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  1. Reparaible and open source paper printer (opentools.studio)
    ×2.83 #1 | 108 points by bouh 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  2. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×3.68 #2 | 707 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 200 comments | ??? ???
  3. The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)
    ×2.64 3 #6 | 159 points by croes 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  4. Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.36 32 #36 | 107 points by chistev 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ??? ???
  5. Completing a Computer Science Degree on Coursera (notesbylex.com)
    ×1.67 #5 | 30 points by lexandstuff 58 minutes ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
    ×1.81 2 #4 | 22 points by homegamesjoseph 46 minutes ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  7. New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (uu.nl)
    ×1.25 4 #3 | 96 points by jonahbard 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  8. Starring the Computer (starringthecomputer.com)
    ×1.50 #8 | 136 points by gitowiec 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ??? ???
  9. Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.13 19 #28 | 76 points by logickkk1 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  10. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.97 2 #12 | 229 points by popcar2 7 hours ago | 169 comments | ??? ???
  11. Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.70 80 | 126 points by msolujic 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  12. EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)
    ×6.75 26 #38 | 372 points by stavros 10 hours ago | 203 comments | ??? ???
  13. Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)
    ×1.66 6 #7 | 63 points by jfil 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  14. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.46 77 | 123 points by deely3 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  15. The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×1.71 9 #24 | 136 points by thm 6 hours ago | 104 comments | ??? ???
  16. A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices (arxiv.org)
    ×1.36 43 #59 | 79 points by dijksterhuis 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ??? ???
  17. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
    ×1.84 3 #20 | 250 points by AlexeyBrin 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  18. Pint in England (dispatch-media.com)
    ×0.77 9 #9 | 14 points by gripfx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  19. FIFA makes U-turn following call from Trump (reuters.com)
    ×5.76 72 | 7 points by sxzygz 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  20. Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)
    ×2.30 28 #48 | 20 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ??? ???
  21. Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG (dhilst.github.io)
    ×0.66 10 #11 | 12 points by SchwKatze 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  22. You need a webring (shub.club)
    ×0.93 1 #21 | 35 points by forthwall 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  23. Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.76 7 #16 | 20 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  24. DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world (github.com/514-labs)
    ×1.84 6 #18 | 6 points by Callicles 23 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  25. Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)
    ×2.68 8 #17 | 16 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  26. Y Combinator.singles (ycombinator.singles)
    ×2.25 65 | 11 points by nadermx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  27. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×1.91 25 #52 | 82 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (cerast-intelligence.com)
    ×0.94 14 #14 | 15 points by PatchRequest 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  29. Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
    ×1.49 46 #75 | 136 points by edward 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ??? ???
  30. Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS (arp242.net)
    ×0.87 15 #15 | 12 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  31. AI Can Steal Your Bank Account in Hours (jmagineuniverse.blogspot.com)
    ×2.10 21 #10 | 4 points by odilelof 6 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  32. CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (stackexchange.com)
    ×0.70 19 #13 | 6 points by vinnyglennon 39 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  33. Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)
    ×2.60 28 #61 | 157 points by RickJWagner 10 hours ago | 214 comments | ??? ???
  34. Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix (localghost.dev)
    ×4.35 57 | 7 points by gslin 54 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  35. Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (adexchanger.com)
    ×1.27 16 #19 | 30 points by WaitWaitWha 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  36. Crosspoint Reader – A FOSS firmware for Xteink ereaders (crosspointreader.com)
    ×2.81 55 | 4 points by devonnull 9 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  37. Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters (cnn.com)
    ×2.07 10 #47 | 9 points by breve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  38. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.08 13 #51 | 520 points by nozzlegear 20 hours ago | 250 comments | ??? ???
  39. Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)
    ×3.28 17 #56 | 24 points by appwiz 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  40. Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)
    ×1.26 18 #58 | 29 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?
    ×4.34 50 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  42. We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)
    ×1.04 15 #27 | 19 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  43. New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.11 48 | 4 points by ninko 20 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  44. Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.55 47 | 9 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  45. Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)
    ×0.96 23 #22 | 88 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ??? ???
  46. Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)
    ×2.15 37 #83 | 8 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  47. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×1.99 44 | 68 points by neilfrndes 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ??? ???
  48. Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
    ×1.75 6 #54 | 100 points by captain_dfx 9 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  49. Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine (reuters.com)
    ×3.12 42 | 5 points by joebig 48 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  50. Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension. Now He's Eligible to Play (nytimes.com)
    ×2.92 41 | 3 points by ortusdux 8 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  51. Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)
    ×1.09 28 #23 | 42 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  52. Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)
    ×5.98 39 | 144 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  53. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.95 #53 | 654 points by asronline 1 day ago | 270 comments | ??? ???
  54. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.42 6 #60 | 271 points by dabinat 17 hours ago | 148 comments | ??? ???
  55. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×1.51 15 #40 | 171 points by cenazoic 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  56. The full stack of terminals explained (ahmadawais.com)
    ×1.48 30 #26 | 12 points by ludicrousdispla 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  57. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.06 15 #42 | 89 points by ViktorEE 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  58. How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built (thisandthat.chat)
    ×0.73 33 #25 | 8 points by jreynar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  59. Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
    ×0.70 30 #29 | 72 points by hyperific 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  60. The Mental Models I Use to Work with AI (metedata.substack.com)
    ×2.99 19 #79 | 10 points by young_mete 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  61. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.31 30 | 661 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 389 comments | ??? ???
  62. Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)
    ×0.96 19 #43 | 81 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ??? ???
  63. EasyJet reaches 'agreement in principle' over potential takeover (bbc.com)
    ×2.40 28 | 4 points by a_paddy 57 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  64. Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
    ×0.69 34 #30 | 40 points by matteocontrini 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.77 26 | 4 points by yesitcan 59 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  66. The new Teddy Roosevelt library is a gorgeous extension of the prairie (fastcompany.com)
    ×1.28 1 #67 | 5 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Small details in my Mastodon client that I wanted more people to notice (on-t.work)
    ×2.39 24 | 4 points by birdculture 59 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  68. Here here, there is no there, there (silvestro2026.substack.com)
    ×2.12 23 | 3 points by silvestromedia 30 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  69. Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can't Britain create more of them? (ft.com)
    ×2.23 22 | 4 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  70. Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
    ×1.94 21 | 3 points by zdw 33 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  71. Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)
    ×2.00 20 | 115 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  72. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ??? ???
  73. Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design (earthmanmuons.com)
    ×0.65 39 #34 | 20 points by elasticdog 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  74. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.19 17 | 125 points by enz 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ??? ???
  75. OpenAI is fast-tracking its own "AI Agent Phone" for 2027 to challenge iPhone (reddit.com)
    ×1.69 14 #89 | 5 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  76. Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)
    ×2.70 44 #32 | 9 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  77. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.13 3 #74 | 350 points by maille 1 day ago | 146 comments | ??? ???
  78. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)
    ×1.03 43 #35 | 79 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  79. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.82 12 | 511 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 316 comments | ??? ???
  80. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)
    ×1.27 41 #39 | 123 points by ustad 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ??? ???
  81. Pacerift – I built a motorcycle telemetry app using only phone sensors (google.com)
    ×1.71 10 | 3 points by sauravXzent 48 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  82. I'm an obsessed hobby cheesemaker. [AMA] (reddit.com)
    ×1.76 9 | 3 points by consumer451 48 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  83. LaCie drives just contain regular Seagate drives inside (twitter.com/eftegarie)
    ×1.82 8 | 3 points by amin 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  84. Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)
    ×1.13 53 #31 | 6 points by q7m 2 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  85. Live Image/Video Translation (davidv.dev)
    ×1.79 6 | 3 points by wonger_ 52 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  86. WhaleCap: Keep your DeepSeek API credits from running out on day one (npmjs.com)
    ×1.84 5 | 3 points by wayepoint 54 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  87. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)
    ×4.46 4 | 806 points by gslin 1 day ago | 456 comments | ??? ???
  88. RPB – Raylib Project Builder (itch.io)
    ×1.80 3 | 3 points by Erenay09 55 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  89. RPC – Raylib Project Creator (itch.io)
    ×1.78 2 | 3 points by Erenay09 56 minutes ago | discuss | ??? ???
  90. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×1.59 49 #41 | 95 points by enz 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ??? ???