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  1. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (www.quantamagazine.org)
    67 points • by jnord • today at 9:08 AM • 26 comments
  2. The Vespa at 80: Why the Italian scooter remains the coolest thing on 2 wheels (www.cbc.ca)
    33 points • by cf100clunk • last Wednesday at 1:22 PM • 24 comments
  3. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)
    466 points • by gslin • today at 6:32 AM • 291 comments
  4. Maybe you should learn something (www.marginalia.nu)
    184 points • by tylerdane • today at 3:36 AM • 83 comments
  5. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (www.databricks.com)
    65 points • by andrenotgiant • last Wednesday at 12:48 PM • 21 comments
  6. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (www.wafer.ai)
    282 points • by latchkey • yesterday at 9:49 PM • 101 comments
  7. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    283 points • by programLyrique • yesterday at 10:33 PM • 83 comments
  8. Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
    112 points • by clmul • last Tuesday at 8:50 PM • 49 comments
  9. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
    448 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 3:14 PM • 411 comments
  10. Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (en.wikipedia.org)
    9 points • by gverrilla • last Tuesday at 6:24 PM • 0 comments
  11. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (news.exeter.ac.uk)
    227 points • by hhs • yesterday at 10:40 PM • 102 comments
  12. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com)
    161 points • by zdw • yesterday at 10:39 PM • 36 comments
  13. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    126 points • by gm678 • today at 4:37 AM • 60 comments
  14. MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
    109 points • by MrBruh • today at 12:57 AM • 44 comments
  15. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    112 points • by azhenley • today at 2:45 AM • 25 comments
  16. FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)
    161 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 7:08 PM • 64 comments
  17. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)
    368 points • by livestyle • yesterday at 3:03 PM • 167 comments
  18. SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com)
    235 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 8:15 PM • 64 comments
  19. 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (www.hyperstitionai.com)
    28 points • by networked • today at 5:37 AM • 78 comments
  20. The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)
    109 points • by zdw • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 20 comments
  21. Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (www.irishtimes.com)
    15 points • by austinallegro • last Tuesday at 9:45 PM • 8 comments
  22. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    185 points • by stock_toaster • yesterday at 11:24 PM • 241 comments
  23. The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (rookandpossum.com)
    24 points • by kouosi • last Wednesday at 1:28 PM • 2 comments
  24. New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)
    126 points • by cubefox • yesterday at 9:16 PM • 52 comments
  25. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    108 points • by zdw • today at 12:35 AM • 25 comments
  26. Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (blog.archive.org)
    85 points • by wslh • last Tuesday at 9:48 PM • 29 comments
  27. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com)
    26 points • by dataviz1000 • last Wednesday at 4:57 PM • 1 comment
  28. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (math.ucr.edu)
    128 points • by measurablefunc • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 11 comments
  29. Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)
    256 points • by arbesman • yesterday at 3:13 PM • 107 comments
  30. Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+ (ubuntu.com)
    220 points • by peterparker204 • last Tuesday at 11:07 AM • 27 comments
  31. Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces (self)
    20 points • by bhaktatejas922 • last Tuesday at 8:52 PM • 2 comments
  32. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by akh • yesterday at 9:00 PM • 0 comments
  33. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    115 points • by djoldman • yesterday at 6:11 PM • 119 comments
  34. David Beazley – Programming Courses (www.dabeaz.com)
    115 points • by gregsadetsky • today at 5:43 AM • 31 comments
  35. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    304 points • by indy • yesterday at 8:50 AM • 101 comments
  36. Study reveals what people see when they read lips (news.ku.edu)
    20 points • by giuliomagnifico • last Wednesday at 5:21 AM • 7 comments
  37. Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
    21 points • by davidslv • last Tuesday at 5:10 PM • 5 comments
  38. Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
    397 points • by ledoge • yesterday at 8:38 PM • 103 comments
  39. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (www.ubicloud.com)
    174 points • by furkansahin • yesterday at 1:00 PM • 107 comments
  40. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (www.fide.com)
    157 points • by DarkContinent • yesterday at 5:04 PM • 94 comments
  41. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
    1292 points • by weli • yesterday at 8:23 AM • 387 comments
  42. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    175 points • by OuterVale • 06/27/2026 • 67 comments
  43. Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com)
    38 points • by Rochus • last Tuesday at 4:28 PM • 14 comments
  44. Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition (www.catf.us)
    8 points • by bryanrasmussen • today at 7:53 AM • 1 comment
  45. Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models (chenliu-1996.github.io)
    39 points • by E-Reverance • yesterday at 10:35 PM • 8 comments
  46. GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card (gitfut.com)
    57 points • by redbell • yesterday at 10:34 PM • 24 comments
  47. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? (self)
    159 points • by yehiaabdelm • yesterday at 6:21 AM • 175 comments
  48. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com)
    122 points • by MegagramEnjoyer • last Thursday at 7:29 PM • 30 comments
  49. Africans Are Turning to Starlink (www.economist.com)
    169 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 9:08 PM • 208 comments
  50. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
    566 points • by ahlCVA • yesterday at 1:01 PM • 108 comments