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  1. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
    504 points • by bilsbie • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 231 comments
  2. On A.I. regulation and messaging (twitter.com)
    62 points • by jacquesm • today at 1:59 AM • 94 comments
  3. Beware the Permanent Periphery (asteriskmag.com)
    28 points • by m-hodges • last Tuesday at 12:35 AM • 37 comments
  4. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
    515 points • by Narishma • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 269 comments
  5. HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons (duti.dev)
    42 points • by mindracer • today at 7:28 AM • 35 comments
  6. Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)
    286 points • by ropbear • yesterday at 9:53 PM • 282 comments
  7. The continuing "Q collar" scandal (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
    12 points • by luu • last Friday at 9:39 AM • 1 comment
  8. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    131 points • by sudo_cowsay • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 41 comments
  9. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
    665 points • by tosh • yesterday at 12:48 PM • 256 comments
  10. Linear algebra done right (linear.axler.net)
    85 points • by the-mitr • today at 5:21 AM • 36 comments
  11. Gakutensoku (en.wikipedia.org)
    32 points • by benbreen • last Thursday at 4:32 PM • 3 comments
  12. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    89 points • by erickhill • today at 1:45 AM • 10 comments
  13. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)
    87 points • by spdegabrielle • today at 12:48 AM • 28 comments
  14. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
    187 points • by Bluestein • last Tuesday at 3:36 PM • 53 comments
  15. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (support.google.com)
    118 points • by dt3ft • last Thursday at 7:07 PM • 79 comments
  16. Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
    45 points • by terranivium • 08/10/2026 • 30 comments
  17. Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)
    21 points • by mkmk • last Friday at 2:09 PM • 11 comments
  18. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    119 points • by ibobev • last Thursday at 12:44 PM • 50 comments
  19. GIMP Development Update (www.gimp.org)
    178 points • by lumpa • today at 3:08 AM • 126 comments
  20. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (www.science.org)
    46 points • by gumby • today at 12:35 AM • 14 comments
  21. Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) (breakintochat.com)
    59 points • by bananaboy • 08/09/2026 • 14 comments
  22. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (community.wolfram.com)
    43 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:40 PM • 5 comments
  23. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    292 points • by mlenhard • yesterday at 2:44 PM • 119 comments
  24. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (www.cst.cam.ac.uk)
    64 points • by hardlianotion • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 16 comments
  25. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (self)
    518 points • by stagas • yesterday at 5:49 PM • 143 comments
  26. Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com)
    45 points • by forhappy • today at 1:00 AM • 3 comments
  27. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    155 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 107 comments
  28. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)
    364 points • by zacharyozer • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 222 comments
  29. Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (infoscience.epfl.ch)
    11 points • by andsoitis • today at 2:55 AM • 1 comment
  30. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    91 points • by homarp • yesterday at 6:17 PM • 28 comments
  31. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    114 points • by emptybits • last Thursday at 3:05 AM • 19 comments
  32. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
    189 points • by ronbenton • today at 12:17 AM • 91 comments
  33. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
    81 points • by karakoram • yesterday at 2:53 PM • 71 comments
  34. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    68 points • by tobr • last Saturday at 8:15 PM • 18 comments
  35. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
    661 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 259 comments
  36. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
    211 points • by root-parent • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 107 comments
  37. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
    46 points • by _delirium • today at 5:22 AM • 23 comments
  38. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
    88 points • by lermontov • last Friday at 11:53 PM • 25 comments
  39. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    73 points • by evakhoury • last Friday at 7:52 PM • 39 comments
  40. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 points • by mayop100 • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 0 comments
  41. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    104 points • by austinallegro • yesterday at 12:16 PM • 12 comments
  42. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    146 points • by txrx0000 • last Thursday at 10:01 PM • 43 comments
  43. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    72 points • by adjohu • yesterday at 1:21 PM • 66 comments
  44. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    151 points • by abelanger • last Wednesday at 8:13 PM • 101 comments
  45. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    94 points • by matt_d • last Wednesday at 6:30 AM • 36 comments
  46. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
    229 points • by walrus01 • today at 12:14 AM • 114 comments
  47. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
    28 points • by brod_ie • last Tuesday at 3:56 PM • 5 comments
  48. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
    67 points • by sbulaev • last Wednesday at 7:07 PM • 15 comments
  49. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
    401 points • by Alifatisk • yesterday at 12:22 PM • 142 comments
  50. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    87 points • by riskone • yesterday at 10:31 AM • 50 comments