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  1. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.00 | 321 points by yakkomajuri 6 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver (kv4p.com)
    ×1.63 7 | 65 points by krupan 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
    ×1.79 1 | 284 points by andrewzeno 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
    ×1.89 9 | 56 points by pabs3 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
    ×0.64 20 | 27 points by salamo 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
    ×1.86 9 | 433 points by tomeraberbach 14 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
    ×1.95 1 | 205 points by cucho 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
    ×2.19 31 | 121 points by asar 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
    ×1.44 2 | 103 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (abgeo.dev)
    ×1.48 2 | 91 points by jrdres 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
    ×1.10 37 | 137 points by exploraz 14 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Polypad (amplify.com)
    ×1.83 12 | 15 points by ivank 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.22 14 | 17 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
    ×1.79 14 | 239 points by lukaspetersson 13 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
    ×2.05 8 | 139 points by babel16 9 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
    ×0.97 18 | 152 points by veqq 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
    ×0.88 30 | 7 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)
    ×1.48 15 | 117 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×1.08 19 | 53 points by lionkor 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
    ×3.74 2 | 26 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com/harmont-dev)
    ×0.79 20 | 17 points by suis_siva 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (squarespace.com)
    ×2.43 10 | 210 points by topherjaynes 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Codex-maxxing (jxnl.co)
    ×1.37 18 | 63 points by dnw 3 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.02 22 | 924 points by nycdatasci 14 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
    ×1.54 19 | 203 points by ankitg12 16 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 45 | 50 points by anigbrowl 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why is it called Kent House? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.87 19 | 21 points by susam 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
    ×0.90 29 | 103 points by olivercameron 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
    ×2.78 12 | 623 points by zakirullin 18 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
    ×1.17 36 | 133 points by pizlonator 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
    ×2.06 10 | 462 points by ildari 16 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap (llmcap.io)
    ×0.44 61 | 7 points by cfaruk 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014) (theappendix.net)
    ×0.51 66 | 5 points by samclemens 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
    ×3.37 15 | 627 points by DaSHacka 18 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space (thescientificdrop.com)
    ×1.14 15 | 67 points by jonbaer 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
    ×3.09 16 | 275 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE (loopmaster.xyz)
    ×1.44 23 | 98 points by stagas 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter (twitter.com/rohan_sood15)
    ×3.36 24 | 43 points by rohansood15 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means (loup-vaillant.fr)
    ×1.03 28 | 62 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)
    ×0.46 70 | 44 points by mrcoldbrew 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
    ×1.20 28 | 146 points by jollyjerry 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)
    ×1.36 20 | 69 points by owickstrom 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.95 17 | 308 points by srameshc 14 hours ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (modal.com)
    ×0.80 32 | 81 points by charles_irl 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch (baltazarstudios.com)
    ×0.95 25 | 62 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
    ×0.98 45 | 118 points by SVI 20 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
    ×1.80 39 | 285 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.17 15 | 324 points by Fysi 18 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium (github.com/clark-labs-inc)
    ×0.89 57 | 7 points by stan_kirdey 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys (apple.com)
    ×1.03 29 | 12 points by helpful_human 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (ftc.gov)
    ×2.45 20 | 166 points by Lihh27 12 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Understanding Singleflight in Go (codingexplorations.com)
    ×0.86 25 | 65 points by ghostbit 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Code Generation (thetechenabler.substack.com)
    ×2.43 | 5 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I 3D Printed Origami [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 28 | 74 points by Teever 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Aperiodic Table (jgc.org)
    ×0.70 50 | 87 points by jgrahamc 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Going Analog (natemeyvis.com)
    ×1.34 70 | 4 points by speckx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.17 50 | 175 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Humble Tech Book Bundle: The Ultimate Functional Programming (humblebundle.com)
    ×1.67 3 | 7 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
    ×2.28 37 | 300 points by tekkertje 13 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury (nationalsecurityjournal.org)
    ×5.31 53 | 43 points by Gaishan 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks (plough.com)
    ×0.88 39 | 95 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Learn Harness Engineering (walkinglabs.github.io)
    ×1.45 19 | 135 points by redbell 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC (apnews.com)
    ×4.91 21 | 135 points by geox 13 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust (codeberg.org)
    ×1.07 64 | 27 points by dboreham 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare (gwu.edu)
    ×1.67 36 | 46 points by KnuthIsGod 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An Overview of the Mathematical Theory of Communication for Philosophers [pdf] (theinformationalturn.net)
    ×0.57 81 | 3 points by teleforce 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (zdnet.com)
    ×3.10 16 | 41 points by CrankyBear 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ASMTP – SMTP for Agents (asmtp.net)
    ×0.93 69 | 7 points by nickcrews 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS (advanced-research.net)
    ×1.30 9 | 61 points by surganov 12 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Qwen 3.7 Preview (twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen)
    ×2.88 33 | 230 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Geometric Calculator Inside a Neural Network (goodfire.ai)
    ×0.96 82 | 6 points by babelfish 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (techxplore.com)
    ×3.62 18 | 25 points by limitedfrom 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AgentCRM – Headless CRM for Claude Code (github.com/cluster-software)
    ×1.28 57 | 8 points by samuelstros 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Don't Sign in with Google (twitter.com/the_smart_ape)
    ×5.47 29 | 59 points by DeusExMachina 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test (spacex.com)
    ×1.97 47 | 13 points by bookmtn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
    ×8.11 60 | 513 points by gok 16 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.84 21 | 218 points by bauc 18 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Leaving the Sea of Nodes in the V8 JIT (v8.dev)
    ×1.19 60 | 11 points by obl 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. .at TLD is top on CF Radar (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.98 46 | 16 points by labithiotis 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Spud – cross-platform remote control, optimised for gaming (github.com/xfoa)
    ×1.02 71 | 5 points by foax 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PgBackRest Will Continue (pgbackrest.org)
    ×2.94 23 | 18 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' (theregister.com)
    ×1.78 18 | 204 points by jonbaer 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (github.com/jarczakpawel)
    ×3.39 52 | 65 points by marcosscriven 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient Moe (acm.org)
    ×0.28 49 | 20 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K (github.com/ttsiodras)
    ×0.78 34 | 82 points by ttsiodras 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. No more JetBrains products for me (matthewkosarek.xyz)
    ×4.02 51 | 128 points by matthewkosarek 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Browse.sh, an open source catalog of browser skills (browserbase.com)
    ×1.84 59 | 8 points by Kylejeong21 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nordstjernen Web Browser (nordstjernen.org)
    ×3.69 36 | 10 points by roschdal 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Meta Reassigns 7k Employees to Focus on A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×3.75 17 | 36 points by xnx 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
    ×1.94 10 | 432 points by dagenix 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???