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  1. ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser
    (171 points | Comments)

  2. What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
    (218 points | Comments)

  3. I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
    (308 points | Comments)

  4. Potatoes in the Mail
    (510 points | Comments)

  5. U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law
    (263 points | Comments)

  6. Gemini 2.5 Flash
    (1076 points | Comments)

  7. SQLite transactions and virtual tables
    (104 points | Comments)

  8. Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex
    (163 points | Comments)

  9. AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
    (174 points | Comments)

  10. A cute proof that makes e natural
    (101 points | Comments)

  11. Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
    (222 points | Comments)

  12. A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics
    (126 points | Comments)

  13. Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
    (863 points | Comments)

  14. HDR‑Infused Emoji
    (274 points | Comments)

  15. First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
    (300 points | Comments)

  16. Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'
    (102 points | Comments)

  17. Crows can recognize geometric regularity
    (178 points | Comments)

  18. This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
    (235 points | Comments)

  19. OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
    (130 points | Comments)

  20. Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
    (318 points | Comments)

  21. TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
    (606 points | Comments)

  22. Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH
    (199 points | Comments)

  23. Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
    (119 points | Comments)

  24. Encryption Is Not a Crime
    (211 points | Comments)

  25. Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds
    (105 points | Comments)

  26. An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
    (623 points | Comments)

  27. Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
    (327 points | Comments)

  28. mIRC 7.81
    (174 points | Comments)

  29. Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
    (143 points | Comments)

  30. Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
    (712 points | Comments)

  31. US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
    (377 points | Comments)

  32. Development on Apple Silicon with UTM
    (102 points | Comments)

  33. Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired
    (162 points | Comments)

  34. Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]
    (135 points | Comments)

  35. “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System
    (417 points | Comments)

  36. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
    (108 points | Comments)

  37. BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report
    (111 points | Comments)

  38. Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
    (207 points | Comments)

  39. Differentiable Programming from Scratch
    (108 points | Comments)

  40. US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights
    (216 points | Comments)

  41. Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture
    (158 points | Comments)

  42. Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis showing Robotaxi would lose money
    (115 points | Comments)

  43. Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
    (634 points | Comments)

  44. Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
    (458 points | Comments)