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Triaging security issues reported by third parties (gnome.org)

×1.31 8 #23 | 15 points by zdw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2048 with only 64 bits of state (github.com/izabera)

×2.50 8 #3 | 49 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video] (youtube.com)

×1.40 10 #13 | 37 points by asix66 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to negotiate your salary package (complexsystemspodcast.com)

×2.38 5 #7 | 113 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Allocators Are Monkeys with Typewriters (tgmatos.github.io)

×0.94 21 #6 | 45 points by gilgamesh3 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale (glassflow.dev)

×0.47 33 #27 | 19 points by super_ar 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Egg Heist (washingtonpost.com)

×0.66 #62 | 25 points by tintinnabula 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass (mit.edu)

×1.33 19 #9 | 88 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion

×1.32 26 #72 | 64 points by WolfOliver 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polylogarithm Values at a Golden Ratio-Based Argument (zenodo.org)

×0.20 92 #63 | 6 points by tristenharr 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere (nytimes.com)

×0.66 41 #37 | 38 points by pepys 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Remote MCP Support in Claude Code (anthropic.com)

×1.83 2 #40 | 134 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete (thedrive.com)

×1.73 30 #21 | 112 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years (github.com/EbodShojaei)

×1.95 20 #14 | 195 points by rainmans 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
P2piano: A P2P collaboration space for the musically inclined (p2piano.com)

×0.96 42 #54 | 43 points by giulianopz 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023) (engora.com)

×0.93 13 #52 | 91 points by bryanrasmussen 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
P-Hacking in Startups (briefer.cloud)

×1.65 16 #20 | 270 points by thaisstein 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level (2023) (yp.to)

×1.07 47 #53 | 56 points by RA2lover 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Type Inference Zoo (cuichen.cc)

×1.36 24 #30 | 149 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Luna Rail – treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem (luna-rail.com)

×1.51 11 #80 | 103 points by ant6n 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compiler for the B Programming Language (github.com/tsoding)

×1.09 47 #46 | 75 points by ycuser2 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.15 41 #58 | 69 points by noleary 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf] (sbc.org.br)

×0.66 41 #64 | 64 points by tkhattra 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge (scientificamerican.com)

×1.21 29 #29 | 194 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: lambda-nat-proxy – Serverless proxy using Lambda and UDP NAT punching (github.com/dan-v)

×0.43 75 | 17 points by danvittegleo 6 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nyanja new PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16-bit console game in development (itch.io)

×0.66 55 #67 | 53 points by retro_guy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MMOndrian (mmondrian.com)

×0.67 23 | 64 points by neural_thing 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits (tiagoalves.me)

×1.95 20 #28 | 361 points by herbertl 2 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fundamental Problems of Lisp, the Cons Cell (2024) (xahlee.info)

×1.39 43 #74 | 76 points by gudzpoz 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Life as Slime (asimov.press)

×0.50 63 #70 | 51 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago (independent.co.uk)

×1.79 10 #76 | 169 points by rmason 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu (omgubuntu.co.uk)

×1.57 31 #36 | 275 points by jandeboevrie 2 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers (trailofbits.com)

×1.56 47 #38 | 219 points by ingve 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name (meodai.github.io)

×1.10 42 #82 | 92 points by meodai 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso (google.com)

×1.30 41 #77 | 116 points by hortense 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematicians hunting prime numbers discover infinite new pattern (scientificamerican.com)

×1.50 53 #56 | 147 points by georgecmu 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verified dynamic programming with Σ-types in Lean (tannerduve.github.io)

×0.81 63 #79 | 84 points by rck 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Python-first data lakehouse (bauplanlabs.com)

×1.24 44 #88 | 137 points by akshayka 3 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI (github.com/NickTikhonov)

×0.87 59 | 97 points by nicktikhonov 4 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon (github.com/derekg)

×1.38 57 | 102 points by i8code 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe (dtrace.org)

×1.14 41 #90 | 174 points by bcantrill 3 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sexprs – Lisp dialect written in Rust (github.com/gabrielfalcao)

×0.63 121 | 26 points by gfalcao 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What newspaper are you paying for these days?

×0.46 125 | 21 points by mynti 1 week ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tiny Hoare logic verifier using SMT (github.com/namin)

×0.91 143 | 12 points by namin 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS (rm2000.app)

×1.04 101 | 63 points by marcelox86 6 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TrendFi – I built AI trading signals that self-optimize (trend.fi)

×0.98 122 | 35 points by wolfman1 1 week ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an app that lets you save audio to your Cameral Roll (justsendrecord.com)

×1.18 118 | 44 points by zahirbmirza 6 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gifty – A real-world gift hunt you play with your feet (gifty-en.vercel.app)

×0.32 168 | 8 points by mrtranlyvu 1 week ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly (snippetshare.dev)

×0.55 133 | 27 points by petermukha 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-based LLM agent loop with search tool for PDFs (github.com/devflowinc)

×0.53 131 | 35 points by skeptrune 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free local security checks for AI coding in VSCode, Cursor and Windsurf

×0.88 129 | 43 points by jaimefjorge 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014) (redblobgames.com)

×2.22 70 | 285 points by auraham 1 week ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power (phys.org)

×1.73 93 | 230 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Snorting the AGI with Claude Code (kadekillary.work)

×2.40 97 | 327 points by beigebrucewayne 1 week ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format (github.com/rorosen)

×1.21 116 | 214 points by rorosen 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???