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  1. Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (lax-skyline.parcelscope.net)
    192 points • by rustywasm • yesterday at 6:52 PM • 94 comments
  2. Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon (github.com)
    35 points • by CMDDestory • yesterday at 10:12 PM • 7 comments
  3. Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (arxiv.org)
    132 points • by signa11 • last Saturday at 11:25 AM • 32 comments
  4. Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads (www.virtualizationhowto.com)
    67 points • by josephcsible • yesterday at 8:32 PM • 28 comments
  5. Working on Economics with Fable 5 (wilsoniumite.com)
    45 points • by Wilsoniumite • yesterday at 9:18 PM • 22 comments
  6. WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
    208 points • by matthieu_bl • last Thursday at 4:06 PM • 43 comments
  7. Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (www.ox.ac.uk)
    124 points • by mudil • last Friday at 8:28 PM • 28 comments
  8. TALA Is Open-Source (d2lang.com)
    7 points • by alixanderwang • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 1 comment
  9. Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra (kallus.org)
    57 points • by evakhoury • last Friday at 8:20 PM • 32 comments
  10. Show HN: I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle (jigsawhaiku.com)
    30 points • by windowshopping • last Friday at 6:14 PM • 6 comments
  11. Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
    49 points • by Lucent • last Friday at 12:40 AM • 14 comments
  12. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (www.youtube.com)
    457 points • by treve • yesterday at 12:22 AM • 704 comments
  13. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    143 points • by exploraz • last Friday at 10:47 PM • 30 comments
  14. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
    112 points • by mariuz • last Friday at 5:53 AM • 7 comments
  15. Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)
    216 points • by astroanax • yesterday at 9:26 AM • 77 comments
  16. Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)
    124 points • by worldvoyageur • last Sunday at 1:07 PM • 11 comments
  17. Macbeth and His Problems (porticoquarterly.com)
    30 points • by apophatic • yesterday at 8:34 PM • 12 comments
  18. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    179 points • by zdw • last Thursday at 11:47 PM • 59 comments
  19. Methods for Random Gradients (2024) (justinjay.wang)
    42 points • by nickswalker • last Thursday at 10:26 PM • 4 comments
  20. Decapitating a MacBook (2025) (mm-dev.rocks)
    53 points • by luu • last Sunday at 4:40 AM • 37 comments
  21. Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)
    941 points • by sonicrocketman • yesterday at 3:29 AM • 244 comments
  22. bzip3 (github.com)
    366 points • by tosh • yesterday at 1:35 PM • 104 comments
  23. My practical approach to surfing the web safely (molily.de)
    64 points • by ethanhawksley • last Wednesday at 1:49 PM • 32 comments
  24. The Dataflow Model Revisited (www.vldb.org)
    80 points • by scott_s • last Sunday at 6:10 PM • 14 comments
  25. Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work (www.nber.org)
    51 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 7:06 PM • 37 comments
  26. Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000) (www.nature.com)
    12 points • by stefanpie • last Sunday at 7:15 AM • 4 comments
  27. Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
    184 points • by coinfused • yesterday at 9:02 AM • 77 comments
  28. Whistle Synth Mac App (www.jefftk.com)
    59 points • by luu • last Friday at 9:44 AM • 14 comments
  29. She Also Found It at the Movies (hedgehogreview.com)
    19 points • by prismatic • last Friday at 2:04 PM • 4 comments
  30. How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform (werwolv.net)
    67 points • by WerWolv • last Thursday at 5:57 PM • 5 comments
  31. Schemy Lisp En DOS (sled.neocities.org)
    27 points • by AlexeyBrin • last Sunday at 12:58 PM • 5 comments
  32. Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs (vllm.ai)
    126 points • by ankitg12 • yesterday at 9:26 AM • 46 comments
  33. Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive (www.economist.com)
    66 points • by MrBuddyCasino • yesterday at 10:38 AM • 96 comments
  34. A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on (electrek.co)
    128 points • by FabHK • yesterday at 8:21 PM • 76 comments
  35. Every novel is boring until it isn't (www.publicbooks.org)
    71 points • by samclemens • last Thursday at 7:10 PM • 60 comments
  36. Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    33 points • by Brajeshwar • last Saturday at 3:22 PM • 13 comments
  37. Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003) (www.techemails.com)
    342 points • by highfrequency • yesterday at 3:27 PM • 227 comments
  38. Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host (github.com)
    22 points • by vsergione • yesterday at 4:43 PM • 6 comments
  39. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? (self)
    284 points • by jmpman • last Saturday at 2:54 PM • 152 comments
  40. Impedance Matching (2017) (www.edge.org)
    76 points • by muti • yesterday at 9:52 AM • 22 comments
  41. The NX bit is not just about security (purplesyringa.moe)
    85 points • by torutofu • last Friday at 1:47 PM • 47 comments
  42. Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements (www.theregister.com)
    270 points • by mdp2021 • yesterday at 11:46 AM • 149 comments
  43. I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer (claytonwramsey.com)
    103 points • by claytonwramsey • last Thursday at 2:20 PM • 88 comments
  44. De-Brainrot Vacations (devz.cl)
    462 points • by DanielVZ • yesterday at 1:00 PM • 187 comments
  45. The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs (tiiny.ai)
    18 points • by alex-moon • yesterday at 9:09 PM • 16 comments
  46. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
    307 points • by azhenley • last Sunday at 11:14 PM • 103 comments
  47. Academia as a d-index measuring contest (kevinmunger.substack.com)
    28 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 12:40 PM • 4 comments
  48. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? (self)
    290 points • by imadtaieber • last Sunday at 7:27 PM • 260 comments
  49. Splash-free urinals (2025) (academic.oup.com)
    218 points • by u1hcw9nx • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 120 comments
  50. Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
    51 points • by aggrrrh • yesterday at 4:18 AM • 12 comments