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  1. Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)
    ×3.34 19 #20 | 305 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf] (github.com/demo-zexuan)
    ×2.15 5 #7 | 88 points by oliculipolicula 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (ieee.org)
    ×1.37 2 #5 | 130 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
    ×1.81 4 #8 | 173 points by mellosouls 5 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras (cltampa.com)
    ×3.70 86 | 131 points by UmYeahNo 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)
    ×2.90 6 #12 | 146 points by subarctic 5 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)
    ×2.94 6 #1 | 591 points by Gecko4072 12 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz (abcnews.com)
    ×2.88 15 #23 | 21 points by russfink 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (theguardian.com)
    ×4.14 25 #34 | 202 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality (stanford.edu)
    ×2.53 36 #46 | 57 points by pod_krad 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes (science.org)
    ×1.22 8 #3 | 49 points by EA-3167 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
    ×3.82 14 #26 | 882 points by shscs911 19 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (knaup.me)
    ×2.39 3 #16 | 314 points by tknaup 11 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more (osnews.com)
    ×1.78 27 #41 | 23 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Systems and Delays (janiczek.cz)
    ×1.03 13 #2 | 19 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.79 12 #4 | 42 points by alphabetatango 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser (kimi.site)
    ×1.90 74 | 55 points by boveyking 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers (adafruit.com)
    ×2.77 32 #50 | 146 points by sambellll 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota (ammoniaenergy.org)
    ×0.99 9 #10 | 97 points by gritzko 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. SIMD for Collision (box2d.org)
    ×1.16 14 #6 | 64 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
    ×1.78 3 #18 | 137 points by jsax 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)
    ×1.38 9 #13 | 137 points by stunningllama 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals (debian.org)
    ×2.19 9 #14 | 82 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)
    ×2.44 8 #32 | 174 points by rmdmphilosopher 10 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Claude Opus 5 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.49 49 #74 | 1740 points by alvis 1 day ago | 1264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Git rebase -I is not that scary (cachebag.sh)
    ×2.54 7 #19 | 13 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
    ×2.19 16 #11 | 13 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (github.com/slvDev)
    ×2.69 19 #9 | 85 points by boveyking 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Star Axis (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.22 39 #68 | 17 points by Thevet 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Bitchat is now on Radicle (radicle.network)
    ×1.78 5 #25 | 214 points by h1watt 13 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Who does Anubis actually stop? (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.97 35 #66 | 43 points by type0 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window (github.com/alokdhir)
    ×1.17 5 #27 | 22 points by dbm5 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering (ycombinator.com)
    14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)
    ×3.76 57 | 69 points by neverenderr 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network (apalrd.net)
    ×0.76 13 #22 | 41 points by mrngm 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (mongabay.com)
    ×3.04 15 #21 | 301 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN (korben.info)
    ×1.72 22 #15 | 111 points by rfarley04 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)
    ×3.65 18 #56 | 565 points by agnishom 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed (karimjedda.com)
    ×2.18 16 #55 | 117 points by kiyanwang 11 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
    ×1.55 12 #28 | 217 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Memory Safety Absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×1.68 24 #17 | 61 points by drogus 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apple seeks U.S. approval to buy memory chips from blacklisted CXMT (fortune.com)
    ×3.10 25 #67 | 33 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live (github.com/sktkkoo)
    ×0.93 4 #39 | 38 points by hakumei 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer (energiesmedia.com)
    ×1.27 47 | 83 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
    ×0.83 21 #24 | 33 points by _boffin_ 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era (uchicago.edu)
    ×1.47 17 #29 | 7 points by jjwiseman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld (itch.io)
    ×1.87 16 #63 | 244 points by g0xA52A2A 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Politician reads AI prompt during assembly (youtube.com)
    ×4.05 43 | 66 points by root-parent 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs (pytorch.org)
    ×0.78 18 #31 | 70 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory (supakeen.com)
    ×1.19 15 #35 | 135 points by 6581 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (cnbc.com)
    ×3.69 40 | 646 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (wsj.com)
    ×3.84 39 | 315 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab (maxmynter.com)
    ×1.18 23 #30 | 19 points by felixdoerp 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D (shukla.io)
    ×0.97 18 #36 | 107 points by BinRoo 14 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes Was Murdered in Ecuador (dropsitenews.com)
    ×3.88 36 | 74 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits (coindesk.com)
    ×1.82 35 | 59 points by paulpauper 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. NYC Apartment Aquaponics (erinmurphy.dev)
    ×1.53 19 #38 | 189 points by mm1119 19 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad (augmental.tech)
    ×1.91 15 #43 | 167 points by ZaninAndrea 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)
    ×5.44 19 #78 | 842 points by pchm 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×2.90 31 | 6 points by dkobia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.37 30 | 7 points by matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (theguardian.com)
    ×4.27 29 | 523 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
    ×1.33 14 #77 | 168 points by rzk 20 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.90 15 #79 | 674 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself (github.com/AncientJames)
    ×1.26 5 #70 | 65 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
    ×2.56 20 #86 | 635 points by hhh 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)
    ×4.24 24 | 760 points by peykar 1 day ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.36 20 #88 | 11 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Kenmore Air crash: How civilians 'saved the day' (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.17 12 #81 | 9 points by ynac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (thehindu.com)
    ×4.10 21 | 515 points by rootkea 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
    ×1.55 20 | 37 points by missmoss 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Silurian Hypothesis (2020) (theparisreview.org)
    ×1.05 27 #45 | 62 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.41 11 #84 | 365 points by aarondong 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AMD publishes machine-readable ISA so frontier models can write its GPU kernels (theregister.com)
    ×2.17 13 #87 | 13 points by logickkk1 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Phaistos Disc (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.09 16 | 4 points by hypertexthero 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Everything Is a File (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.14 15 | 4 points by iacguy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (dbos.dev)
    ×1.76 14 | 360 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Nepo – the largest database of nepotism and nepo babies (nepodb.com)
    ×1.84 41 #37 | 5 points by poppypetalmask 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (wsj.com)
    ×5.09 12 | 59 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand (singularityforge.space)
    ×0.66 27 #53 | 10 points by Voice_of_Void 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter (github.com/asong56)
    ×1.78 41 #40 | 9 points by sideras56 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico (nytimes.com)
    ×0.99 38 #44 | 98 points by ChrisArchitect 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. George Hotz talk at AMD Advancing AI 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.90 8 | 4 points by chrsw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime (bytecodealliance.org)
    ×1.05 35 #49 | 151 points by phickey 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Quantum internet leaves the lab (northwestern.edu)
    ×2.63 6 | 6 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The South Carolina town in turmoil over a $545,000 email phishing scam (msn.com)
    ×1.68 5 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Harddrive Is Probably Full (marginalia.nu)
    ×1.91 35 #52 | 49 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Task-centered iproute2 user guide (baturin.org)
    ×0.92 40 #48 | 40 points by greengreengrass 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Flux 3 (bfl.ai)
    ×2.66 2 | 568 points by ThouYS 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Extinct Media Museum Tokyo (blog.jp)
    ×1.21 39 #51 | 115 points by sohkamyung 20 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???