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 1.                                                                 Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k ( systima.ai )       
     230 points by systima 2 hours ago | hide | 118 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                   
 2.                                                                 Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? ( acm.org )                                
     43 points by adunk 2 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                   
 3.                                                                 Old and new apps, via modern coding agents ( terrytao.wordpress.com )                          
     365 points by subset 8 hours ago | hide | 104 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                   
 4.                                                                 I love LLMs, I hate hype ( geohot.github.io )                                                  
     148 points by therepanic 2 hours ago | hide | 79 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                   
 5.                                                                 The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) ( incompleteideas.net )                                     
     16 points by jxmorris12 1 hour ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                   
 6.                                                                 I Learned to Read Again ( magazinenongrata.com )                                               
     23 points by georgex7 2 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                   
 7.                                                                 Against Usefulness ( motivenotes.ai )                                                          
     47 points by supo 2 hours ago | hide | 10 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                   
 8.                                                                 Automation Without Understanding ( arxiv.org )                                                 
     62 points by root-parent 3 hours ago | hide | 33 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                   
 9.                                                                 LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders ( larp.website )                            
     67 points by BerislavLopac 3 hours ago | hide | 10 comments                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                   
10.                                                                 Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper ( ploy.ai )               
     31 points by brryant 3 hours ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                   
11.                                                                 Why write code in 2026 ( softwaredoug.com )                                                    
     44 points by softwaredoug 3 hours ago | hide | 96 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                   
12.                                                                 Tiny Emulators ( floooh.github.io )                                                            
     3 points by naves 10 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                   
13.                                                                 Don't you mean extinct? ( fabiensanglard.net )                                                 
     146 points by zdw 5 hours ago | hide | 78 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                   
14.                                                                 Neocities: Create your own free website ( neocities.org )                                      
     28 points by Tomte 43 minutes ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                   
15.                                                                 How to read more books ( scotto.me )                                                           
     197 points by silcoon 4 hours ago | hide | 110 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                   
16.                                                                 Deir El-Medina Strikes ( wikipedia.org )                                                       
     25 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                   
17.                                                                 The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia ( economist.com )                         
     159 points by saikatsg 5 hours ago | hide | 119 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                   
18.                                                                 Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly ( buildnectar.com )            
     16 points by blakeburnette 2 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                   
19.                                                                 Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) ( marc.info )              
     61 points by turrini 4 hours ago | hide | 53 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                   
20.                                                                 Why study Diophantine equations? ( hidden-phenomena.com )                                      
     51 points by mb1699 4 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                   
21.                                                                 Understanding the Odin programming language ( odinbook.com )                                   
     129 points by AlexeyBrin 8 hours ago | hide | 68 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                   
22.                                                                 Defining new Jax types with hijax ( jax.dev )                                                  
     3 points by fhchl 39 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                   
23.                                                                 Terrifying moment Grandpa is launched eight feet in the air by charging bison ( dailymail.com )
     3 points by Bender 43 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                   
24.                                                                 Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go ( github.com/hasenj )               
     62 points by hsn915 3 hours ago | hide | 34 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                   
25.                                                                 The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion ( research.google )           
     39 points by raahelb 4 hours ago | hide | 30 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                   
26.                                                                 Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty ( dakra.github.io )                        
     243 points by signa11 11 hours ago | hide | 40 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                   
27.                                                                 Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring ( techcrunch.com )                            
     261 points by compiler-guy 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                   
28.                                                                 What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis ( gist.github.com )              
     370 points by jhoho 16 hours ago | hide | 148 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                   
29.                                                                 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity ( theregister.com )              
     9 points by Bender 17 minutes ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                   
30.                                                                 AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study ( ieee.org )           
     128 points by zaikunzhang 7 hours ago | hide | 92 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                   
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