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  1. Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
    ×0.96 74 #60 | 179 points by kylemacomber 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Yoink AI – macOS AI app that edits directly in any textfield of any app (useyoink.ai)
    ×0.71 76 #82 | 17 points by byintes 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. New evidence strongly suggest AI is killing jobs for young programmers (understandingai.org)
    ×1.40 72 #85 | 9 points by CharlesW 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The GitOps Non-Kubernetes Homelab (shadybraden.com)
    ×1.01 81 #64 | 4 points by shadybraden 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Unforgotten (espn.com)
    ×0.47 63 #72 | 18 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS (jonashietala.se)
    ×3.16 58 #81 | 61 points by lawn 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler (abhinavsarkar.net)
    ×0.77 58 #73 | 70 points by abhin4v 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats (msuiche.com)
    ×0.66 58 #75 | 37 points by transpute 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Performance Speed Limits (2019) (travisdowns.github.io)
    ×0.57 62 #63 | 16 points by xtacy 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. About Containers and VMs (linuxcontainers.org)
    ×1.37 53 #88 | 104 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions (verdagon.dev)
    ×0.90 52 #50 | 73 points by verdagon 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Certificates for Onion Services (torproject.org)
    ×1.24 47 #67 | 126 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents
    ×0.55 50 #15 | 66 points by windsor 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I've always wanted to be an open-source maintainer- now I regret it (joaomagfreitas.link)
    ×1.59 53 #54 | 14 points by freitzzz 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. RFC 8594: The Sunset HTTP Header Field (2019) (ietf.org)
    ×0.59 49 #51 | 28 points by aiven 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Web Bot Auth (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.00 48 #25 | 50 points by ananddtyagi 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stop Using Vulnerability Counts to Measure Software Security (acm.org)
    ×1.41 49 #79 | 12 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike (liu.se)
    ×2.29 55 #39 | 9 points by xelxebar 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. That boolean should probably be something else (ntietz.com)
    ×1.47 43 #43 | 88 points by vidyesh 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection (github.com/b0nes164)
    ×0.83 42 #53 | 77 points by coffeeaddict1 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability (engora.com)
    ×1.41 41 #52 | 74 points by Vermin2000 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files (github.com/soulim)
    ×1.65 37 #69 | 173 points by secwang 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent (jamesoclaire.com)
    ×1.44 36 #80 | 100 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism (asm.org)
    ×1.20 36 #38 | 122 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 37 #41 | 49 points by bikenaga 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Teams Grow Organically (frederickvanbrabant.com)
    ×0.97 34 #62 | 61 points by TheEdonian 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted (worldhistory.substack.com)
    ×0.53 41 #35 | 13 points by crescit_eundo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Das Problem mit German Strings (polarsignals.com)
    ×0.86 29 #61 | 75 points by asubiotto 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What We Find in the Sewers (asimov.press)
    ×0.48 36 #47 | 8 points by mailyk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS (github.com/mi12labs)
    ×0.94 28 #42 | 62 points by mi12-root 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. There Goes the American Muscle Car (thedispatch.com)
    ×1.32 25 #29 | 45 points by pluripote 9 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Rendering a game in real time with AI (jeffschomay.com)
    ×1.16 21 #59 | 108 points by jschomay 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy (anthropic.com)
    ×1.66 21 #90 | 41 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Open Source is one person (opensourcesecurity.io)
    ×3.60 19 #40 | 357 points by LawnGnome 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Claude Code Checkpoints (claude-checkpoints.com)
    ×1.58 19 #49 | 169 points by punnerud 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance (nature.com)
    ×0.64 30 #14 | 8 points by jameslk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Rupert's Property (wordpress.com)
    ×1.06 20 #21 | 47 points by robinhouston 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Seeing infrared: contact lenses that grant 'super-vision' (theguardian.com)
    ×1.49 18 #87 | 35 points by colinprince 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux (tuned-project.org)
    ×0.94 17 #26 | 55 points by tanelpoder 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?
    ×0.68 17 #31 | 25 points by shivajikobardan 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand (gleam.run)
    ×0.94 14 #48 | 89 points by Bogdanp 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types (jonmsterling.com)
    ×0.83 15 #36 | 29 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually (ssp.sh)
    ×1.61 13 #34 | 135 points by articsputnik 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising (tj401.com)
    ×1.82 12 #44 | 160 points by lemonlym 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How life-size cows made of butter became an iconic symbol of the Midwest (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.97 21 #24 | 6 points by noleary 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example (colino.net)
    ×1.02 12 #45 | 40 points by mmphosis 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Thrashing (tive.org)
    ×1.10 9 #19 | 56 points by pch00 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study (cnbc.com)
    ×3.27 8 #11 | 274 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sometimes CPU cores are odd (techaro.lol)
    ×1.40 8 #18 | 75 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021) (bbc.com)
    ×1.28 7 #32 | 90 points by ohjeez 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019) (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
    ×2.08 6 #9 | 115 points by scapecast 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Some thoughts on LLMs and software development (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.91 4 #7 | 258 points by floverfelt 11 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Uncertain<T> (nshipster.com)
    ×2.41 3 #10 | 308 points by samtheprogram 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise (economist.com)
    ×1.83 4 #30 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs (freebsd.org)
    ×1.68 4 #13 | 15 points by burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie (lwn.net)
    ×2.21 3 #6 | 54 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. In Search of AI Psychosis (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.73 1 #23 | 124 points by venkii 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore (praf.me)
    ×1.79 1 #20 | 122 points by _praf 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it (lowendbox.com)
    ×1.91 1 #4 | 73 points by shaunpud 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking (oxism.com)
    ×2.40 1 #3 | 46 points by haxiomic 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Strange CW Keys (google.com)
    ×1.15 1 #2 | 45 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???