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  1. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
    ×2.35 1 | 290 points by flaburgan 5 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
    ×1.65 4 | 13 points by otherayden 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
    ×1.35 9 | 32 points by andrewjanke 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI (theregister.com)
    ×4.07 3 | 220 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
    ×2.66 5 | 604 points by gavide 14 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.10 7 | 523 points by Topfi 16 hours ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.24 7 | 405 points by shdon 15 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.48 5 | 55 points by xoa 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)
    ×4.29 4 | 18 points by DeepLogin 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
    ×7.81 1 | 733 points by DeepLogin 16 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Finger: Social network that never died (andros.dev)
    ×2.21 7 | 55 points by andros 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.68 4 | 119 points by honungsburk 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
    ×1.37 16 | 64 points by newsomix9xl 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.63 11 | 246 points by pizzaiolo 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
    ×3.77 11 | 19 points by porridgeraisin 49 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.07 19 | 53 points by kls0e 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.65 4 | 670 points by ibotty 23 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (videogameschronicle.com)
    ×3.61 9 | 7 points by danbolt 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
    ×1.47 4 | 139 points by cyndunlop 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.77 10 | 492 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.72 12 | 396 points by galnagli 22 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (wordpress.com)
    ×0.78 12 | 45 points by moultano 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 16 | 228 points by linggen 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.83 8 | 146 points by rglover 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.54 20 | 352 points by plurby 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.92 32 | 90 points by whobre 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
    ×2.45 9 | 274 points by neogodless 19 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
    ×0.79 21 | 80 points by hermitcrab 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
    ×1.72 11 | 257 points by Gecko4072 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure (irz.fr)
    ×0.70 26 | 30 points by zbycz 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
    ×1.63 11 | 316 points by ColinWright 23 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
    ×6.46 25 | 978 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 591 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
    ×1.23 28 | 174 points by qingcharles 21 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
    ×3.73 18 | 6 points by Vinnl 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
    ×1.33 22 | 155 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
    ×1.48 12 | 170 points by monkey_monkey 17 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    ×0.65 48 | 110 points by abdik 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
    ×1.23 28 | 141 points by Brajeshwar 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. 25 Years of Haiku: From "Ok, Let's Start" to the Present (desktoponfire.com)
    ×2.18 56 | 21 points by fork-bomber 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (wordpress.com)
    ×0.76 47 | 40 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.22 17 | 606 points by dhruv3006 23 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. scScript for Linux (scapplications.com)
    ×0.60 63 | 37 points by OptionOfT 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf) (rainydaygc.com)
    ×0.73 3 | 16 points by mdstrobe 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.82 48 | 112 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.08 55 | 153 points by vlowrian 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. On AI regulation and messaging (twitter.com/DarioAmodei)
    ×1.44 35 | 245 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas (1993) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.35 3 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.89 11 | 22 points by nyku 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The oldest bar in every state (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.92 47 | 75 points by NaOH 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.28 2 | 777 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Linear algebra done right (axler.net)
    ×1.84 32 | 264 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models (roboflow.com)
    ×0.53 61 | 50 points by Bluestein 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A simple fix for LLM tail latency (myhoai.com)
    ×0.75 48 | 51 points by oskrim 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again (56k.rip)
    ×1.15 66 | 14 points by henrychannel 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.71 56 | 86 points by nanochess 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.18 29 | 356 points by anana_ 19 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.56 3 | 798 points by ropbear 1 day ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform (cursor.com)
    ×1.28 35 | 61 points by KGC3D 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored (theguardian.com)
    ×0.90 5 | 4 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028 (storagereview.com)
    ×1.58 | 24 points by giuliomagnifico 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (google.com)
    ×1.84 54 | 226 points by dt3ft 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.08 12 | 24 points by joozio 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.83 21 | 62 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.82 57 | 129 points by erickhill 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault" (404media.co)
    ×2.72 22 | 55 points by kristjansson 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng (secretspec.dev)
    ×0.64 53 | 44 points by linggen 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    ×2.58 7 | 612 points by Narishma 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
    ×1.02 29 | 116 points by untiledsource 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Intriguing stories in computer science (inventwithpython.com)
    ×0.81 38 | 43 points by gregsadetsky 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (axios.com)
    ×3.25 19 | 87 points by sgustard 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
    ×0.18 64 | 7 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
    ×0.75 45 | 68 points by tarunnnp 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.87 54 | 123 points by spdegabrielle 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. New York utilities now want to build solar and wind farms (gothamist.com)
    ×2.57 5 | 18 points by geox 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.98 61 | 31 points by librasteve 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Near 1,400 live streams from Japan (tomarigi.me)
    ×1.66 52 | 24 points by pajop 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Puppy PPE (amosdudley.com)
    ×0.88 38 | 27 points by ChadNauseam 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.58 44 | 52 points by artiomyak 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tangled: The next-generation social coding platform (tangled.org)
    ×1.38 54 | 24 points by icy 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×3.00 8 | 746 points by tosh 2 days ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity (euronews.com)
    ×2.37 12 | 18 points by 2bacon2 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (bundeskartellamt.de)
    ×1.75 28 | 252 points by nyku 23 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit (calmatters.org)
    ×3.16 62 | 6 points by cdrnsf 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup (fast.ai)
    ×1.85 6 | 51 points by eamag 15 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.46 32 | 69 points by enjoyyourlife 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187 (libsyn.com)
    ×0.42 57 | 6 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.85 20 | 632 points by stagas 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.13 37 | 172 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×0.97 53 | 99 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???