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  1. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    153 points • by ranger_danger • last Wednesday at 4:53 PM • 57 comments
  2. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
    121 points • by zdw • yesterday at 10:45 PM • 30 comments
  3. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles (self)
    229 points • by levkk • today at 1:24 AM • 150 comments
  4. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    180 points • by naves • yesterday at 8:23 PM • 11 comments
  5. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (www.susanrigetti.com)
    135 points • by azhenley • last Wednesday at 3:28 AM • 19 comments
  6. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
    72 points • by tadasv • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 26 comments
  7. First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (www.cbc.ca)
    13 points • by curmudgeon22 • last Wednesday at 1:39 PM • 0 comments
  8. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) (self)
    100 points • by david927 • yesterday at 9:26 PM • 304 comments
  9. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    509 points • by systima • yesterday at 6:25 PM • 283 comments
  10. Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
    162 points • by brryant • yesterday at 5:13 PM • 61 comments
  11. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (www.larp.website)
    187 points • by BerislavLopac • yesterday at 4:56 PM • 40 comments
  12. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    56 points • by iNic • yesterday at 9:27 PM • 15 comments
  13. How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    102 points • by raahelb • yesterday at 3:35 PM • 127 comments
  14. Count Binface (countbinface.com)
    51 points • by mooreds • today at 4:00 AM • 11 comments
  15. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    129 points • by softwaredoug • last Friday at 4:12 PM • 170 comments
  16. I Learned to Read Again (substack.magazinenongrata.com)
    118 points • by georgex7 • yesterday at 6:22 PM • 48 comments
  17. Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)
    100 points • by guseyn • yesterday at 10:53 PM • 56 comments
  18. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    290 points • by compiler-guy • last Friday at 12:06 AM • 166 comments
  19. Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
    105 points • by root-parent • yesterday at 4:54 PM • 45 comments
  20. Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County (www.prohousingpgh.org)
    32 points • by mooreds • today at 1:47 AM • 18 comments
  21. Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data (laxmena.com)
    34 points • by laxmena • yesterday at 9:45 PM • 26 comments
  22. Against Usefulness (www.motivenotes.ai)
    96 points • by supo • yesterday at 5:47 PM • 24 comments
  23. The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
    26 points • by craigkerstiens • last Thursday at 7:20 PM • 11 comments
  24. Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels (nanduruganesh.github.io)
    31 points • by rawsh • yesterday at 8:46 PM • 1 comment
  25. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (cacm.acm.org)
    92 points • by adunk • yesterday at 6:04 PM • 67 comments
  26. Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
    3 points • by forthwall • last Thursday at 5:59 PM • 3 comments
  27. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    367 points • by therepanic • yesterday at 6:31 PM • 234 comments
  28. Calculix: A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (www.calculix.de)
    10 points • by joebig • last Thursday at 9:39 PM • 1 comment
  29. What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
    429 points • by jhoho • yesterday at 1:09 AM • 163 comments
  30. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    268 points • by signa11 • yesterday at 8:52 AM • 52 comments
  31. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    282 points • by silcoon • yesterday at 3:47 PM • 162 comments
  32. Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
    422 points • by subset • yesterday at 11:09 AM • 126 comments
  33. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (www.economist.com)
    222 points • by saikatsg • yesterday at 3:23 PM • 183 comments
  34. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)
    120 points • by thunderbong • yesterday at 10:14 AM • 141 comments
  35. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    47 points • by jxmorris12 • yesterday at 6:41 PM • 10 comments
  36. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    67 points • by mb1699 • yesterday at 3:53 PM • 27 comments
  37. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    187 points • by zdw • yesterday at 3:17 PM • 120 comments
  38. DVD-Audio (en.wikipedia.org)
    4 points • by hdz • today at 3:56 AM • 0 comments
  39. Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017) (redblobgames.github.io)
    11 points • by andsoitis • yesterday at 11:42 PM • 1 comment
  40. Architecture Description Languages [pdf] (ics.uci.edu)
    26 points • by ascent817 • yesterday at 10:54 PM • 1 comment
  41. Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
    381 points • by joahnn_s • yesterday at 9:12 PM • 178 comments
  42. Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
    149 points • by AlexeyBrin • yesterday at 12:08 PM • 92 comments
  43. Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art (github.com)
    12 points • by unable0 • yesterday at 10:26 PM • 1 comment
  44. Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com)
    40 points • by gregsadetsky • yesterday at 3:44 PM • 20 comments
  45. Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS (github.com)
    22 points • by cafebeen • yesterday at 8:52 PM • 9 comments
  46. Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
    8 points • by mattas • today at 3:11 AM • 4 comments
  47. The State of MCP Security [pdf] (www.canopii.dev)
    23 points • by mavzer • yesterday at 8:49 PM • 2 comments
  48. MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
    58 points • by 383toast • today at 12:18 AM • 30 comments
  49. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    78 points • by MrBruh • yesterday at 11:52 AM • 25 comments
  50. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    17 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 1:15 PM • 1 comment