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  1. Shopify moves back to Native from React Native (shopify.engineering)
    ×2.99 5 #6 | 522 points by fnthawar2 4 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I have a theory that software drives people insane (graybeard.ing)
    ×2.68 #2 | 174 points by rglover 2 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft (rustfoundation.org)
    ×2.62 2 #1 | 431 points by mmastrac 5 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×4.55 51 #55 | 400 points by jacquesm 5 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×3.41 1 #4 | 289 points by pred_ 6 hours ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)
    ×1.89 3 #3 | 183 points by seelos 3 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Neki (planetscale.com)
    ×2.22 1 #8 | 127 points by simon_weber 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.02 3 #5 | 120 points by gumby 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou (bsky.app)
    ×4.62 82 | 252 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×2.74 10 #20 | 275 points by haunter 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale (neki.dev)
    ×1.60 5 #16 | 86 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)
    ×4.75 2 #14 | 840 points by Liwink 12 hours ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex (brown.edu)
    ×1.94 2 #11 | 74 points by paimapi 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org)
    ×1.79 7 #7 | 69 points by weierstass 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)
    ×3.16 76 | 355 points by honestlyranked 8 hours ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.85 7 #9 | 71 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (pugetsound.edu)
    ×1.51 7 #10 | 30 points by aanet 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (pv-magazine.com)
    ×1.43 5 #13 | 237 points by thelastgallon 7 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Can Grindr stay up during RNC conventions? (irishstar.com)
    ×4.55 72 | 15 points by hyperhello 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. >10x More Efficient Pretraining (magic.dev)
    ×1.43 8 #12 | 91 points by ronfriedhaber 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.90 36 #57 | 56 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.76 3 #19 | 292 points by soheilpro 10 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT (marketingdive.com)
    ×1.33 62 #85 | 84 points by thm 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)
    ×1.08 7 #17 | 20 points by Skinney 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B (bendingspoons.com)
    ×2.49 56 #81 | 85 points by andygcook 5 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Macbeth and His Problems (porticoquarterly.com)
    ×0.65 5 #21 | 63 points by apophatic 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×5.11 4 #23 | 1371 points by thecosmicfrog 1 day ago | 2379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history (thecollector.com)
    ×0.70 3 #25 | 33 points by mdp2021 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening (techradar.com)
    ×2.46 57 #86 | 147 points by geox 8 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenAI pausing new $200 plan subscriptions (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×5.10 61 | 8 points by tosh 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×2.96 11 #42 | 554 points by dmitrybrant 17 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (tokenstead.ai)
    ×0.78 17 #15 | 20 points by cdnsteve 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (lemire.me)
    ×1.26 11 #22 | 56 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Stockfish 19 (stockfishchess.org)
    ×1.77 10 #24 | 229 points by atiedebee 11 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Democratizing AGI (cowboy.inc)
    ×4.44 56 | 7 points by chadd 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple is no longer thinking different
    ×1.53 55 | 29 points by othmanosx 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care (globalnews.ca)
    ×2.04 19 #56 | 12 points by colinprince 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. USPS Failed to Properly Handle Some Primary Election Ballots, Audit Finds (propublica.org)
    ×3.26 50 #88 | 35 points by hn_acker 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Don't Get in a Crash in a Cybercab (schwarztech.net)
    ×3.09 39 #78 | 8 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.63 10 #30 | 16 points by ayles 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI might have stolen another major proof (twitter.com/ValerioCapraro)
    ×8.68 50 | 286 points by tamnd 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What Happened at the White House That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump (politico.com)
    ×4.96 49 | 8 points by mmayberry 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Study: A burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep (mit.edu)
    ×1.86 #43 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Two small Chrome extensions for Hebrew text and dates (chaimsapps.com)
    ×0.86 26 #18 | 5 points by chaimtweiss 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Shopify acquires Tailwind (tailwindcss.com)
    ×4.08 6 #51 | 1114 points by EdwinHoksberg 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative (learningto.co)
    ×0.97 45 | 36 points by cdnsteve 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync) (greaber.github.io)
    ×0.89 20 #27 | 27 points by greaber 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree (devz.cl)
    ×0.79 22 #26 | 63 points by DanielVZ 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.00 2 #47 | 420 points by LeoPanthera 19 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.84 32 #82 | 248 points by yurivish 15 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in (twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en)
    ×2.32 40 | 81 points by HatchedLake721 8 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Explore the ocean by answering trivia – Endless Krillion (playdaily.org)
    ×0.81 38 | 3 points by emmanator3000 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PISA Founder: AI Is Hollowing Out Youth Skills [video] (euronews.com)
    ×2.81 37 | 3 points by devonnull 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue (opusfived.dev)
    ×6.50 36 | 1154 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I think I hate the internet (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.29 35 | 160 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI 2027 (2025) (ai-2027.com)
    ×2.05 28 #29 | 27 points by gafferongames 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I'm a Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux (thelibre.news)
    ×2.73 33 | 3 points by eustoria 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Cybersecurity experts raise alarm after back-to-back data breaches (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.73 32 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian (infoq.com)
    ×1.43 3 #63 | 4 points by hilux 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
    ×2.85 3 #58 | 642 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We Are Still Living in the Broken World Sept. 11 Created (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.01 7 #69 | 21 points by wslh 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Book-to-screen adaptations to watch at TIFF 2026 (cbc.ca)
    ×2.40 28 | 3 points by BiraIgnacio 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Michael Levin: Ingressing Minds (mdpi.com)
    ×1.55 #64 | 4 points by md224 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Purism – Liberty Phone (puri.sm)
    ×2.50 26 | 3 points by eustoria 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Iron Heel by Jack London (gutenberg.org)
    ×2.56 25 | 3 points by floweronthehill 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Dioxus Labs (YC S23) Is Joining Cognition (dioxuslabs.com)
    ×3.22 24 | 5 points by ninjha 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.05 37 #31 | 22 points by pavel_lishin 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?
    ×1.59 22 | 4 points by hackersnooze1 46 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AirPods 5 (apple.com)
    ×2.34 19 #89 | 499 points by awad 1 day ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Global Data Center Boom Is a Gift to Spies (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×2.51 20 | 4 points by hn_acker 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.40 44 #28 | 13 points by snyy 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it (mrdee.in)
    ×0.94 39 #34 | 79 points by cyb0rg0 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Meta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI (leaddev.com)
    ×1.11 3 #71 | 11 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.53 42 #33 | 21 points by ikswolzok 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street with New ChatGPT for Financial Services (cnbc.com)
    ×2.24 6 #70 | 6 points by cramer4next 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (ieee.org)
    ×2.29 9 #68 | 431 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 787 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Larger Pacific striped octopus (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.95 42 #36 | 120 points by olalonde 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI researcher who warned of 'disaster' is now a target of the right (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.98 12 | 3 points by reaperducer 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (apple.com)
    ×2.28 11 | 399 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.35 2 #79 | 495 points by ModelForge 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.38 50 #32 | 17 points by beardyw 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. No Man's Sky Cosmos (nomanssky.com)
    ×2.16 6 #77 | 435 points by Limb 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (latimes.com)
    ×3.51 7 | 230 points by dbg31415 20 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit (newyorker.com)
    ×3.95 6 | 565 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. iPhone Duo (apple.com)
    ×4.61 5 | 322 points by an0malous 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Kagi Translate Is Back (kagi.com)
    ×1.97 37 #50 | 19 points by twapi 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A remote island, these GPS hackers are preparing for an invisible war (bbc.com)
    ×1.88 3 | 3 points by PotatoNinja 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent (engadget.com)
    ×5.89 2 | 183 points by _djo_ 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Oslo bans smart glasses in schools (thelocal.no)
    ×1.13 18 #72 | 4 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???