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  1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
    616 points • by nonmaskable • yesterday at 11:15 AM • 230 comments
  2. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
    144 points • by Ryan5453 • today at 3:03 AM • 53 comments
  3. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
    65 points • by jakeasmith • last Tuesday at 8:53 PM • 8 comments
  4. The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk)
    21 points • by rramadass • last Sunday at 4:38 PM • 3 comments
  5. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
    525 points • by polyphilz • yesterday at 6:50 PM • 109 comments
  6. Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
    54 points • by egberts1 • last Tuesday at 4:52 PM • 4 comments
  7. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
    419 points • by krackers • yesterday at 8:09 PM • 100 comments
  8. Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com)
    36 points • by donk8r • today at 4:36 AM • 5 comments
  9. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    218 points • by afilipovski • yesterday at 8:27 PM • 127 comments
  10. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    501 points • by signa11 • yesterday at 3:56 PM • 221 comments
  11. Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (www.amazon.science)
    102 points • by Betelbuddy • last Monday at 4:57 PM • 12 comments
  12. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
    196 points • by matt_d • yesterday at 8:59 PM • 30 comments
  13. A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server (labs.watchtowr.com)
    52 points • by paimapi • yesterday at 2:01 AM • 16 comments
  14. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
    190 points • by johnjwang • last Tuesday at 10:15 PM • 76 comments
  15. The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)
    84 points • by gumby • today at 12:28 AM • 48 comments
  16. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    134 points • by etoxin • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 53 comments
  17. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)
    375 points • by berkeleyjunk • last Tuesday at 9:41 PM • 311 comments
  18. PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 (a6mzero.com)
    88 points • by jasonpeacock • last Monday at 12:25 PM • 37 comments
  19. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
    2148 points • by arnemunthekaas • last Tuesday at 12:31 PM • 243 comments
  20. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
    114 points • by matt_d • yesterday at 10:10 PM • 46 comments
  21. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    276 points • by soheilpro • last Tuesday at 12:18 PM • 56 comments
  22. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    179 points • by herbertl • last Saturday at 10:35 PM • 73 comments
  23. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    197 points • by jheitmann • last Saturday at 5:02 PM • 26 comments
  24. Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space (github.com)
    43 points • by rahimnathwani • today at 3:12 AM • 3 comments
  25. US interest rates raised for first time in three years (www.bbc.com)
    46 points • by higginsniggins • yesterday at 11:25 PM • 18 comments
  26. Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough (www.bbc.com)
    36 points • by marc__1 • today at 1:33 AM • 25 comments
  27. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    145 points • by vinhnx • last Monday at 6:46 AM • 222 comments
  28. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com)
    119 points • by rochansinha • yesterday at 6:49 PM • 17 comments
  29. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    199 points • by bananaflag • yesterday at 1:44 PM • 49 comments
  30. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
    92 points • by Agentlien • yesterday at 2:28 PM • 15 comments
  31. Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008) (www.vanityfair.com)
    67 points • by kamaraju • today at 2:19 AM • 22 comments
  32. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (www.wired.com)
    523 points • by driverdan • yesterday at 1:18 PM • 237 comments
  33. The DeepMind Institute (institute.deepmind.com)
    168 points • by vertigoruntime • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 60 comments
  34. DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)
    113 points • by mfiguiere • today at 1:39 AM • 8 comments
  35. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    71 points • by matt_d • yesterday at 6:56 PM • 9 comments
  36. Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (www.danvk.org)
    15 points • by evakhoury • last Tuesday at 7:22 PM • 3 comments
  37. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    289 points • by whisper2020 • last Tuesday at 11:28 AM • 80 comments
  38. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (www.linum.ai)
    50 points • by schopra909 • yesterday at 4:58 PM • 10 comments
  39. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    1818 points • by albelfio • last Tuesday at 7:25 PM • 478 comments
  40. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    52 points • by spathak • last Friday at 4:09 PM • 7 comments
  41. Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (www.bbc.co.uk)
    76 points • by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn • last Sunday at 9:49 PM • 80 comments
  42. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by asontha • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 0 comments
  43. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    90 points • by qt31415926 • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 46 comments
  44. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (www.autism.org.uk)
    78 points • by AndrewDucker • yesterday at 3:28 PM • 66 comments
  45. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    213 points • by andsoitis • yesterday at 2:27 PM • 590 comments
  46. How big are factorials? (eli.thegreenplace.net)
    85 points • by ibobev • last Tuesday at 1:25 PM • 39 comments
  47. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    40 points • by kserrec • last Monday at 4:21 PM • 4 comments
  48. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (opensource.googleblog.com)
    168 points • by mococa • yesterday at 6:31 PM • 27 comments
  49. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
    48 points • by NaOH • last Tuesday at 7:09 PM • 4 comments
  50. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
    349 points • by inputmice • yesterday at 11:19 AM • 335 comments