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We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust (antithesis.com)

×0.73 38 #14 | 5 points by lukastyrychtr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nature of the Beast (cinemasojourns.com)

×0.26 52 #17 | 5 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?

×0.15 34 #83 | 3 points by jerlendds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (mozilla.ai)

×0.59 20 #27 | 13 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?

×0.75 4 #89 | 5 points by falsework 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?

×0.74 4 #90 | 5 points by emerongi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer (loc.gov)

×0.44 29 #28 | 12 points by bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth (soranews24.com)

×1.39 6 #16 | 57 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?

×1.18 48 | 26 points by gusmally 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600 (qotile.net)

×0.59 30 #29 | 20 points by harel 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)

×0.66 5 #25 | 52 points by intervolz 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How a cat debugged Stable Diffusion (2023) (dwac.dev)

×0.77 17 #21 | 44 points by lukasgelbmann 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood (sampatt.com)

×1.68 11 #12 | 113 points by SamPatt 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk (frn.sh)

×0.68 20 #80 | 19 points by dlt 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Partial 8-Piece Tablebase (lichess.org)

×0.74 29 #31 | 55 points by qsort 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Science of the Perfect Second (2023) (harpers.org)

×0.54 37 #62 | 29 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1D Cellular Automata Playground (paraschopra.github.io)

×0.32 41 #72 | 24 points by paraschopra 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast Properties in V8 (2017) (v8.dev)

×0.36 49 #66 | 27 points by aragonite 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)

×0.32 51 | 15 points by hactually 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 (maplant.com)

×1.24 17 #45 | 131 points by maplant 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass (geo-racers.com)

×0.94 41 #35 | 112 points by pattle 19 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HeyWhatsThat (heywhatsthat.com)

×1.22 29 #60 | 144 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative (hologram.page)

×0.85 48 #63 | 104 points by bartblast 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using an engineering notebook (ntietz.com)

×1.83 2 #65 | 323 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines (altermag.com)

×1.65 17 #71 | 212 points by trojanalert 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated (terracenetworks.com)

×1.19 39 #64 | 158 points by ericpauley 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents (github.com/JaredStewart)

×0.81 43 | 77 points by jared_stewart 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work (vangemert.dev)

×2.17 13 #77 | 427 points by spmvg 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums (agentalcove.ai)

×0.71 50 | 62 points by nickvec 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime (github.com/adenhq)

×1.39 37 | 102 points by vincentjiang 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API (hallucinatingsplines.com)

×1.19 29 | 207 points by aed 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeMic (codemic.io)

×0.58 76 | 52 points by seansh 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Model Training Memory Simulator (czheo.github.io)

×0.37 124 | 10 points by czheo 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure (artisanforge.online)

×0.63 99 | 38 points by grazulex 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor (github.com/eigenpal)

×1.07 68 | 125 points by thisisjedr 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Goxe 19k Logs/S on an I5 (github.com/DumbNoxx)

×0.22 130 | 9 points by nxus_dev 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews (netviews.app)

×1.38 54 | 239 points by n1sni 3 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework (elysiajs.com)

×0.64 102 | 52 points by saltyaom 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)

×1.11 93 | 165 points by bobbiechen 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

×1.24 73 | 327 points by david927 4 days ago | 1120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???