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  1. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    84 points • by GalaxySnail • today at 4:33 AM • 42 comments
  2. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (www.bicameral-ai.com)
    76 points • by jinhkuan • today at 4:25 AM • 26 comments
  3. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (alignment.anthropic.com)
    170 points • by salkahfi • today at 12:28 AM • 45 comments
  4. The Codex App (openai.com)
    635 points • by meetpateltech • yesterday at 6:02 PM • 444 comments
  5. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (forums.ankiweb.net)
    343 points • by trms • yesterday at 8:48 PM • 87 comments
  6. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (www.githubstatus.com)
    199 points • by bhouston • yesterday at 9:28 PM • 63 comments
  7. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (www.millert.dev)
    391 points • by wodniok • yesterday at 5:25 PM • 203 comments
  8. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    49 points • by Imustaskforhelp • last Friday at 7:54 PM • 59 comments
  9. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era? (self)
    31 points • by 44Bulldog • today at 3:39 AM • 31 comments
  10. xAI joins SpaceX (www.spacex.com)
    652 points • by g-mork • yesterday at 9:51 PM • 1424 comments
  11. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
    68 points • by tosh • last Friday at 9:10 AM • 15 comments
  12. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (128.237.157.9)
    70 points • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 • last Thursday at 5:59 AM • 13 comments
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) (self)
    262 points • by whoishiring • yesterday at 4:01 PM • 323 comments
  14. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (www.frommers.com)
    369 points • by donohoe • yesterday at 10:48 PM • 409 comments
  15. The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem (bpe.xyz)
    25 points • by shoes_for_thee • last Thursday at 1:14 PM • 2 comments
  16. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk? (self)
    21 points • by LinguaBrowse • today at 3:37 AM • 18 comments
  17. Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
    7 points • by tobr • last Saturday at 2:36 PM • 0 comments
  18. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    112 points • by gyrovague-com • last Sunday at 5:11 AM • 41 comments
  19. Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (www.science.org)
    7 points • by noleary • today at 4:12 AM • 1 comment
  20. Hacking Moltbook (www.wiz.io)
    303 points • by galnagli • yesterday at 4:08 PM • 169 comments
  21. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    333 points • by ck2 • yesterday at 10:45 PM • 193 comments
  22. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (lists.linuxfromscratch.org)
    144 points • by cf100clunk • yesterday at 5:45 PM • 185 comments
  23. 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (thenewstack.io)
    33 points • by MilnerRoute • last Sunday at 5:21 PM • 24 comments
  24. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    290 points • by indigodaddy • last Friday at 3:17 AM • 138 comments
  25. Julia (borretti.me)
    100 points • by ashergill • yesterday at 10:57 PM • 12 comments
  26. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    227 points • by ingve • yesterday at 5:28 PM • 99 comments
  27. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (www.joedb.org)
    67 points • by mci • last Friday at 4:34 PM • 9 comments
  28. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    240 points • by yz-yu • yesterday at 12:52 PM • 24 comments
  29. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (www.sintef.no)
    185 points • by PaulHoule • last Sunday at 6:15 PM • 155 comments
  30. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (www.weber.edu)
    82 points • by dbgrman • yesterday at 5:43 PM • 47 comments
  31. Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (www.macrumors.com)
    157 points • by stalfosknight • yesterday at 11:54 PM • 64 comments
  32. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    100 points • by tromp • yesterday at 6:31 PM • 70 comments
  33. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (jokegen.sdan.io)
    34 points • by sdan • 01/27/2026 • 27 comments
  34. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    153 points • by defrost • yesterday at 1:29 PM • 41 comments
  35. Flying Around the World in under 80 Days (pinchito.es)
    6 points • by alexfernandez • last Sunday at 1:56 PM • 5 comments
  36. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (attheu.utah.edu)
    88 points • by geox • today at 1:52 AM • 13 comments
  37. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
    122 points • by salkahfi • yesterday at 5:49 PM • 51 comments
  38. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) (self)
    114 points • by whoishiring • yesterday at 4:01 PM • 278 comments
  39. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com)
    98 points • by aofeisheng • today at 12:30 AM • 27 comments
  40. Sam Altman felt "useless" next to Codex (twitter.com)
    7 points • by mherrmann • today at 6:11 AM • 2 comments
  41. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    100 points • by Technolithic • yesterday at 1:02 PM • 114 comments
  42. Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions (bentsukun.ch)
    4 points • by jaypatelani • today at 3:21 AM • 0 comments
  43. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com)
    106 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 1:11 PM • 115 comments
  44. Show HN: Kannada Nudi Editor Web Version (nudiweb.com)
    4 points • by Codegres • today at 4:11 AM • 0 comments
  45. Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com)
    4 points • by jellyotsiro • today at 3:13 AM • 0 comments
  46. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (anil.recoil.org)
    140 points • by noelwelsh • yesterday at 10:45 AM • 47 comments
  47. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB) (self)
    33 points • by pouyathe • last Friday at 1:56 PM • 7 comments
  48. Why software stocks are getting pummelled (www.economist.com)
    158 points • by petethomas • yesterday at 4:50 AM • 225 comments
  49. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com)
    29 points • by todsacerdoti • yesterday at 7:59 PM • 42 comments
  50. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com)
    3 points • by ujjwalreddyks • today at 12:43 AM • 0 comments