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If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay (economist.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by andsoitis 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Biff 2.0.4: LLM Skills (biffweb.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by TheWiggles 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: God – real-time control room for LLM agent societies (EMNLP 2026 demo) (github.com/XiaoLuoLYG)

×1.28 | 2 points by xiaoluolyg 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. birth rate drops to record low, but older women are having more babies (npr.org)

×0.62 | 1 points by pseudolus 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPhone Duo Teardown [video] (youtube.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by obilgic 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The subreddit each age is most over-represented in, women vs. men (reddit.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by gmays 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem (theregister.com)

×2.50 13 #36 | 6 points by Betelbuddy 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms (bbc.com)

×1.67 31 | 3 points by Betelbuddy 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens (breakintochat.com)

×1.78 50 | 4 points by Kirkman14 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Little Fun Games – daily trivia with uncommon-answer scoring (littlefungames.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by littlefungames 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grokking: A 777-Parameter Transformer Learned Real Math (themenonlab.blog)

×1.62 20 | 3 points by peter_d_sherman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPhone Duo Teardown (ifixit.com)

×4.04 6 #15 | 20 points by kripy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cve.now: A Free Feed of Security Vulnerabilities for Agents (sazabi.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by shcallaway 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please Don't Mess with Links (maurycyz.com)

×2.78 51 | 5 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists Discover a Surprising Shortcut to Nuclear Fusion (scitechdaily.com)

×1.05 | 2 points by g-b-r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt (thestar.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by sleepyguy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards (freehire.me)

×1.03 | 2 points by i_strelov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Depono – Chat with many AI models at cost and 10%, files kept in Git (depono.xyz)

×0.46 | 1 points by saxonnicholls 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love (rainbowsay.ai)

×1.01 | 2 points by gigapotential 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bringing Flame Serving Close to Standalone vLLM (xflops.io)

×0.45 | 1 points by k82cn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category (bloffy.blog)

×1.61 7 | 3 points by textlanes33 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Setup Home Lab Static Website: Rasp Pi, Astro, Nginx Proxy Mgmt, Cloudflare (jacq.cc)

×1.01 | 2 points by xx__yy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

×1.08 28 | 4 points by olalonde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Is Dead. Programming Is Not (twitter.com/jay4fun_)

×1.56 32 #54 | 3 points by jairojair 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning to Ride Your Brain (venkateshrao.com)

×1.01 | 2 points by colinprince 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Survival Ball versus Mode Explained: Everything You Need to Know [video] (youtube.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by lopespm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump critic Lula wins reelection in Brazil, securing fourth presidential term (apnews.com)

×1.96 19 | 4 points by kaycebasques 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has PAUSE account registration slowed down recently? (perl.org)

×0.41 | 1 points by viasnake 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dua Lipa's Manifesto Library (banned-books.org)

×0.40 | 1 points by weinzierl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CORDIC (wikipedia.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One gateway for your AI agents, APIs and MCP servers (github.com/Clivern)

×0.89 | 2 points by clivern 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Study of the Last Two Weeks (phillipspobrien.substack.com)

×0.37 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It (wired.com)

×2.97 41 | 6 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lula wins election after final votes tallied (reuters.com)

×8.99 89 #90 | 180 points by laurenth 2 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Birth control pills do not alter women's preferences for masculine faces (psypost.org)

×0.95 | 2 points by gradus_ad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lula Wins Brazilian Election (tse.jus.br)

×8.54 88 | 63 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages (seangoedecke.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by signa11 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unique source blinded Dutch intelligence agencies to Putin's invasion (volkskrant.nl)

×0.38 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intermediate Frequency (wikipedia.org)

×0.39 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC (github.com/KillaBoi)

×3.59 9 #28 | 9 points by davikr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Client-side, zero-telemetry micro-utilities for cognitive and biological rest (fallow.garden)

×0.41 | 1 points by davidmikosz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Schlep: Israelis Are Flying Back to Vote (newyorker.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by firefax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude model bypassed paywall to access voter info without human authorization (axios.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by jimmydoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DevRel is unbelievably back [video] (youtube.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Think My AI Company Needs HR (fasttrackfemme.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by steviebennett 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KC-135 navigator recalls his Stratotanker towing damaged F-111 (theaviationgeekclub.com)

×1.01 | 2 points by smoyer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A library of 200 human UGC reactions for $19 is legit? (ugcpeople.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by markx997 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vim Classic (vim-classic.org)

×0.97 | 2 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vectors ATC Game (vectorsatc.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by einhard 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A 3D mesh playground for coding agents (three.js + manifold-3d) (sketchagent.dev)

×2.00 1 | 4 points by wsxiaoys 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Calm Web – Print magazine style reader (calmweb.app)

×0.42 | 1 points by niraj-agarwal 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Less Is More: From 1M Lines of Firmware to 300 of Assembly (tinfoil.sh)

×2.16 3 | 4 points by FrasiertheLion 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disclosure and Shame (proofsandprompts.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by rtmkrptn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention Is Not What You Need (2025) (arxiv.org)

×1.42 11 #4 | 30 points by westurner 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do not remove Contracts from C++26 [pdf] (open-std.org)

×2.02 9 | 4 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Limitbreak – Claude Code switches accounts mid-session on a limit (github.com/radu2lupu)

×0.40 | 1 points by radulupu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bend: A fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof (github.com/bendlang)

×0.40 | 1 points by airhangerf15 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Runtime-Type-Driven Multiple Dispatch JavaScript Framework – Estructura (okzgn.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by okzgn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xenohormesis: Sensing the chemical cues of other species (nih.gov)

×0.39 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is getting good at math, here's why (latent.space)

×0.90 | 2 points by ankit219 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Securing a DuckDB Server in Production (starlake.ai)

×0.94 | 2 points by dgudkov 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Octopus Pounces on Lasers in Papahānaumokuākea [video] (youtube.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by gnabgib 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS (hypnotize.works)

×0.94 8 #2 | 50 points by bpierre 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The New Age of Reading (newyorker.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port) (dbohdan.github.io)

×0.39 | 1 points by networked 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Counting Sand Dunes in the Simpson Desert (ford.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: QuickRust replaces cargo, sets up sccache, centralizes build cache (machinefabric.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by joeharshamshiri 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Classical Latin TTS (huggingface.co)

×0.35 | 1 points by coolcoder613 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Palo Alto retracts claim of PHP2Shell exploitation at European government agency (paloaltonetworks.com)

×1.06 34 | 3 points by zahrevsky 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry (businessinsider.com)

×3.01 19 #39 | 34 points by levzettelin 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: simdown – use SIMD to parse Markdown at ~1 GB/s (github.com/trevorah)

×0.74 | 2 points by trevorah 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Internet Security: We're Doomed (nationalreview.com)

×1.65 25 | 4 points by DamnInteresting 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn from Everywhere Else (wired.com)

×0.32 | 1 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Busy Beaver Iceberg [video] (youtube.com)

×0.33 | 1 points by ks2048 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tool to easily copy features from one desktop framework to another (github.com/androslee)

×0.34 | 1 points by aclmakes 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surprising gender biases in GPT (2024) (sciencedirect.com)

×1.28 38 | 3 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You don't have to build the model to compete in AI (purifigroup.com)

×0.36 | 1 points by jerondu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proton Flock Camera Map (proton.me)

×3.17 12 #23 | 69 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raven: Install and run Windows applications on Linux with their own installers (useraven.org)

×0.37 | 1 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forget the plague, this is the disease that will kill us all (mapwriting.substack.com)

×5.32 30 | 11 points by kitkut 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Focus: Why Everything Is Not for You (leveragethoughts.substack.com)

×1.32 39 | 3 points by maverickJ 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I Built Verto (jackdamon.org)

×0.87 | 2 points by jdamon96 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Payload: A super-small game engine that lets you share code via a URL (kitao.dev)

×0.38 | 1 points by nogajun 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)

×0.83 | 2 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why the EU avoids tackling Big Soccer (politico.eu)

×1.33 42 | 3 points by RickJWagner 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HQL 0.5.2 Is Out (hql-lang.org)

×0.37 | 1 points by divingstar 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Serbia's ruler VučIć concedes election to student-led protest (bbc.com)

×1.05 20 | 5 points by Betelbuddy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Conservative party wins first election in nearly a century in BC (reuters.com)

×0.89 | 2 points by Bluestein 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop resetting privacy settings to default on updates #17107 (github.com/anthropics)

×0.87 | 2 points by DesaiAshu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glitchrupt: Glitch your desktop when your AI agent needs your attention (github.com/elbee19)

×0.39 | 1 points by impish19 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???