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  1. Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
    (192 points | Comments)

  2. California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
    (457 points | Comments)

  3. Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash
    (195 points | Comments)

  4. Text Is King
    (183 points | Comments)

  5. The challenges of soft delete
    (264 points | Comments)

  6. The world of Japanese snack bars
    (138 points | Comments)

  7. Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard
    (135 points | Comments)

  8. Typography on Pencils (2023)
    (110 points | Comments)

  9. Our approach to age prediction
    (127 points | Comments)

  10. Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
    (115 points | Comments)

  11. Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
    (254 points | Comments)

  12. IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
    (316 points | Comments)

  13. Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying
    (197 points | Comments)

  14. Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
    (224 points | Comments)

  15. Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
    (163 points | Comments)

  16. Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
    (102 points | Comments)

  17. Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree
    (103 points | Comments)

  18. A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
    (565 points | Comments)

  19. Electricity use of AI coding agents
    (118 points | Comments)

  20. 'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets
    (169 points | Comments)

  21. Internet Archive's Storage
    (294 points | Comments)

  22. 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
    (257 points | Comments)

  23. Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties
    (271 points | Comments)

  24. The hidden engineering of runways
    (409 points | Comments)

  25. The Unix Pipe Card Game
    (257 points | Comments)

  26. Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs
    (213 points | Comments)

  27. I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
    (185 points | Comments)

  28. De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
    (629 points | Comments)

  29. Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
    (454 points | Comments)

  30. Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
    (776 points | Comments)

  31. Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
    (429 points | Comments)

  32. IP Addresses Through 2025
    (194 points | Comments)

  33. Snow Simulation Toy
    (168 points | Comments)

  34. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    (460 points | Comments)

  35. When employees feel slighted, they work less
    (352 points | Comments)

  36. Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
    (349 points | Comments)

  37. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro
    (118 points | Comments)

  38. Guix for Development
    (136 points | Comments)

  39. I'm addicted to being useful
    (602 points | Comments)

  40. Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg
    (129 points | Comments)

  41. Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide
    (119 points | Comments)

  42. Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
    (239 points | Comments)

  43. The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
    (525 points | Comments)

  44. Giving university exams in the age of chatbots
    (257 points | Comments)

  45. Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
    (645 points | Comments)

  46. X For You Feed Algorithm
    (125 points | Comments)

  47. Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza
    (169 points | Comments)

  48. F-16 Falcon Strike
    (155 points | Comments)

  49. Go 1.26 Interactive Tour
    (115 points | Comments)

  50. Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
    (405 points | Comments)

  51. Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
    (473 points | Comments)

  52. Scaling long-running autonomous coding
    (182 points | Comments)

  53. AI is a horse (2024)
    (467 points | Comments)