Links Exiting The Front Page (last 24h)

Hang Time Title Highest Rank Time Since Wipeout
12 hours Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout (57 points, comments) 5 1 minute
15 hours DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (470 points, comments) 1 10 minutes
9 hours What happens when a GPU reads memory (100 points, comments) 7 56 minutes
5 hours Using an old Android phone as a music player (36 points, comments) 16 1 hour
3 hours Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters (25 points, comments) 15 1 hour
22 hours AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (530 points, comments) 1 1 hour
1 hour Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding (54 points, comments) 1 1 hour
8 hours A self hosted AI software factory (82 points, comments) 12 1 hour
1 hour Rust Glancer (28 points, comments) 22 1 hour
1 hour Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference (38 points, comments) 25 1 hour
2 hours 'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them (67 points, comments) 22 1 hour
33 minutes Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha (26 points, comments) 5 2 hours
6 hours Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (44 points, comments) 18 2 hours
7 hours Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix (16 points, comments) 18 2 hours
3 days The Size of the World Wide Web (21 points, comments) 19 2 hours
6 minutes A retired tire engineer and 48,933 other feeds (13 points, comments) 26 2 hours
9 hours The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (63 points, comments) 16 2 hours
28 minutes I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned (20 points, comments) 1 3 hours
9 hours Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle (94 points, comments) 6 3 hours
3 days Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (72 points, comments) 14 3 hours
2 hours Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (68 points, comments) 2 3 hours
5 hours Quantifying the honey bee dance floor (23 points, comments) 7 3 hours
3 hours Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (40 points, comments) 8 3 hours
6 hours The B-right/V R2 Operating System (15 points, comments) 12 4 hours
9 minutes Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him (20 points, comments) 27 4 hours
52 minutes Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism (15 points, comments) 15 5 hours
4 hours LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers (1 points, comments) 6 5 hours
3 hours Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (35 points, comments) 6 5 hours
3 hours Another Better Lower Bound for N=17 Square Packing (23 points, comments) 9 6 hours
35 minutes Death to the Self-Playing Game (6 points, comments) 24 6 hours
2 hours Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (31 points, comments) 16 6 hours
1 hour Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (9 points, comments) 15 7 hours
5 hours DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (51 points, comments) 17 7 hours
2 hours Does whispering to agents in docs help? (27 points, comments) 12 7 hours
1 hour When the Shortage Is the Strategy (32 points, comments) 6 7 hours
50 minutes LLMs are proof that Unix won (32 points, comments) 9 7 hours
2 hours Making stinkarm stink less, or more? (6 points, comments) 18 8 hours
2 minutes A look under our trunk: what's in our compute of Waymo taxis (4 points, comments) 21 8 hours
20 minutes How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin (7 points, comments) 19 8 hours
2 hours Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants (65 points, comments) 6 8 hours
2 hours Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing (24 points, comments) 17 8 hours
2 hours I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport (32 points, comments) 15 8 hours
1 hour I Just Want to Search (78 points, comments) 2 8 hours
39 minutes New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report (22 points, comments) 13 8 hours
1 minute Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string (5 points, comments) 28 8 hours
4 hours Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (549 points, comments) 3 8 hours
2 hours Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M (129 points, comments) 2 8 hours
10 hours The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (231 points, comments) 1 8 hours
6 hours Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (65 points, comments) 4 8 hours
8 hours Small, native web tricks worth remembering (192 points, comments) 3 8 hours
6 hours TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (122 points, comments) 3 8 hours
2 hours AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows (163 points, comments) 2 8 hours
3 hours What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think (78 points, comments) 4 8 hours
2 hours WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (86 points, comments) 6 8 hours
2 hours c100 (91 points, comments) 3 9 hours
5 hours AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (687 points, comments) 2 9 hours
3 hours What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (99 points, comments) 4 9 hours
2 hours Nothing Doing (24 points, comments) 22 9 hours
7 hours Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (101 points, comments) 5 9 hours
8 minutes Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor (4 points, comments) 30 10 hours
41 minutes Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode (15 points, comments) 11 10 hours
34 minutes Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes (14 points, comments) 16 10 hours
14 minutes Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line (7 points, comments) 20 10 hours
7 minutes Flagwars.lol (5 points, comments) 23 10 hours
7 minutes My AI agents kept trying to cross red lines, so I wrote them a constitution (6 points, comments) 17 10 hours
1 hour Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (57 points, comments) 11 10 hours
8 hours We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (134 points, comments) 1 10 hours
1 hour Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (58 points, comments) 18 10 hours
42 minutes Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (12 points, comments) 21 10 hours
1 hour John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography (7 points, comments) 18 10 hours
10 minutes Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (4 points, comments) 29 10 hours
20 hours The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (612 points, comments) 1 10 hours
1 hour Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support (6 points, comments) 9 11 hours
5 hours Better Batteries (44 points, comments) 18 11 hours
7 hours Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (101 points, comments) 12 11 hours
1 hour Convite (12 points, comments) 15 11 hours
3 hours The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (46 points, comments) 9 11 hours
14 hours Stealth Model (209 points, comments) 6 11 hours
33 minutes Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest (14 points, comments) 11 11 hours
1 day Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload (532 points, comments) 1 12 hours
23 hours HTML Can Do That (941 points, comments) 3 12 hours
23 hours I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (819 points, comments) 1 12 hours
15 minutes AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy (12 points, comments) 17 12 hours
5 minutes If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck (7 points, comments) 27 12 hours
1 hour Siemens PC-X (2015) (13 points, comments) 13 12 hours
13 minutes Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older (5 points, comments) 23 12 hours
20 hours I should have loved biology (313 points, comments) 1 12 hours
15 minutes US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? (36 points, comments) 3 12 hours
21 hours Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring (1 points, comments) 5 12 hours
18 hours Why Aren't Smart People Happier? (233 points, comments) 9 12 hours
30 minutes Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (5 points, comments) 17 12 hours
7 hours Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness (49 points, comments) 16 12 hours
22 hours CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (430 points, comments) 4 12 hours
22 hours Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (52 points, comments) 9 12 hours
22 hours Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (270 points, comments) 20 12 hours
22 hours Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM (280 points, comments) 4 12 hours
7 hours Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (294 points, comments) 9 12 hours
3 hours Attention Through Arithmetic Intensity (13 points, comments) 19 12 hours
7 hours The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (71 points, comments) 3 12 hours
20 hours Linux 7.2 Released (274 points, comments) 4 13 hours
22 hours Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (187 points, comments) 9 13 hours
1 day AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (984 points, comments) 1 13 hours
9 hours Captain Zilog (64 points, comments) 7 13 hours
17 hours Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (337 points, comments) 1 14 hours
13 hours Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (69 points, comments) 16 14 hours
9 hours Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K (43 points, comments) 5 14 hours
3 hours The case against a C alternative (2022) (48 points, comments) 5 14 hours
2 hours Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (41 points, comments) 18 15 hours
7 hours Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (135 points, comments) 1 15 hours
14 hours SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review (98 points, comments) 11 16 hours
3 hours Version Control for Everything (40 points, comments) 6 16 hours
2 hours Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (7 points, comments) 9 17 hours
13 hours Consumer Rights Wiki (273 points, comments) 2 18 hours
17 hours Git at any scale (334 points, comments) 10 18 hours
40 minutes I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript (4 points, comments) 19 18 hours
36 minutes Stop Making TUIs (37 points, comments) 1 18 hours
13 hours Project Cybersyn (59 points, comments) 12 19 hours
16 hours Every Model Cheats (97 points, comments) 7 19 hours
6 hours There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (78 points, comments) 3 19 hours
15 hours How to compromise your system with a job interview (151 points, comments) 6 19 hours
10 hours Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (1381 points, comments) 3 19 hours
15 hours Mojo is now open source (391 points, comments) 9 20 hours
16 hours DiffusionGemma Technical Report (146 points, comments) 4 20 hours
4 minutes The Quora Collapse (4 points, comments) 19 21 hours
32 minutes Hard Problems and Heuristic Answers (5 points, comments) 19 21 hours
2 hours Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default) (32 points, comments) 4 22 hours
13 hours Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch (90 points, comments) 5 22 hours
3 hours Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (151 points, comments) 1 22 hours
15 hours Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (533 points, comments) 2 22 hours
4 hours Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour (29 points, comments) 11 22 hours
21 minutes Orbital Construction Pioneers (4 points, comments) 24 23 hours
1 hour It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use (93 points, comments) 2 23 hours
59 minutes Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (7 points, comments) 28 23 hours

Current Top30

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12 hours We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (209 points, comments) 6
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