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  1. You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
    ×2.02 1 | 232 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (zx2c4.com)
    ×2.30 2 | 171 points by zx2c4 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.17 | 207 points by burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com/Keychron)
    ×2.42 1 | 104 points by stingraycharles 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Helium Is Hard to Replace (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.64 5 | 109 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (theregister.com)
    ×2.02 12 | 104 points by pashadee 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
    ×0.99 36 | 9 points by danoandco 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
    ×1.41 4 | 61 points by jcalabro 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
    ×1.25 4 | 61 points by roxolotl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
    ×2.42 6 | 22 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×0.75 15 | 86 points by JackeJR 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
    ×0.65 15 | 12 points by mcpherrinm 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.89 5 | 447 points by 01-_- 6 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)
    ×2.35 16 | 561 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
    ×2.38 16 | 394 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS (redox-os.org)
    ×0.45 23 | 20 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. C++: Freestanding Standard Library (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.64 19 | 28 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.17 35 | 117 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.97 19 | 265 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A new trick brings stability to quantum operations (ethz.ch)
    ×1.50 20 | 208 points by joko42 14 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)
    ×2.51 13 | 604 points by PaulHoule 22 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.51 2 | 13 points by speckx 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width (jeremykun.com)
    ×0.30 47 | 18 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate (kerkour.com)
    ×2.22 9 | 77 points by fanf2 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (gitbutler.com)
    ×2.01 16 | 274 points by ellieh 16 hours ago | 596 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.67 6 | 362 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
    ×1.39 13 | 98 points by facundo_olano 3 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# (nockawa.github.io)
    ×1.94 9 | 33 points by vyrotek 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File (reddit.com)
    ×2.21 8 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Generative art over the years (veitheller.de)
    ×1.40 25 | 218 points by evakhoury 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Autonomy Is Real Now (steelforfuel.substack.com)
    ×2.67 2 | 5 points by simonebrunozzi 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (elastiq.ch)
    ×1.55 31 | 299 points by rickcarlino 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model (theguardian.com)
    ×2.46 15 | 88 points by ascold 4 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)
    ×0.46 32 | 54 points by babawere 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com/marimo-team)
    ×1.40 7 | 104 points by manzt 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.61 12 | 49 points by breve 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)
    ×2.50 24 | 375 points by argentum47 23 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)
    ×0.59 55 | 45 points by walterbell 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft (unfolder.app)
    ×1.77 40 | 293 points by codazoda 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.12 18 | 124 points by jnord 6 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable (wired.com)
    ×4.58 35 | 391 points by smurda 5 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (loskutoff.com)
    ×1.03 6 | 91 points by Firfi 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)
    ×1.68 40 | 195 points by stopachka 21 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Inflation Rose to 3.3% in March, Driven by Rising Fuel Costs (wsj.com)
    ×2.45 1 | 33 points by JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
    ×0.56 9 | 26 points by qvac 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (kagi.com)
    ×1.89 43 | 154 points by treetalker 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Vasa (psychsafety.com)
    ×1.78 14 | 5 points by Tomte 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (skypilot.co)
    ×1.13 51 | 199 points by hopechong 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)
    ×1.19 36 | 218 points by rickcarlino 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (ansto.gov.au)
    ×0.87 19 | 73 points by zeristor 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An AI robot in my home (allevato.me)
    ×0.63 62 | 64 points by kukanani 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
    ×4.63 6 | 1336 points by pluc 1 day ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)
    ×0.76 54 | 128 points by PaulHoule 23 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)
    ×1.08 40 | 167 points by _tk_ 21 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)
    ×1.26 16 | 124 points by vermilingua 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
    ×5.45 4 | 1885 points by blkhp19 2 days ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator (universetoday.com)
    ×1.63 8 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks (discourse.org)
    ×2.29 20 | 34 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.82 9 | 22 points by edwardsrobbie 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)
    ×0.76 66 | 147 points by juretriglav 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com/randerson112)
    ×0.91 45 | 161 points by randerson_112 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton (proton.me)
    ×1.45 18 | 15 points by teekert 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general) (demandsphere.com)
    ×0.88 48 | 93 points by rgrieselhuber 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Will I ever own a zettaflop? (geohot.github.io)
    ×1.46 34 | 119 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
    ×6.36 1 | 2263 points by grepsedawk 2 days ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.89 35 | 75 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Afrika Bambaataa has died (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.20 21 | 177 points by mellosouls 13 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. War on Raze (github.com/chrispsn)
    ×0.49 36 | 29 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated (relvy.ai)
    ×0.29 89 | 46 points by behat 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. LLM plays an 8-bit Commander X16 game using structured "smart senses" (russell-harper.com)
    ×0.32 76 | 26 points by russellharper 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
    ×0.97 49 | 159 points by SirHound 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Robots eat cars (endeff.com)
    ×0.84 53 | 66 points by JMill 20 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)
    ×0.63 62 | 57 points by etherio 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. EFF is leaving X (eff.org)
    ×8.87 49 | 1380 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 1220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019) (theasc.com)
    ×0.88 61 | 127 points by nixass 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement (lichess.org)
    ×1.46 38 | 189 points by stevage 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation (axios.com)
    ×3.50 20 | 613 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)
    ×1.73 24 | 322 points by fork-bomber 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Knit File Formats (agnescameron.info)
    ×0.74 52 | 21 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (vfxhq.com)
    ×0.33 65 | 16 points by exvi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sorting Performance Rabbit Hole (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
    ×0.18 68 | 6 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×8.76 42 | 2147 points by adrianhon 4 days ago | 902 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)
    ×2.09 17 | 339 points by kisamoto 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage? (lzon.ca)
    ×4.38 32 | 375 points by jpmitchell 21 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)
    ×3.49 10 | 242 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com/arc53)
    ×0.67 62 | 30 points by larry-the-agent 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)
    ×1.61 14 | 210 points by powera 19 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude mixes up who said what (dwyer.co.za)
    ×3.53 4 | 448 points by sixhobbits 1 day ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (lesswrong.com)
    ×3.00 68 | 82 points by swah 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???