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  1. Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
    ×3.73 2 | 771 points by normanvalentine 10 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
    ×2.56 2 | 149 points by iceberger2001 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Optimal Strategy for Connect 4 (2swap.github.io)
    ×1.48 12 | 13 points by marvinborner 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.48 3 | 801 points by burnt-resistor 17 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Artemis II safely splashes down (cbsnews.com)
    ×6.03 4 | 866 points by areoform 9 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Installing every* Firefox extension (jack.cab)
    ×3.16 1 | 376 points by RohanAdwankar 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (bbc.com)
    ×1.73 1 | 329 points by neversaydie 14 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove (apnews.com)
    ×2.22 4 | 42 points by geox 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com/torvalds)
    ×2.70 5 | 312 points by hmokiguess 14 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (zx2c4.com)
    ×2.24 1 | 472 points by zx2c4 17 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com/Keychron)
    ×2.02 6 | 370 points by stingraycharles 16 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. 20 years on AWS and never not my job (daemonology.net)
    ×2.40 10 | 134 points by cperciva 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
    ×1.30 8 | 80 points by GenericCanadian 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art (chicagotribune.com)
    ×0.93 13 | 20 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (theregister.com)
    ×2.04 20 | 323 points by pashadee 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware (github.com/callumlocke)
    ×1.59 10 | 214 points by jkl5xx 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Productive Procrastination (maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
    ×0.88 21 | 17 points by maxvij 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian (desktopcommander.app)
    ×1.07 12 | 49 points by rkrizanovskis 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Seasons Are Wrong (kentwalters.com)
    ×1.67 20 | 23 points by NikxDa 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Helium is hard to replace (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.79 9 | 309 points by JumpCrisscross 18 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd (moooo.farm)
    ×2.16 11 | 10 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com/retlehs)
    ×1.32 | 43 points by bretthopper 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA (mit.edu)
    ×1.31 19 | 87 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty (historytoday.com)
    ×1.00 16 | 71 points by lermontov 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.76 31 | 95 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.84 18 | 54 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (ubuntu.com)
    ×1.14 24 | 129 points by fork-bomber 14 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
    ×0.51 47 | 67 points by danoandco 14 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
    ×2.21 2 | 226 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.15 37 | 166 points by jnord 21 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (nishantsoni.com)
    ×1.82 22 | 109 points by sonink 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.52 7 | 5 points by pabs3 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nowhere is safe (steveblank.com)
    ×1.98 6 | 181 points by sblank 13 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
    ×1.08 22 | 147 points by roxolotl 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PGLite Evangelism (substack.substack.com)
    ×1.12 11 | 59 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.02 13 | 125 points by maouida 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×1.32 58 | 4 points by vidluther 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
    ×2.30 26 | 459 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.32 30 | 502 points by Teever 17 hours ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (samaltman.com)
    ×4.45 35 | 298 points by jack_hanford 10 hours ago | 611 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
    ×1.22 29 | 125 points by facundo_olano 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
    ×0.72 36 | 42 points by Foxboron 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
    ×0.91 28 | 57 points by zachdive 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Static code analysis in Kotlin – tools overview (allegro.tech)
    ×0.30 75 | 5 points by karmazyn 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.08 58 | 149 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Scoop: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases (heatmap.news)
    ×2.62 10 | 5 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
    ×0.86 26 | 70 points by chrisecker 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We gave an AI a 3-year Lease. It opened a store (andonlabs.com)
    ×2.63 69 | 12 points by lukaspetersson 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (gitbutler.com)
    ×1.96 26 | 314 points by ellieh 1 day ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We Only Learn from Error (nathanclonts.com)
    ×0.67 94 | 4 points by kokopelli 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
    ×0.75 39 | 64 points by mcpherrinm 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe (reuters.com)
    ×1.98 36 | 18 points by nsoonhui 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. News is bad for you (2013) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.80 12 | 5 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×0.66 37 | 105 points by JackeJR 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.79 38 | 585 points by 01-_- 21 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband (googleblog.com)
    ×1.88 53 | 9 points by el_duderino 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (nytimes.com)
    ×4.78 36 | 226 points by enraged_camel 14 hours ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 40x Faster Binary Search (p99conf.io)
    ×1.37 85 | 7 points by teleforce 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The best seat in town (torched.la)
    ×0.59 58 | 40 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Simulating a 2D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)
    ×0.44 62 | 24 points by daww 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAI (wheresyoured.at)
    ×2.96 14 | 6 points by mc-serious 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust (github.com/peaktwilight)
    ×0.84 20 | 51 points by peaktwilight 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians (acoup.blog)
    ×1.71 90 | 8 points by baud147258 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)
    ×2.49 12 | 611 points by speckx 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
    ×1.15 8 | 135 points by jcalabro 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS (redox-os.org)
    ×0.55 63 | 46 points by akyuu 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com/marimo-team)
    ×1.31 21 | 129 points by manzt 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
    ×2.35 10 | 432 points by gmays 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.29 64 | 44 points by lschueller 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)
    ×1.60 50 | 208 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
    ×4.66 9 | 1351 points by pluc 2 days ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)
    ×2.53 13 | 625 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
    ×5.49 12 | 1901 points by blkhp19 2 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
    ×1.86 14 | 105 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (kagi.com)
    ×1.80 56 | 173 points by treetalker 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. C++: Freestanding Standard Library (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.54 64 | 44 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
    ×1.93 21 | 77 points by joeax 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply (bbc.com)
    ×1.06 64 | 31 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
    ×6.38 15 | 2277 points by grepsedawk 3 days ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)
    ×0.55 79 | 50 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. RAG 40x faster using binary quantization (2024) (lightning.ai)
    ×1.34 84 | 5 points by teleforce 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (loskutoff.com)
    ×1.03 31 | 101 points by Firfi 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)
    ×0.45 59 | 59 points by babawere 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Enforcing new limits and retiring Opus 4.6 Fast from Copilot Pro+ (github.blog)
    ×3.26 6 | 13 points by ValentineC 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)
    ×0.76 67 | 132 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.59 36 | 100 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)
    ×0.76 76 | 149 points by juretriglav 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
    ×8.79 50 | 2172 points by adrianhon 4 days ago | 903 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???