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OpenSSL Performance Still Under Scrutiny (feistyduck.com)

×0.94 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
L1TF Reloaded (github.com/ThijsRay)

×0.95 | 1 points by Fnoord 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I hope generative AI does away with SEO (pcloadletter.dev)

×0.91 | 1 points by ronbenton 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spectre in the real world: Leaking your private data from cloud with CPU vulns [video] (ccc.de)

×0.88 | 1 points by Fnoord 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-Language (arxiv.org)

×1.80 | 2 points by hbarka 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI generated images to get refunds (wired.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by MattSayar 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WizardFlow – Client-side watermarking for Reddit (google.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by jackking1 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Users are required to log in to Bugzilla even to view existing bug reports (gnucash.org)

×0.77 | 1 points by aendruk 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SomaliScan – US Fraud aggregator sourced from public records (somaliscan.com)

×2.83 54 | 3 points by sergiotapia 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Client-side encrypted AI detector using model ensembling (veredictlabs.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by oscarzdev 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Effective Alruists Should Embrace Sortition (almostinfinite.substack.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by maaaaxaxa 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Easy Habits (easycyberprotection.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by ToJans 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Marathon Cope 2025 – Your peak fitness, whether or not you ran it (getfast.ai)

×2.34 43 | 3 points by steadyelk 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out–or self-censor (arstechnica.com)

×1.49 | 2 points by pseudolus 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP to trade Robinhood through Claude Code (github.com/trayders)

×1.53 | 2 points by teamtrayd 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italy antitrust agency fines Apple $116M over privacy feature (apnews.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (redbook.io)

×0.68 | 1 points by teleforce 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New at the Nursery: Tomato and Potato = TomTato (theatlantic.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by MaysonL 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ClearTok – a small tool to remove reposted videos from TikTok (cleartok.io)

×0.62 | 1 points by auroroa 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)

×2.80 50 | 4 points by nradov 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can AI Recognize Its Own Reflection? (arxiv.org)

×0.57 | 1 points by StatsAreFun 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In (nytimes.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by bookofjoe 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship) (localghost.ai)

×1.05 | 2 points by zerocool86 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of LLMs 2025: Progress, Progress, and Predictions (sebastianraschka.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug (kobzol.github.io)

×0.44 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video] (youtube.com)

×1.39 7 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What async means for your Python web app? (hackeryarn.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by hackeryarn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MAME 0.284 (mamedev.org)

×1.00 | 2 points by chungy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?

×2.47 40 | 5 points by ronbenton 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2025 End of Year Engineering Pay Report (levels.fyi)

×0.88 | 2 points by zuhayeer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity (phys.org)

×2.05 7 #46 | 7 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
S&P500 Priced in Gold (pricedingold.com)

×2.55 34 | 5 points by jcartw 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Screen Sizes: A Web App That Shows the Display Resolution for Every iPhone Model (screensizes.app)

×0.40 | 1 points by alwillis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (myembeddedstuff.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by edent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Personalization Requires Data (uzpg.me)

×0.40 | 1 points by etherio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI company has released an app that lets people converse with avatars of dead (reddit.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by emeraldd 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121

×2.04 14 | 4 points by daitandojo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C++20 Modules: Best Practices from a User's Perspective (chuanqixu9.github.io)

×0.41 | 1 points by aw1621107 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Odoo: Open-Source ERP (github.com/odoo)

×0.41 | 1 points by stein1946 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazilian court requiring Reddit to disclose identity of a ponzi whistleblower (conjur.com.br)

×2.66 31 | 5 points by dotluis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI code analysis is getting good (hachyderm.io)

×2.53 8 #50 | 8 points by sashk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Chatting with AI. Start Loops (Ralph Driven Development) (lukeparker.dev)

×0.37 | 1 points by ghuntley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain (2019) (effectivealtruism.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by eatitraw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out (science.org)

×2.02 4 | 4 points by xigoi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TidesDB – A Modern RocksDB Replacement [video] (youtube.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by alexpadula 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Porting Graph:Easy to TypeScript with GPT-5.2 and Azad (tomisin.space)

×0.97 | 2 points by AntiRush 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How does an indy website integrate with cookie vendors to make money?

×0.96 | 2 points by ricksunny 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alan Kay – 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces [video] (youtube.com)

×2.42 22 #68 | 8 points by spiralganglion 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A History of My Homelab (vhaudiquet.fr)

×1.82 11 | 3 points by vhaudiquet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Capital in the 22nd Century (philiptrammell.substack.com)

×1.58 12 | 3 points by coloneltcb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The First Video Game Came Long Before Pong (iflscience.com)

×1.56 14 | 3 points by geox 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cross-site Scripting-benchmark of Python sanitizers against real browsers (github.com/EmilStenstrom)

×0.98 | 2 points by EmilStenstrom 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Growing Up in "404 Not Found" (Part II): The Vanishing Nuclear City (vincent404.substack.com)

×1.01 | 2 points by bookstore-romeo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters (bitbucket.org)

×3.28 27 | 6 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FuseCells – 2,500 handcrafted levels logic puzzle game with leaderboard (igodia.dev)

×1.63 17 | 3 points by keini 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline (foodmedcenter.org)

×3.28 4 #4 | 44 points by azinman2 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I used Claude to revive an NPM package with 760K downloads/wk last updated 2019 (github.com/greenstevester)

×1.60 20 | 3 points by greenstevester 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
obsera – a real-time intelligence platform (obsera.xyz)

×1.02 | 2 points by obsera 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance (chrishedges.substack.com)

×2.17 1 | 4 points by chmaynard 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dittytoy – Generative Music Playground (dittytoy.net)

×0.44 | 1 points by harel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The NPC to MC Spectrum (nonzerosum.games)

×0.45 | 1 points by NonZeroSumJames 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stable-Pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple (arxiv.org)

×1.48 29 #65 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anti-Addiction iPhone Setup (aadillpickle.com)

×1.68 28 | 3 points by aadillpickle 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From what longer video is this short? (youtube.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by gjvc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built my own Metronome Desktop App (shredono.me)

×0.46 | 1 points by danmol 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The most expensive education system (skandergarroum.substack.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by JoiDegn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Request sensitive user input from system services (github.com/LightAndLight)

×0.44 | 1 points by lightandlight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brazil's Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat (bbc.co.uk)

×0.41 | 1 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals (rambnb.xyz)

×1.27 56 #23 | 6 points by olivierroy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firebase, Antigravity, & TypeScript FTW (daywards.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by daywards 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Heritage Foundation Shows How MAGA Will Die (paulkrugman.substack.com)

×3.39 11 | 6 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus (theguardian.com)

×3.41 10 | 6 points by sandebert 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A pointless-looking URL shortener I use as a signal probe (uare.gay)

×0.43 | 1 points by thecocaineninja 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hotswapping Haskell at Runtime (2017) (simonmar.github.io)

×0.43 | 1 points by sanufar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Admit It, You're in a Relationship with AI (bloomberg.com)

×1.62 39 | 3 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Obsidian Audio Inbox (alexanderweichart.de)

×0.45 | 1 points by surrTurr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse-engineered a Sextortion Bot: Llama-7B instance with 2048 token window (reddit.com)

×1.96 16 #74 | 9 points by perelin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers (benedelman.org)

×1.76 22 | 7 points by Leftium 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Random Quality of Life Improvements That Will Change Your Life (twitter.com/thebeautyofsaas)

×1.00 | 2 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Year with Graphics (mropert.github.io)

×0.43 | 1 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memory Safety Is (matklad.github.io)

×0.43 | 1 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Updated LLM Benchmark (Gemini 3 Flash) (entropicthoughts.com)

×1.04 | 2 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We have all we need to make mass surveillance a reality (idiallo.com)

×2.65 2 | 5 points by firefoxd 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wildfire Smoke May Be More Dangerous Than Scientists Thought (scitechdaily.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California DROP: Delete the information data brokers have about you coming 2026 (ca.gov)

×0.43 | 1 points by irsagent 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turning Dafny Sets into Sequences [video] (youtube.com)

×0.90 | 2 points by larrytheliquid 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Petition: Restore Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library (ipetitions.com)

×2.30 12 #62 | 12 points by underscoreF 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission (petapixel.com)

×1.86 25 | 4 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We still don't know what Elon Musk's DOGE did (theguardian.com)

×3.90 18 | 8 points by doener 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slaughterbots (2019 short film) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by christianqchung 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???