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  1. Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.54 4 | 332 points by DamnInteresting 6 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach (decipher.sc)
    ×2.49 1 | 78 points by whiteyford 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Notes from the SF Peptide Scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.51 3 | 35 points by theahura 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×1.10 12 | 48 points by NordStreamYacht 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.91 9 | 115 points by Eridanus2 7 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.35 9 | 144 points by helloplanets 8 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.25 4 | 281 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.12 4 | 67 points by tambourine_man 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.42 3 | 68 points by ragojose 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.72 13 | 184 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.89 13 | 375 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
    ×0.69 23 | 8 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.47 14 | 376 points by gnabgib 21 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Vercel April 2026 security incident (vercel.com)
    ×5.59 12 | 142 points by colesantiago 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.08 7 | 16 points by Tiberium 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
    ×1.95 9 | 29 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.93 8 | 577 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×4.12 15 | 138 points by aa_is_op 3 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.91 18 | 382 points by NelsonMinar 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×0.90 6 | 28 points by teamchong 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.32 12 | 147 points by modelcroissant 6 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.05 20 | 37 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.84 18 | 479 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    ×1.06 4 | 15 points by bachmeier 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (therepository.email)
    ×1.64 15 | 22 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.03 13 | 61 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.47 4 | 140 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×0.96 25 | 102 points by tyleo 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.19 12 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.17 14 | 439 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×0.90 23 | 48 points by PaulHoule 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny (theins.press)
    ×2.97 13 | 9 points by dralley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.16 12 | 844 points by yusufusta 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.44 17 | 176 points by larve 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.09 24 | 120 points by weaksauce 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
    ×2.93 18 | 149 points by nobody9999 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.47 20 | 107 points by agambrahma 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.67 40 | 40 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.66 21 | 231 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.80 30 | 47 points by dado3212 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.37 21 | 65 points by riyaneel 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.81 12 | 346 points by cdrnsf 20 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.01 29 | 132 points by drasim 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.02 36 | 114 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Prepping for the Endgame of the Open Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
    ×1.51 17 | 5 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.20 35 | 105 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.70 26 | 208 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.08 40 | 113 points by wicket 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.94 33 | 107 points by DeathArrow 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.50 19 | 209 points by sohkamyung 16 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.53 | 1205 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.21 16 | 134 points by gmcabrita 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.80 41 | 55 points by hasheddan 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.46 3 | 409 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.64 | 77 points by fanf2 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.71 22 | 103 points by bryanrasmussen 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
    ×1.06 27 | 87 points by FailMore 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.37 46 | 73 points by pretext 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.68 47 | 108 points by signa11 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. EU age verification app: "Worry-free package" with security vulnerabilities (heise.de)
    ×2.38 6 | 28 points by _tk_ 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×0.94 26 | 52 points by random_ 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.35 35 | 139 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.11 1 | 703 points by aray07 2 days ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    ×1.03 27 | 48 points by alzhi7 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.97 52 | 116 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.78 6 | 241 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Air Is Full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×1.29 46 | 24 points by howrude 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)
    ×0.63 52 | 16 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.62 2 | 254 points by sph 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.82 35 | 44 points by arjunchint 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.25 5 | 449 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi (connla.substack.com)
    ×2.47 7 | 17 points by vinhnx 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)
    ×1.23 49 | 30 points by phantomathkg 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.52 35 | 279 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.47 9 | 769 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.37 39 | 136 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.32 6 | 347 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.41 4 | 243 points by boris_m 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.97 12 | 13 points by apollinaire 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025 (freedomhouse.org)
    ×3.09 1 | 40 points by Cider9986 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.35 29 | 194 points by zdw 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.80 12 | 304 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.39 38 | 66 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.70 9 | 474 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.05 40 | 75 points by b-man 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.35 33 | 116 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. William Cecil's Succession Plan (historytoday.com)
    ×0.32 11 | 8 points by Petiver 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 43 | 69 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.14 37 | 109 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???