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  1. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)
    298 points • by satvikpendem • today at 1:20 PM • 132 comments
  2. Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley (pubsonline.informs.org)
    45 points • by iamnothere • today at 3:26 PM • 10 comments
  3. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)
    61 points • by Rochus • today at 12:43 PM • 15 comments
  4. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (www.w3.org)
    28 points • by Klaster_1 • today at 2:32 PM • 2 comments
  5. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    42 points • by Kiboneu • today at 1:47 PM • 18 comments
  6. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (www.shayon.dev)
    12 points • by shayonj • today at 3:36 PM • 2 comments
  7. Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA (dylancastillo.co)
    58 points • by dcastm • last Monday at 2:53 PM • 12 comments
  8. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
    63 points • by akyuu • today at 3:11 PM • 43 comments
  9. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com)
    7 points • by eighttrigrams • today at 3:25 PM • 1 comment
  10. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    144 points • by gukoff • today at 7:19 AM • 19 comments
  11. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    103 points • by evo_9 • today at 3:18 PM • 74 comments
  12. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    452 points • by seg6 • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 213 comments
  13. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)
    132 points • by BruceEel • today at 5:23 AM • 57 comments
  14. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    223 points • by jggonz • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 148 comments
  15. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (www.techeblog.com)
    56 points • by Thorondor • today at 3:08 PM • 15 comments
  16. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    101 points • by michaefe • last Wednesday at 4:11 AM • 28 comments
  17. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    28 points • by jader201 • today at 3:21 PM • 19 comments
  18. Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
    328 points • by jmusall • yesterday at 11:05 PM • 35 comments
  19. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    58 points • by Lammy • today at 10:06 AM • 41 comments
  20. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
    325 points • by bobbiechen • 07/28/2026 • 37 comments
  21. Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue (github.com)
    64 points • by handfuloflight • 08/01/2026 • 51 comments
  22. Banksy works cost public almost £150k (www.bbc.co.uk)
    8 points • by alvis • today at 4:33 PM • 7 comments
  23. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (terrytao.wordpress.com)
    6 points • by ijustlovemath • today at 2:09 PM • 1 comment
  24. FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (www.tomshardware.com)
    12 points • by f-serif • today at 4:24 PM • 0 comments
  25. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    23 points • by login588 • today at 9:29 AM • 12 comments
  26. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    304 points • by adletbalzhanov • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 205 comments
  27. Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony (www.historytoday.com)
    7 points • by benbreen • 08/01/2026 • 1 comment
  28. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    5 points • by dosinga • today at 2:30 PM • 0 comments
  29. Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
    55 points • by ibobev • last Tuesday at 11:28 AM • 0 comments
  30. Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
    155 points • by hakkikonu • last Wednesday at 9:59 AM • 75 comments
  31. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    79 points • by frozenseven • today at 1:23 AM • 12 comments
  32. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    84 points • by tremguy • today at 11:39 AM • 67 comments
  33. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    188 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 61 comments
  34. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
    96 points • by tchalla • yesterday at 10:36 PM • 101 comments
  35. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (www.nature.com)
    79 points • by davidbarker • 08/02/2026 • 25 comments
  36. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    186 points • by doubletwoyou • today at 4:30 AM • 89 comments
  37. CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
    77 points • by ashurandi • today at 10:17 AM • 27 comments
  38. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
    484 points • by groomlake • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 277 comments
  39. A Tale of Dynamic Programming (iagoleal.com)
    6 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 3:26 PM • 0 comments
  40. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness (antigma.ai)
    13 points • by ubermon • today at 8:44 AM • 3 comments
  41. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
    101 points • by robinpdev • 08/01/2026 • 8 comments
  42. 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic (www.youtube.com)
    54 points • by johnbarron • today at 11:56 AM • 44 comments
  43. The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points • by voxadam • today at 4:16 PM • 0 comments
  44. Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    50 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 1:00 PM • 45 comments
  45. Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
    66 points • by fagnerbrack • 08/02/2026 • 10 comments
  46. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    293 points • by minimaxir • today at 3:26 AM • 52 comments
  47. How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp (unherd.com)
    34 points • by bookofjoe • last Wednesday at 7:24 PM • 7 comments
  48. Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
    142 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 3:34 PM • 62 comments
  49. Relying on Go (antonz.org)
    8 points • by ibobev • today at 3:14 PM • 0 comments
  50. Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies (www.reuters.com)
    6 points • by jack0111 • today at 2:40 PM • 1 comment