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  1. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years (self)
    309 points • by lukehandcool • today at 2:39 PM • 64 comments
  2. US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
    233 points • by alephnerd • today at 3:15 PM • 249 comments
  3. Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)
    138 points • by speckx • today at 1:22 PM • 89 comments
  4. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
    523 points • by ent101 • today at 5:14 AM • 528 comments
  5. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (www.reuters.com)
    86 points • by geox • today at 3:24 PM • 44 comments
  6. The Slow Formation of Durable Software (newsletter.dancohen.org)
    171 points • by benbreen • last Tuesday at 3:54 PM • 55 comments
  7. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
    39 points • by andreynering • today at 2:09 PM • 30 comments
  8. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    22 points • by Hooke • yesterday at 9:25 PM • 3 comments
  9. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com)
    41 points • by brainless • today at 1:29 PM • 5 comments
  10. Telnet BBS Guide (www.telnetbbsguide.com)
    68 points • by kmstout • today at 12:28 PM • 25 comments
  11. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
    225 points • by stared • today at 12:00 PM • 124 comments
  12. Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
    994 points • by sfkgtbor • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 469 comments
  13. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
    35 points • by 01-_- • today at 4:03 PM • 6 comments
  14. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    6 points • by AnneWodell • today at 4:20 PM • 0 comments
  15. The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com)
    291 points • by shahidhussain • last Monday at 12:06 AM • 107 comments
  16. The Outing of Tinky Winky (2014) (priceonomics.com)
    7 points • by sternmere • yesterday at 7:28 PM • 1 comment
  17. Time Travel in Braid (2015) (qntm.org)
    65 points • by Ariarule • last Sunday at 9:42 PM • 25 comments
  18. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
    331 points • by Muhammad523 • last Monday at 9:08 PM • 136 comments
  19. Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (blog.pkh.me)
    36 points • by ibobev • last Monday at 2:09 PM • 8 comments
  20. CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre (mexicosolidarity.com)
    11 points • by robtherobber • today at 1:29 PM • 0 comments
  21. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com)
    100 points • by sashank_1509 • today at 7:05 AM • 418 comments
  22. Margaret Hamilton has died (news.mit.edu)
    2004 points • by muglug • yesterday at 9:16 PM • 233 comments
  23. How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't (www.science.org)
    269 points • by pavel_lishin • last Monday at 7:07 PM • 93 comments
  24. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
    725 points • by joshuawright11 • yesterday at 6:00 PM • 427 comments
  25. 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking (interop-rank.fxdx.dev)
    30 points • by jaffathecake • today at 1:34 PM • 5 comments
  26. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (www.404media.co)
    233 points • by gumby • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 134 comments
  27. Cleo (Mathematician) (en.wikipedia.org)
    228 points • by djoldman • last Tuesday at 6:49 PM • 47 comments
  28. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
    339 points • by 6bitquant • yesterday at 7:33 PM • 351 comments
  29. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (www.theguardian.com)
    114 points • by sonabinu • today at 11:58 AM • 22 comments
  30. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
    629 points • by SpeakingOfBrad • yesterday at 3:44 PM • 148 comments
  31. VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    40 points • by CharlesW • last Tuesday at 10:23 PM • 11 comments
  32. In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (www.nytimes.com)
    150 points • by gumby • yesterday at 5:59 PM • 45 comments
  33. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
    1308 points • by OfficialTurkey • last Tuesday at 10:17 PM • 1482 comments
  34. New gTLD Application for .lan (newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
    56 points • by mzajc • today at 3:51 PM • 56 comments
  35. Docker Agent (github.com)
    285 points • by saikatsg • yesterday at 5:48 PM • 130 comments
  36. New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)
    42 points • by Bluestein • last Tuesday at 7:01 AM • 23 comments
  37. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
    432 points • by turrini • yesterday at 3:05 PM • 73 comments
  38. Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols (dat-ecosystem.org)
    53 points • by janandonly • today at 6:43 AM • 18 comments
  39. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
    173 points • by speckx • yesterday at 6:43 PM • 80 comments
  40. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
    206 points • by karakoram • yesterday at 3:09 PM • 350 comments
  41. Bloody Cavemen (www.lrb.co.uk)
    31 points • by Thevet • last Tuesday at 8:39 PM • 3 comments
  42. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com)
    99 points • by jcbhmr • today at 12:46 AM • 191 comments
  43. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser (treylorswift.github.io)
    142 points • by adunk • today at 6:29 AM • 131 comments
  44. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
    225 points • by librasteve • yesterday at 12:57 PM • 210 comments
  45. How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
    211 points • by glinscott • last Tuesday at 4:14 PM • 67 comments
  46. Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 (letsencrypt.org)
    28 points • by allddd • today at 6:01 AM • 1 comment
  47. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
    331 points • by nill0 • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 201 comments
  48. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
    306 points • by ilreb • yesterday at 1:08 PM • 146 comments
  49. Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser (pavel-krivanek.github.io)
    37 points • by adamnemecek • last Monday at 4:19 PM • 12 comments
  50. A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU (carette.xyz)
    100 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:20 PM • 25 comments