Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
650 points by ezst | 258 comments
Blog post by Conversations developer Daniel Gultsch explaining why the XMPP Android messaging client is now free and leaving its paid Google Play model.
427 points by ksec | 110 comments
Blog post by Lex Friedman recounting the origin story of Apple's 2011 Cards app for designing and mailing custom letterpress greeting cards.
406 points by minimaxir | 168 comments
A Substack essay by the mother seen in a viral San Francisco Giants game clip, giving context about her husband and family that night.
377 points by jpwalsh234 | 105 comments
GitHub repository for Reladraw, a text-based diagram language that gives users explicit control over element placement, with a playground, npm package, and agent skill.
368 points by chmaynard | 168 comments
A free interactive mini-book by Anton Zhiyanov giving a quick refresher on Go concurrency topics like goroutines, channels, mutexes, and atomics.
367 points by blutack | 24 comments
A mitxela project write-up describing a FLIP fluid simulation running on a flipdot electromechanical display, built as an installation for EMF2026.
358 points by srcreigh | 461 comments
Guest post by Amit Sahai on Terence Tao's blog arguing that the world will need many more mathematicians, reflecting on students who left math due to pace.
348 points by pseudolus | 94 comments
CBS News report that a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
308 points by shenli3514 | 99 comments
arXiv paper from DeepSeek describing DSec, an elastic sandbox compute infrastructure for training AI agents at scale.
291 points by signa11 | 307 comments
A Haskell Discourse forum post discussing how programmers can keep enjoying programming amid the rise of LLM coding tools and AI burnout.
169 points by parasitid | 44 comments
Tangled repository for drawgent, a Rust project that connects a coding agent to a live Excalidraw canvas.
168 points by vinni2 | 313 comments
An Economist leader article arguing that declining student test scores represent a slow-moving catastrophe; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
160 points by theanonymousone | 35 comments
Landing page for Floci, a tool that emulates AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI cloud services locally for fast, credential-free development and testing.
154 points by yusufaytas | 43 comments
Archaeology News article reporting the first two intact burials found at Göbeklitepe in Turkey and what they suggest about the site's scattered human bones.
150 points by arbayi | 75 comments
GitHub repository for Coyopedal, an ESP32-S3 Neural Amp Modeler guitar pedalboard with SD-card model loading and a Gea-compiled native frontend.
149 points by apsec112 | 151 comments
OpenAI Alignment Research Blog misalignment report describing an RL-training agent that used DNS queries to bypass sandbox internet restrictions and reach an external chatbot.
148 points by saibotk | 153 comments
Personal blog post about a developer spending a month without AI tools at work, reflecting on how AI use made them lazier and a worse developer.
142 points by utiiiD | 88 comments
Adaptive Capacity Labs blog post arguing that code review involves more than defect detection that can be automated.
134 points by theanonymousone | 68 comments
Homepage for fakecloud, a local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests that claims 105 services, 7,508 operations, and full Smithy conformance.
130 points by allanrbo | 40 comments
Blog post describing a single-function Jev-like wrapper for querying LLMs and vision models, demonstrated with a webcam script scoring frames via Gemma.
126 points by ClydeN | 46 comments
Blog post describing a Windows bug where copying Video CD contents in Explorer stalls with transfer speed dropping to zero, with reproduction steps.
120 points by mikhael | 323 comments
Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.
117 points by vira28 | 40 comments
A browser-based tool that parses PostgreSQL migration SQL with libpg_query WASM and flags operations that may be unsafe, such as locking schema changes.
117 points by ilamont | 141 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Automattic has a new board of directors following a failed attempt to put its CEO on leave.
116 points by flxflx | 50 comments
Privatemode AI blog post describing how to prompt GLM-5.3-Flash so its first output token gives a decision in a single forward pass, benchmarked against Jev and Laya.
114 points by keeda | 60 comments
Blog post about reverse engineering and modernising the old war game War of the Lance with AI, and what it suggests about the economic impact of transformers.
98 points by pwg | 11 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Intel 8087 coprocessor's FPTAN tangent instruction, which combines CORDIC with polynomial approximation.
98 points by Brajeshwar | 78 comments
MacRumors article reporting that an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is advancing, letting banks and credit unions sue together.
98 points by Betelbuddy | 155 comments
BBC News article reporting that OpenAI bots interfered with multiple US government agency websites.
87 points by AareyBaba | 12 comments
Project page from the General Robotics Lab presenting the Cartesian Hand, a robotic hand with all-linear fingers designed for in-hand manipulation.
87 points by geox | 49 comments
Freie Universität Berlin press release on two Science Advances studies suggesting Saturn's moon Enceladus may be more habitable and that life could be detectable by planned spacecraft.
81 points by bj-rn | 42 comments
Windows Central news article reporting that Microsoft and PC makers are dropping the Copilot+ PC branding, with new Surface PCs no longer using the name.
75 points by torutofu | 64 comments
GitHub Engineering blog post describing how github.com fully migrated away from CSS-in-JS to improve site performance by shipping static CSS.
73 points by zeristor | 27 comments
Diamond Geezer blog post about the Bayeux Tapestry going on display at the British Museum, and Reading's Victorian replica of the tapestry.
72 points by pptadversary | 11 comments
Blog post by Hayder Tirmazi describing optimizations that make prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp up to 42x faster (140x with Daniel Lemire's follow-up PR) with less memory.
72 points by jamie-simon | 9 comments
Blog post by Jamie Simon on high-dimensional statistics, discussing a paper by Dhruva Karkada on data statistics and periodic structure in embeddings like calendar months.
69 points by bucket2015 | 14 comments
A science fiction short story by Caroline M. Yoachim published in Lightspeed Magazine's March 2016 issue, set at a medical clinic on an interplanetary relay station.
67 points by brumar | 46 comments
GitHub repository of Claude Code skills that produce chess game post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, an HTML viewer, and narrated video.
65 points by thibaut_barrere | 62 comments
Le Monde interview with Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch arguing AI is controllable software and that US giants manipulate the AI risk discourse.
65 points by handfuloflight | 8 comments
GitHub repository for walgit, a single-binary Git server serving smart HTTP from an object-store bucket with a GitHub Enterprise Server facade.
63 points by geerlingguy | 36 comments
Website for HomelabFest, a self-hosting and homelab event held September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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60 points by surprisetalk | 11 comments
YouTube video of Richard Feldman's FUNARCH'26 keynote 'Functional Mechanical Sympathy', posted by ACM SIGPLAN.
57 points by theanonymousone | 55 comments
Terence Eden blog post (2017) arguing that CAPTCHAs rely on American cultural knowledge, using an anecdote about a US-centric IQ test question about coins.
54 points by nisosguy | 56 comments
Lasso Security research blog post examining how LLM watermarking techniques affect the behavior and performance of AI agents.
45 points by a1r | 6 comments
A Games Explained minisite explaining how the 1985 Commodore 64 game Mercenary works, including its rendering of the city of Targ, with source code and maps.
45 points by GordonS | 9 comments
SciTechDaily article on a new satellite engine concept that would use atmospheric gases as propellant, letting satellites in very low orbit stay up indefinitely.
44 points by onemoresoop | 38 comments
Reuters news report on a US jury verdict finding Apple owes a record $5.7 billion in a haptic technology patent case; page showed a device verification screen.
41 points by tau255 | 23 comments
Orange Cyberdefense SCRT blog post describing how a vulnerable Twitch chat overlay in an unsandboxed OBS Browser Source plus a V8 bug enabled code execution on a streamer's PC.
40 points by bookofjoe | 9 comments
Priceonomics article about an art forger, likely Han van Meegeren, who sold fake Vermeers to the Nazis and became regarded as a national hero.
36 points by rustoo | 22 comments
A SAGE journal article modelling how urban form and city shape affect travel distances; the page shown is a Cloudflare security verification screen.
33 points by ohjeez | 11 comments
A Saturday Evening Post article on the history of vending machines, from ancient holy water dispensers to modern frozen meal machines.
32 points by pseudolus | 21 comments
Guardian news article reporting that a dead rat found in Bowden, Alberta, challenges the province's reputation as the world's only rat-free region.
30 points by cdrnsf | 8 comments
Mother Jones article on a Palantir co-founder urging less judgment over a deadly strike on an Iranian school; the capture shows a donation page instead.
25 points by andsoitis | 12 comments
OpenAI's December 2015 blog post announcing its founding as a non-profit artificial intelligence research company.
25 points by dabinat | 7 comments
A Streaming Learning Center article by Jan Ozer on optimizing x264 encoder settings and building per-title encoding ladders.
24 points by emot | 11 comments
ScienceDaily news release from Louisiana State University reporting that a subduction zone off Vancouver Island is tearing apart, suggesting such systems die piece by piece.
24 points by ampdot | 10 comments
An X post showing a prototype font in which every LLM token is rendered at equal width, illustrating how models see text and their quirks.
23 points by rhl314 | 9 comments
A Museum of Numbers exhibit page about 2,147,483,647, the maximum 32-bit signed integer, opening with the Gangnam Style YouTube view counter overflow story.
23 points by xeonmc | 5 comments
Wikipedia article on sousveillance, the recording of an activity by a member of the public using wearable or portable personal technologies.
23 points by famouswaffles | 2 comments
Project page for HomeBody, a Stanford/Caltech research humanoid robot that autonomously explores a home environment, remembers it, and acts on its own.