Links Exiting The Front Page (last 24h)

Hang Time Title Highest Rank Time Since Wipeout
3 days Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On (89 points, comments) 14 4 minutes
4 minutes Three-year-old forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court (14 points, comments) 7 7 minutes
3 hours A Struct Sockaddr Sequel (14 points, comments) 21 13 minutes
4 hours My car charger can boil water really fast [video] (63 points, comments) 12 37 minutes
15 hours Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters' (111 points, comments) 8 54 minutes
15 hours United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf] (107 points, comments) 2 1 hour
1 day The Unexpected Effectiveness of One-Shot Decompilation with Claude (221 points, comments) 5 1 hour
1 hour The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI (18 points, comments) 17 1 hour
1 hour KJS: A Complete Formal Semantics of JavaScript (8 points, comments) 30 1 hour
10 hours Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 (30 points, comments) 19 1 hour
3 hours Principles of Slack Maximalism (40 points, comments) 7 2 hours
30 minutes I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto (45 points, comments) 1 2 hours
6 hours 'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses (33 points, comments) 11 2 hours
9 hours Dhrystone (31 points, comments) 9 2 hours
12 hours Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image (208 points, comments) 2 2 hours
10 hours What Is Generative UI? (50 points, comments) 14 3 hours
14 hours Coffee link to slower biological aging in those w mental illness–to point (172 points, comments) 1 3 hours
13 hours Mathematics Without Numbers (1959) (58 points, comments) 9 3 hours
5 hours Why Does the Salish Sea Glow in the Dark? (18 points, comments) 7 4 hours
9 hours Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (29 points, comments) 7 5 hours
18 hours Touching the Elephant – TPUs (172 points, comments) 3 7 hours
9 hours Catala – Law to Code (76 points, comments) 14 7 hours
9 hours Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager (35 points, comments) 9 8 hours
5 hours Removed Rust to Gain Speed (61 points, comments) 7 8 hours
7 hours Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds (39 points, comments) 14 9 hours
6 hours PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly (39 points, comments) 12 9 hours
1 hour Sort the Court – A Free King Simulator Where You Rule with Yes or No (5 points, comments) 19 10 hours
12 hours Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack (1 points, comments) 6 10 hours
45 minutes Scientists Link Popular Sugar Substitute (Sorbitol) to Liver Disease (11 points, comments) 25 10 hours
7 minutes For US Businesses, Tariff Complexity Is "Death by a Thousand Papercuts" (5 points, comments) 23 10 hours
4 hours OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder (11 points, comments) 17 11 hours
9 hours Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera (76 points, comments) 8 12 hours
2 days Mirror_bridge – C++ reflection for generating Python/JS/Lua bindings (26 points, comments) 12 12 hours
6 hours Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer (33 points, comments) 6 13 hours
2 hours Magnitude-7.0 earthquake hits in remote wilderness along Alaska-Canada border (16 points, comments) 21 13 hours
3 hours Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea (57 points, comments) 10 14 hours
3 hours Term-keys – Lossless keyboard input for Emacs (18 points, comments) 17 14 hours
12 hours Linux Instal Fest Belgrade (151 points, comments) 1 14 hours
21 hours Nook Browser (102 points, comments) 2 15 hours
1 hour Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices (20 points, comments) 24 15 hours
2 hours Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer (54 points, comments) 16 15 hours
11 minutes A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out (14 points, comments) 5 15 hours
9 hours Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco (129 points, comments) 6 15 hours
8 hours Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps (53 points, comments) 6 16 hours
3 hours Traveling Neighborhoods (9 points, comments) 10 16 hours
1 hour How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity (18 points, comments) 19 16 hours
8 hours How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM (344 points, comments) 7 16 hours
20 hours Self-hosting my photos with Immich (609 points, comments) 1 16 hours
15 hours Guy Built a Compact Camera Using an Optical Mouse (227 points, comments) 2 16 hours
1 hour CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years (31 points, comments) 7 16 hours
9 minutes Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike (12 points, comments) 25 16 hours
42 minutes Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams (6 points, comments) 23 17 hours
1 day Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. In an $82.7B Deal (1670 points, comments) 1 17 hours
1 day Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (755 points, comments) 1 17 hours
1 day Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI (542 points, comments) 1 17 hours
18 hours PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy (183 points, comments) 4 17 hours
9 hours The Absent Silence (2010) (69 points, comments) 7 17 hours
14 hours Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode (456 points, comments) 5 17 hours
16 hours Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch (141 points, comments) 5 17 hours
3 minutes Why there are no cracked biotechnologists? (5 points, comments) 27 17 hours
1 hour The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters (89 points, comments) 8 17 hours
1 day AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming (528 points, comments) 1 18 hours
1 hour Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself (50 points, comments) 12 18 hours
9 hours Divine D native Linux open-source mobile system – Rev. 1.1 Hardware Architecture (50 points, comments) 10 18 hours
20 hours Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps (157 points, comments) 7 19 hours
2 hours Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python (18 points, comments) 9 19 hours
1 day Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust (313 points, comments) 3 19 hours
18 minutes Fefe is back (11 points, comments) 7 20 hours
20 hours Leaving Intel (319 points, comments) 4 20 hours
15 hours Have I Been Flocked? – Check If Your License Plate Is Being Watched (279 points, comments) 2 20 hours
10 hours Wolfram Compute Services (207 points, comments) 1 20 hours
5 hours Why Speed Matters (95 points, comments) 16 21 hours
19 minutes Show HN: I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy (24 points, comments) 5 21 hours
27 minutes Show HN: SFX – A language where 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.3 and Context is first-class (8 points, comments) 6 21 hours
21 hours Idempotency Keys for Exactly-Once Processing (166 points, comments) 4 22 hours
18 hours The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (118 points, comments) 15 22 hours
10 hours Infracost (YC W21) is hiring Sr Node Eng to make $600B/yr cloud spend proactive (1 points, comments) 6 23 hours
36 minutes Carlo is no longer maintained (7 points, comments) 10 23 hours
39 minutes Skin-Shedding Code (2024) (5 points, comments) 26 23 hours
1 day I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (212 points, comments) 2 23 hours

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