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  1. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
    480 points • by Eric_Gullichsen • today at 2:05 AM • 194 comments
  2. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    64 points • by teleforce • today at 3:23 AM • 9 comments
  3. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    432 points • by gmays • yesterday at 5:31 PM • 202 comments
  4. When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
    1121 points • by sancho-panza • yesterday at 8:12 PM • 599 comments
  5. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (www.inkandswitch.com)
    52 points • by evakhoury • yesterday at 7:01 PM • 18 comments
  6. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (www.quora.com)
    110 points • by midnightfish • yesterday at 7:37 PM • 36 comments
  7. Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? (www.historyofinformation.com)
    39 points • by ryanscio • today at 1:22 AM • 12 comments
  8. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)
    141 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 8:03 PM • 49 comments
  9. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
    117 points • by utiiiD • last Saturday at 3:06 PM • 60 comments
  10. Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com)
    52 points • by arbayi • last Saturday at 2:24 AM • 20 comments
  11. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
    130 points • by verdagon • last Friday at 1:46 PM • 27 comments
  12. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
    216 points • by birdculture • yesterday at 4:50 PM • 99 comments
  13. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
    219 points • by safaelmali • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 100 comments
  14. Deterministic Concurrency [video] (www.youtube.com)
    20 points • by surprisetalk • last Saturday at 12:14 AM • 1 comment
  15. Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points • by surprisetalk • last Saturday at 1:26 AM • 0 comments
  16. Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    35 points • by zeristor • last Saturday at 10:48 AM • 11 comments
  17. What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)
    99 points • by bingden • yesterday at 7:04 PM • 27 comments
  18. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com)
    71 points • by mpweiher • yesterday at 7:28 PM • 7 comments
  19. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (www.nytimes.com)
    237 points • by danso • yesterday at 2:30 PM • 85 comments
  20. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    162 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 87 comments
  21. Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi (www.jazzwise.com)
    80 points • by gregsadetsky • last Friday at 2:38 PM • 30 comments
  22. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (www.youtube.com)
    70 points • by Rochus • yesterday at 6:02 PM • 21 comments
  23. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
    146 points • by ibobev • last Friday at 8:20 PM • 98 comments
  24. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
    82 points • by AareyBaba • last Saturday at 5:27 AM • 12 comments
  25. TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14 (efraingaray.com)
    18 points • by EfrainGaray • today at 2:27 AM • 9 comments
  26. A New Experiment Meta-Strategy (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    22 points • by surprisetalk • last Friday at 1:20 PM • 1 comment
  27. Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    6 points • by BurnerBurner • today at 1:33 AM • 2 comments
  28. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    132 points • by theanonymousone • last Saturday at 2:25 PM • 64 comments
  29. Lunar Terminator Paradox (notes.secretsauce.net)
    58 points • by dima55 • yesterday at 9:06 PM • 43 comments
  30. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
    83 points • by gmays • yesterday at 2:35 PM • 10 comments
  31. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
    76 points • by pptadversary • last Saturday at 7:57 PM • 12 comments
  32. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
    126 points • by ClydeN • last Saturday at 7:30 PM • 46 comments
  33. Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
    56 points • by trekhleb • today at 1:21 AM • 5 comments
  34. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
    83 points • by torutofu • last Saturday at 1:10 PM • 69 comments
  35. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    106 points • by hp6 • yesterday at 3:51 PM • 43 comments
  36. S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past (btrblocks.com)
    61 points • by tkhattra • last Friday at 11:58 PM • 85 comments
  37. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
    260 points • by pxx • yesterday at 3:26 PM • 107 comments
  38. Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada (www.cbc.ca)
    24 points • by BiraIgnacio • today at 1:46 AM • 3 comments
  39. Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
    41 points • by FKJ • yesterday at 5:24 PM • 9 comments
  40. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
    91 points • by ibobev • last Friday at 2:23 PM • 148 comments
  41. KICKI: a DECsystem1060 (icm.museum)
    29 points • by rbanffy • last Friday at 10:11 PM • 4 comments
  42. As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (www.nytimes.com)
    112 points • by mooreds • today at 1:30 AM • 114 comments
  43. Fool's Expertise (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
    13 points • by elffjs • today at 2:04 AM • 7 comments
  44. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)
    365 points • by jandeboevrie • yesterday at 2:45 PM • 324 comments
  45. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (eli.thegreenplace.net)
    85 points • by ingve • yesterday at 8:59 AM • 42 comments
  46. Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit (vhyrro.neorg.org)
    21 points • by cupcakerob • yesterday at 8:13 PM • 1 comment
  47. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    376 points • by blutack • last Saturday at 7:50 AM • 24 comments
  48. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (www.sciencenews.org)
    93 points • by bookofjoe • last Friday at 8:44 PM • 38 comments
  49. Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2B years (www.pcgamer.com)
    16 points • by morder • today at 2:18 AM • 3 comments
  50. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (alignment.openai.com)
    175 points • by apsec112 • last Saturday at 4:14 AM • 168 comments