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  1. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
    443 points • by alexharri • today at 11:15 AM • 57 comments
  2. We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (labs.ramp.com)
    119 points • by iamwil • last Monday at 2:28 PM • 46 comments
  3. An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (www.bbc.com)
    12 points • by Tachyooon • today at 4:53 PM • 6 comments
  4. Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information (www.quantamagazine.org)
    11 points • by 7777777phil • today at 4:17 PM • 0 comments
  5. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (www.bbc.com)
    63 points • by 1659447091 • today at 11:51 AM • 30 comments
  6. The Dilbert Afterlife (www.astralcodexten.com)
    278 points • by rendall • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 176 comments
  7. Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com)
    136 points • by originalankur • today at 10:13 AM • 48 comments
  8. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
    152 points • by tin7in • today at 9:15 AM • 68 comments
  9. East Germany balloon escape (en.wikipedia.org)
    616 points • by robertvc • yesterday at 5:16 PM • 260 comments
  10. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com)
    101 points • by el_pa_b • today at 8:46 AM • 31 comments
  11. Escaping the trap of US tech dependence (disconnect.blog)
    36 points • by laurex • today at 4:15 PM • 23 comments
  12. Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
    900 points • by todotask2 • yesterday at 2:25 PM • 378 comments
  13. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
    9 points • by kurinikku • today at 5:20 AM • 0 comments
  14. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
    243 points • by doener • today at 10:28 AM • 220 comments
  15. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (www.theguardian.com)
    98 points • by c420 • today at 7:29 AM • 96 comments
  16. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
    65 points • by 7777777phil • today at 1:44 PM • 23 comments
  17. The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)
    10 points • by sinak • today at 4:43 PM • 0 comments
  18. The recurring dream of replacing developers (www.caimito.net)
    87 points • by glimshe • today at 2:31 PM • 75 comments
  19. Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
    650 points • by embedding-shape • yesterday at 2:37 PM • 285 comments
  20. Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go (dsifry.github.io)
    7 points • by dsifry • today at 9:55 AM • 6 comments
  21. 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
    10 points • by zdw • last Monday at 3:56 AM • 9 comments
  22. High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
    207 points • by tobr • last Thursday at 11:01 AM • 96 comments
  23. 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
    450 points • by jaas • yesterday at 3:37 PM • 250 comments
  24. An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999) (www.doom2.net)
    5 points • by Lammy • today at 10:29 AM • 1 comment
  25. Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020) (www.freep.com)
    27 points • by rmason • last Monday at 8:11 PM • 2 comments
  26. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
    192 points • by GaggiX • yesterday at 11:46 PM • 53 comments
  27. PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
    147 points • by smurda • today at 10:51 AM • 159 comments
  28. Architecture for Disposable Systems (tuananh.net)
    42 points • by tuananh • today at 11:18 AM • 24 comments
  29. 2025 was the third hottest year on record (www.economist.com)
    3 points • by andsoitis • today at 5:29 PM • 0 comments
  30. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
    327 points • by vitaelabitur • last Thursday at 4:46 PM • 54 comments
  31. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
    116 points • by tripdout • today at 2:35 AM • 22 comments
  32. After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (www.niemanlab.org)
    157 points • by giuliomagnifico • today at 10:29 AM • 166 comments
  33. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (www.lesswrong.com)
    76 points • by OgsyedIE • last Wednesday at 12:01 PM • 42 comments
  34. Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes (systemstack.dev)
    9 points • by entaloneralie • today at 4:44 PM • 1 comment
  35. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? (self)
    129 points • by newbebee • today at 2:29 AM • 133 comments
  36. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
    142 points • by linolevan • yesterday at 9:42 PM • 81 comments
  37. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (www.npr.org)
    72 points • by backpackerBMW • today at 12:59 PM • 57 comments
  38. Show HN: Microwave – Native iOS app for videos on ATproto (testflight.apple.com)
    31 points • by sinned • last Tuesday at 5:14 PM • 9 comments
  39. AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 (aomedia.org)
    49 points • by breve • today at 11:09 AM • 3 comments
  40. Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use (cortwave.github.io)
    27 points • by cortwave • last Monday at 1:30 PM • 4 comments
  41. Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
    262 points • by cebert • yesterday at 5:14 PM • 321 comments
  42. 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
  43. STFU (github.com)
    938 points • by tanelpoder • yesterday at 5:32 PM • 555 comments
  44. Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
    126 points • by gmays • yesterday at 6:49 PM • 35 comments
  45. The five orders of ignorance (2000) (cacm.acm.org)
    81 points • by svilen_dobrev • last Monday at 1:00 PM • 21 comments
  46. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com)
    57 points • by indigodaddy • today at 12:32 AM • 9 comments
  47. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (www.mintlify.com)
    90 points • by npmipg • yesterday at 10:15 PM • 108 comments
  48. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
    88 points • by giuliomagnifico • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 84 comments
  49. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
    107 points • by todsacerdoti • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 24 comments
  50. HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
    78 points • by zdw • last Wednesday at 4:29 PM • 13 comments