 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)

×3.46 5 #80 | 831 points by pizza 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.36 5 #1 | 267 points by matthieu_bl 4 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

×2.29 3 #77 | 425 points by speckx 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.94 2 #55 | 39 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simpler, faster way to unlock 1Password (1password.com)

×1.07 3 #58 | 6 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)

×0.89 1 #43 | 101 points by moigagoo 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???