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  1. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
    358 points • by Narishma • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 189 comments
  2. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
    526 points • by tosh • yesterday at 12:48 PM • 222 comments
  3. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)
    12 points • by ronbenton • today at 12:17 AM • 0 comments
  4. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
    67 points • by ibobev • last Thursday at 12:44 PM • 29 comments
  5. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (wiki.lowtechlab.org)
    88 points • by Bluestein • last Tuesday at 3:36 PM • 22 comments
  6. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
    37 points • by evakhoury • last Friday at 7:52 PM • 13 comments
  7. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    104 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 76 comments
  8. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    222 points • by mlenhard • yesterday at 2:44 PM • 88 comments
  9. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    255 points • by hruvhwe • yesterday at 7:04 PM • 146 comments
  10. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    54 points • by homarp • yesterday at 6:17 PM • 17 comments
  11. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
    90 points • by root-parent • yesterday at 9:07 PM • 22 comments
  12. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    81 points • by emptybits • last Thursday at 3:05 AM • 8 comments
  13. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (community.wolfram.com)
    5 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 12:40 PM • 0 comments
  14. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
    58 points • by lermontov • last Friday at 11:53 PM • 13 comments
  15. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    44 points • by tobr • last Saturday at 8:15 PM • 12 comments
  16. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
    525 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 217 comments
  17. Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (www.bloomberg.com)
    175 points • by zacharyozer • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 124 comments
  18. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
    155 points • by toomuchtodo • yesterday at 3:16 PM • 116 comments
  19. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (self)
    267 points • by stagas • yesterday at 5:49 PM • 63 comments
  20. Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone (brennan.day)
    7 points • by OuterVale • today at 12:04 AM • 1 comment
  21. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
    135 points • by brandonb • yesterday at 4:14 PM • 67 comments
  22. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    78 points • by ghuntley • yesterday at 8:38 PM • 70 comments
  23. Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
    608 points • by wiradikusuma • last Wednesday at 6:33 AM • 428 comments
  24. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    84 points • by austinallegro • yesterday at 12:16 PM • 9 comments
  25. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
    82 points • by matt_d • last Wednesday at 6:30 AM • 34 comments
  26. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
    138 points • by ropbear • yesterday at 9:53 PM • 138 comments
  27. Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering (tasklet.ai)
    1 points • by mayop100 • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 0 comments
  28. Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
    24 points • by brod_ie • last Tuesday at 3:56 PM • 3 comments
  29. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
    134 points • by txrx0000 • last Thursday at 10:01 PM • 39 comments
  30. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    270 points • by pdet • 08/10/2026 • 31 comments
  31. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    25 points • by samclemens • last Wednesday at 10:46 PM • 3 comments
  32. 2,085 Tests, and None of Them Opens the Front Door (i.brandanthonymcdonald.com)
    3 points • by aweful • last Thursday at 10:50 AM • 7 comments
  33. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (www.highereddive.com)
    6 points • by walrus01 • today at 12:14 AM • 0 comments
  34. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
    354 points • by Alifatisk • yesterday at 12:22 PM • 129 comments
  35. Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
    138 points • by abelanger • last Wednesday at 8:13 PM • 91 comments
  36. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    262 points • by felixbraun • last Saturday at 8:54 PM • 61 comments
  37. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (www.wunc.org)
    22 points • by yareally • last Thursday at 12:02 AM • 9 comments
  38. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
    64 points • by sbulaev • last Wednesday at 7:07 PM • 15 comments
  39. TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points • by eig • today at 12:07 AM • 2 comments
  40. The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
    177 points • by lentil_soup • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 119 comments
  41. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    110 points • by Eridanus2 • yesterday at 1:26 AM • 27 comments
  42. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (www.science.org)
    179 points • by AnodicElegy • last Saturday at 7:12 PM • 89 comments
  43. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (www.severe-weather.eu)
    411 points • by dgellow • last Saturday at 7:20 PM • 316 comments
  44. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    76 points • by riskone • yesterday at 10:31 AM • 45 comments
  45. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (www.falstad.com)
    65 points • by pykello • yesterday at 4:19 AM • 13 comments
  46. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
    292 points • by ingve • last Saturday at 10:31 PM • 212 comments
  47. Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer (www.businessinsider.com)
    14 points • by wertyk • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 18 comments
  48. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
    156 points • by frizlab • 08/10/2026 • 35 comments
  49. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
    70 points • by karakoram • yesterday at 2:53 PM • 60 comments
  50. In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall (www.slowtravelberlin.com)
    14 points • by yitchelle • last Thursday at 7:10 AM • 3 comments