Links Exiting The Front Page (last 24h)

Hang Time Title Highest Rank Time Since Wipeout
6 hours Bad Code Is Kudzu (43 points, comments) 7 6 minutes
2 hours Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (7 points, comments) 19 9 minutes
1 hour The case against JPEG XL (48 points, comments) 3 38 minutes
8 hours Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (80 points, comments) 7 40 minutes
22 hours I Made a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC Smart with an ESP32 (181 points, comments) 4 41 minutes
17 hours JetKVM Mini (528 points, comments) 1 1 hour
12 hours Base84 deserves a place in file names (59 points, comments) 7 1 hour
9 hours Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (363 points, comments) 5 1 hour
9 hours David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (272 points, comments) 6 1 hour
5 hours Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (279 points, comments) 1 1 hour
6 hours Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (30 points, comments) 12 1 hour
9 hours Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (59 points, comments) 3 2 hours
9 hours Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (49 points, comments) 4 2 hours
1 day Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes (596 points, comments) 1 2 hours
12 hours 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (111 points, comments) 2 2 hours
1 hour It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card (11 points, comments) 25 2 hours
1 hour Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) (50 points, comments) 8 2 hours
22 hours Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (589 points, comments) 1 2 hours
11 hours TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (67 points, comments) 3 2 hours
5 hours I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (390 points, comments) 1 3 hours
3 hours There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (62 points, comments) 2 3 hours
7 hours Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (65 points, comments) 11 3 hours
5 hours Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (97 points, comments) 9 3 hours
12 hours Homebrew 7.0.0 (542 points, comments) 6 3 hours
30 minutes Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance? (17 points, comments) 21 4 hours
3 hours AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026) (48 points, comments) 21 4 hours
21 minutes A computational constitution to stop LLM agents from bricking servers (3 points, comments) 29 4 hours
3 hours Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco (182 points, comments) 2 4 hours
22 minutes Why a dispute costs $229 on a $129 pair of shoes (6 points, comments) 19 4 hours
15 minutes AI Is Destroying the World (11 points, comments) 11 5 hours
15 minutes US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’ (24 points, comments) 28 6 hours
7 hours On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (42 points, comments) 7 6 hours
5 hours Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (79 points, comments) 12 6 hours
1 hour Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing (107 points, comments) 6 6 hours
3 hours A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System (15 points, comments) 18 7 hours
1 hour Making Startups Powerful (17 points, comments) 20 7 hours
1 hour Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code (9 points, comments) 25 7 hours
13 hours Aligned to Whom? (162 points, comments) 6 8 hours
16 hours The Interim Computer Museum (155 points, comments) 1 8 hours
5 minutes You delete a file on Linux while a program has it open. What happens? (quiz) (6 points, comments) 8 8 hours
2 hours Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything. (20 points, comments) 9 8 hours
20 hours Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (274 points, comments) 3 8 hours
56 minutes Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? (19 points, comments) 16 8 hours
16 hours Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack (227 points, comments) 9 9 hours
6 hours Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (151 points, comments) 7 9 hours
15 minutes Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them (18 points, comments) 16 9 hours
1 day Nvidia is the central bank of AI (545 points, comments) 1 9 hours
3 hours US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (95 points, comments) 6 9 hours
2 hours Ode to Metadata (12 points, comments) 15 9 hours
21 hours Stabilizing Rust's Never Type (232 points, comments) 3 9 hours
7 minutes RevenueOS – open-source revenue automation that waits for your approval (6 points, comments) 27 10 hours
2 hours Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] (25 points, comments) 19 10 hours
9 minutes Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy? (13 points, comments) 22 10 hours
9 hours A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run (56 points, comments) 14 10 hours
14 hours Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (670 points, comments) 1 11 hours
1 hour Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic (51 points, comments) 10 11 hours
1 hour Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls (7 points, comments) 19 11 hours
17 hours Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (196 points, comments) 3 11 hours
14 hours Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (102 points, comments) 9 11 hours
1 hour Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (294 points, comments) 1 11 hours
1 hour AI models don't kill people – people kill people (31 points, comments) 10 11 hours
21 hours LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (584 points, comments) 1 12 hours
55 minutes Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists (7 points, comments) 23 12 hours
6 hours Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog (38 points, comments) 9 12 hours
1 day We Must Pace the Frontier (697 points, comments) 1 12 hours
3 days Liesegang Rings (45 points, comments) 10 12 hours
2 hours Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 (108 points, comments) 1 13 hours
8 hours After Math (119 points, comments) 4 13 hours
12 hours P(doom) (133 points, comments) 11 13 hours
20 hours Will There Be a 7G? (117 points, comments) 2 13 hours
9 hours The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart (42 points, comments) 4 13 hours
9 hours Durable execution without history replay (32 points, comments) 11 13 hours
1 hour Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO 2 days after getting booted (34 points, comments) 4 13 hours
12 hours AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (72 points, comments) 10 13 hours
19 hours I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times (147 points, comments) 6 14 hours
44 minutes Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating? (13 points, comments) 21 14 hours
21 minutes U.S. in Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse in CIA Model (29 points, comments) 6 14 hours
1 hour How to Use Three.js's New Native Gaussian Splats (19 points, comments) 6 15 hours
19 hours Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (115 points, comments) 4 15 hours
14 hours Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (246 points, comments) 2 16 hours
14 hours Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (341 points, comments) 13 16 hours
1 hour Norton Neo Browser (21 points, comments) 1 16 hours
1 hour Gonc – Netcat with P2P Nat Traversal (16 points, comments) 10 16 hours
2 days The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London (20 points, comments) 14 16 hours
1 hour Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley (23 points, comments) 10 17 hours
20 hours I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere's Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren't Sold (127 points, comments) 4 18 hours
1 hour Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone (8 points, comments) 22 18 hours
1 hour When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build? (29 points, comments) 1 18 hours
2 hours Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World (10 points, comments) 17 18 hours
19 minutes American Medical Association Backs Classification of Nearsightedness as Disease (12 points, comments) 1 19 hours
59 seconds JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars (5 points, comments) 30 19 hours
5 hours From Git to Fossil (58 points, comments) 5 19 hours
27 minutes A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (7 points, comments) 28 19 hours
1 hour Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century) (4 points, comments) 21 20 hours
16 hours A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) (95 points, comments) 1 20 hours
2 hours Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer (42 points, comments) 3 20 hours
22 hours Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered (193 points, comments) 13 20 hours
8 hours LG Says We're Fake News [video] (228 points, comments) 14 21 hours
11 hours How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats (68 points, comments) 10 21 hours
1 day A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await (431 points, comments) 3 21 hours
6 hours Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam (15 points, comments) 17 21 hours
3 hours No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record (48 points, comments) 9 22 hours
3 hours Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else (30 points, comments) 3 22 hours
2 minutes Apple *deletes* your Apple Music library if you unsubscribe (13 points, comments) 30 22 hours
1 hour Colliding the Sum Checksum (2019) (3 points, comments) 19 23 hours
1 day Eating Fruit Skins (88 points, comments) 14 23 hours
2 hours Recurrent Looped Transformer (14 points, comments) 5 23 hours

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