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  1. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

    117 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  2. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

    117 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  3. 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

    117 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  4. The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

    117 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  5. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

    117 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  6. Killed by Apple

    117 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  7. A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

    117 points • comment • jun 15, 2026

  8. Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  9. Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

    117 points • comment • jul 04, 2026

  10. Thought-Terminating Cliché

    117 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  11. Now is the best time to write code by hand

    117 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  12. Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc.

    117 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  13. A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto

    117 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  14. EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

    117 points • comment • jun 30, 2026

  15. Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X

    117 points • comment • jun 02, 2026

  16. Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

    117 points • comment • jul 24, 2026

  17. VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

    117 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  18. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds

    117 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  19. Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

    117 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  20. DConf 2026 in London

    117 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  21. Why AI Sucks at Front End

    117 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  22. Git rebase -i is not that scary

    117 points • comment • jul 26, 2026

  23. Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

    117 points • comment • jun 22, 2026

  24. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  25. The largest number representable in 64 bits

    117 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  26. Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

    117 points • comment • jul 22, 2026

  27. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

    117 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  28. Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)

    117 points • comment • jul 19, 2026

  29. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)

    117 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  30. Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences

    117 points • comment • jun 04, 2026

  31. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

    117 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  32. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

    117 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  33. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

    117 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  34. Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

    117 points • comment • jul 27, 2026

  35. Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future

    117 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  36. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others

    117 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  37. Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

    117 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  38. WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

    117 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  39. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

    117 points • comment • jul 09, 2026

  40. New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades

    117 points • comment • jun 03, 2026

  41. Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  42. GitHub Copilot App

    117 points • comment • jun 02, 2026

  43. Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

    116 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  44. DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

    116 points • comment • jul 15, 2026

  45. GitHub Incident

    116 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  46. Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

    116 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  47. Spherical Voronoi Diagram

    116 points • comment • jun 03, 2026

  48. C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma

    116 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  49. Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  50. Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

    116 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  51. North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

    116 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  52. Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild

    116 points • comment • jun 23, 2026

  53. Signing data structures the wrong way

    116 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  54. Lisp in the Rust Type System

    116 points • comment • jun 20, 2026

  55. Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

    116 points • comment • aug 07, 2026

  56. Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

    116 points • comment • jun 09, 2026

  57. So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

    116 points • comment • jul 30, 2026

  58. Europe's new climate in seven charts

    116 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  59. Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

    116 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  60. Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

    116 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  61. Building Principia for Windows XP

    116 points • comment • jun 29, 2026

  62. EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  63. Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  64. Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre

    116 points • comment • jul 21, 2026

  65. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

    116 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  66. Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

    116 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  67. Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

    116 points • comment • jun 11, 2026

  68. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

    116 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  69. European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

    116 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  70. Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  71. The Birth of Prolog (1996)

    116 points • comment • jul 17, 2026

  72. Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

    116 points • comment • jun 29, 2026

  73. Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin

    116 points • comment • aug 12, 2026

  74. Using Thunderbird for RSS

    116 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  75. Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids

    116 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  76. Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

    116 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  77. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

    116 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  78. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production

    116 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  79. Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

    116 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  80. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

    116 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  81. Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

    116 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  82. MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation

    116 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  83. Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

    116 points • comment • jul 01, 2026

  84. New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

    116 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  85. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

    116 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  86. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

    116 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  87. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

    116 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  88. Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software

    116 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  89. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

    116 points • comment • jul 05, 2026

  90. Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

    116 points • comment • jun 19, 2026

  91. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

    116 points • comment • jun 26, 2026

  92. Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

    116 points • comment • jun 29, 2026

  93. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

    116 points • comment • jun 18, 2026

  94. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

    116 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  95. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  96. Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

    116 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  97. Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails

    115 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  98. Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her

    115 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  99. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

    115 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  100. All Look Same?

    115 points • comment • feb 18, 2026