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Monetizing the Golden Age of Short Selling (alphanume-research.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by alphanume 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Flint – A C/C++ build system and package manager written in pure C (github.com/mainak55512)

×0.80 | 1 points by mbhatt99 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tinysandbox-JS-Runtime - JS in WASM in v8 (github.com/danthegoodman1)

×0.83 | 1 points by dangoodmanUT 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seattle light rail became first floating passenger train (seattletimes.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by k-ian 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coyote vs. Acme (also, for free, my take on The Odyssey) (columbia.edu)

×0.80 | 1 points by Tomte 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they work? (nature.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by cwwc 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Are We Now? (jessitron.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by ingve 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reward Guided Speculative Decoding (arxiv.org)

×0.74 | 1 points by E-Reverance 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money' (theguardian.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by cwwc 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revise, a zero code, desktop ML platform, revolutionizing ML model creation (revise.live)

×0.76 | 1 points by Aadi_Ajmire 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AbracadaNames – a multilingual, data-driven wall of first names (abracadanames.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by PopFlamingo 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Superhuman AI coding still makes software worse (williamangel.net)

×0.72 | 1 points by datadrivenangel 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anubis' Design (techaro.lol)

×1.66 | 2 points by gurjeet 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221) (debian.org)

×2.84 60 | 4 points by tosh 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Text Logo – create text logos and wordmarks in the browser (textlogo.app)

×0.57 | 1 points by paidx 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rotating Boxes (openprocessing.org)

×1.37 | 2 points by bookofjoe 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Markets do not punish firms for maintaining DEI [pdf] (berkeley.edu)

×1.42 | 2 points by anigbrowl 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: Sam Rockwell Lifts an Absurdist AI Sci-Fi Satire (apnews.com)

×2.11 47 | 3 points by walterbell 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Being kicked out of the tech industry (jacky.wtf)

×3.69 67 | 5 points by signa11 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern (motherjones.com)

×7.98 40 #48 | 17 points by cdrnsf 31 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'You'll Never Catch Him ' (nybooks.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by johntfella 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build a Reasoning Model Scratch 1: Motivation and Code Setup [video] (youtube.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by pretext 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back (jetbrains.com)

×1.96 42 | 3 points by ferryth 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Article will now be used to start Phase2 of "shut down open source" (twitter.com/chamath)

×1.23 | 2 points by bilsbie 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pure-Rust Headless Browser: 5× Faster, 80% Less Memory Compared to Chromium (reddit.com)

×1.25 | 2 points by syumei 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cheap GPS Jammers Are Filling the World with Navigation Dead Zones (wsj.com)

×3.10 23 #42 | 7 points by vinnyglennon 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Semantic invariance testing for AI (Contradish) (contradish.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by michelejoseph 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Six Agent Harness Capabilities for Higher Model Performance (nvidia.com)

×2.01 40 | 3 points by wslh 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simurg open-source web search for AI agents that aborts hallucinations (github.com/doofzoff)

×0.56 | 1 points by lebagetdefrance 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enterprise MCP Gateway: In-Flight PII Redaction and Audit in Go (github.com/BenjaminJ)

×0.54 | 1 points by BenjaminJ 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta's push to put robots to work in data centers (wired.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by joozio 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Creation, validation, obsolescence: AI-driven labor market displacement (frontiersin.org)

×0.57 | 1 points by chessucation 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Wikipedia Page from HN's Top Front Page (adamjgrant.github.io)

×0.53 | 1 points by hidelooktropic 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like Claude is judging them?

×2.01 37 | 3 points by digitcatphd 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Painting one of three wind-turbine blades black reduces bird fatalities by 72% (wiley.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by ck2 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spatial Audio Synthesizer (youtube.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by limbicsystem 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Inequality (arxiv.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by wslh 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Currency Symbol for Indian Rupee (2010) [pdf] (archive.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by susam 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early Retirement Taught Me That We've All Been Sold a Lie? [video] (youtube.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by adletbalzhanov 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLM is not Intelligence (vivekv.info)

×1.09 | 2 points by vivekv 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenCode2 HUD (github.com/ndom91)

×1.06 | 2 points by ndom91 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fears of AI-induced armageddon are overdone (economist.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased from History. Why? (nytimes.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interview with Oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFX Industry (alexalejandre.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by veqq 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude Skills Starter Kit – 198 modular skills for AI agents (github.com/yevhens-hue)

×1.14 | 2 points by eshaforostov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati (micahflee.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Edtech's pandemic boom is over as K-12 startup funding craters (restofworld.org)

×1.15 | 2 points by vinnyglennon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a Beleg – SHA-256 hash-chained provenance ledger, anchored to BTC (belegapp.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by lsun582 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Could AI revive the socialist dream? (ft.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by Emma_Goldman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DBR-Me: Hardware-Aware O(1) In-Register Decompression (zenodo.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by SGBHAI 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bringing modern USB xHCI support to Windows 98/2K (yeokhengmeng.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copycats in Apple Books (lapcatsoftware.com)

×1.86 24 | 3 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UltraHDR gain map implementation for JavaScript/TypeScript (github.com/adamsilverstein)

×0.52 | 1 points by realsarm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Bows to Trump, Renames 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' in Google Maps (neowin.net)

×4.73 62 | 7 points by bundie 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires (latent.space)

×1.26 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola (wikipedia.org)

×0.51 | 1 points by scrlk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Estimates of Global Burden of Snakebite (plos.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by bushwart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero Trust in someone else's environment (byocanywhere.org)

×0.54 | 1 points by aloknnikhil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PlateChat (talkwithlicenseplates.vercel.app)

×0.54 | 1 points by mayankm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An 'old school' San Jose barber is now teaching robots to cut hair with AI (abc7news.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything's broken and nobody's upset (2012) (hanselman.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by chrisjj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning (insidehighered.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Evolution of the Agent Harness (latent.space)

×1.18 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An Implementation of Scheme in Rust (github.com/vinay)

×0.51 | 1 points by vmmenon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Dolly, then it's remnants (AL97), taught my weather site about wind gusts (dewedda.com)

×1.90 17 | 3 points by ashitlerferad 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Reverse Information Paradox (Satya Nadella) (snscratchpad.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by adletbalzhanov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released (gram-editor.com)

×1.52 13 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Skills, Not Just Agents: Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills (arxiv.org)

×2.83 41 | 5 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
12TB Steam leak reveals unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds (tomshardware.com)

×1.77 21 #43 | 11 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I filtered August Who is Hiring to 19 $100k+ remote jobs, salary listed (commitasync.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by lucianh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elegant scientific graphs: Learning from examples (royfrancis.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DuckDB and the Burdens of Success (With Hannes Mühleisen) – Developer Voices [video] (youtube.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by abhijeetpbodas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airlink's low flypast over Rugby match in Cape Town (flightradar24.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by TechTechTech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CardGo – Reusable, end-to-end encrypted context cards for AI chats (cardgo.ai)

×0.43 | 2 points by trinhngocdieu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)

×0.88 8 #4 | 25 points by rzk 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poll: What will a better LLM do for me?

×1.10 | 2 points by Zigurd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (haiku-os.org)

×1.86 2 #2 | 82 points by metrofun 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mechanical Panda's Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) (github.com/MechRedPanda)

×1.17 | 2 points by rickcarlino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)

×3.66 2 #3 | 158 points by trap0xcc 1 hour ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) (bmj.com)

×1.18 9 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oscilloscope app written in Rust with bevy game engine (github.com/serjster)

×1.17 | 2 points by serjts 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)

×1.85 6 | 3 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BentoPDF, Hyper Compress and Kura (bentopdf.com)

×1.04 4 | 3 points by __alam__ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee (uq.edu.au)

×1.86 3 | 3 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extinction events happen every 100M years or so (twitter.com/elonmusk)

×1.15 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ceramic 2.2 (ceramic-engine.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by gr4vityWall 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most Neoclouds Suck at Security (semianalysis.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The pursuit of happiness requires free time [video] (ted.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Piqt (iOS) – on device photo and video curator (piqt.app)

×1.15 | 2 points by verdelights 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket (space.com)

×1.83 | 3 points by OrvalWintermute 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???