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  1. A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
    195 points • by aanet • last Wednesday at 9:44 PM • 37 comments
  2. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    625 points • by tosh • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 375 comments
  3. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
    233 points • by moelf • yesterday at 10:24 PM • 80 comments
  4. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
    87 points • by epestr • today at 7:04 AM • 24 comments
  5. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
    658 points • by RickJWagner • yesterday at 12:42 PM • 725 comments
  6. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
    344 points • by piotrgrabowski • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 85 comments
  7. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
    18 points • by csmantle • last Sunday at 4:53 AM • 1 comment
  8. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (www.space.com)
    234 points • by wglb • today at 1:49 AM • 44 comments
  9. SupererDuperer (www.shirtpocket.com)
    103 points • by zdw • 08/01/2026 • 20 comments
  10. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
    206 points • by aagha • yesterday at 6:51 PM • 65 comments
  11. Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (en.wikipedia.org)
    4 points • by dieselgate • last Monday at 5:11 PM • 0 comments
  12. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (www.databricks.com)
    236 points • by moonikakiss • yesterday at 6:25 PM • 202 comments
  13. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)
    298 points • by Meleagris • today at 1:12 AM • 142 comments
  14. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
    82 points • by yk • last Tuesday at 4:32 PM • 31 comments
  15. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (www.ign.com)
    365 points • by inigyou • yesterday at 7:58 AM • 324 comments
  16. From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
    15 points • by denismenace • last Tuesday at 2:21 PM • 0 comments
  17. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (www.sdss.org)
    169 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 38 comments
  18. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    183 points • by artninja1988 • yesterday at 4:39 PM • 175 comments
  19. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    165 points • by cckolon • 08/01/2026 • 21 comments
  20. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)
    471 points • by delduca • yesterday at 5:36 PM • 331 comments
  21. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (www.sciencealert.com)
    145 points • by jnord • yesterday at 12:45 PM • 102 comments
  22. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
    286 points • by poly2it • yesterday at 11:00 AM • 139 comments
  23. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
    193 points • by m3h • yesterday at 10:42 AM • 50 comments
  24. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com)
    70 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:51 PM • 4 comments
  25. Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)
    70 points • by birdculture • last Monday at 4:15 PM • 7 comments
  26. Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (www.theregister.com)
    194 points • by Bender • yesterday at 9:19 PM • 126 comments
  27. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
    34 points • by msephton • last Sunday at 8:19 PM • 9 comments
  28. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (www.theguardian.com)
    763 points • by boplicity • yesterday at 12:06 AM • 406 comments
  29. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    74 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 3:10 PM • 10 comments
  30. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
    901 points • by itvision • last Thursday at 8:23 PM • 681 comments
  31. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)
    199 points • by v0id_isgood • yesterday at 12:28 PM • 108 comments
  32. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    169 points • by stagas • yesterday at 10:52 AM • 67 comments
  33. Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (web.archive.org)
    61 points • by dnnehgf • today at 3:41 AM • 18 comments
  34. Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)
    60 points • by bookofjoe • last Monday at 4:52 PM • 38 comments
  35. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    229 points • by willcarkner • last Thursday at 3:59 PM • 155 comments
  36. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
    420 points • by petercooper • yesterday at 2:51 PM • 383 comments
  37. Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
    1154 points • by theanonymousone • last Thursday at 11:24 AM • 165 comments
  38. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
    212 points • by gnabgib • last Thursday at 9:52 PM • 35 comments
  39. Atomic Clocks (www.nist.gov)
    136 points • by teleforce • 07/31/2026 • 79 comments
  40. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    39 points • by 4pkjai • last Sunday at 5:53 AM • 19 comments
  41. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
    76 points • by rramadass • last Sunday at 2:58 PM • 69 comments
  42. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    666 points • by tsak • last Thursday at 5:01 PM • 523 comments
  43. Captain Bible Reverse Engineering (github.com)
    29 points • by peterkelly • last Sunday at 5:38 PM • 2 comments
  44. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
    137 points • by allenc • last Tuesday at 3:46 AM • 109 comments
  45. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (www.bbc.com)
    150 points • by koolhead17 • last Tuesday at 2:50 AM • 54 comments
  46. Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system (www.righto.com)
    27 points • by geerlingguy • last Sunday at 7:56 PM • 5 comments
  47. What is a product? (roge.onwrite.app)
    99 points • by rogix • last Thursday at 9:16 PM • 64 comments
  48. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (blog.stackdump.com)
    69 points • by m_kos • last Monday at 5:34 PM • 23 comments
  49. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (www.typestax.com)
    57 points • by jasim • 07/30/2026 • 19 comments
  50. The BBC Tetris Companion (www.leadedsolder.com)
    78 points • by zdw • 07/29/2026 • 11 comments