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Errors and Zig (eatonphil.com)

×0.96 | 1 points by ibobev 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unrolling Loops (xania.org)

×0.96 | 1 points by ibobev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
30 Years Ago Windows 95 Changed Everything (goto10retro.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by ibobev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CEO of Chinese robotic company post video of himself getting kicked by his robot (businessinsider.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by teleforce 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground (phys.org)

×1.80 | 2 points by wglb 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using extended attributes to tag files (alexlance.blog)

×0.81 | 1 points by alance 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan's Last Economic Miracle [video] (youtube.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by mgh2 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brain-Inspired LLM Alignment (google.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by aoeuid 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tourists to US would have to reveal 5 years of social media activity under plan (theguardian.com)

×2.97 58 | 3 points by teleforce 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one (arstechnica.com)

×2.50 4 #40 | 3 points by pseudolus 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Searchable Bronze Age site database could help understand ancient Anatolia (phys.org)

×1.54 | 2 points by wglb 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)

×1.60 | 2 points by CrankyBear 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unreal Blueprint-Like MCP Server Builder (No Coding Knowledge Required) (github.com/PhialsBasement)

×0.71 | 1 points by Phiality 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Normalization of Deviance in AI (embracethered.com)

×1.69 | 2 points by vismit2000 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tumbleweed aerodynamics inspire hybrid robots for harsh terrains (techxplore.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by wglb 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Navy, Palantir Announce $448M 'Ship OS' AI Tool for Shipbuilding and Repair (usni.org)

×0.71 | 1 points by mhb 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Instacart's AI-enabled pricing may bump up your grocery costs by as much as 23% (cbsnews.com)

×1.60 | 2 points by pseudolus 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Concord – an offline-first cognitive engine that runs on your computer (github.com/ryttps94jq-gif)

×0.69 | 1 points by dutchtropez 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor (theguardian.com)

×2.49 15 #39 | 5 points by c420 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upload a selfie and get beautiful AI Santa photos for $9.99 (photojing.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by purnimah 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a "time machine" with Gemini 3 (chronolens.world)

×0.68 | 1 points by bosschow 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SEO poisoning with legit AI chats delivers AMOS stealer (huntress.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by Elliott-Diy 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A psychedelic tour of Earth's ecosystems–from the desert to Siberia (theconversation.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by PaulHoule 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Contextify (contextify.sh)

×0.64 | 1 points by handfuloflight 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MechanicsDSL – PhPhysics simulations with LaTeX-like syntax in Python (github.com/MechanicsDSL)

×0.65 | 1 points by Guilo78 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Enact – NPM for AI Tools with Sigstore and Dagger (enact.tools)

×0.62 | 1 points by kgroves88 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's Memory System, and Here's What I Found (manthanguptaa.in)

×0.63 | 1 points by misonic 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch "Twitter" (arstechnica.com)

×1.48 | 2 points by keyle 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention Economy (studium.dev)

×0.65 | 1 points by jerlendds 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ice Breaker Game for Any Occasion (icebreakergames.club)

×0.65 | 1 points by Luki1234 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What high-effort, high-reward skills have you developed in 2025?

×1.48 | 2 points by Hixon10 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercedes-Benz CLA Went 434 Miles in Our Real-World Test (edmunds.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by pilingual 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA Teams Work Maven Spacecraft Signal Loss (nasa.gov)

×0.59 | 1 points by 1970-01-01 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flowdrop – Build automations by chatting, no code needed (flowdrop.xyz)

×0.60 | 1 points by webbuidlr 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EV school bus goes up in flames (abc7.com)

×1.39 | 2 points by lxm 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ASCII Art Archive (asciiart.eu)

×1.42 | 2 points by cybersoyuz 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust Goes Mainstream in the Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)

×0.62 | 1 points by CrankyBear 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building a game engine that transpiles game scripts to Rust (github.com/PerroEngine)

×0.62 | 1 points by TiernanDeFranco 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Happens When an "Infinite-Money Machine" Unravels (newyorker.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor Introduces Debug Mode: Agents with Runtime Logs (cursor.com)

×0.62 | 2 points by morethananai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How 'What Can Go Wrong?' Went Wrong (badshah.io)

×0.63 | 1 points by bnchandrapal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras (eff.org)

×0.64 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LegalProof Easypdf Email: Transform Emails into PDF Evidence (emailslegal.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by ycomPPs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003) (wired.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by rfarley04 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Significance of Numbers in Judaism (wikipedia.org)

×1.35 | 2 points by marysminefnuf 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mischievous Ex-Bankers Behind "Industry" (newyorker.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by mitchbob 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Milo – AI MCAT coach that builds your daily study plan and keeps you accountable (askmilo.io)

×0.56 | 1 points by savagebrody 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought (economist.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visual Thought AGI Architecture Blueprint- the missing key – imagination (visualthoughtagi.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by user2342ca 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humans & LLMs rate deliberation as superior to intuition on reasoning tasks (nature.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by gsf_emergency_6 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exactly-Once Semantics Are Possible (confluent.io)

×0.46 | 1 points by intrepidsoldier 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Knav – Embed an AI assistant on your site, trained on your docs (knav.app)

×0.49 | 1 points by randydigital 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cannabis dispensaries lead to reduced opioid prescriptions (medicalxpress.com)

×1.83 8 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rubio's Directive on State Dept Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman (daringfireball.net)

×0.52 | 1 points by coloneltcb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
American Ports Have a Problem That's Costing You Money (youtube.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be Careful with GIDs in Rails (julik.nl)

×1.25 | 2 points by julik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes (quantamagazine.org)

×1.20 | 2 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year (theguardian.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What border guards will look for on your socials, could be made to hand over DNA (afr.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by KnuthIsGod 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malaysia uncovers $1B in power theft losses from illegal crypto mining (theblock.co)

×2.42 16 #51 | 9 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GPT Prophecy Begins (book trailer) (youtube.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by nuevita70 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations

×2.00 21 | 5 points by marai2 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Z-Image-Turbo (alternativeto.net)

×0.39 | 1 points by indextts 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wenis (wikipedia.org)

×0.40 | 1 points by oatsandsugar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pslscale.com – AI facial analysis for attractiveness scoring (pslscale.com)

×0.42 | 2 points by czmilo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is AI a Bubble? Why We're Betting on the Installation Phase

×0.42 | 1 points by rchachra 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police swap suspect sketches for AI (washingtonpost.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Patterns.dev (patterns.dev)

×2.43 2 #4 | 37 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Least Squares Assumes About Your Data (sebmestre.blogspot.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by sebastianmestre 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Veteran-built iPhone steadiness tracker to help people avoid falls

×1.58 5 | 3 points by jimlucas95338 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jonathan Blow new game announced. Uses new language and new engine (twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow)

×2.19 7 | 4 points by sergiotapia 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek is using Nvidia's banned Blackwell AI chips (cnbc.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by zyh888 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Researcher: Replacing scientists with AI is evil (twitter.com/togelius)

×1.05 | 2 points by ks2048 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (selfh.st)

×2.78 13 | 5 points by shaunpud 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The devious art of lying by telling the truth (2017) (bbc.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do you keep an emotion or mood journal? Why do you do it, and has it helped you?

×1.08 | 2 points by tenglvjun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Google Services (google.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by happyopossum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oscar Mayer Opens Annual Application for Wienermobile Drivers (caranddriver.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by RickJWagner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Crystal V10 – Grepping 65GB of compressed logs in 0.8s vs. 8 minutes

×1.03 | 2 points by danebl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Earliest fire-making dating back 400k years unearthed in Suffolk, England (nhm.ac.uk)

×1.06 | 2 points by ggm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (bloomberg.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thinking About Growth (econforeverybody.com)

×1.07 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The fix for messy AI agent ecosystems might be here and it's open source (zdnet.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by CrankyBear 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dark mode now available on Simon Willison's blog (simonwillison.net)

×0.45 | 1 points by macote 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China government-approved AI hw suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei in, Nvidia out (tomshardware.com)

×1.63 8 | 3 points by SanjayMehta 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FastEmbed-Rs – Generate Vector Embeddings and Rerank Docs Locally (reddit.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi (apnews.com)

×1.01 10 | 3 points by jsphweid 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Privacy-first budgeting tool – all data stays in localStorage, works offline

×1.02 | 2 points by cobrapi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984 (rodyne.com)

×1.18 46 #45 | 4 points by boznz 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???