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  1. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    189 points • by seg6 • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 78 comments
  2. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    96 points • by jggonz • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 37 comments
  3. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (www.redblobgames.com)
    129 points • by bobbiechen • 07/28/2026 • 15 comments
  4. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
    352 points • by groomlake • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 176 comments
  5. Dithered QR Codes (www.andrewt.net)
    87 points • by jmusall • yesterday at 11:05 PM • 12 comments
  6. "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011) (longbets.org)
    3 points • by doubletwoyou • today at 4:30 AM • 0 comments
  7. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
    101 points • by adletbalzhanov • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 64 comments
  8. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (www.nature.com)
    30 points • by davidbarker • 08/02/2026 • 1 comment
  9. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    369 points • by shaunpud • yesterday at 1:26 PM • 136 comments
  10. Incentives Are for Losers (www.experimental-history.com)
    14 points • by bkudria • today at 1:49 AM • 3 comments
  11. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (www.bbc.com)
    33 points • by cwwc • today at 1:55 AM • 17 comments
  12. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    108 points • by MarcoDewey • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 25 comments
  13. Making difficulty curves in games (www.davetech.co.uk)
    82 points • by hakkikonu • last Wednesday at 9:59 AM • 32 comments
  14. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video] (gdcvault.com)
    34 points • by hyperific • last Wednesday at 6:42 AM • 7 comments
  15. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (academic.oup.com)
    12 points • by bohaska • today at 12:59 AM • 1 comment
  16. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    48 points • by minimaxir • today at 3:26 AM • 3 comments
  17. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
    152 points • by electricant • yesterday at 1:33 PM • 29 comments
  18. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
    53 points • by robinpdev • 08/01/2026 • 3 comments
  19. TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    12 points • by frozenseven • today at 1:23 AM • 0 comments
  20. DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler (github.com)
    29 points • by aboardRat4 • last Monday at 4:13 AM • 5 comments
  21. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (www.science.org)
    51 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 3:03 PM • 3 comments
  22. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
    247 points • by ilamont • last Friday at 8:25 PM • 181 comments
  23. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
    180 points • by gumby • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 139 comments
  24. Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake (jakearchibald.com)
    11 points • by robin_reala • 07/28/2026 • 1 comment
  25. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
    635 points • by senko • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 396 comments
  26. Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)
    88 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 3:34 PM • 37 comments
  27. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    540 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:09 PM • 248 comments
  28. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (software.rajivprab.com)
    13 points • by whack • last Monday at 7:35 PM • 8 comments
  29. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    24 points • by Eloissssss • today at 2:01 AM • 13 comments
  30. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (www.bbc.com)
    27 points • by tchalla • yesterday at 10:36 PM • 31 comments
  31. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    109 points • by rfarley04 • yesterday at 12:31 PM • 92 comments
  32. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
    51 points • by skibz • yesterday at 5:42 PM • 14 comments
  33. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
    402 points • by bhavansig • yesterday at 9:18 AM • 121 comments
  34. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    80 points • by rahen • yesterday at 1:28 PM • 13 comments
  35. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    376 points • by 882542F3884314B • yesterday at 10:57 AM • 362 comments
  36. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    70 points • by kkgupta • last Tuesday at 1:37 AM • 11 comments
  37. What makes companies dodge taxes? (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
    5 points • by hhs • today at 1:03 AM • 0 comments
  38. From your doorbell to your home network (adepts.of0x.cc)
    80 points • by mmoogle • last Wednesday at 12:43 AM • 10 comments
  39. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (web.njit.edu)
    32 points • by pseudolus • yesterday at 8:37 PM • 13 comments
  40. Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age (itsfoss.com)
    5 points • by WaitWaitWha • today at 4:03 AM • 0 comments
  41. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
    274 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 10:04 AM • 422 comments
  42. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)
    101 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 63 comments
  43. A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S. (www.npr.org)
    16 points • by toomuchtodo • today at 1:35 AM • 7 comments
  44. Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results (github.com)
    4 points • by turaainet • today at 12:13 AM • 0 comments
  45. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
    426 points • by aanet • last Wednesday at 9:44 PM • 97 comments
  46. ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)
    69 points • by csmantle • 08/02/2026 • 9 comments
  47. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    768 points • by tosh • last Friday at 5:56 PM • 460 comments
  48. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
    996 points • by RickJWagner • last Friday at 12:42 PM • 1205 comments
  49. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
    157 points • by happosai • yesterday at 1:55 PM • 106 comments
  50. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (unsung.aresluna.org)
    212 points • by allenc • last Tuesday at 3:46 AM • 167 comments