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  1. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.82 1 | 196 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×1.58 9 | 28 points by tyleo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×3.25 3 | 439 points by anabranch 10 hours ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.24 6 | 162 points by gnabgib 8 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.81 4 | 285 points by NelsonMinar 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.73 7 | 329 points by RickJWagner 14 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.93 9 | 29 points by agambrahma 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.07 7 | 59 points by weaksauce 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.44 3 | 97 points by larve 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×1.98 4 | 343 points by f_r_d 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×3.92 7 | 693 points by yusufusta 13 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.83 9 | 247 points by cdrnsf 7 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.82 12 | 84 points by sohkamyung 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.54 5 | 398 points by tkhattra 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×1.84 17 | 24 points by random_ 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
    ×3.87 11 | 99 points by tchalla 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.65 6 | 174 points by Lwrless 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.02 13 | 99 points by drasim 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare
    ×3.08 11 | 12 points by chrisjj 56 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.98 13 | 43 points by hasheddan 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.01 17 | 84 points by t-3 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×0.47 38 | 4 points by riyaneel 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.25 4 | 88 points by gmcabrita 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A story about how I dug into the PostgreSQL sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    ×1.25 2 | 26 points by alzhi7 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.59 18 | 236 points by sph 20 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.09 18 | 66 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.12 21 | 92 points by wicket 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    ×1.37 43 | 137 points by atomfinger 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
    ×1.00 7 | 60 points by FailMore 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.85 11 | 77 points by DeathArrow 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.41 8 | 234 points by boris_m 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.72 6 | 183 points by coinfused 17 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.83 10 | 293 points by fouronnes3 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.00 17 | 10 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.81 14 | 33 points by arjunchint 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.25 18 | 41 points by chmaynard 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)
    ×0.73 50 | 6 points by mmaaz 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.15 29 | 181 points by eshelyaron 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.39 27 | 130 points by azhenley 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)
    ×1.60 46 | 23 points by phantomathkg 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.48 21 | 1185 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 739 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Remoroo – Trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (remoroo.com)
    ×0.66 20 | 28 points by adhamghazali 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×1.00 71 | 6 points by neehao 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.72 21 | 197 points by sylvainkalache 15 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.94 25 | 68 points by y1n0 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (sqlservercentral.com)
    ×1.55 1 | 25 points by tcp_handshaker 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.55 41 | 263 points by trocado 8 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.66 21 | 78 points by bryanrasmussen 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×3.37 32 | 88 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (malwarebytes.com)
    ×2.17 16 | 14 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.35 35 | 130 points by tech234a 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.71 23 | 5 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×1.00 55 | 112 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.08 8 | 686 points by aray07 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Air Is Full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×2.26 29 | 8 points by howrude 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
    ×2.13 23 | 76 points by nuke-web3 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Verkada Deceives School That Verkada Cameras Would Not "Brick" (ipvm.com)
    ×2.29 22 | 5 points by jhonovich 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.23 3 | 438 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
    ×1.22 33 | 12 points by prdpx7 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (johndcook.com)
    ×1.23 50 | 16 points by rolph 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.36 48 | 128 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.51 43 | 62 points by pabs3 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.27 2 | 330 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator (github.com/sahil-shubham)
    ×1.68 36 | 8 points by davidcollantes 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.44 15 | 757 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.05 52 | 70 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
    ×1.18 26 | 88 points by riteshnoronha16 21 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.53 36 | 277 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    ×1.64 41 | 50 points by mhb 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)
    ×2.93 17 | 38 points by mindcrime 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.38 42 | 114 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 57 | 66 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.34 34 | 189 points by zdw 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.59 18 | 446 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.66 35 | 69 points by pjmlp 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.15 48 | 105 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.62 9 | 289 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.25 14 | 295 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.44 32 | 130 points by wespiser_2018 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.16 | 272 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×0.97 42 | 118 points by marklit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.06 8 | 233 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Loonies for Loongsons (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.65 38 | 29 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.27 8 | 201 points by aw1621107 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.75 3 | 246 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)
    ×0.48 51 | 24 points by olliewagner 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.03 54 | 76 points by atan2 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
    ×0.90 50 | 53 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.44 50 | 112 points by AlexC04 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???