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  1. Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale (medium.com)
    ×2.17 | 190 points by derwiki 3 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Office on HP-UX and Unix (openpa.net)
    ×1.15 8 | 34 points by naves 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Toothpaste made from hair provides natural root to repair teeth (kcl.ac.uk)
    ×2.30 8 | 251 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) (raft.github.io)
    ×1.51 10 | 33 points by nromiun 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tversky Neural Networks (gonzoml.substack.com)
    ×0.93 14 | 42 points by che_shr_cat 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Good system design (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.61 | 643 points by dondraper36 13 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Pfeilstorch (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.74 10 | 138 points by gyomu 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech (github.com/superstarryeyes)
    ×0.89 10 | 31 points by superstarryeyes 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way (pudding.cool)
    ×2.45 6 | 132 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. One person was able to claim 20M IPs, or 9% of all IPv4 hosts (nanog.org)
    ×2.73 8 | 97 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning (dyna.org)
    ×1.23 24 | 5 points by matteodelabre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. PuTTY has a new website (putty.software)
    ×2.31 12 | 431 points by GalaxySnail 17 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. James Baldwin's Apotheosis (hudsonreview.com)
    ×1.29 17 | 13 points by apollinaire 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping (science.org)
    ×1.05 23 | 27 points by warrenm 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
    ×1.11 23 | 72 points by ajdude 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider (voidfox.com)
    ×2.17 13 | 201 points by progval 5 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Traps to Developers (qouteall.fun)
    ×1.50 8 | 144 points by qouteall 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×2.92 11 | 56 points by wseqyrku 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The future of large files in Git is Git (tylercipriani.com)
    ×2.50 17 | 507 points by thcipriani 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.75 16 | 129 points by mariuz 4 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI is different (antirez.com)
    ×3.07 7 | 460 points by grep_it 20 hours ago | 742 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.02 14 | 32 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA (ashbyhq.com)
    8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer (drobinin.com)
    ×3.63 7 | 575 points by valzevul 23 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account (edka.io)
    ×1.78 20 | 408 points by camil 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (openculture.com)
    ×2.25 18 | 473 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2 (nikodunk.com)
    ×0.92 38 | 71 points by nikodunk 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How randomness improves algorithms (2023) (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.73 34 | 45 points by kehiy 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The electric fence stopped working years ago (soonly.com)
    ×2.27 28 | 320 points by stroz 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes (bmj.com)
    ×2.34 30 | 330 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself (tedunangst.com)
    ×1.45 35 | 215 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector (fiatjaf.com)
    ×1.41 18 | 32 points by evanjrowley 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.92 7 | 91 points by gjvc 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Do Things That Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.82 22 | 351 points by bschne 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.92 2 | 11 points by andrebalza1 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation (latentintent.substack.com)
    ×0.94 48 | 97 points by drivian 23 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software
    ×0.65 59 | 104 points by bobwei1 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material (energy-reporters.com)
    ×1.77 4 | 28 points by jbotz 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.12 32 | 100 points by noleary 19 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection (danglingpointers.substack.com)
    ×1.14 14 | 19 points by blakepelton 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (osec.io)
    ×1.17 48 | 162 points by luu 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers (bloomberg.com)
    ×5.08 33 | 33 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Bullfrog in the Dungeon (filfre.net)
    ×1.24 40 | 150 points by doppp 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs (arm.com)
    ×1.25 47 | 172 points by dagmx 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer (enda.sh)
    ×1.06 42 | 114 points by dduplex 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect (github.com/dani-garcia)
    ×1.15 42 | 179 points by speckx 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is air travel getting worse? (maximum-progress.com)
    ×1.94 43 | 170 points by mhb 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. TextKit 2 – The Promised Land (krzyzanowskim.com)
    ×0.91 33 | 101 points by nickmain 23 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease (nytimes.com)
    ×1.17 8 | 37 points by jgwil2 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A privacy VPN you can verify (vp.net)
    ×1.78 18 | 141 points by MagicalTux 22 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations (npr.org)
    ×1.66 8 | 6 points by woodson 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Is a corporation a slave? Many philosophers think so (theconversation.com)
    ×2.43 6 | 14 points by hhs 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection (nature.com)
    ×0.69 58 | 57 points by gnabgib 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot (3mdeb.com)
    ×1.03 40 | 84 points by pietrushnic 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux (stosberg.com)
    ×1.58 64 | 147 points by uncircle 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. FBI's undercover $250 Bitcoin payment helps take down alleged corporate hacker (theblock.co)
    ×1.37 14 | 8 points by OutOfHere 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions (quaternion.cafe)
    ×0.90 60 | 79 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and exercise capacity in healthy volunteers (oup.com)
    ×1.53 57 | 96 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem (foletta.net)
    ×0.85 51 | 157 points by gjf 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems (userjot.com)
    ×2.36 9 | 163 points by vinhnx 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity (nature.com)
    ×0.70 83 | 5 points by Anon84 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations (anthropic.com)
    ×2.50 7 | 248 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun (wisewolfmedia.substack.com)
    ×2.25 30 | 161 points by douchecoded 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. PyG 2.0: Scalable Learning on Real World Graphs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.73 14 | 4 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Linux 6.16.1 Fixes a Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression – Up to 30% (phoronix.com)
    ×2.30 33 | 10 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. HN Algolia scraper appears to have been down for the past fifteen hours (algolia.com)
    ×2.21 2 | 15 points by ItsHarper 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence (reason.com)
    ×4.04 54 | 35 points by jMyles 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tiny flyers levitate on the Sun's heat alone (nature.com)
    ×0.85 39 | 22 points by gnabgib 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Code-snippets for developing eBPF Programs (github.com/h0x0er)
    ×0.45 79 | 3 points by forxtrot 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. ChatGPT Monday (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.93 58 | 44 points by brightbeige 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked (overbring.com)
    ×0.71 47 | 69 points by overbring_labs 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI (googleblog.com)
    ×3.14 | 794 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets (scmp.com)
    ×3.27 12 | 194 points by belter 23 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why LLMs can't really build software (zed.dev)
    ×4.66 1 | 815 points by srid 2 days ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub (itsfoss.com)
    ×1.42 2 | 10 points by 6581 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.59 50 | 205 points by ingve 2 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Braille Vision: A Portable Text-to-Braille Device (instructables.com)
    ×1.17 65 | 10 points by zdw 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Timmy Trap (jenson.org)
    ×1.64 4 | 174 points by metadat 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Secret Messengers: Disseminating Sigint in the Second World War [pdf] (defense.gov)
    ×0.63 54 | 20 points by sohkamyung 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Imagen 4 is now generally available (googleblog.com)
    ×2.48 11 | 209 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The new science of “emergent misalignment” (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 50 | 116 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Recto – A Truly 2D Language (masatohagiwara.net)
    ×0.94 26 | 136 points by mhagiwara 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups (wsj.com)
    ×4.13 31 | 9 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges (anoxinon.de)
    ×2.51 5 | 157 points by moelf 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Blurry rendering of games on Mac (colincornaby.me)
    ×2.01 5 | 446 points by bangonkeyboard 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 500 days of math (gmays.com)
    ×1.55 52 | 202 points by gmays 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
    ×0.45 70 | 71 points by mahmoud-almadi 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenAI Progress (openai.com)
    ×3.35 72 | 75 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The peculiar case of Japanese web design (sabrinas.space)
    ×2.04 15 | 8 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks (zenobiapay.com)
    ×1.58 44 | 253 points by pranay01 2 days ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???