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  1. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
    322 points • by alexharri • today at 11:15 AM • 41 comments
  2. The Dilbert Afterlife (www.astralcodexten.com)
    197 points • by rendall • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 119 comments
  3. The recurring dream of replacing developers (www.caimito.net)
    35 points • by glimshe • today at 2:31 PM • 20 comments
  4. We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (labs.ramp.com)
    19 points • by iamwil • last Monday at 2:28 PM • 4 comments
  5. Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com)
    106 points • by originalankur • today at 10:13 AM • 35 comments
  6. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (www.bbc.com)
    50 points • by 1659447091 • today at 11:51 AM • 20 comments
  7. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
    136 points • by tin7in • today at 9:15 AM • 55 comments
  8. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
    193 points • by doener • today at 10:28 AM • 150 comments
  9. East Germany balloon escape (en.wikipedia.org)
    594 points • by robertvc • yesterday at 5:16 PM • 248 comments
  10. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com)
    85 points • by el_pa_b • today at 8:46 AM • 22 comments
  11. Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020) (www.freep.com)
    17 points • by rmason • last Monday at 8:11 PM • 1 comment
  12. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    879 points • by todotask2 • yesterday at 2:25 PM • 370 comments
  13. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
    34 points • by 7777777phil • today at 1:44 PM • 0 comments
  14. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest ever crime (www.theguardian.com)
    82 points • by c420 • today at 7:29 AM • 79 comments
  15. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    635 points • by embedding-shape • yesterday at 2:37 PM • 271 comments
  16. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    194 points • by tobr • last Thursday at 11:01 AM • 86 comments
  17. Architecture for Disposable Systems (tuananh.net)
    36 points • by tuananh • today at 11:18 AM • 21 comments
  18. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    440 points • by jaas • yesterday at 3:37 PM • 248 comments
  19. PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
    109 points • by smurda • today at 10:51 AM • 127 comments
  20. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (www.lesswrong.com)
    71 points • by OgsyedIE • last Wednesday at 12:01 PM • 38 comments
  21. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    182 points • by GaggiX • yesterday at 11:46 PM • 52 comments
  22. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (www.npr.org)
    51 points • by backpackerBMW • today at 12:59 PM • 21 comments
  23. After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (www.niemanlab.org)
    139 points • by giuliomagnifico • today at 10:29 AM • 129 comments
  24. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    314 points • by vitaelabitur • last Thursday at 4:46 PM • 51 comments
  25. Show HN: Microwave – Native iOS app for videos on ATproto (testflight.apple.com)
    29 points • by sinned • last Tuesday at 5:14 PM • 8 comments
  26. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
    107 points • by tripdout • today at 2:35 AM • 19 comments
  27. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? (self)
    116 points • by newbebee • today at 2:29 AM • 118 comments
  28. AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 (aomedia.org)
    44 points • by breve • today at 11:09 AM • 2 comments
  29. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
    138 points • by linolevan • yesterday at 9:42 PM • 80 comments
  30. Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use (cortwave.github.io)
    26 points • by cortwave • last Monday at 1:30 PM • 1 comment
  31. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
    257 points • by cebert • yesterday at 5:14 PM • 318 comments
  32. STFU (github.com)
    926 points • by tanelpoder • yesterday at 5:32 PM • 547 comments
  33. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    123 points • by gmays • yesterday at 6:49 PM • 35 comments
  34. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com)
    56 points • by indigodaddy • today at 12:32 AM • 9 comments
  35. The five orders of ignorance (2000) (cacm.acm.org)
    78 points • by svilen_dobrev • last Monday at 1:00 PM • 20 comments
  36. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (www.mintlify.com)
    87 points • by npmipg • yesterday at 10:15 PM • 106 comments
  37. Elasticsearch was never a database (www.paradedb.com)
    142 points • by jamesgresql • last Sunday at 8:54 PM • 96 comments
  38. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    106 points • by todsacerdoti • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 24 comments
  39. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    86 points • by giuliomagnifico • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 81 comments
  40. HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
    76 points • by zdw • last Wednesday at 4:29 PM • 13 comments
  41. Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine (rbanffy.github.io)
    13 points • by rbanffy • last Sunday at 3:10 PM • 3 comments
  42. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (dl.acm.org)
    144 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 1:39 PM • 164 comments
  43. Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
    242 points • by samuel246 • yesterday at 8:01 AM • 9 comments
  44. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (www.openculture.com)
    352 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 1:44 PM • 167 comments
  45. Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by roseway4 • yesterday at 5:00 PM • 0 comments
  46. Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (www.shimmer.care)
    78 points • by christalwang • yesterday at 4:20 PM • 83 comments
  47. Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video] (www.youtube.com)
    22 points • by basilikum • last Sunday at 4:37 AM • 20 comments
  48. Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
    541 points • by cl3misch • yesterday at 12:03 PM • 246 comments
  49. Show HN: Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests (github.com)
    29 points • by jy-tan • last Thursday at 6:54 PM • 1 comment
  50. Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
    148 points • by dmvaldman • last Wednesday at 10:19 PM • 65 comments