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  1. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (www.scientificamerican.com)
    242 points • by pr337h4m • yesterday at 5:40 PM • 157 comments
  2. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
    166 points • by chiefalchemist • today at 12:12 AM • 78 comments
  3. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    241 points • by gwerbret • yesterday at 9:51 PM • 50 comments
  4. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day (self)
    138 points • by _-x-_ • today at 12:50 AM • 72 comments
  5. GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)
    17 points • by zdkaster • today at 3:25 AM • 2 comments
  6. Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
    40 points • by iamwil • last Friday at 3:41 AM • 7 comments
  7. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)
    64 points • by gasull • today at 3:44 AM • 16 comments
  8. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
    117 points • by Nrbelex • last Wednesday at 6:34 PM • 59 comments
  9. Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON) (github.com)
    6 points • by PearsonZero • last Tuesday at 8:37 PM • 0 comments
  10. Reviving BrowserID in 2026 (wakamoleguy.com)
    18 points • by wakamoleguy • today at 2:38 AM • 3 comments
  11. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
    298 points • by robinhouston • last Wednesday at 7:20 AM • 62 comments
  12. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
    170 points • by tanelpoder • last Thursday at 12:14 AM • 29 comments
  13. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (www.hypertalking.com)
    549 points • by stephen-hill • last Wednesday at 1:46 PM • 89 comments
  14. Shall We Play a Game? (asteriskmag.com)
    7 points • by jger15 • last Thursday at 4:34 PM • 0 comments
  15. AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)
    22 points • by pabs3 • today at 5:06 AM • 0 comments
  16. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
    246 points • by speckx • yesterday at 4:11 PM • 135 comments
  17. My Homemade PBX (2002) (wandel.ca)
    14 points • by rickcarlino • today at 3:58 AM • 2 comments
  18. The Joy of Folding Bikes (blog.korny.info)
    138 points • by pavel_lishin • last Wednesday at 4:50 PM • 82 comments
  19. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
    102 points • by sleepyguy • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 112 comments
  20. DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (www.lmsys.org)
    31 points • by mji • yesterday at 11:44 PM • 3 comments
  21. The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    33 points • by offbyone42 • today at 12:38 AM • 3 comments
  22. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    567 points • by calcifer • yesterday at 5:56 AM • 339 comments
  23. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (miod.online.fr)
    74 points • by signa11 • last Thursday at 3:29 PM • 1 comment
  24. Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)
    97 points • by srean • yesterday at 5:21 PM • 14 comments
  25. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (dl.acm.org)
    36 points • by tosh • last Thursday at 1:34 PM • 3 comments
  26. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)
    128 points • by thehappyfellow • yesterday at 5:20 PM • 52 comments
  27. The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (www.eternal-flame.org)
    19 points • by xeonmc • last Friday at 2:07 AM • 1 comment
  28. The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    29 points • by NaOH • last Thursday at 7:33 PM • 0 comments
  29. What async promised and what it delivered (causality.blog)
    191 points • by zdw • last Wednesday at 5:28 AM • 213 comments
  30. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
    89 points • by varjag • yesterday at 5:47 PM • 39 comments
  31. What the FCC router ban means for FOSS (sfconservancy.org)
    19 points • by pabs3 • today at 4:12 AM • 5 comments
  32. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (blog.sebastianwick.net)
    73 points • by ffin • last Friday at 2:01 AM • 11 comments
  33. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games (github.com)
    170 points • by ingve • yesterday at 10:46 AM • 25 comments
  34. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)
    158 points • by adunk • yesterday at 11:10 AM • 29 comments
  35. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)
    142 points • by Murfalo • yesterday at 2:17 PM • 101 comments
  36. Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau (lute.luau.org)
    76 points • by vrn-sn • last Wednesday at 10:41 PM • 11 comments
  37. Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)
    90 points • by terminalbraid • yesterday at 10:41 PM • 29 comments
  38. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (unsung.aresluna.org)
    290 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 1:03 AM • 143 comments
  39. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com)
    122 points • by mariuz • yesterday at 10:59 AM • 44 comments
  40. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (github.com)
    352 points • by pigeons • yesterday at 12:58 AM • 45 comments
  41. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (parl.ai)
    55 points • by jxmorris12 • last Friday at 4:44 PM • 12 comments
  42. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins (www.sciencedirect.com)
    51 points • by wslh • last Wednesday at 8:42 PM • 24 comments
  43. Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements (www.phoronix.com)
    7 points • by shpat • today at 4:29 AM • 1 comment
  44. Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (www.seriouseats.com)
    132 points • by jstrieb • yesterday at 8:17 PM • 111 comments
  45. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default (hhh.hn)
    315 points • by hhh • last Friday at 7:30 PM • 96 comments
  46. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)
    76 points • by keepamovin • yesterday at 11:03 AM • 59 comments
  47. Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)
    49 points • by neo2006 • yesterday at 7:03 PM • 39 comments
  48. Mise-En-Place (mise.jdx.dev)
    13 points • by dotmanish • yesterday at 10:51 PM • 2 comments
  49. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy (www.thehistoryblog.com)
    242 points • by wise_blood • last Wednesday at 2:18 PM • 87 comments
  50. DeepSeek v4 (api-docs.deepseek.com)
    2040 points • by impact_sy • last Friday at 3:01 AM • 1554 comments