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  1. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    342 points • by laurentiurad • yesterday at 7:16 PM • 193 comments
  2. "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
    15 points • by Thevet • last Friday at 4:04 AM • 1 comment
  3. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    60 points • by berghoffer • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 28 comments
  4. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)
    543 points • by satvikpendem • yesterday at 1:20 PM • 248 comments
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (self)
    151 points • by david927 • yesterday at 5:23 PM • 574 comments
  6. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (www.economist.com)
    64 points • by simonpure • yesterday at 7:43 PM • 30 comments
  7. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
    164 points • by jader201 • yesterday at 3:21 PM • 123 comments
  8. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (www.w3.org)
    173 points • by Klaster_1 • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 35 comments
  9. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    29 points • by jackdoe • last Thursday at 10:41 PM • 15 comments
  10. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    28 points • by smartmic • yesterday at 8:48 PM • 10 comments
  11. The Hacker's Renaissance (phrack.org)
    81 points • by yu3zhou4 • yesterday at 8:18 PM • 53 comments
  12. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    60 points • by gregsadetsky • yesterday at 6:41 PM • 30 comments
  13. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    97 points • by hexomancer • yesterday at 5:27 PM • 53 comments
  14. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
    9 points • by tosh • last Thursday at 4:59 AM • 0 comments
  15. Everything you do is being recorded (www.theatlantic.com)
    187 points • by ike_usawa • yesterday at 11:30 AM • 150 comments
  16. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    119 points • by Kiboneu • yesterday at 1:47 PM • 74 comments
  17. The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (www.science.org)
    26 points • by toomuchtodo • yesterday at 8:35 PM • 37 comments
  18. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (www.wtoc.com)
    58 points • by chirau • yesterday at 9:20 PM • 26 comments
  19. How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (www.newyorker.com)
    33 points • by tintinnabula • last Thursday at 5:08 PM • 17 comments
  20. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
    338 points • by akyuu • yesterday at 3:11 PM • 282 comments
  21. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)
    102 points • by Rochus • yesterday at 12:43 PM • 16 comments
  22. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    114 points • by tremguy • yesterday at 11:39 AM • 85 comments
  23. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    178 points • by gukoff • yesterday at 7:19 AM • 31 comments
  24. When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    31 points • by rbanffy • last Wednesday at 8:27 AM • 5 comments
  25. To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes (www.nytimes.com)
    23 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 10:00 PM • 14 comments
  26. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    18 points • by johnchinjew • yesterday at 8:15 PM • 10 comments
  27. Crickets as pets (en.wikipedia.org)
    75 points • by Michelangelo11 • last Wednesday at 2:18 PM • 33 comments
  28. AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (www.abc.net.au)
    23 points • by stared • yesterday at 9:52 PM • 6 comments
  29. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    79 points • by Lammy • yesterday at 10:06 AM • 64 comments
  30. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com)
    42 points • by eighttrigrams • yesterday at 3:25 PM • 10 comments
  31. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (www.techeblog.com)
    205 points • by Thorondor • yesterday at 3:08 PM • 67 comments
  32. If experience is the goal, then you always win (www.startingfromnix.com)
    55 points • by jger15 • yesterday at 6:42 PM • 7 comments
  33. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (pubsonline.informs.org)
    182 points • by iamnothere • yesterday at 3:26 PM • 85 comments
  34. Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" (github.com)
    11 points • by jonatanholmgren • yesterday at 6:28 PM • 2 comments
  35. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (blog.andymasley.com)
    92 points • by mef • yesterday at 8:15 PM • 70 comments
  36. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (www.shayon.dev)
    55 points • by shayonj • yesterday at 3:36 PM • 19 comments
  37. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (terrytao.wordpress.com)
    27 points • by ijustlovemath • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 2 comments
  38. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    233 points • by evo_9 • yesterday at 3:18 PM • 181 comments
  39. Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices (blog.raed.dev)
    17 points • by Raed667 • yesterday at 7:41 PM • 27 comments
  40. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com)
    13 points • by nmaroulis21 • yesterday at 5:10 PM • 0 comments
  41. UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account (unyolo.io)
    14 points • by hosolmaz • yesterday at 3:53 PM • 2 comments
  42. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (www.youtube.com)
    74 points • by johnbarron • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 124 comments
  43. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    122 points • by michaefe • last Wednesday at 4:11 AM • 35 comments
  44. Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s (text.npr.org)
    11 points • by mooreds • yesterday at 10:02 PM • 5 comments
  45. Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance (arks.org)
    4 points • by cxr • yesterday at 8:28 PM • 0 comments
  46. Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease (consciousnesslibrary.org)
    8 points • by elliotec • yesterday at 8:27 PM • 7 comments
  47. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    26 points • by dosinga • yesterday at 2:30 PM • 5 comments
  48. A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite (github.com)
    25 points • by thunderbong • yesterday at 6:59 PM • 3 comments
  49. Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances (www.tomshardware.com)
    20 points • by sbulaev • yesterday at 7:07 PM • 1 comment
  50. Cross-compilation with Wails (2025) (chriswheeler.dev)
    6 points • by auraham • last Wednesday at 8:29 PM • 2 comments