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  1. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
    ×3.57 #1 | 293 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×5.48 6 #8 | 290 points by throw7 2 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.pk)
    ×4.26 1 #2 | 461 points by darccio 5 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
    ×2.11 1 #3 | 306 points by dares2573 4 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)
    ×1.59 #5 | 57 points by bkd9 1 hour ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article (github.com/adnanakil)
    ×2.41 2 #4 | 26 points by aakil 51 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
    ×2.38 #7 | 56 points by gavide 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think (8ball.space)
    ×1.07 2 #6 | 29 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com/NVIDIAAI)
    ×2.17 16 #25 | 47 points by dsrtslnd23 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
    ×1.26 1 #11 | 97 points by ksec 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
    ×1.72 1 #12 | 159 points by marcomezzavilla 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I'm Becoming AI-Blind (cymerys.com)
    ×2.67 10 #22 | 79 points by rcymerys 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)
    ×12.78 67 #80 | 1555 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 4 #10 | 33 points by pppone 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
    ×1.85 6 #9 | 42 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.54 30 #46 | 310 points by rdmuser 9 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.46 3 #14 | 200 points by spankibalt 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.48 5 #13 | 29 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×5.19 72 | 380 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.42 4 #16 | 13 points by cainxinth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?
    ×1.51 70 | 11 points by delduca 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)
    ×0.80 7 #15 | 44 points by ksec 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. US Navy carrier honouring Black war hero to be renamed after Trump (theguardian.com)
    ×4.56 68 | 7 points by Alien1Being 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)
    ×1.10 5 #19 | 21 points by karma_daemon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
    ×1.16 2 #23 | 130 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The August 17 outage (github.blog)
    ×2.61 2 #24 | 609 points by 0xedb 20 hours ago | 704 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (toxel.com)
    ×1.29 7 #20 | 90 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. NASA abandons orbit-boost attempt to rescue Swift space telescope (newatlas.com)
    ×2.62 30 #58 | 8 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux (zdnet.com)
    ×3.98 62 | 6 points by CrankyBear 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (newyorker.com)
    ×1.08 2 #32 | 47 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Apple paid $17B in taxes to Ireland after court ruling on back levies (ft.com)
    ×1.43 28 #59 | 6 points by geoffbp 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?
    ×0.77 17 #49 | 6 points by dv35z 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.23 22 #55 | 822 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
    ×4.10 23 #57 | 944 points by encyclopedism 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Convite (guidavid.com)
    ×0.66 5 #30 | 12 points by gdss 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.14 18 #18 | 20 points by eatonphil 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.91 16 #53 | 992 points by emctech 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Uber fined $966M in NL for automating driver suspensions (reuters.com)
    ×2.67 23 #62 | 9 points by mattashii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (github.com/emacs-mirror)
    ×2.57 51 | 60 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand (autodidacts.io)
    ×1.94 25 #66 | 10 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)
    ×5.70 49 | 1024 points by pjerem 1 day ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
    ×1.27 40 #83 | 143 points by TheP1000 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?
    ×2.55 47 | 3 points by bah9 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. c100 (caligra.com)
    ×1.63 28 #17 | 3 points by tosh 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.82 13 #33 | 209 points by mtokmak06 15 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)
    ×2.09 16 #63 | 350 points by danielvaughn 20 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.75 8 #56 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)
    ×2.94 42 | 344 points by Akasci 20 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Amid intense backlash, people are vandalizing Flock surveillance cameras (npr.org)
    ×2.53 41 | 4 points by DeepLogin 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. DDR5 scalper bots outnumber shoppers 10 to 1, scraping hits every 6.5 seconds (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.62 40 | 4 points by speckx 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Cosine similarity is dead. Long live cosine similarity (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×2.63 39 | 4 points by j0selit0 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.23 38 | 181 points by u1hcw9nx 15 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair (wsj.com)
    ×2.54 28 #82 | 7 points by Michelangelo11 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
    ×2.31 12 #67 | 533 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support (plabayo.tech)
    ×0.25 29 #27 | 6 points by gdcbe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)
    ×1.00 12 #69 | 74 points by wise_blood 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
    ×2.69 28 #86 | 567 points by simedw 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.54 30 #29 | 98 points by osnium123 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nothing Doing (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.61 34 #26 | 10 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)
    ×1.31 9 #70 | 6 points by olalonde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography (theguardian.com)
    ×0.45 41 #21 | 7 points by prismatic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.61 29 #34 | 318 points by tyre 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (coredump.cx)
    ×1.12 36 #28 | 6 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. U.S. Water Utility Cyberattacks: CISA Warns of Exposed PLCs in 2026 (cyberupdates365.com)
    ×1.72 26 | 3 points by udayhero 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×1.75 7 #73 | 289 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.01 36 #31 | 40 points by olexsmir 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)
    ×2.24 28 #40 | 435 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.89 22 | 61 points by underdeserver 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.76 33 #37 | 238 points by rafaelc 20 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Siemens PC-X (2015) (geekdot.com)
    ×0.45 35 #36 | 13 points by naves 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
    ×3.46 19 | 115 points by sonicrocketman 14 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.96 18 | 196 points by cwal37 19 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)
    ×1.70 22 #52 | 278 points by mariuz 23 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)
    ×1.87 27 #48 | 286 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older (github.com/baturyilmaz)
    ×0.52 33 #43 | 6 points by arbayi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (github.com/vivekhaldar)
    ×0.96 33 #44 | 50 points by gandalfgeek 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)
    ×2.01 13 | 3 points by erikschoster 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: What do you think of the Intel stock now?
    ×1.69 12 | 4 points by roschdal 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. We burned 11.7B tokens to find the best cyber AI model (aikido.dev)
    ×1.09 45 #35 | 8 points by piotrgrabowski 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.31 #81 | 4 points by LYFMail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.56 9 | 951 points by rvz 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)
    ×1.34 8 | 91 points by mooreslaw 14 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Bun 1.4 (bun.com)
    ×3.82 7 | 245 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.08 6 | 812 points by Animux 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mojo is now open source (modular.com)
    ×2.81 4 #90 | 405 points by visheshdembla 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Waterfox 6.7.0 – Supernova (waterfox.com)
    ×1.18 45 #42 | 8 points by kmfrk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Go 1.27 (go.dev)
    ×3.22 3 | 745 points by database64128 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: BoardLab – Browser-based ESP32/Arduino simulator with real SPI displays (boardlab.dev)
    ×0.77 2 | 3 points by yuriaguernsey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (yoshuawuyts.com)
    ×0.39 49 #41 | 6 points by dabinat 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???