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  1. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
    66 points • by novemp • today at 6:31 AM • 29 comments
  2. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
    876 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 9:54 PM • 602 comments
  3. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (www.fide.com)
    232 points • by prophylaxis • yesterday at 10:17 PM • 135 comments
  4. Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)
    19 points • by kyars • today at 5:38 AM • 3 comments
  5. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (www.economist.com)
    55 points • by andsoitis • today at 2:36 AM • 29 comments
  6. Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    29 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 1:35 PM • 30 comments
  7. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
    366 points • by eustoria • yesterday at 6:04 PM • 142 comments
  8. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (github.com)
    338 points • by classichasclass • yesterday at 5:12 PM • 152 comments
  9. Audio is the one area small labs are winning (www.amplifypartners.com)
    169 points • by rocauc • last Friday at 5:39 AM • 34 comments
  10. How long do job postings stay open? (corvi.careers)
    23 points • by sp1982 • last Saturday at 10:35 PM • 20 comments
  11. Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere (floedb.ai)
    16 points • by matheusalmeida • last Wednesday at 3:36 PM • 7 comments
  12. Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
    68 points • by srcreigh • yesterday at 11:08 PM • 24 comments
  13. I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
    153 points • by futurecat • last Friday at 4:15 PM • 77 comments
  14. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
    46 points • by luu • today at 12:26 AM • 46 comments
  15. I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology (www.thesswnetwork.com)
    37 points • by Propolice • last Wednesday at 5:13 PM • 25 comments
  16. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (microgpt.boratto.ca)
    164 points • by b44 • yesterday at 6:40 PM • 13 comments
  17. Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI (avelino.run)
    39 points • by PaulHoule • last Wednesday at 9:03 PM • 2 comments
  18. EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (environment.ec.europa.eu)
    887 points • by giuliomagnifico • yesterday at 5:10 PM • 615 comments
  19. Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices (github.com)
    88 points • by nikodunk • yesterday at 4:40 PM • 15 comments
  20. Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL (erichlof.github.io)
    147 points • by tobr • last Thursday at 6:35 PM • 14 comments
  21. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (www.gnu.org.ua)
    80 points • by smartmic • yesterday at 8:53 PM • 50 comments
  22. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice (www.washingtonpost.com)
    143 points • by mikhael • yesterday at 6:05 PM • 82 comments
  23. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    215 points • by theblazehen • yesterday at 3:37 PM • 70 comments
  24. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    130 points • by djkurlander • yesterday at 5:06 PM • 55 comments
  25. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    218 points • by bikenaga • yesterday at 6:29 PM • 155 comments
  26. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)
    788 points • by mikece • yesterday at 12:42 PM • 569 comments
  27. I fixed Windows native development (marler8997.github.io)
    717 points • by deevus • yesterday at 11:25 AM • 342 comments
  28. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI (github.com)
    77 points • by gpasquero • yesterday at 7:40 PM • 24 comments
  29. Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work (www.poetryfoundation.org)
    23 points • by apollinaire • last Wednesday at 11:07 PM • 1 comment
  30. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (www.videogameschronicle.com)
    390 points • by magoghm • yesterday at 4:19 PM • 38 comments
  31. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research (arxiv.org)
    90 points • by gmays • yesterday at 6:35 PM • 48 comments
  32. Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems (news.speedata.de)
    16 points • by patrickg • last Wednesday at 6:20 AM • 6 comments
  33. Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)
    69 points • by anonymid • yesterday at 11:34 PM • 159 comments
  34. Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative) (github.com)
    59 points • by miloschwartz • yesterday at 10:50 AM • 21 comments
  35. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com)
    109 points • by tosh • yesterday at 11:37 AM • 49 comments
  36. Continuous batching from first principles (2025) (huggingface.co)
    31 points • by jxmorris12 • yesterday at 10:47 PM • 6 comments
  37. Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (www.pennmedicine.org)
    87 points • by gnabgib • today at 12:35 AM • 57 comments
  38. SCM as a database for the code (gist.github.com)
    80 points • by gritzko • yesterday at 9:09 AM • 86 comments
  39. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (k7r.eu)
    889 points • by panic • yesterday at 1:20 AM • 159 comments
  40. 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists (github.com)
    85 points • by donohoe • yesterday at 2:55 PM • 28 comments
  41. LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet (spectrum.ieee.org)
    32 points • by oldnetguy • last Thursday at 3:40 PM • 11 comments
  42. Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf] (pro.sony)
    40 points • by xattt • last Thursday at 3:00 AM • 15 comments
  43. Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business (local12.com)
    13 points • by cpeterso • today at 3:38 AM • 9 comments
  44. Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals (theintercept.com)
    274 points • by cdrnsf • yesterday at 5:37 PM • 102 comments
  45. AI is going to kill app subscriptions (nichehunt.app)
    114 points • by informal007 • yesterday at 3:21 PM • 183 comments
  46. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (www.seangoedecke.com)
    184 points • by swah • yesterday at 9:27 AM • 65 comments
  47. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)
    136 points • by doener • yesterday at 10:29 PM • 29 comments
  48. Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (www.rtrvr.ai)
    27 points • by arjunchint • last Friday at 10:26 PM • 12 comments
  49. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    491 points • by twapi • yesterday at 8:17 AM • 125 comments
  50. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court (www.heise.de)
    221 points • by cdrnsf • yesterday at 4:51 PM • 59 comments