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Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own story

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible story

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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro story

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots story

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CSSQuake story

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Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase story

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Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing story

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Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility story

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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business story

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S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026 story

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Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C story

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Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios story

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The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost story

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Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents story

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Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change? story

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You story

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Web Browsers on PDAS story

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Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server story

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Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore story

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Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects? story

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs story

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' story

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I Stored a Website in a Favicon story

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Mencius (2016) story

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone story

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Cargo-Geiger story

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Can you see three trees? story

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GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 story

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash story

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There are no instances in ATProto story

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Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012) story

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Data Compression Explained (2012) story

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Human Judgment as a Specification story

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Pong in S Favicon story

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US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic story

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The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory story

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LLMs Are Complicated Now story

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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory story

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A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse story

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How many of the 170k English words do you know? story

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New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive story

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Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity story

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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems story

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Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics story

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Bill Gates on Steve Jobs story

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Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones story

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Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years story

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Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce story

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A Perceptron in Age of Empires II story

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Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died story

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1

Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

story

2

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

story

3

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

story

4

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

story

5

CSSQuake

story

6

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

story

7

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

story

8

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

story

9

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

story

10

S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026

story

11

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

story

12

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

story

13

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

story

14

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

story

15

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

story

16

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

story

17

Web Browsers on PDAS

story

18

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

story

19

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

story

20

Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

story

21

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

story

22

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

story

23

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

story

24

Mencius (2016)

story

25

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

story

26

Cargo-Geiger

story

27

Can you see three trees?

story

28

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

story

29

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

story

30

There are no instances in ATProto

story

31

Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

story

32

Data Compression Explained (2012)

story

33

Human Judgment as a Specification

story

34

Pong in S Favicon

story

35

US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

story

36

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

story

37

LLMs Are Complicated Now

story

38

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

story

39

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

story

40

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

story

41

New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive

story

42

Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity

story

43

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

story

44

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

story

45

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs

story

46

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

story

47

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

story

48

Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

story

49

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

story

50

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

story