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  1. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (www.vivienhenz.com)
    77 points • by misterchocolat • today at 2:51 AM • 88 comments
  2. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    384 points • by Philpax • yesterday at 7:16 PM • 118 comments
  3. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (www.debugbear.com)
    149 points • by jgx0 • yesterday at 10:55 PM • 88 comments
  4. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    153 points • by ishan0102 • yesterday at 9:40 PM • 50 comments
  5. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (www.vals.ai)
    276 points • by outlier99 • yesterday at 9:00 PM • 187 comments
  6. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    144 points • by E-Reverance • yesterday at 9:15 PM • 32 comments
  7. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
    59 points • by leecoursey • last Saturday at 4:23 PM • 19 comments
  8. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    114 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 50 comments
  9. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com)
    18 points • by ahmetomer • last Saturday at 1:42 PM • 2 comments
  10. Web Search API (developers.cloudflare.com)
    517 points • by tosh • yesterday at 10:47 AM • 235 comments
  11. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (www.techspot.com)
    645 points • by emptybits • yesterday at 5:37 AM • 510 comments
  12. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (www.stelabouras.com)
    10 points • by stelabouras • last Saturday at 12:13 PM • 0 comments
  13. Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
    76 points • by walrus01 • last Sunday at 4:30 AM • 23 comments
  14. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    162 points • by vinhnx • last Saturday at 1:24 PM • 36 comments
  15. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (www.niemanlab.org)
    362 points • by rdmuser • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 265 comments
  16. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    40 points • by stratts • yesterday at 10:37 PM • 18 comments
  17. Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales (blue-continuum.com)
    3 points • by dnetesn • last Sunday at 10:15 AM • 0 comments
  18. Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (blog.pipetogrep.org)
    14 points • by thepipetogrep • today at 3:39 AM • 3 comments
  19. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
    33 points • by networked • yesterday at 11:35 PM • 13 comments
  20. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
    49 points • by greyface- • last Sunday at 12:09 PM • 6 comments
  21. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
    44 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 13 comments
  22. Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com)
    95 points • by montag • today at 12:41 AM • 50 comments
  23. Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage (arstechnica.com)
    157 points • by 01-_- • yesterday at 10:05 PM • 26 comments
  24. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    147 points • by Vosporos • yesterday at 2:23 PM • 38 comments
  25. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)
    86 points • by hukl • last Sunday at 8:03 AM • 84 comments
  26. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    167 points • by farslan • yesterday at 2:12 PM • 77 comments
  27. High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (www.thedrive.com)
    95 points • by speckx • today at 12:24 AM • 70 comments
  28. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iopscience.iop.org)
    6 points • by bryanrasmussen • last Saturday at 4:07 PM • 2 comments
  29. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    236 points • by maguay • yesterday at 10:05 AM • 206 comments
  30. AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment (edworkingpapers.com)
    58 points • by bryan0 • today at 12:00 AM • 46 comments
  31. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (www.bloomberg.com)
    186 points • by 0xedb • yesterday at 7:46 AM • 123 comments
  32. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (blog.lizzie.io)
    112 points • by mkornaukhov • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 22 comments
  33. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (spectrum.ieee.org)
    76 points • by rbanffy • last Thursday at 12:31 PM • 63 comments
  34. The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear (restofworld.org)
    9 points • by jethronethro • today at 4:37 AM • 2 comments
  35. Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
    38 points • by ishan0102 • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 7 comments
  36. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    24 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 10:25 PM • 0 comments
  37. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (www.nobelprize.org)
    131 points • by lode • yesterday at 9:33 AM • 47 comments
  38. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    140 points • by AlexeyBrin • last Saturday at 11:57 AM • 106 comments
  39. Unruly Folded Sheets (literaryreview.co.uk)
    7 points • by Thevet • last Sunday at 6:05 PM • 0 comments
  40. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
    44 points • by vinhnx • last Saturday at 2:07 PM • 75 comments
  41. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (blog.haskell.org)
    138 points • by signa11 • last Thursday at 4:58 AM • 29 comments
  42. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com)
    75 points • by delphidolphin • last Sunday at 9:31 AM • 26 comments
  43. Martian chaos terrain (en.wikipedia.org)
    101 points • by tiagod • last Friday at 1:11 AM • 26 comments
  44. The Future of Mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
    107 points • by smilelamp • yesterday at 7:22 PM • 64 comments
  45. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    253 points • by benbreen • last Sunday at 6:06 PM • 196 comments
  46. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (www.cpr.dk)
    473 points • by clan • yesterday at 8:09 AM • 330 comments
  47. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (www.barrons.com)
    146 points • by pseudolus • yesterday at 6:15 PM • 84 comments
  48. Incident with Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
    97 points • by hising • yesterday at 8:09 PM • 63 comments
  49. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    309 points • by Vaslo • last Saturday at 10:14 PM • 51 comments
  50. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (www.worksinprogress.news)
    23 points • by abe94 • yesterday at 2:49 PM • 2 comments