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  1. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
    136 points • by pxx • today at 3:26 PM • 34 comments
  2. In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (www.nytimes.com)
    85 points • by danso • today at 2:30 PM • 32 comments
  3. Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World (pixelambacht.nl)
    63 points • by dimonomid • today at 1:33 PM • 15 comments
  4. Writing Efficient C++ Code (asawicki.info)
    68 points • by ibobev • last Friday at 8:20 PM • 26 comments
  5. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
    73 points • by surprisetalk • today at 1:30 PM • 36 comments
  6. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
    35 points • by hp6 • today at 3:51 PM • 18 comments
  7. There are no "rogue" AI agents (eoinhiggins.substack.com)
    84 points • by zzzeek • today at 4:19 PM • 50 comments
  8. Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com)
    19 points • by handfuloflight • yesterday at 3:09 AM • 4 comments
  9. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
    287 points • by blutack • yesterday at 7:50 AM • 19 comments
  10. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
    50 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 2:25 PM • 32 comments
  11. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)
    6 points • by AareyBaba • yesterday at 5:27 AM • 0 comments
  12. postmarketOS Rebrand: Nura (nura.eco)
    76 points • by HotGarbage • today at 3:31 PM • 8 comments
  13. Does Georgism work? Five years later (www.astralcodexten.com)
    470 points • by silveraxe93 • last Friday at 1:48 PM • 388 comments
  14. Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page (3d-retro.com)
    46 points • by SouthWestAtlas • last Wednesday at 11:33 PM • 10 comments
  15. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
    330 points • by chmaynard • yesterday at 2:34 PM • 136 comments
  16. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (www.sciencenews.org)
    77 points • by bookofjoe • last Friday at 8:44 PM • 29 comments
  17. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
    471 points • by Qision • last Friday at 10:55 AM • 257 comments
  18. Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)
    271 points • by jandeboevrie • today at 2:45 PM • 231 comments
  19. Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate" (eli.thegreenplace.net)
    45 points • by ingve • today at 8:59 AM • 18 comments
  20. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
    562 points • by papergirl • today at 6:19 AM • 522 comments
  21. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
    97 points • by matt_d • today at 5:26 AM • 47 comments
  22. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com)
    369 points • by jpwalsh234 • yesterday at 5:10 PM • 101 comments
  23. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
    307 points • by shenli3514 • yesterday at 6:22 PM • 97 comments
  24. Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike (www.quantamagazine.org)
    111 points • by pseudolus • last Friday at 2:11 AM • 47 comments
  25. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
    89 points • by yu3zhou4 • today at 10:26 AM • 94 comments
  26. 10 Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    231 points • by theanonymousone • today at 2:41 PM • 169 comments
  27. A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (www.movingimagearchive.com)
    201 points • by momentmaker • last Thursday at 4:11 PM • 27 comments
  28. OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue (www.theguardian.com)
    40 points • by smb06 • today at 4:29 PM • 47 comments
  29. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (alignment.openai.com)
    148 points • by apsec112 • yesterday at 4:14 AM • 151 comments
  30. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
    59 points • by matt_d • last Friday at 10:48 PM • 0 comments
  31. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (www.fu-berlin.de)
    91 points • by geox • yesterday at 3:23 AM • 54 comments
  32. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    171 points • by parasitid • yesterday at 3:56 PM • 45 comments
  33. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (discourse.haskell.org)
    305 points • by signa11 • yesterday at 9:41 AM • 321 comments
  34. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    13 points • by AbuAssar • today at 9:34 AM • 0 comments
  35. Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling (quasiben.github.io)
    11 points • by quasiben • last Friday at 10:23 PM • 0 comments
  36. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (www.reddit.com)
    378 points • by rbanffy • today at 8:44 AM • 260 comments
  37. The Mars Delusion (www.noemamag.com)
    10 points • by Tomte • today at 4:06 PM • 11 comments
  38. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (www.righto.com)
    105 points • by pwg • yesterday at 5:26 PM • 11 comments
  39. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (ampdot.mesh.host)
    82 points • by z-mach9 • yesterday at 12:30 AM • 22 comments
  40. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (www.privatemode.ai)
    123 points • by flxflx • yesterday at 3:49 PM • 50 comments
  41. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (castle-engine.io)
    188 points • by birdculture • last Thursday at 11:33 AM • 80 comments
  42. Alternatives to GPS are around the corner (www.economist.com)
    6 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 2:47 PM • 0 comments
  43. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
    226 points • by kspacewalk2 • today at 2:40 AM • 77 comments
  44. Evolving programming languages in the AI era (dashbit.co)
    128 points • by pjm331 • last Friday at 2:34 AM • 86 comments
  45. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
    265 points • by pancomplex • last Friday at 2:28 PM • 117 comments
  46. Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon (nostalgia.dev)
    23 points • by stmonty • last Friday at 9:02 PM • 18 comments
  47. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
    6 points • by gmays • today at 2:35 PM • 0 comments
  48. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (www.lightspeedmagazine.com)
    77 points • by bucket2015 • yesterday at 8:08 PM • 14 comments
  49. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
    381 points • by MC995 • last Friday at 1:49 PM • 823 comments
  50. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it? (self)
    263 points • by mlaux • last Friday at 7:37 PM • 287 comments