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  1. Your Agent Will Pick the Hackable One (geoffstearns.com)
    30 points • by tensafefrogs • today at 9:10 PM • 5 comments
  2. A short explainer on how El Niño works [video] (www.youtube.com)
    121 points • by nharada • today at 6:23 PM • 28 comments
  3. 'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can (www.nytimes.com)
    101 points • by gumby • today at 5:53 PM • 79 comments
  4. Protomaps: Self-hosting map tiles has gotten cheap and easy (bruceroettgers.eu)
    42 points • by bcye • today at 7:26 PM • 11 comments
  5. The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM problem (macanorak.com)
    366 points • by MacAnorak • today at 1:15 PM • 193 comments
  6. Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker (github.com)
    47 points • by gregsadetsky • today at 6:36 PM • 15 comments
  7. Claude Code and Codex reverse engineered my 1994 Jeep's ECU over a $3 Arduino [video] (www.youtube.com)
    262 points • by envoked • last Thursday at 5:29 AM • 129 comments
  8. Your room can be as bright as the outdoors (2019) (www.benkuhn.net)
    54 points • by mday404 • last Friday at 8:05 PM • 28 comments
  9. Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests (www1.wdr.de)
    244 points • by DeepLogin • today at 6:36 PM • 117 comments
  10. Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) (prog21.dadgum.com)
    170 points • by ksec • today at 1:44 PM • 83 comments
  11. Emacs Is My Browser (joshblais.com)
    153 points • by nyc111 • today at 3:21 PM • 78 comments
  12. WebGL Flight Simulator with seed generated terrain (baron.by.dai.studio)
    11 points • by ranger_danger • today at 8:20 PM • 3 comments
  13. Clice v1.0 Released: Welcome to Modern C++ (ykiko.me)
    58 points • by molenzwiebel • today at 5:22 PM • 34 comments
  14. Handwriting, as a Font (ductus.sorenblank.com)
    23 points • by coinfused • today at 7:42 PM • 2 comments
  15. Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
    180 points • by vismit2000 • today at 12:14 PM • 21 comments
  16. Vulcan rocket fails during return-to-flight launch, 40 Amazon satellites lost (www.space.com)
    47 points • by jonbaer • today at 8:37 PM • 12 comments
  17. Notes on Mathematics for Engineers (1959) [pdf] (websites.umich.edu)
    56 points • by the-mitr • last Wednesday at 12:25 PM • 15 comments
  18. Do House members' stock trades beat the market? A test of 8,900 trades (arkanumdata.com)
    86 points • by Bluestein • today at 7:46 PM • 85 comments
  19. Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case (litnews.ai)
    474 points • by ybathaee • today at 1:18 AM • 210 comments
  20. All AI-generated code should be Open Source (jakub.jankiewicz.org)
    974 points • by jcubic • today at 2:46 PM • 548 comments
  21. Bullet Dodged (idiotking.org)
    29 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 3:00 PM • 20 comments
  22. Eval Awareness vs. Eval Paranoia (www.lesswrong.com)
    32 points • by ezrasu • last Thursday at 11:23 AM • 15 comments
  23. Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher? (2019) (space.stackexchange.com)
    206 points • by Skyfall106 • today at 9:06 AM • 140 comments
  24. A NES emulator written in Odin (lucypero.com)
    93 points • by frostbyte7 • today at 12:51 PM • 34 comments
  25. Aspidistra: A British wartime radio transmitter used for MitM attacks (en.wikipedia.org)
    5 points • by BoxOfRain • last Thursday at 10:58 AM • 0 comments
  26. 20 Years of Pyrolog (pypy.org)
    66 points • by lumpa • last Thursday at 2:15 PM • 4 comments
  27. SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15 (www.spacex.com)
    1609 points • by ls612 • yesterday at 9:22 PM • 1183 comments
  28. What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model (operator0x.com)
    102 points • by josip208 • last Friday at 10:26 AM • 30 comments
  29. Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business (www.nytimes.com)
    424 points • by JumpCrisscross • today at 11:40 AM • 186 comments
  30. Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites (www.reuters.com)
    7 points • by rexbee • today at 9:38 PM • 2 comments
  31. How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer? (2021) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
    307 points • by Skyfall106 • yesterday at 10:22 PM • 161 comments
  32. Chasing an audio artifact on power loss (subalpinecircuits.com)
    51 points • by ireflect • last Thursday at 11:11 PM • 7 comments
  33. How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible (bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com)
    57 points • by speckx • last Wednesday at 8:09 PM • 9 comments
  34. Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages (www.crissyfield.de)
    970 points • by armcat • yesterday at 5:43 PM • 368 comments
  35. My favourite modern NES games (jordi.inversethought.com)
    196 points • by jordigh • today at 2:41 AM • 39 comments
  36. Ask HN: Stripe closed us after one $1,500 invoice and never asked for evidence (self)
    15 points • by snirgbs • today at 7:49 PM • 4 comments
  37. Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons (www.niklasroy.com)
    71 points • by r0r0 • last Friday at 12:00 PM • 2 comments
  38. Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile (www.bbc.co.uk)
    75 points • by nephihaha • last Thursday at 9:27 PM • 48 comments
  39. Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS (github.com)
    28 points • by nu_nu11 • today at 1:50 PM • 7 comments
  40. The Telephone Changed the World (lithub.com)
    46 points • by NaOH • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 31 comments
  41. Open-Source HF Communications for Remote Communities and Experimenters (www.ardc.net)
    77 points • by tejtm • last Wednesday at 11:11 AM • 12 comments
  42. Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy (netbsd.org)
    90 points • by jaypatelani • today at 5:29 AM • 17 comments
  43. Semicircle Packing (rorz.io)
    98 points • by sarreph • last Friday at 2:42 PM • 9 comments
  44. NoisyTCP (twitter.com)
    9 points • by george_max • today at 9:15 PM • 2 comments
  45. PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live (blog.pypi.org)
    271 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 3:40 PM • 129 comments
  46. The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology (www.quantamagazine.org)
    100 points • by pseudolus • last Friday at 11:55 AM • 25 comments
  47. Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (nick-black.com)
    121 points • by num42 • today at 7:08 AM • 41 comments
  48. 500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller (aosabook.org)
    96 points • by myth_drannon • last Friday at 1:47 PM • 19 comments
  49. Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax (github.com)
    271 points • by VaibhaavTiwari • yesterday at 3:04 PM • 27 comments
  50. Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust (tsoracle.rs)
    37 points • by znano • last Friday at 10:04 AM • 15 comments