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  1. Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode (apple.com)
    ×2.30 #1 | 237 points by zora_goron 5 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Strange CW Keys (google.com)
    ×1.16 #2 | 45 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
    ×4.20 2 #5 | 898 points by rickybule 13 hours ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking (oxism.com)
    ×2.35 1 #3 | 44 points by haxiomic 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it (lowendbox.com)
    ×1.91 1 #4 | 72 points by shaunpud 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Python: The Documentary [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.20 10 #16 | 184 points by chmaynard 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. RSS is awesome (evanverma.com)
    ×3.55 20 #27 | 182 points by edverma2 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos (fuckupmysite.com)
    ×1.88 #8 | 211 points by coloneltcb 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie (lwn.net)
    ×2.20 3 #6 | 53 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. My startup banking story (2023) (mitchellh.com)
    ×1.78 2 #12 | 228 points by dvrp 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Some thoughts on LLMs and software development (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.91 4 #7 | 258 points by floverfelt 11 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The "996" schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley (fortune.com)
    ×5.56 21 #33 | 15 points by peachmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Uncertain<T> (nshipster.com)
    ×2.42 3 #10 | 308 points by samtheprogram 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome (lyra.horse)
    ×3.77 14 #28 | 170 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019) (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
    ×2.09 6 #9 | 115 points by scapecast 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Expert: LSP for Elixir (github.com/elixir-lang)
    ×1.69 1 #15 | 106 points by pimienta 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs (freebsd.org)
    ×1.73 4 #13 | 15 points by burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (martinalderson.com)
    ×2.85 29 #47 | 477 points by martinald 20 hours ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says (reuters.com)
    ×3.66 38 #57 | 17 points by anigbrowl 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study (cnbc.com)
    ×3.27 9 #11 | 273 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore (praf.me)
    ×1.79 2 #19 | 122 points by _praf 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.35 #22 | 140 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. People Are the Point (whatwelost.substack.com)
    ×3.17 68 | 14 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. In Search of AI Psychosis (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.73 #24 | 124 points by venkii 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. China is eating the world (apropos.substack.com)
    ×5.36 45 #70 | 196 points by sg5421 14 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Sometimes CPU cores are odd (techaro.lol)
    ×1.41 9 #17 | 75 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Important machine learning equations (chizkidd.github.io)
    ×1.88 28 #55 | 279 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Thrashing (tive.org)
    ×1.08 10 #18 | 55 points by pch00 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023) (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.99 29 #58 | 172 points by crescit_eundo 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States (nytimes.com)
    ×3.87 61 | 7 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.22 25 #56 | 190 points by furkansahin 16 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DoD Cloud Systems (defense.gov)
    ×2.46 41 #73 | 6 points by nationsecwatch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps
    ×5.22 58 | 273 points by nativeforks 19 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise (economist.com)
    ×1.89 4 #30 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Einstein hated entanglement – and five other quantum myths (nature.com)
    ×2.32 56 | 3 points by tzury 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say (reuters.com)
    ×5.80 55 | 9 points by CXSHNGCB 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Prosper AI (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Account Executives (NYC) (ashbyhq.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kagi Is Down (kagi.com)
    ×2.18 45 #83 | 11 points by rorylawless 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021) (bbc.com)
    ×1.28 7 #32 | 90 points by ohjeez 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Service members deserve the right to repair (militarytimes.com)
    ×2.15 36 #76 | 128 points by noleary 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rupert's Property (wordpress.com)
    ×1.06 21 #20 | 47 points by robinhouston 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mosh Mobile Shell (mosh.org)
    ×1.64 29 #71 | 146 points by rbinv 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux (tuned-project.org)
    ×0.94 17 #26 | 55 points by tanelpoder 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How life-size cows made of butter became an iconic symbol of the Midwest (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.02 21 #23 | 6 points by noleary 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music (plos.org)
    ×2.62 21 #66 | 522 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?
    ×0.68 15 #31 | 25 points by shivajikobardan 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually (ssp.sh)
    ×1.61 13 #34 | 135 points by articsputnik 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance (nature.com)
    ×0.56 27 #21 | 7 points by jameslk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami (broadcom.com)
    ×1.83 19 #68 | 336 points by zdkaster 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types (jonmsterling.com)
    ×0.83 14 #36 | 29 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Brain Cells Behind Depression Identified (neurosciencenews.com)
    ×2.12 40 | 3 points by XzetaU8 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year (cnbc.com)
    ×4.38 34 #86 | 558 points by frays 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. There Goes the American Muscle Car (thedispatch.com)
    ×1.33 24 #29 | 45 points by pluripote 9 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Microsoft terminates 2 employees after protesters breach executive office (kiro7.com)
    ×2.25 37 | 4 points by schmuckonwheels 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising (tj401.com)
    ×1.82 11 #44 | 160 points by lemonlym 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example (colino.net)
    ×1.02 11 #45 | 40 points by mmphosis 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tell HN: 2nd wave of Nx attack: private GitHub repos are being made public
    ×5.33 34 | 9 points by labordayruined 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Open Source is one person (opensourcesecurity.io)
    ×3.60 18 #40 | 357 points by LawnGnome 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Lobster Programming Language (strlen.com)
    ×1.30 6 #65 | 86 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.80 31 | 3 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Speeding Up Firefox Local AI Runtime (mozilla.org)
    ×1.77 30 | 3 points by sthottingal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand (gleam.run)
    ×0.94 14 #48 | 89 points by Bogdanp 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Zuckerberg Pressed Trump on Digital Taxes Before Tariff Vow (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.75 28 | 3 points by miguelazo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Math Behind GANs (2020) (jaketae.github.io)
    ×0.98 13 #77 | 135 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents
    ×0.55 51 #14 | 66 points by windsor 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The market for startup shares is getting even weirder (economist.com)
    ×2.35 25 | 4 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich (wsj.com)
    ×2.45 17 #84 | 12 points by gundmc 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Claude Code Checkpoints (claude-checkpoints.com)
    ×1.58 19 #49 | 169 points by punnerud 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI is opening up nature's treasure chest (ft.com)
    ×2.33 22 | 4 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS (github.com/mi12labs)
    ×0.94 28 #42 | 62 points by mi12-root 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Federal court filing system hit in hack (politico.com)
    ×2.39 20 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (9to5google.com)
    ×11.19 19 | 2986 points by kotaKat 3 days ago | 2289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Web Bot Auth (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.00 48 #25 | 50 points by ananddtyagi 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism (asm.org)
    ×1.20 36 #38 | 122 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted (worldhistory.substack.com)
    ×0.53 40 #35 | 13 points by crescit_eundo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc. (tarsnap.com)
    ×1.21 2 #78 | 34 points by cylinder714 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 36 #41 | 49 points by bikenaga 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I Am An AI Hater (anthonymoser.github.io)
    ×17.43 13 | 424 points by BallsInIt 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rendering a game in real time with AI (jeffschomay.com)
    ×1.16 20 #59 | 108 points by jschomay 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Unexpected productivity boost of Rust (lubeno.dev)
    ×3.04 11 | 503 points by bkolobara 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: What to do when you suspect your interview is with a state operative?
    ×2.64 10 | 14 points by puppycodes 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What We Find in the Sewers (asimov.press)
    ×0.48 36 #46 | 8 points by mailyk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Monodraw (helftone.com)
    ×2.84 8 | 590 points by mafro 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line (yamanot.es)
    ×1.68 7 | 330 points by zdw 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. That boolean should probably be something else (ntietz.com)
    ×1.47 42 #43 | 88 points by vidyesh 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end (rosenzweig.io)
    ×4.92 5 | 823 points by alsetmusic 2 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Satya Nadella's Top GPT-5 Prompts (twitter.com/satyanadella)
    ×2.40 4 | 4 points by pykello 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published (github.com/nrwl)
    ×1.66 1 #89 | 433 points by longcat 1 day ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Das Problem mit German Strings (polarsignals.com)
    ×0.86 28 #61 | 75 points by asubiotto 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem (semgrep.dev)
    ×2.91 1 | 491 points by neuroo 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???