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  1. Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (www.righto.com)
    33 points • by elpocko • today at 5:18 PM • 3 comments
  2. Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (www.lms.ac.uk)
    8 points • by _____k • today at 6:36 PM • 1 comment
  3. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (blog.brixit.nl)
    65 points • by zdw • yesterday at 6:16 PM • 12 comments
  4. Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser (github.com)
    15 points • by maxloh • today at 5:22 PM • 5 comments
  5. What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (unix.stackexchange.com)
    31 points • by tosh • last Friday at 8:08 AM • 17 comments
  6. The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (www.ioccc.org)
    324 points • by matt_d • today at 5:47 AM • 76 comments
  7. Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com)
    143 points • by devenjarvis • today at 11:16 AM • 28 comments
  8. Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com)
    327 points • by predkambrij • today at 1:06 PM • 175 comments
  9. My automated doubt development process (www.alexself.dev)
    4 points • by aself101 • today at 6:17 PM • 1 comment
  10. Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by pablo24602 • today at 5:01 PM • 0 comments
  11. Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com)
    30 points • by flexagoon • last Tuesday at 1:52 PM • 2 comments
  12. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (blog.podman.io)
    64 points • by daesorin • today at 2:01 PM • 4 comments
  13. Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
    166 points • by supermatou • today at 3:08 PM • 76 comments
  14. Win16 Memory Management (www.os2museum.com)
    117 points • by supermatou • last Friday at 11:16 AM • 58 comments
  15. You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)
    5 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 2:30 PM • 0 comments
  16. Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)
    57 points • by le_chuck • today at 7:35 AM • 24 comments
  17. The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
    54 points • by ChrisGammell • last Thursday at 1:55 PM • 5 comments
  18. My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
    184 points • by kristoff_it • last Wednesday at 8:16 PM • 110 comments
  19. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (www.bbc.com)
    63 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 4:16 PM • 59 comments
  20. Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
    218 points • by davidbarker • today at 12:22 AM • 31 comments
  21. Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
    127 points • by kkm • last Thursday at 3:29 PM • 21 comments
  22. There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (blog.safia.rocks)
    19 points • by ankitg12 • last Friday at 7:02 AM • 4 comments
  23. sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 (gitlab.com)
    16 points • by tosh • today at 1:53 PM • 3 comments
  24. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
    655 points • by poisonfountain • today at 12:49 PM • 605 comments
  25. Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months (github.com)
    245 points • by babuskov • today at 3:21 AM • 123 comments
  26. Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
    155 points • by Anon84 • today at 1:37 AM • 65 comments
  27. How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? (www.kdab.com)
    29 points • by jandeboevrie • last Thursday at 7:29 PM • 1 comment
  28. Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
    134 points • by mmastrac • last Friday at 5:13 PM • 11 comments
  29. Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
    149 points • by gscott • today at 2:46 AM • 67 comments
  30. The curious case of low-protein diets (knowablemagazine.org)
    5 points • by curmudgeon22 • today at 6:37 PM • 0 comments
  31. How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
    151 points • by zeech • today at 2:12 AM • 86 comments
  32. Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    39 points • by yorwba • today at 9:43 AM • 0 comments
  33. Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (github.com)
    40 points • by nextos • last Friday at 9:52 PM • 5 comments
  34. Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
    141 points • by gmays • last Thursday at 3:12 AM • 25 comments
  35. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    92 points • by old_sound • last Friday at 10:19 AM • 29 comments
  36. Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)
    338 points • by jwilk • yesterday at 2:34 PM • 324 comments
  37. "Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum (eghammuseum.org)
    15 points • by lifeisstillgood • today at 1:29 PM • 0 comments
  38. Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid (mojodojo.io)
    21 points • by zenincognito • today at 12:04 PM • 2 comments
  39. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    274 points • by pramodbiligiri • last Friday at 6:20 PM • 186 comments
  40. Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved (cen.acs.org)
    113 points • by crescit_eundo • last Thursday at 10:58 PM • 32 comments
  41. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? (self)
    670 points • by andrehacker • last Thursday at 11:42 PM • 1053 comments
  42. The User Doesn't Care – But you should (lewiscampbell.tech)
    17 points • by kugurerdem • today at 11:56 AM • 1 comment
  43. Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    162 points • by rohanucla • yesterday at 8:03 PM • 53 comments
  44. Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (this.weekinsecurity.com)
    674 points • by speckx • yesterday at 6:35 PM • 241 comments
  45. Vim Classic 8.3 Released (vim-classic.org)
    28 points • by tempodox • today at 6:37 AM • 1 comment
  46. Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
    394 points • by gregsadetsky • yesterday at 7:17 PM • 118 comments
  47. Partitions over Permutations (www.johndcook.com)
    8 points • by ibobev • last Friday at 8:06 PM • 1 comment
  48. The J Programming Language (2014) (www.infoq.com)
    10 points • by tosh • today at 4:56 PM • 0 comments
  49. Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (www.airandspaceforces.com)
    29 points • by ilamont • today at 3:42 PM • 1 comment
  50. Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)
    192 points • by thisislife2 • yesterday at 2:43 PM • 127 comments