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  1. Humanoid Robot Actuators (firgelli.com)
    ×1.27 2 | 120 points by ofrzeta 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
    ×1.77 4 | 201 points by samcollins 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
    ×1.70 6 | 365 points by nullagent 14 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
    ×3.47 3 | 432 points by alattaran 10 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)
    ×1.82 8 | 23 points by o4c 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)
    ×1.19 9 | 80 points by TapamN 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
    ×1.62 3 | 161 points by jdgr 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.00 13 | 27 points by worldvoyageur 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A desktop made for one (isene.org)
    ×2.40 7 | 338 points by xngbuilds 17 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
    ×1.43 10 | 246 points by KatiMichel 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
    ×3.80 9 | 327 points by bjhess 9 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)
    ×1.38 11 | 102 points by heresie-dabord 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
    ×3.00 1 | 388 points by donsupreme 17 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×0.63 49 | 5 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
    ×1.23 14 | 149 points by leopoldj 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)
    ×0.97 16 | 51 points by rickcarlino 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.87 5 | 39 points by OuterVale 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.25 30 | 329 points by oceansky 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Introduction to Atom (w3.org)
    ×1.26 8 | 90 points by susam 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)
    ×1.42 14 | 148 points by miohtama 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.93 13 | 386 points by dryadin 14 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
    ×4.13 15 | 696 points by teleforce 18 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)
    ×0.77 15 | 12 points by LolWolf 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)
    ×1.22 16 | 112 points by softservo 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
    ×2.73 20 | 216 points by SpyCoder77 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)
    ×2.62 15 | 329 points by rickcarlino 14 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.08 12 | 102 points by cyrc 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)
    ×1.45 9 | 159 points by mobeigi 18 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.32 15 | 82 points by bschoepke 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.30 6 | 45 points by ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.95 29 | 113 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×1.00 29 | 171 points by bring-shrubbery 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built my own hair electrolysis machine (scd31.com)
    ×2.18 2 | 226 points by y1n0 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (lelanthran.com)
    ×2.61 1 | 117 points by lelanthran 15 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (stanford.edu)
    ×0.99 42 | 118 points by hhs 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Make your own microforest (2025) (ambrook.com)
    ×1.30 | 93 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×4.70 33 | 351 points by ayoisaiah 10 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (thegamer.com)
    ×3.20 21 | 268 points by rishabhd 16 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)
    ×1.03 40 | 58 points by whycome 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
    ×1.53 12 | 180 points by skaul 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Alert-driven monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
    ×0.90 16 | 113 points by khazit 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.72 44 | 50 points by 0in 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study (sciencex.com)
    ×1.50 21 | 121 points by pseudolus 21 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
    ×1.51 26 | 163 points by jovial_cavalier 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.59 50 | 31 points by thedebuglife 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.55 46 | 635 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cordouan Lighthouse (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 47 | 35 points by Petiver 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Buckets and objects are not enough (sagi.org)
    ×0.44 62 | 11 points by sagiba 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
    ×1.16 55 | 21 points by andyjohnson0 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Automatic Brightness in Plasma (zamundaaa.github.io)
    ×0.54 40 | 19 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
    ×1.92 5 | 412 points by unignorant 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Talking to Transformers (miraos.org)
    ×0.81 32 | 36 points by taylorsatula 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (porsche.com)
    ×1.35 3 | 111 points by Amorymeltzer 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dav2d (videolan.org)
    ×2.67 9 | 605 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.71 6 | 109 points by brandonb 18 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.30 9 | 488 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (mendral.com)
    ×1.25 32 | 169 points by shad42 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.02 42 | 135 points by dragandj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.71 5 | 519 points by RubyGuy 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.09 42 | 120 points by signa11 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×1.00 42 | 43 points by Flex247A 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    ×1.31 54 | 111 points by lerno 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author? (github.com/notepad-plus-plus)
    ×2.41 21 | 27 points by jethronethro 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS (david-smith.org)
    ×2.15 11 | 430 points by valzevul 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    ×0.99 44 | 117 points by BSTRhino 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.15 40 | 180 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
    ×2.47 24 | 266 points by brendanmc6 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude (claude.com)
    ×1.32 10 | 41 points by eddiehammond 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Interview with Josh Fisher – Inventing VLIW, Multiflow, Itanium, VLIW's Success [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.74 7 | 7 points by tambourine_man 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.91 69 | 203 points by proberts 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.29 41 | 75 points by victorkulla 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network (evertpot.com)
    ×1.56 66 | 6 points by treve 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.59 26 | 222 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 54 | 114 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.71 39 | 75 points by zdw 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.32 41 | 177 points by reikonomusha 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
    ×1.71 5 | 282 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.33 33 | 208 points by ankitg12 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.59 14 | 757 points by buildbot 2 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.18 16 | 149 points by yunusabd 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    ×0.43 51 | 34 points by deut-erium 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia (theconversation.com)
    ×1.93 6 | 37 points by debo_ 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (electrek.co)
    ×2.29 58 | 63 points by m463 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
    ×3.21 29 | 507 points by rsaarelm 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×0.82 46 | 14 points by TeaVMFan 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 34 | 152 points by mrtz 21 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death (jamiesimon.io)
    ×0.62 47 | 9 points by jamie-simon 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.93 31 | 109 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work (github.com/systalyze)
    ×0.72 18 | 47 points by nateb2022 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Minimal Fab Promoting Organization (minimalfab.com)
    ×0.59 54 | 7 points by nz 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???