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  1. Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.55 | 134 points by DamnInteresting 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×1.05 3 | 82 points by Eridanus2 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.15 4 | 186 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.82 6 | 143 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.94 3 | 50 points by helloplanets 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×2.79 5 | 13 points by ragojose 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.85 5 | 343 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.96 6 | 549 points by anabranch 20 hours ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.40 10 | 323 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.04 8 | 47 points by pretext 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.89 11 | 357 points by NelsonMinar 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.53 8 | 73 points by modelcroissant 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.27 10 | 37 points by naves 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×0.85 43 | 3 points by teamchong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.78 9 | 31 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.84 7 | 443 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×1.04 15 | 92 points by tyleo 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.64 3 | 93 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×1.03 15 | 35 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.15 8 | 417 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.03 19 | 12 points by tosh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.52 8 | 166 points by larve 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.13 14 | 809 points by yusufusta 23 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
    ×2.84 18 | 101 points by nobody9999 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.12 19 | 109 points by weaksauce 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.89 22 | 42 points by dado3212 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.67 34 | 32 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.71 18 | 226 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.50 14 | 58 points by riyaneel 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.51 7 | 93 points by agambrahma 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.86 14 | 337 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×1.04 43 | 52 points by random_ 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.02 25 | 128 points by drasim 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.06 34 | 114 points by t-3 21 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.26 35 | 104 points by peter_d_sherman 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.67 21 | 198 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.96 39 | 105 points by DeathArrow 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.08 44 | 109 points by wicket 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.72 23 | 204 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.34 11 | 130 points by gmcabrita 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.22 15 | 12 points by apollinaire 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.79 14 | 74 points by fanf2 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    ×1.08 35 | 46 points by alzhi7 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.82 39 | 53 points by hasheddan 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.13 45 | 185 points by eshelyaron 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.52 12 | 1200 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 746 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.48 7 | 406 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
    ×1.10 28 | 85 points by FailMore 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. EU age verification app: "Worry-free package" with security vulnerabilities (heise.de)
    ×2.55 17 | 17 points by _tk_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.24 41 | 53 points by chmaynard 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. William Cecil's Succession Plan (historytoday.com)
    ×0.40 2 | 8 points by Petiver 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.72 12 | 96 points by bryanrasmussen 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)
    ×0.75 58 | 16 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi (connla.substack.com)
    ×2.82 10 | 11 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Air Is Full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×1.62 50 | 23 points by howrude 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Work Runs on Different Maps (yusufaytas.com)
    ×3.60 39 | 15 points by yusufaytas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.85 46 | 102 points by signa11 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.39 31 | 139 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×1.31 51 | 22 points by neehao 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.85 33 | 43 points by arjunchint 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.81 15 | 233 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.11 10 | 699 points by aray07 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.98 53 | 115 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.62 6 | 252 points by sph 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)
    ×1.26 52 | 28 points by phantomathkg 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025 (freedomhouse.org)
    ×3.04 3 | 33 points by Cider9986 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.25 5 | 448 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.53 38 | 279 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.41 7 | 242 points by boris_m 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.37 45 | 134 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.45 17 | 764 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.32 8 | 344 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
    ×3.83 49 | 150 points by tchalla 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.80 15 | 302 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.11 5 | 30 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.42 43 | 65 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment (house.gov)
    ×1.84 12 | 23 points by num42 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.35 31 | 193 points by zdw 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.27 30 | 147 points by tech234a 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.06 40 | 74 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.37 37 | 116 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.69 9 | 468 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 48 | 67 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.14 40 | 107 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.64 66 | 313 points by trocado 18 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.11 74 | 49 points by omer_k 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)
    ×0.58 47 | 9 points by mmaaz 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.65 1 | 300 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Self-hosted webmail client for JMAP protocol: Email, calendar, contacts, files (github.com/bulwarkmail)
    ×2.36 37 | 6 points by DASD 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???