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  1. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×4.96 #1 | 681 points by tambourine_man 6 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Switch to Claude Without Starting Over (claude.com)
    ×3.44 1 #3 | 31 points by doener 47 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×3.17 1 #2 | 502 points by golfer 11 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. OpenAI – How to delete your account (openai.com)
    ×9.55 86 #90 | 1852 points by carlosrg 21 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.41 20 #25 | 775 points by guilamu 15 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.17 2 #4 | 12 points by vismit2000 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store (apple.com)
    ×7.15 84 | 192 points by byincugnito 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)
    ×9.37 36 #44 | 2561 points by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago | 808 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)
    ×1.61 4 #5 | 248 points by ksec 10 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.57 10 #20 | 332 points by lostmsu 12 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
    ×10.58 80 | 230 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
    ×2.66 15 #27 | 100 points by pabs3 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)
    ×3.33 6 #19 | 289 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)
    ×2.59 8 #6 | 462 points by bewal416 15 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (obsidian.md)
    ×2.03 8 #7 | 466 points by adilmoujahid 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO (vonng.com)
    ×1.78 75 | 217 points by zufallsheld 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension (rockoder.com)
    ×2.80 74 | 465 points by pagade 16 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)
    ×6.93 14 #32 | 1115 points by lavp 1 day ago | 2409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)
    ×1.35 11 #8 | 53 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state (collapseofindustrialcivilization.com)
    ×9.55 71 | 285 points by measurablefunc 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)
    ×6.50 12 #33 | 1358 points by eoskx 1 day ago | 630 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (openai.com)
    ×8.19 69 | 1027 points by tobr 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities (fortune.com)
    ×3.07 29 #52 | 96 points by geox 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10% (sciencedaily.com)
    ×3.39 15 #39 | 61 points by gradus_ad 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” Alerts (robservatory.com)
    ×1.80 15 #10 | 212 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery (inconspicuous.info)
    ×1.13 17 #9 | 75 points by mrngm 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)
    ×5.61 29 #56 | 1134 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com/secwar)
    ×8.08 63 | 1333 points by jacobedawson 1 day ago | 1060 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster (amd.com)
    ×1.69 9 #38 | 56 points by mindcrime 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What AI coding costs you (tomwojcik.com)
    ×3.96 52 #82 | 304 points by tomwojcik 19 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Don't trust AI agents (nanoclaw.dev)
    ×2.21 26 #57 | 317 points by gronky_ 19 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. HN is drowning in AI comments
    ×9.51 59 | 68 points by waygtdai 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading (wired.com)
    ×2.40 12 #45 | 276 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow (windowscentral.com)
    ×10.55 57 | 142 points by AndrewKemendo 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.48 23 #12 | 284 points by adamnemecek 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (github.com/dollspace-gay)
    ×1.04 22 #14 | 179 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)
    ×0.92 26 #11 | 20 points by rmoff 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)
    ×2.95 23 #15 | 355 points by mksglu 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2 (github.com/jonwiggins)
    ×0.66 2 #41 | 54 points by jawiggins 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)
    ×1.09 27 #13 | 230 points by RyanShook 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.34 25 #16 | 232 points by jbdamask 18 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Proton/SimpleLogin disabled my paid account for using my own email
    ×2.68 49 | 4 points by alexlyee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Cracking the Python Monorepo (gafni.dev)
    ×1.21 26 #17 | 9 points by amcvitty 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)
    ×2.51 6 #50 | 489 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How SiriusXM Ignored Pandora's Innovation and Is Killing Itself (pandora-sxm-news.blogspot.com)
    ×1.92 46 | 3 points by Aloha 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Khamenei Dead (twitter.com/BarakRavid)
    ×7.46 45 | 79 points by harscoat 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)
    ×0.53 24 #23 | 52 points by kelseyfrog 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (acm.org)
    ×1.13 24 #24 | 22 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.03 20 #29 | 146 points by cckolon 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Deterministic Programming with LLMs (mcherm.com)
    ×0.69 24 #26 | 43 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.84 30 #21 | 125 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×6.41 39 | 282 points by gammarator 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.30 5 #48 | 788 points by WalterSobchak 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.75 37 | 4 points by txrx0000 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.14 24 #31 | 223 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
    ×1.04 21 #35 | 124 points by simedw 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×1.52 27 #30 | 271 points by dinvlad 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.93 15 #43 | 3 points by neilfrndes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI can slowly shift an organisation's core principles (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.18 32 | 4 points by billybuckwheat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Dies (wsj.com)
    ×3.41 31 | 6 points by LopRabbit 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.59 9 #70 | 618 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (threejs.org)
    ×0.52 44 #18 | 19 points by ryker2000 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.09 2 #61 | 556 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)
    ×0.56 42 #22 | 75 points by Hooke 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
    ×2.58 26 | 465 points by speckx 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
    ×4.01 25 | 466 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
    ×0.80 39 #28 | 69 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)
    ×1.36 35 #34 | 253 points by zdw 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Future of AI (lucijagregov.com)
    ×1.09 34 #36 | 127 points by BerislavLopac 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.95 20 | 4 points by xeonmc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Berkshire Hathaway 2025 Annual Report [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)
    ×1.82 19 | 3 points by JasonHEIN 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)
    ×0.58 36 #37 | 71 points by elvis70 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took his life (theguardian.com)
    ×2.68 17 | 5 points by october8140 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems (npr.org)
    ×3.90 16 | 319 points by pkress2 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Roast My Code – AI that scores and roasts your codebase (open source) (github.com/Rohan5commit)
    ×1.78 15 | 3 points by Rohan51 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government (anthropic-timeline.vercel.app)
    ×2.32 14 | 89 points by vldszn 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)
    ×3.21 5 #83 | 560 points by zhisme 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.66 7 #86 | 440 points by nnx 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Papercut – track ArXiv topics, get notified, skim with AI summaries (github.com/rajatady)
    ×1.63 11 | 3 points by rajatady 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Rust is just a tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×1.31 35 #46 | 154 points by JuniperMesos 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Students are skipping the hardest part of growing up (omanobserver.om)
    ×2.13 9 | 4 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Life Cycle of Money (bohyen.space)
    ×0.72 21 #62 | 74 points by nanacnote 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)
    ×1.09 44 #40 | 231 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: On-device element inspector for React Native (github.com/mabdinasira)
    ×1.53 6 | 3 points by mabdinasira 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (beyondthejoke.co.uk)
    ×2.44 5 | 283 points by nephihaha 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. More Cows, More Wives (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.89 23 #64 | 88 points by oxw 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Atlantic AI Watchdog (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.53 16 #72 | 4 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. AI Safety Farce (seanpedersen.github.io)
    ×1.43 2 | 3 points by sean_pedersen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.29 1 | 288 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???