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  1. Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)
    ×3.09 #1 | 59 points by unchar1 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)
    ×3.48 2 #4 | 51 points by dev_tty01 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×3.69 14 #17 | 226 points by weaksauce 6 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.92 2 #2 | 165 points by linolevan 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×3.63 2 #3 | 742 points by chwtutha 14 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.19 27 #33 | 30 points by spendy_clao 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×2.00 13 #20 | 166 points by vinnyglennon 8 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Job Hunters Are So Desperate That They're Paying to Get Recruited (wsj.com)
    ×2.86 19 #27 | 8 points by KnuthIsGod 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks (bbc.com)
    ×4.15 82 | 53 points by yladiz 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    ×1.69 1 #9 | 65 points by muggermuch 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
    ×1.95 13 #24 | 162 points by HelloUsername 9 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it (siddhantkhare.com)
    ×5.39 79 | 410 points by sidk24 15 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.58 2 #11 | 139 points by kristianp 9 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.21 18 #32 | 287 points by adunk 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (voidtools.com)
    ×2.45 48 #63 | 120 points by idw 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)
    ×2.66 20 #36 | 259 points by brandonb 13 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I am happier writing code by hand (abhinavomprakash.com)
    ×4.54 74 | 362 points by lazyfolder 15 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.39 4 #14 | 115 points by david927 8 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)
    ×1.37 12 #8 | 123 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Stop Generating, Start Thinking (localghost.dev)
    ×3.00 8 #13 | 92 points by frizlab 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way (theconversation.com)
    ×2.96 12 #34 | 11 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×1.23 16 #7 | 54 points by bobbiechen 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.86 19 #5 | 77 points by mattst88 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.93 27 #52 | 197 points by napolux 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
    ×0.92 20 #6 | 26 points by jimbauwens 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
    ×1.03 17 #10 | 55 points by gtsnexp 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
    ×2.13 11 #39 | 165 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.54 14 #15 | 177 points by ariaalam 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×2.63 61 | 181 points by dboon 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cooking with glasses (macwright.com)
    ×1.19 19 #12 | 15 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
    ×3.88 18 #50 | 346 points by Ezhik 19 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more (mayoclinic.org)
    ×3.64 15 #48 | 8 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.21 15 #49 | 149 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×0.96 19 #16 | 122 points by nullcathedral 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
    ×1.68 8 #28 | 233 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster (insideevs.com)
    ×2.36 10 #47 | 143 points by andrewjneumann 12 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
    ×2.63 15 #53 | 380 points by awaaz 22 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.98 2 #41 | 247 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.88 15 #25 | 71 points by nwparker 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Dave Farber has died (nanog.org)
    ×1.75 15 #26 | 234 points by vitplister 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes (phys.org)
    ×2.60 18 #60 | 62 points by bookmtn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Microsoft Outlook thinks Microsoft Azure emails are spam (twitter.com/OrganicGPT)
    ×2.12 13 #56 | 25 points by behnamoh 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)
    ×1.17 21 #23 | 161 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.77 27 #18 | 91 points by pocksuppet 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×2.10 45 | 3 points by azhenley 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.92 16 #31 | 138 points by ipnon 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)
    ×1.70 27 #75 | 194 points by zhyan7109 19 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Microsoft Loses $400B After AI Spending Backfires [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.18 42 | 3 points by cable2600 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.59 12 #38 | 701 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 790 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage (expressnews.com)
    ×2.85 40 | 51 points by robotnikman 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
    ×2.50 22 #30 | 271 points by novoreorx 23 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×1.10 24 #29 | 113 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA (theguardian.com)
    ×17.99 37 | 255 points by treetalker 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked
    ×5.06 36 | 8 points by mikeaskew4 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. CIA Erased the World Factbook with No Warning (techdirt.com)
    ×2.35 5 #51 | 5 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×1.91 35 #22 | 65 points by aaronng91 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com/suitenumerique)
    ×5.05 33 | 793 points by nar001 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.34 24 #35 | 173 points by bryanrasmussen 19 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SOUL.md (soul.md)
    ×1.83 31 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ai.com – Hug of Death (ai.com)
    ×4.63 30 | 7 points by frenchman_in_ny 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop (alfioemanuele.io)
    ×2.10 5 #57 | 71 points by alfie42 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Five disciplines discovered the same math independently (freethemath.org)
    ×2.05 28 | 83 points by energyscholar 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Stop Using Face ID (pcmag.com)
    ×2.61 12 #76 | 61 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Paris cybercrime unit searches X office; Musk summoned (reuters.com)
    ×2.53 26 | 4 points by dev_tty01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)
    ×1.68 7 #73 | 318 points by yi_wang 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple Container 0.9.0 (github.com/apple)
    ×2.46 5 #62 | 36 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
    ×0.47 47 #21 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Corporations Don't Have to Maximize Profits (2015) (nytimes.com)
    ×2.26 2 #71 | 32 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy (aaronmate.net)
    ×7.83 21 | 68 points by Red_Tarsius 14 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
    ×1.61 29 #42 | 250 points by RebelPotato 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We All Have Steam Libraries. What Happens When They're Gone?
    ×2.50 19 | 4 points by Skullfurious 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)
    ×1.06 30 #43 | 135 points by jingkai_he 21 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)
    ×3.73 10 #64 | 966 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.25 5 #70 | 2334 points by HellsMaddy 3 days ago | 1016 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) (xorvoid.com)
    ×1.86 4 #72 | 376 points by valyala 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs (cinegraphs.ai)
    ×1.56 14 | 88 points by graphpilled 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor (github.com/smyrgeorge)
    ×0.55 41 #37 | 21 points by smyrgeorge 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)
    ×4.28 12 #67 | 1142 points by xnx 2 days ago | 647 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What Is Genspark?
    ×0.99 11 | 4 points by powera 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges (thecradle.co)
    ×8.29 10 | 60 points by mindracer 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project (reuters.com)
    ×1.90 9 | 3 points by dev_tty01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Self-referential functions and the design of options (2014) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
    ×0.60 43 #40 | 11 points by hambes 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession (forbes.com)
    ×7.44 7 | 335 points by alephnerd 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (rabbitear.org)
    ×1.42 31 #54 | 119 points by molszanski 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. LineageOS 23.2 (lineageos.org)
    ×2.49 5 | 133 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects (phoronix.com)
    ×1.82 1 #88 | 23 points by pjmlp 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors (nytimes.com)
    ×1.92 3 | 3 points by duxup 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (alaindichiappari.dev)
    ×3.20 2 | 361 points by alainrk 1 day ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.30 1 | 390 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???