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  1. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (www.brown.edu)
    275 points • by hhs • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 103 comments
  2. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    618 points • by speckx • yesterday at 3:59 PM • 202 comments
  3. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    36 points • by poupeaua • last Wednesday at 11:30 AM • 0 comments
  4. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    1167 points • by stock_toaster • yesterday at 8:47 PM • 607 comments
  5. Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove (www.bloomberg.com)
    62 points • by helsinkiandrew • today at 9:16 AM • 39 comments
  6. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (www.theverge.com)
    16 points • by herbertl • last Tuesday at 11:51 PM • 6 comments
  7. An iroh powered smart fan (www.iroh.computer)
    119 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 1:30 PM • 33 comments
  8. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    216 points • by chmaynard • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 225 comments
  9. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    124 points • by mvdtnz • today at 5:19 AM • 39 comments
  10. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (www.zdnet.com)
    203 points • by CrankyBear • yesterday at 5:51 PM • 672 comments
  11. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    20 points • by rowbin • last Sunday at 10:33 PM • 0 comments
  12. Good Tools Are Invisible (www.gingerbill.org)
    458 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 10:32 AM • 214 comments
  13. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    294 points • by kschaul • last Thursday at 4:21 PM • 297 comments
  14. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    380 points • by dmonay • yesterday at 11:59 AM • 264 comments
  15. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    220 points • by markus_zhang • yesterday at 4:48 PM • 78 comments
  16. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
    471 points • by scrlk • yesterday at 6:29 PM • 378 comments
  17. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (mimo.xiaomi.com)
    83 points • by theanonymousone • last Tuesday at 6:06 AM • 35 comments
  18. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    184 points • by mytuny • last Sunday at 5:11 PM • 68 comments
  19. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    159 points • by ethanpil • last Monday at 9:09 PM • 83 comments
  20. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    63 points • by chrwn • last Tuesday at 11:06 PM • 14 comments
  21. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    157 points • by aviaviavi • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 192 comments
  22. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (www.theguardian.com)
    547 points • by randycupertino • yesterday at 6:26 PM • 263 comments
  23. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    197 points • by simonebrunozzi • yesterday at 4:37 PM • 152 comments
  24. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com)
    862 points • by vforno • last Thursday at 8:05 AM • 214 comments
  25. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (www.dailymail.com)
    192 points • by Bender • last Monday at 12:32 PM • 144 comments
  26. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    158 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 98 comments
  27. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    138 points • by simonpure • yesterday at 3:23 PM • 99 comments
  28. Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by srimalireddi • yesterday at 9:11 PM • 0 comments
  29. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    40 points • by mpweiher • last Wednesday at 1:38 PM • 6 comments
  30. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    163 points • by NaOH • yesterday at 5:52 PM • 67 comments
  31. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    219 points • by speckx • yesterday at 1:31 PM • 78 comments
  32. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    81 points • by djfergus • yesterday at 8:43 PM • 17 comments
  33. Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
    23 points • by mooreds • last Tuesday at 3:58 PM • 6 comments
  34. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    1104 points • by pompomsheep • last Thursday at 12:48 PM • 351 comments
  35. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com)
    76 points • by dicroce • last Thursday at 11:16 AM • 19 comments
  36. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? (self)
    72 points • by Asmod4n • last Monday at 4:41 PM • 71 comments
  37. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    170 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 213 comments
  38. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    133 points • by Gedxx • 07/03/2026 • 34 comments
  39. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools (self)
    83 points • by pancomplex • last Thursday at 3:45 PM • 34 comments
  40. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    1525 points • by logickkk1 • last Thursday at 5:04 PM • 1086 comments
  41. The Lindy effect in software (www.clemsau.com)
    30 points • by ankitg12 • last Wednesday at 5:20 AM • 30 comments
  42. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com)
    60 points • by jarodrh • last Tuesday at 12:20 PM • 11 comments
  43. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (blog.alexbeals.com)
    38 points • by dado3212 • last Tuesday at 3:04 AM • 19 comments
  44. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (www.patrick-breyer.de)
    1599 points • by rapnie • last Thursday at 11:03 AM • 827 comments
  45. Show HN: Dotenv-Diff v3.0.0 (github.com)
    7 points • by chrillemn • last Tuesday at 8:54 PM • 1 comment
  46. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (www.macrumors.com)
    203 points • by tosh • last Monday at 2:59 PM • 293 comments
  47. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
    209 points • by imustachyou • yesterday at 6:49 PM • 173 comments
  48. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (www.fadingmaize.com)
    53 points • by jacobgraf • last Thursday at 7:49 PM • 58 comments
  49. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
    59 points • by handfuloflight • last Tuesday at 7:33 AM • 30 comments
  50. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (www.economist.com)
    33 points • by nlpnerd • today at 8:29 AM • 22 comments