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  1. NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (github.com/karpathy)
    ×4.28 #1 | 554 points by huseyinkeles 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move (makeuseof.com)
    ×6.24 11 #13 | 412 points by josephcsible 5 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them (allvpv.org)
    ×1.98 17 #20 | 181 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (cnbc.com)
    ×3.30 2 #2 | 137 points by piskov 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?
    ×3.84 86 | 48 points by marxism 1 hour ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.15 10 #16 | 227 points by gloxkiqcza 6 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users (sqliteonline.com)
    ×1.46 2 #5 | 275 points by sqliteonline 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We're Switching Off (steveblank.com)
    ×3.96 83 | 245 points by chmaynard 7 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches (phys.org)
    ×1.17 6 #3 | 52 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI (wired.com)
    ×1.72 17 #27 | 35 points by fcpguru 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.21 5 #6 | 43 points by davedx 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Smartphones and being present (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.98 17 #29 | 158 points by articsputnik 6 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act (theregister.com)
    ×2.70 27 #40 | 142 points by klez 6 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Optery (YC W22) – Hiring Tech Lead with Node.js Experience (U.S. & Latin America) (optery.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded (thestack.technology)
    ×2.41 23 #38 | 85 points by croes 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints (noahpinion.blog)
    ×3.17 64 #80 | 51 points by jxmorris12 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Abstraction, not syntax (ruudvanasseldonk.com)
    ×1.40 13 #4 | 24 points by unripe_syntax 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month (latimes.com)
    ×4.18 40 #58 | 183 points by 01-_- 8 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector (geocod.io)
    ×1.24 8 #11 | 73 points by mjwhansen 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure (cnbc.com)
    ×5.80 68 #88 | 8 points by pseudolus 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why did containers happen? (buttondown.com)
    ×1.65 14 #7 | 22 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A16Z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal (reuters.com)
    ×1.82 22 #44 | 102 points by mjirv 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in (github.com/rictic)
    ×1.33 14 #9 | 107 points by rickcarlino 6 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DJI's Promo Shows Drone Footage from Prohibited National Parks and Tribal Lands (dronexl.co)
    ×4.17 67 | 11 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI and the Future of American Politics (schneier.com)
    ×1.52 8 #33 | 93 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files (chezsoi.org)
    ×1.57 9 #17 | 285 points by Lucas-C 12 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Elon Musk's SpaceX and XAI Are Buying Tesla's Unsold Cybertrucks (electrek.co)
    ×7.49 64 | 15 points by mdhb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.17 63 | 78 points by voxleone 6 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AWS Service Availability Updates (amazon.com)
    ×2.51 3 #32 | 9 points by dabinat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email (zdnet.com)
    ×3.22 5 #35 | 10 points by CrankyBear 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Modern Linux tools (ikrima.dev)
    ×3.20 60 | 192 points by randomint64 11 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser (strudel.cc)
    ×1.44 24 #8 | 16 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. American solar farms (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.45 15 #18 | 171 points by marklit 10 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.98 21 #55 | 56 points by rstreefland 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs (pinaraf.info)
    ×1.12 25 #10 | 13 points by pinaraf 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization (marcobambini.substack.com)
    ×1.02 24 #12 | 38 points by marcobambini 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. More random home lab things I've recently learned (chollinger.com)
    ×1.40 18 #19 | 166 points by otter-in-a-suit 11 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump (economist.com)
    ×2.70 53 | 5 points by zerosizedweasle 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. China could use U.S. farmland to attack America (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.54 52 | 5 points by zerosizedweasle 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again) (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.70 23 #63 | 59 points by phaser 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Major US online retailers remove listings for prohibited Chinese electronics (reuters.com)
    ×2.89 50 | 5 points by fidotron 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.07 19 #23 | 105 points by k2enemy 9 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Do you need to buy a new laptop? When to upgrade – and when to hold off (theguardian.com)
    ×3.20 48 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera's Spec (mano.lol)
    ×0.44 23 #21 | 10 points by manoloesparta 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Matrices can be your friends (2002) (sjbaker.org)
    ×0.93 23 #22 | 107 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Brace for trade-war turmoil 'high-stakes game of chicken' between U.S. and China (marketwatch.com)
    ×2.61 45 | 4 points by zerosizedweasle 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. HTTP3 Explained (haxx.se)
    ×2.79 15 #62 | 167 points by weinzierl 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Roger Dean – His legendary artwork in gaming history (Psygnosis) (spillhistorie.no)
    ×1.48 24 #24 | 41 points by thelok 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Control your Canon Camera wirelessly (github.com/JulianSchroden)
    ×0.86 18 #31 | 78 points by nklswbr 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves (arxiv.org)
    ×1.97 35 #15 | 10 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Wireguard FPGA (github.com/chili-chips-ba)
    ×2.52 2 #53 | 612 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. US Junk Bonds Post Worst Losses in Six Months, Spreads Widen (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.58 39 | 61 points by zerosizedweasle 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. China now leads the U.S. in open-weight AI (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.40 38 | 4 points by kschaul 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI Is Too Big to Fail (sibylline.dev)
    ×4.08 37 | 64 points by raffael_de 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.19 7 #48 | 8 points by dangle1 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
    ×3.20 15 #71 | 7 points by youngtaff 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. MPTCP for Linux (mptcp.dev)
    ×1.13 32 #25 | 96 points by SweetSoftPillow 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. China Detains Members of Underground Church (nytimes.com)
    ×3.09 33 | 7 points by josephcsible 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Free software hasn't won (dorotac.eu)
    ×3.05 7 #66 | 356 points by LorenDB 23 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Turn your Loom videos into interactive, trackable demos with Qudemo (qudemo.com)
    ×2.81 31 | 5 points by jazeemchoori 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Supermassive black holes locked in a stable orbit around each other (helsinkitimes.fi)
    ×1.07 18 #79 | 27 points by DaveZale 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive (idiallo.com)
    ×4.81 29 | 554 points by firefoxd 1 day ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial (stavros.io)
    ×3.35 28 | 85 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ancient Patagonian hunter-gatherers took care of their injured and disabled (phys.org)
    ×0.93 36 #28 | 53 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. California enacts its own internet age-gating law (theverge.com)
    ×2.50 26 | 5 points by catgirlinspace 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why I Choose Email over Chat Messaging (spinellis.gr)
    ×2.54 25 | 5 points by gaws 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Putting a dumb weather station on the internet (colincogle.name)
    ×1.27 31 #36 | 141 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI and Broadcom to deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators (openai.com)
    ×2.06 27 #41 | 34 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
    ×1.65 27 #42 | 321 points by david927 1 day ago | 887 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fastmail desktop app (fastmail.com)
    ×4.23 21 | 139 points by soheilpro 16 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries (clockss.org)
    ×0.60 37 #34 | 56 points by robtherobber 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tests Don't Prove Code Is Correct They Just Agree with It (medium.com)
    ×1.69 19 | 3 points by birdculture 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally (thebulletin.org)
    ×5.67 18 | 156 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fentanyl overdoses among seniors surge 9k% – A hidden crisis few saw coming (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.11 1 #73 | 27 points by Noaidi 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Baby's first international landline (wip.tf)
    ×1.59 28 #47 | 210 points by nbr23 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Trump may approve Tomahawks for Ukraine if Russia continues war (reuters.com)
    ×2.53 15 | 5 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Some graphene firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling (theguardian.com)
    ×0.67 47 #30 | 61 points by robaato 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 41 #37 | 64 points by oldfuture 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3 (github.com/pytauri)
    ×1.18 36 #43 | 156 points by 0x1997 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email (itsfoss.com)
    ×3.05 9 #89 | 372 points by sebastian_z 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 47% of EU regions reached EU's employment rate target (europa.eu)
    ×2.03 10 | 4 points by stared 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Wharton's Siegel says it's scandalous the US doesn't have a rare earths reserve (cnbc.com)
    ×1.22 8 #74 | 11 points by rntn 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers (micropythonos.com)
    ×1.31 38 #45 | 163 points by alefnula 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Two Paths to Memory Safety: CHERI and OMA (ednutting.com)
    ×0.67 45 #39 | 46 points by yvdriess 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dismissing something just because is AI generated is not critical thinking
    ×1.49 6 | 3 points by tomdesantis 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) (xenodium.com)
    ×1.54 35 #51 | 222 points by Karrot_Kream 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
    ×1.44 10 #77 | 135 points by carabiner 19 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions (ambisounds.app)
    ×2.53 28 #60 | 270 points by alpaca121 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. KTX – npx for Kotlin and JVM to install jars or Kotlin scripts (github.com/mpetuska)
    ×0.26 63 #26 | 4 points by TheWiggles 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code (suklje.name)
    ×1.56 1 | 3 points by buhtz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???