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  1. Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
    ×3.84 1 | 824 points by normanvalentine 12 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Optimal Strategy for Connect 4 (2swap.github.io)
    ×1.46 3 | 40 points by marvinborner 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
    ×2.56 1 | 181 points by iceberger2001 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.53 4 | 823 points by burnt-resistor 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Artemis II safely splashes down (cbsnews.com)
    ×6.04 4 | 905 points by areoform 10 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove (apnews.com)
    ×2.55 4 | 70 points by geox 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Installing every* Firefox extension (jack.cab)
    ×3.18 1 | 398 points by RohanAdwankar 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (bbc.com)
    ×1.73 4 | 335 points by neversaydie 15 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com/torvalds)
    ×2.76 6 | 334 points by hmokiguess 15 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (zx2c4.com)
    ×2.25 4 | 479 points by zx2c4 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com/Keychron)
    ×2.02 6 | 376 points by stingraycharles 18 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (theregister.com)
    ×2.06 21 | 334 points by pashadee 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
    ×1.18 10 | 80 points by GenericCanadian 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware (github.com/callumlocke)
    ×1.60 10 | 220 points by jkl5xx 15 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Helium is hard to replace (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.81 11 | 317 points by JumpCrisscross 19 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. 20 years on AWS and never not my job (daemonology.net)
    ×2.45 13 | 152 points by cperciva 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian (desktopcommander.app)
    ×1.06 17 | 54 points by rkrizanovskis 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Productive Procrastination (maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
    ×1.05 11 | 26 points by maxvij 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf] (acm.org)
    ×0.64 24 | 6 points by perfmode 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com/retlehs)
    ×1.16 7 | 44 points by bretthopper 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×1.54 32 | 10 points by vidluther 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty (historytoday.com)
    ×1.01 15 | 76 points by lermontov 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.52 14 | 18 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA (mit.edu)
    ×1.27 15 | 90 points by sohkamyung 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.74 27 | 95 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.85 14 | 58 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
    ×0.50 50 | 67 points by danoandco 15 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
    ×2.24 3 | 236 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.15 36 | 169 points by jnord 22 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (nishantsoni.com)
    ×1.78 19 | 111 points by sonink 15 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nowhere is safe (steveblank.com)
    ×1.95 3 | 182 points by sblank 14 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
    ×1.07 19 | 147 points by roxolotl 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (ubuntu.com)
    ×1.12 12 | 129 points by fork-bomber 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art (chicagotribune.com)
    ×0.93 1 | 22 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.03 6 | 128 points by maouida 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
    ×2.31 20 | 462 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.33 24 | 511 points by Teever 19 hours ago | 639 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (samaltman.com)
    ×4.47 32 | 305 points by jack_hanford 11 hours ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
    ×1.23 28 | 127 points by facundo_olano 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. PGLite Evangelism (substack.substack.com)
    ×1.13 3 | 61 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.08 54 | 150 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
    ×0.90 28 | 58 points by zachdive 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
    ×0.72 36 | 43 points by Foxboron 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase (ethz.ch)
    ×1.35 38 | 226 points by joko42 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
    ×0.86 28 | 71 points by chrisecker 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (gitbutler.com)
    ×1.96 25 | 315 points by ellieh 1 day ago | 691 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 40x Faster Binary Search (p99conf.io)
    ×1.60 83 | 10 points by teleforce 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
    ×0.74 42 | 64 points by mcpherrinm 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×0.66 39 | 105 points by JackeJR 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.79 33 | 588 points by 01-_- 22 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We gave an AI a 3-year Lease. It opened a store (andonlabs.com)
    ×2.01 70 | 12 points by lukaspetersson 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Static code analysis in Kotlin – tools overview (allegro.tech)
    ×0.28 82 | 5 points by karmazyn 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe (reuters.com)
    ×1.94 29 | 20 points by nsoonhui 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (nytimes.com)
    ×4.76 33 | 230 points by enraged_camel 15 hours ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Scoop: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases (heatmap.news)
    ×1.87 10 | 6 points by doener 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We Only Learn from Error (nathanclonts.com)
    ×0.55 93 | 4 points by kokopelli 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband (googleblog.com)
    ×1.68 50 | 10 points by el_duderino 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Simulating a 2D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)
    ×0.45 59 | 25 points by daww 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The best seat in town (torched.la)
    ×0.58 52 | 40 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. News is bad for you (2013) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.58 11 | 6 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust (github.com/peaktwilight)
    ×0.85 22 | 52 points by peaktwilight 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)
    ×2.49 15 | 613 points by speckx 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians (acoup.blog)
    ×1.51 90 | 8 points by baud147258 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAI (wheresyoured.at)
    ×2.67 7 | 7 points by mc-serious 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
    ×1.14 9 | 135 points by jcalabro 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
    ×2.36 13 | 434 points by gmays 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com/marimo-team)
    ×1.30 17 | 129 points by manzt 23 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS (redox-os.org)
    ×0.55 57 | 46 points by akyuu 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.30 60 | 45 points by lschueller 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
    ×4.66 9 | 1352 points by pluc 2 days ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)
    ×1.59 38 | 208 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
    ×5.49 14 | 1901 points by blkhp19 2 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)
    ×2.53 19 | 625 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (kagi.com)
    ×1.81 44 | 175 points by treetalker 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
    ×1.85 16 | 105 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. C++: Freestanding Standard Library (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.54 57 | 44 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
    ×6.39 17 | 2278 points by grepsedawk 3 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
    ×1.94 23 | 78 points by joeax 14 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)
    ×0.56 73 | 51 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (loskutoff.com)
    ×1.04 25 | 102 points by Firfi 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)
    ×0.45 54 | 59 points by babawere 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×8.79 42 | 2172 points by adrianhon 4 days ago | 904 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)
    ×0.76 61 | 132 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)
    ×0.76 72 | 149 points by juretriglav 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RAG 40x faster using binary quantization (2024) (lightning.ai)
    ×1.16 74 | 5 points by teleforce 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. An AI robot in my home (allevato.me)
    ×0.60 72 | 66 points by kukanani 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.67 24 | 389 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Travel writing's biggest myth (and why everyone is lying) (denisecullen.com.au)
    ×1.52 75 | 21 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)
    ×1.06 43 | 169 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???