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  1. Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)
    990 points • by minimaxir • yesterday at 5:06 PM • 618 comments
  2. Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (www.economist.com)
    20 points • by edward • last Thursday at 6:42 PM • 40 comments
  3. WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (www.sfwriter.com)
    89 points • by droidjj • today at 3:30 AM • 35 comments
  4. Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (www.fosslinux.com)
    29 points • by tapanjk • last Thursday at 4:06 AM • 4 comments
  5. Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (physics.stackexchange.com)
    230 points • by ProxyTracer • yesterday at 10:43 PM • 109 comments
  6. IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering (github.com)
    22 points • by userbinator • today at 5:17 AM • 5 comments
  7. OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1 (www.openttd.org)
    146 points • by untilted • today at 4:31 AM • 19 comments
  8. U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (www.semafor.com)
    423 points • by bobrenjc93 • yesterday at 10:48 PM • 455 comments
  9. AI in mathematics is forcing big questions (spectrum.ieee.org)
    117 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 10:36 PM • 85 comments
  10. MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (aws.amazon.com)
    328 points • by justincormack • last Tuesday at 9:39 AM • 187 comments
  11. Fusion Programming Language (fusion-lang.org)
    67 points • by efrecon • last Wednesday at 11:27 AM • 29 comments
  12. Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression (kirill.korins.ky)
    56 points • by zX41ZdbW • last Monday at 6:17 PM • 15 comments
  13. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (popflame.quickish.space)
    68 points • by PaybackTony • today at 12:43 AM • 14 comments
  14. SCC Technical Assistance Program (nerocam.com)
    16 points • by luu • last Wednesday at 8:46 AM • 1 comment
  15. U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (www.washingtonpost.com)
    1013 points • by alain94040 • yesterday at 6:23 PM • 1065 comments
  16. Om (daringfireball.net)
    353 points • by throw0101a • yesterday at 11:33 PM • 15 comments
  17. Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
    74 points • by hhs • yesterday at 11:36 PM • 20 comments
  18. We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (www.eff.org)
    390 points • by hn_acker • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 130 comments
  19. Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)
    53 points • by signa11 • today at 2:41 AM • 9 comments
  20. Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)
    276 points • by rossant • yesterday at 11:51 AM • 114 comments
  21. The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (blog.doubleword.ai)
    200 points • by kkm • yesterday at 9:14 PM • 165 comments
  22. Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 (medium.com)
    3 points • by snikolaev • yesterday at 4:13 AM • 0 comments
  23. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com)
    60 points • by KraftyOne • last Wednesday at 5:20 PM • 9 comments
  24. A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing (github.com)
    90 points • by gjvc • yesterday at 9:18 PM • 16 comments
  25. What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? (lefakkomies.github.io)
    118 points • by Eridanus2 • yesterday at 5:24 PM • 19 comments
  26. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor (github.com)
    167 points • by adchurch • yesterday at 4:40 PM • 97 comments
  27. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It (acoup.blog)
    93 points • by jfoucher • yesterday at 6:04 PM • 17 comments
  28. A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels (healeycodes.com)
    43 points • by healeycodes • last Thursday at 1:32 PM • 5 comments
  29. Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
    1 points • by joshwget • yesterday at 9:00 PM • 0 comments
  30. Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf] (www.foster77.co.uk)
    37 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:00 PM • 17 comments
  31. A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
    66 points • by EndEntire • last Wednesday at 2:29 PM • 18 comments
  32. The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum (svpow.com)
    73 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:45 PM • 7 comments
  33. Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial (evmar.github.io)
    41 points • by joecobb • yesterday at 9:17 PM • 2 comments
  34. Software Is Becoming Marketing (www.terezatizkova.com)
    15 points • by tylerdane • today at 2:26 AM • 8 comments
  35. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
    188 points • by speckx • last Tuesday at 5:45 PM • 181 comments
  36. PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts (kotaku.com)
    265 points • by ortusdux • yesterday at 8:07 PM • 145 comments
  37. LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers (www.swiftlatex.com)
    102 points • by theanonymousone • last Tuesday at 8:04 PM • 33 comments
  38. Modern GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
    75 points • by crowwork • last Tuesday at 11:38 AM • 15 comments
  39. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)
    1653 points • by verditelabs • last Thursday at 3:48 PM • 362 comments
  40. Om Malik has died (om.co)
    1312 points • by minimaxir • last Thursday at 8:33 PM • 163 comments
  41. Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory (gossamer-lang.org)
    79 points • by mwheeler • yesterday at 6:32 PM • 71 comments
  42. Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)
    119 points • by amichail • last Monday at 10:43 PM • 17 comments
  43. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com)
    22 points • by leschak • last Thursday at 1:58 PM • 2 comments
  44. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram (nsspot.herokuapp.com)
    7 points • by jupr • last Wednesday at 7:23 PM • 3 comments
  45. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com)
    89 points • by ddecoene • last Wednesday at 8:46 AM • 27 comments
  46. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted (self)
    90 points • by gcanyon • yesterday at 9:54 PM • 38 comments
  47. Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks (kamod-ch.github.io)
    5 points • by zahir777 • last Wednesday at 11:17 AM • 1 comment
  48. AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails (www.agent-kits.com)
    24 points • by stoicstoic • yesterday at 9:19 PM • 0 comments
  49. Is America becoming a gerontocracy? (www.economist.com)
    35 points • by littlexsparkee • today at 6:22 AM • 42 comments
  50. NLNet Labs LLM Policy (nlnetlabs.nl)
    5 points • by birdculture • today at 7:41 AM • 1 comment