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  1. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
    40 points • by ronbenton • today at 12:17 AM • 11 comments
  2. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
    371 points • by Narishma • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 196 comments
  3. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
    539 points • by tosh • yesterday at 12:48 PM • 227 comments
  4. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    27 points • by bilsbie • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 8 comments
  5. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)
    7 points • by spdegabrielle • today at 12:48 AM • 3 comments
  6. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    72 points • by ibobev • last Thursday at 12:44 PM • 32 comments
  7. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
    92 points • by Bluestein • last Tuesday at 3:36 PM • 25 comments
  8. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    267 points • by hruvhwe • yesterday at 7:04 PM • 148 comments
  9. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    45 points • by evakhoury • last Friday at 7:52 PM • 16 comments
  10. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    225 points • by mlenhard • yesterday at 2:44 PM • 88 comments
  11. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    107 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 77 comments
  12. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    9 points • by sudo_cowsay • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 1 comment
  13. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (community.wolfram.com)
    8 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:40 PM • 1 comment
  14. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    60 points • by homarp • yesterday at 6:17 PM • 18 comments
  15. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
    31 points • by walrus01 • today at 12:14 AM • 0 comments
  16. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    84 points • by emptybits • last Thursday at 3:05 AM • 9 comments
  17. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
    99 points • by root-parent • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 28 comments
  18. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
    61 points • by lermontov • last Friday at 11:53 PM • 13 comments
  19. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    46 points • by tobr • last Saturday at 8:15 PM • 13 comments
  20. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
    537 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 218 comments
  21. Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite" (breakintochat.com)
    5 points • by bananaboy • 08/09/2026 • 0 comments
  22. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (self)
    281 points • by stagas • yesterday at 5:49 PM • 68 comments
  23. Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (www.bloomberg.com)
    192 points • by zacharyozer • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 141 comments
  24. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 points • by mayop100 • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 0 comments
  25. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
    158 points • by toomuchtodo • yesterday at 3:16 PM • 121 comments
  26. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    85 points • by austinallegro • yesterday at 12:16 PM • 9 comments
  27. 2,085 Tests, and None of Them Opens the Front Door (i.brandanthonymcdonald.com)
    4 points • by aweful • last Thursday at 10:50 AM • 9 comments
  28. Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone (brennan.day)
    10 points • by OuterVale • today at 12:04 AM • 3 comments
  29. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
    25 points • by brod_ie • last Tuesday at 3:56 PM • 3 comments
  30. Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI (www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
    9 points • by hardlianotion • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 0 comments
  31. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    83 points • by matt_d • last Wednesday at 6:30 AM • 34 comments
  32. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    134 points • by txrx0000 • last Thursday at 10:01 PM • 39 comments
  33. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    271 points • by pdet • 08/10/2026 • 31 comments
  34. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    81 points • by ghuntley • yesterday at 8:38 PM • 77 comments
  35. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
    138 points • by brandonb • yesterday at 4:14 PM • 68 comments
  36. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    25 points • by samclemens • last Wednesday at 10:46 PM • 3 comments
  37. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    263 points • by felixbraun • last Saturday at 8:54 PM • 62 comments
  38. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
    358 points • by Alifatisk • yesterday at 12:22 PM • 130 comments
  39. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)
    24 points • by yareally • last Thursday at 12:02 AM • 10 comments
  40. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    139 points • by abelanger • last Wednesday at 8:13 PM • 93 comments
  41. Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons (www.sciencedaily.com)
    3 points • by gradus_ad • today at 1:10 AM • 0 comments
  42. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
    64 points • by sbulaev • last Wednesday at 7:07 PM • 15 comments
  43. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (www.youtube.com)
    7 points • by eig • today at 12:07 AM • 2 comments
  44. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
    147 points • by ropbear • yesterday at 9:53 PM • 155 comments
  45. The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
    178 points • by lentil_soup • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 119 comments
  46. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    111 points • by Eridanus2 • yesterday at 1:26 AM • 27 comments
  47. Israeli minister calls for killing '30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly (www.aljazeera.com)
    17 points • by LAC-Tech • today at 1:02 AM • 4 comments
  48. Kindred Sciences Unveils First Dogs Genetically Edited to Remove Dog Allergen (www.businesswire.com)
    5 points • by ca98am79 • today at 12:09 AM • 0 comments
  49. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (www.slowtravelberlin.com)
    15 points • by yitchelle • last Thursday at 7:10 AM • 3 comments
  50. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    77 points • by riskone • yesterday at 10:31 AM • 45 comments