Current Top Stories on Hacker News

1.

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

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55points

Michelangelo11

1h ago

2.

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

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661points

Eric_Gullichsen

7h ago

3.

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

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91points

teleforce

6h ago

4.

Ember-1

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455points

gmays

15h ago

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When did Google get so weird?

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13h ago

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Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

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6h ago

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Made by Mechanical Means

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Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

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16points

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23h ago

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Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

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128points

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13h ago

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Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

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23points

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Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account

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Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

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186points

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Lunar Terminator Paradox

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59points

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8h ago

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Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

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74points

arbayi

2d ago

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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

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148points

verdagon

2d ago

18.

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

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238points

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16h ago

19.

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

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34points

surprisetalk

2d ago

20.

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

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137points

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1d ago

21.

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

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241points

safaelmali

14h ago

22.

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

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244points

danso

18h ago

23.

What I did at Recurse Center

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107points

bingden

14h ago

24.

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

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76points

mpweiher

13h ago

25.

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

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172points

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19h ago

26.

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

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46points

zeristor

1d ago

27.

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

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89points

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2d ago

28.

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

youtube.com

77points

Rochus

15h ago

29.

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

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154points

ibobev

2d ago

30.

Packing Binary Is Fun

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18points

BurnerBurner

7h ago