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  1. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×3.59 7 | 45 points by ayoisaiah 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
    ×2.27 1 | 25 points by SpyCoder77 38 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
    ×1.55 6 | 241 points by nullagent 6 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
    ×4.76 2 | 34 points by bjhess 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper (github.com/aattaran)
    ×2.84 4 | 126 points by alattaran 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
    ×1.59 | 38 points by jdgr 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
    ×1.29 5 | 174 points by KatiMichel 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
    ×1.04 12 | 76 points by leopoldj 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A desktop made for one (isene.org)
    ×2.29 4 | 226 points by xngbuilds 9 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
    ×3.07 1 | 261 points by donsupreme 9 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tar files made in macOS generate "xattr" errors when expanded in Linux (aruljohn.com)
    ×1.60 13 | 21 points by heresie-dabord 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Introduction to Atom (w3.org)
    ×1.00 10 | 18 points by susam 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×4.29 9 | 250 points by dryadin 5 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
    ×4.11 7 | 594 points by teleforce 9 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Make your own microforest (2025) (ambrook.com)
    ×1.33 2 | 57 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)
    ×1.30 15 | 73 points by softservo 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)
    ×1.36 12 | 88 points by miohtama 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.12 9 | 68 points by cyrc 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
    ×3.69 202 | 10 points by samcollins 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)
    ×1.43 10 | 113 points by mobeigi 9 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (lelanthran.com)
    ×2.26 35 | 30 points by lelanthran 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why TUIs Are Back (alcidesfonseca.com)
    ×2.58 17 | 246 points by rickcarlino 5 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.36 44 | 215 points by oceansky 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Automatic Brightness in Plasma (zamundaaa.github.io)
    ×0.86 11 | 15 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (dailynk.com)
    ×0.77 12 | 29 points by spzb 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I built my own hair electrolysis machine (scd31.com)
    ×2.08 1 | 170 points by y1n0 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.87 20 | 81 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (thegamer.com)
    ×3.39 18 | 219 points by rishabhd 7 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×1.03 22 | 154 points by bring-shrubbery 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
    ×1.50 15 | 158 points by skaul 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Alert-driven monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
    ×0.90 5 | 104 points by khazit 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Buckets and objects are not enough (sagi.org)
    ×0.48 47 | 6 points by sagiba 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)
    ×1.20 27 | 50 points by whycome 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.69 39 | 29 points by thedebuglife 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.80 30 | 46 points by 0in 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (stanford.edu)
    ×1.01 34 | 110 points by hhs 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study (sciencex.com)
    ×1.53 18 | 107 points by pseudolus 13 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Cordouan Lighthouse (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.60 33 | 32 points by Petiver 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Talking to Transformers (miraos.org)
    ×0.73 20 | 25 points by taylorsatula 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Said it couldn't see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled (twitter.com/WallStreetApes)
    ×2.63 19 | 6 points by bilsbie 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (porsche.com)
    ×1.40 7 | 103 points by Amorymeltzer 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
    ×1.57 30 | 156 points by jovial_cavalier 19 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Every American interacting with chatbot would need to upload a government ID (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.81 24 | 10 points by g42gregory 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
    ×1.31 68 | 9 points by andyjohnson0 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia (theconversation.com)
    ×2.08 1 | 25 points by debo_ 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death (jamiesimon.io)
    ×0.71 80 | 5 points by jamie-simon 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude (claude.com)
    ×1.32 2 | 32 points by eddiehammond 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×0.99 59 | 32 points by Flex247A 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Minimal Fab Promoting Organization (minimalfab.com)
    ×0.61 98 | 4 points by nz 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician (science.org)
    ×0.59 75 | 4 points by kakoni 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How many e's are in strawberry? (mataroa.blog)
    ×1.68 5 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 58 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
    ×1.91 3 | 403 points by unignorant 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.77 20 | 91 points by brandonb 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.47 28 | 66 points by bschoepke 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 16 | 144 points by mrtz 13 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.63 55 | 619 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Simpson's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.70 14 | 8 points by basilikum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×1.08 58 | 12 points by TeaVMFan 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Tyche: An experimental distributed trading pipeline in Go Java (github.com/ItsArnavSh)
    ×0.61 95 | 3 points by itsarnavsh 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (mendral.com)
    ×1.27 33 | 164 points by shad42 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dav2d (videolan.org)
    ×2.65 7 | 594 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.31 9 | 481 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day (christophermeiklejohn.com)
    ×2.85 49 | 205 points by azhenley 8 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.06 46 | 134 points by dragandj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
    ×2.49 25 | 259 points by brendanmc6 18 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.66 2 | 500 points by RubyGuy 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.06 46 | 113 points by signa11 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS (david-smith.org)
    ×2.15 10 | 425 points by valzevul 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. ASU Using AI Tool to Create Courses from Professors' Work Without Their (azfreenews.com)
    ×1.59 7 | 17 points by abdelhousni 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    ×1.37 63 | 109 points by lerno 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    ×0.98 50 | 114 points by BSTRhino 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    ×0.45 69 | 34 points by deut-erium 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work (github.com/systalyze)
    ×0.73 31 | 46 points by nateb2022 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.31 44 | 71 points by victorkulla 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Australian police officers can be tracked via taser and body-cam bluetooth (abc.net.au)
    ×2.87 2 | 10 points by satori99 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Brush a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust (github.com/reubeno)
    ×1.20 76 | 4 points by Jarlakxen 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.15 42 | 178 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550k Nvidia GPUs (wccftech.com)
    ×2.18 28 | 11 points by lossolo 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.70 43 | 73 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI deleted my most tests, and said "All Tests Pass" (typia.io)
    ×2.79 48 | 12 points by autobe 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
    ×1.72 3 | 279 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.16 26 | 142 points by yunusabd 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (audubon.org)
    ×1.54 1 | 10 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 61 | 114 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.58 31 | 216 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Breaking up with WordPress after two decades (yusufaytas.com)
    ×1.40 35 | 65 points by owenbuilds 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
    ×3.19 27 | 496 points by rsaarelm 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.34 51 | 177 points by reikonomusha 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 106 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???