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  1. XSLT RIP (xslt.rip)
    ×3.69 | 243 points by edent 3 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Realtime BART Arrival Display (filbot.com)
    ×1.64 1 | 92 points by Jadrago 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Beets: The music geek's media organizer (beets.io)
    ×1.38 4 | 57 points by hyperific 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Installing and using HP-UX 9 (thejpster.org.uk)
    ×1.22 7 | 16 points by TMWNN 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Marble Fountain (willmorrison.net)
    ×3.14 4 | 701 points by chris_overseas 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
    ×1.61 10 | 265 points by david927 13 hours ago | 746 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.77 11 | 103 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law (montananewsroom.com)
    ×2.33 13 | 444 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020) (crockford.com)
    ×1.09 13 | 36 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.75 14 | 216 points by rsanek 16 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.50 16 | 197 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup (yahoo.com)
    ×3.34 10 | 44 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads (itiner-e.org)
    ×1.62 6 | 103 points by helsinkiandrew 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Lee Felsenstein (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.14 26 | 20 points by nickt 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. BGP zombies and excessive path hunting (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.85 29 | 7 points by emot 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.14 13 | 128 points by vrnvu 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra (utexas.edu)
    ×1.22 16 | 228 points by nathan-barry 19 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc (dfir.ch)
    ×1.08 23 | 58 points by malmoeb 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Linux Kernel Looks to "Bite the Bullet" in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions (phoronix.com)
    ×1.77 14 | 33 points by keyle 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A brief history of Time Machine (2024) (eclecticlight.co)
    ×0.68 26 | 21 points by firloop 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Principles of Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 15 | 186 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck (github.com/samcervantes)
    ×1.26 17 | 152 points by MakerSam 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Understanding Financial Functions in Excel (ciju.in)
    ×0.98 20 | 35 points by ciju 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control (theregister.com)
    ×4.34 16 | 19 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Sega Master System (wordpress.com)
    ×1.03 23 | 92 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB (rajivm1991.github.io)
    ×0.92 5 | 63 points by rajivm1991 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sued by Nintendo (suedbynintendo.com)
    ×3.57 14 | 189 points by notepad0x90 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology (vejeta.com)
    ×0.98 30 | 156 points by mwheeler 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Email verification protocol (github.com/WICG)
    ×1.41 24 | 181 points by sgoto 22 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What If Java Had Symmetric Converter Methods on Collection? (medium.com)
    ×0.77 19 | 8 points by xkriva11 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES (hanafuda.report)
    ×1.88 17 | 133 points by brandrick 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team (squidfunk.github.io)
    ×1.19 28 | 147 points by japhyr 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)
    ×0.82 35 | 57 points by djoldman 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug (mensfeld.pl)
    ×1.15 29 | 122 points by phmx 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break (urlahmed.com)
    ×6.65 31 | 401 points by linkregister 9 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022) (maxnagy.com)
    ×0.75 55 | 83 points by cyb0rg0 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. CHIP8 – emulator, assembler, game, vhdl hardware implementations (dominikrudnik.pl)
    ×0.79 35 | 69 points by qikcik 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I Am Mark Zuckerberg (iammarkzuckerberg.com)
    ×7.42 23 | 1193 points by jb1991 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager (newsyeah.fun)
    ×0.75 31 | 118 points by tank-34 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD (netbsd.org)
    ×0.86 41 | 94 points by jaypatelani 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals (howardluksmd.substack.com)
    ×3.03 18 | 137 points by rzk 12 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Computer Church – Pennsylvania Computer and Technology Museum (thecomputerchurch.org)
    ×0.77 29 | 52 points by gregsadetsky 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.03 47 | 158 points by simonw 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant (thenewstack.io)
    ×3.56 16 | 213 points by MilnerRoute 17 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Forth – Is it still relevant? (github.com/chochain)
    ×1.19 56 | 109 points by lioeters 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Math Books (github.com/valeman)
    ×1.57 66 | 31 points by tzury 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. LLM policy? (github.com/opencontainers)
    ×2.52 37 | 157 points by dropbox_miner 8 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to maintain good vision amidst the myopia epidemic (ssathe.substack.com)
    ×2.14 14 | 56 points by plun9 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Airbus took off (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.56 48 | 156 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics (wsj.com)
    ×1.18 28 | 82 points by nradov 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up (github.com/f)
    ×1.47 16 | 54 points by fka 9 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Avería: The Average Font (2011) (iotic.com)
    ×1.51 43 | 228 points by JoshTriplett 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go (github.com/opencloud-eu)
    ×2.10 56 | 192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer (trilogydata.dev)
    ×0.62 52 | 15 points by efromvt 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects (xavierleroy.org)
    ×1.33 47 | 195 points by SchwKatze 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development (github.com/github)
    ×0.92 52 | 74 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Custom doorbell app with Home Assistant and WebRTC (naps62.com)
    ×1.27 37 | 24 points by naps62 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Defeating KASLR by doing nothing at all (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
    ×1.04 49 | 102 points by aa_is_op 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.04 72 | 4 points by gmays 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
    ×1.79 6 | 192 points by evolve2k 23 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel (ironclad-os.org)
    ×1.54 5 | 362 points by vitalnodo 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why we love horror stories (nautil.us)
    ×0.76 1 | 16 points by dnetesn 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A software synthesizer modellled on Yevgeny Murzin's ANS synthesizer (github.com/frankenbeans)
    ×1.63 75 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app)
    ×2.12 2 | 311 points by sadeshmukh 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework (github.com/Ido-Levi)
    ×0.77 56 | 76 points by idolevi 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is (fastcompany.com)
    ×6.17 54 | 639 points by felineflock 19 hours ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Daemon Example in C (lloydrochester.com)
    ×2.22 61 | 11 points by smartmic 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing (marineinsight.com)
    ×2.06 1 | 382 points by defrost 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Return of Language-Oriented Programming (evacchi.dev)
    ×1.19 56 | 28 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. William Gass and John Gardner: A Debate on Fiction (1979) (medium.com)
    ×0.37 53 | 19 points by ofalkaed 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sparktype – a CMS and SSG that runs entirely in the browser (sparktype.org)
    ×0.64 65 | 43 points by mattkevan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.85 44 | 148 points by jtbayly 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Alive internet theory (alivetheory.net)
    ×1.74 16 | 162 points by manbitesdog 22 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
    ×0.93 2 | 64 points by sodokuwizard 17 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated (ox.ac.uk)
    ×1.96 9 | 406 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs (downtowndougbrown.com)
    ×0.68 53 | 77 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon (open.space)
    ×1.86 11 | 271 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window (x.ai)
    ×2.67 7 | 180 points by hereme888 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. EU Plans $371B Build-Out of High-Speed Rail Corridors (enr.com)
    ×2.84 | 40 points by saubeidl 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.15 37 | 92 points by yla92 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem (samsung.com)
    ×2.56 55 | 295 points by janandonly 19 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.32 23 | 90 points by pogue 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. WriterdeckOS (writerdeckos.com)
    ×1.25 22 | 192 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How networking grew to become Nvidia's $46B side hustle (sdxcentral.com)
    ×1.86 1 | 12 points by oavioklein 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are (awealthofcommonsense.com)
    ×2.78 29 | 110 points by raw_anon_1111 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta (mullvad.net)
    ×1.56 39 | 216 points by holysoles 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language (markojs.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 357 points by ulrischa 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023) (nautil.us)
    ×1.26 38 | 82 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why is Zig so cool? (nilostolte.github.io)
    ×2.22 6 | 551 points by vitalnodo 2 days ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???