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  1. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
    82 points • by ronbenton • today at 12:17 AM • 28 comments
  2. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    86 points • by bilsbie • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 36 comments
  3. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    10 points • by erickhill • today at 1:45 AM • 0 comments
  4. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)
    23 points • by spdegabrielle • today at 12:48 AM • 9 comments
  5. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
    390 points • by Narishma • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 209 comments
  6. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
    560 points • by tosh • yesterday at 12:48 PM • 234 comments
  7. Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite" (breakintochat.com)
    16 points • by bananaboy • 08/09/2026 • 1 comment
  8. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
    102 points • by Bluestein • last Tuesday at 3:36 PM • 31 comments
  9. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    76 points • by ibobev • last Thursday at 12:44 PM • 35 comments
  10. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    21 points • by sudo_cowsay • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 5 comments
  11. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    122 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 81 comments
  12. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
    95 points • by walrus01 • today at 12:14 AM • 8 comments
  13. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    235 points • by mlenhard • yesterday at 2:44 PM • 92 comments
  14. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (community.wolfram.com)
    17 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:40 PM • 1 comment
  15. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    67 points • by homarp • yesterday at 6:17 PM • 23 comments
  16. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    89 points • by emptybits • last Thursday at 3:05 AM • 10 comments
  17. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
    117 points • by root-parent • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 43 comments
  18. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    278 points • by hruvhwe • yesterday at 7:04 PM • 155 comments
  19. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
    68 points • by lermontov • last Friday at 11:53 PM • 13 comments
  20. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    52 points • by tobr • last Saturday at 8:15 PM • 15 comments
  21. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    52 points • by evakhoury • last Friday at 7:52 PM • 20 comments
  22. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
    552 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 229 comments
  23. Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (www.bloomberg.com)
    214 points • by zacharyozer • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 149 comments
  24. The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout (blog.dave.tf)
    3 points • by raggi • last Tuesday at 8:22 PM • 0 comments
  25. Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI (www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
    15 points • by hardlianotion • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 2 comments
  26. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (self)
    303 points • by stagas • yesterday at 5:49 PM • 74 comments
  27. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    90 points • by austinallegro • yesterday at 12:16 PM • 9 comments
  28. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 points • by mayop100 • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 0 comments
  29. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    272 points • by pdet • 08/10/2026 • 31 comments
  30. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
    26 points • by brod_ie • last Tuesday at 3:56 PM • 3 comments
  31. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    134 points • by txrx0000 • last Thursday at 10:01 PM • 40 comments
  32. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
    160 points • by toomuchtodo • yesterday at 3:16 PM • 128 comments
  33. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    87 points • by matt_d • last Wednesday at 6:30 AM • 35 comments
  34. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
    141 points • by brandonb • yesterday at 4:14 PM • 69 comments
  35. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    142 points • by abelanger • last Wednesday at 8:13 PM • 93 comments
  36. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
    367 points • by Alifatisk • yesterday at 12:22 PM • 132 comments
  37. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    25 points • by samclemens • last Wednesday at 10:46 PM • 3 comments
  38. Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (www.sciencedaily.com)
    9 points • by gradus_ad • today at 1:10 AM • 0 comments
  39. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
    64 points • by sbulaev • last Wednesday at 7:07 PM • 15 comments
  40. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (www.youtube.com)
    11 points • by eig • today at 12:07 AM • 3 comments
  41. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)
    25 points • by yareally • last Thursday at 12:02 AM • 10 comments
  42. Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires (continuum-app.xyz)
    4 points • by charleswcho • today at 12:58 AM • 9 comments
  43. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    111 points • by Eridanus2 • yesterday at 1:26 AM • 27 comments
  44. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (www.science.org)
    181 points • by AnodicElegy • last Saturday at 7:12 PM • 90 comments
  45. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
    152 points • by ropbear • yesterday at 9:53 PM • 157 comments
  46. The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
    181 points • by lentil_soup • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 121 comments
  47. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (www.severe-weather.eu)
    415 points • by dgellow • last Saturday at 7:20 PM • 316 comments
  48. Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer (www.businessinsider.com)
    20 points • by wertyk • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 29 comments
  49. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (www.falstad.com)
    66 points • by pykello • yesterday at 4:19 AM • 14 comments
  50. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
    157 points • by frizlab • 08/10/2026 • 35 comments