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  1. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)
    64 points • by saisrirampur • today at 3:28 PM • 5 comments
  2. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (www.math.ucdavis.edu)
    23 points • by wolfi1 • today at 3:26 PM • 0 comments
  3. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (www.brown.edu)
    341 points • by hhs • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 148 comments
  4. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    679 points • by speckx • yesterday at 3:59 PM • 217 comments
  5. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
    58 points • by zetalyrae • today at 1:33 PM • 29 comments
  6. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (www.theverge.com)
    68 points • by herbertl • last Tuesday at 11:51 PM • 33 comments
  7. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    1401 points • by stock_toaster • yesterday at 8:47 PM • 756 comments
  8. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    70 points • by poupeaua • last Wednesday at 11:30 AM • 1 comment
  9. Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (www.pnas.org)
    14 points • by littlexsparkee • today at 3:38 PM • 0 comments
  10. Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design (www.amazon.com)
    49 points • by xlmnxp • last Thursday at 5:28 AM • 15 comments
  11. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)
    275 points • by chmaynard • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 292 comments
  12. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
    82 points • by reaperducer • today at 12:12 PM • 82 comments
  13. An iroh powered smart fan (www.iroh.computer)
    150 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 1:30 PM • 50 comments
  14. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (www.zdnet.com)
    258 points • by CrankyBear • yesterday at 5:51 PM • 928 comments
  15. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (www.mixfont.com)
    115 points • by justswim • today at 9:36 AM • 93 comments
  16. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    9 points • by acley • today at 1:40 PM • 4 comments
  17. Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (www.bloomberg.com)
    89 points • by helsinkiandrew • today at 9:16 AM • 97 comments
  18. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (www.atariarchives.org)
    15 points • by achairapart • last Wednesday at 10:35 AM • 0 comments
  19. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    56 points • by rowbin • last Sunday at 10:33 PM • 6 comments
  20. Good Tools Are Invisible (www.gingerbill.org)
    511 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 10:32 AM • 230 comments
  21. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    353 points • by kschaul • last Thursday at 4:21 PM • 421 comments
  22. Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)
    110 points • by chrka • today at 10:50 AM • 75 comments
  23. The Victorian War on Rabies (www.historytoday.com)
    5 points • by benbreen • last Monday at 5:52 PM • 2 comments
  24. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    177 points • by mvdtnz • today at 5:19 AM • 60 comments
  25. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    405 points • by dmonay • yesterday at 11:59 AM • 283 comments
  26. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    243 points • by markus_zhang • yesterday at 4:48 PM • 85 comments
  27. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    93 points • by chrwn • last Tuesday at 11:06 PM • 21 comments
  28. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    202 points • by aviaviavi • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 239 comments
  29. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    219 points • by mytuny • last Sunday at 5:11 PM • 76 comments
  30. Alternate clock designs and time systems (serialc.github.io)
    187 points • by ethanpil • last Monday at 9:09 PM • 104 comments
  31. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (mimo.xiaomi.com)
    109 points • by theanonymousone • last Tuesday at 6:06 AM • 40 comments
  32. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com)
    886 points • by vforno • last Thursday at 8:05 AM • 225 comments
  33. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    217 points • by simonebrunozzi • yesterday at 4:37 PM • 162 comments
  34. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    177 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 101 comments
  35. Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by srimalireddi • yesterday at 9:11 PM • 0 comments
  36. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (www.theguardian.com)
    597 points • by randycupertino • yesterday at 6:26 PM • 311 comments
  37. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    157 points • by simonpure • yesterday at 3:23 PM • 131 comments
  38. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
    497 points • by scrlk • yesterday at 6:29 PM • 414 comments
  39. Is There Any End to the Atlantic's "End-Ism" Fetish? (newrepublic.com)
    5 points • by amadeuspagel • today at 3:59 PM • 0 comments
  40. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    178 points • by NaOH • yesterday at 5:52 PM • 69 comments
  41. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    1114 points • by pompomsheep • last Thursday at 12:48 PM • 352 comments
  42. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    228 points • by speckx • yesterday at 1:31 PM • 81 comments
  43. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    91 points • by djfergus • yesterday at 8:43 PM • 19 comments
  44. Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch (www.windowslatest.com)
    29 points • by GBiT • today at 2:51 PM • 4 comments
  45. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    181 points • by faza • today at 12:30 PM • 51 comments
  46. Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) (pvk.ca)
    43 points • by mpweiher • last Wednesday at 1:38 PM • 7 comments
  47. GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    1536 points • by logickkk1 • last Thursday at 5:04 PM • 1092 comments
  48. Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers (www.windowscentral.com)
    38 points • by pjmlp • today at 9:10 AM • 10 comments
  49. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    184 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 1:30 PM • 220 comments
  50. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)
    135 points • by Gedxx • 07/03/2026 • 36 comments