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  1. IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (google.com)
    ×3.29 | 322 points by Aaronmacaron 5 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
    ×1.90 2 | 267 points by twapi 7 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (calif.io)
    ×3.20 4 | 9 points by campuscodi 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×3.73 1 | 21 points by davikr 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)
    ×1.92 1 | 187 points by pabs3 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (harvard.edu)
    ×0.45 28 | 3 points by Metacelsus 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (dbreunig.com)
    ×2.11 6 | 440 points by dbreunig 15 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse)
    ×1.15 8 | 94 points by airhangerf15 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The paper computer (jsomers.net)
    ×1.33 6 | 154 points by jsomers 9 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
    ×1.23 18 | 69 points by CJefferson 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
    ×1.07 20 | 26 points by ohjeez 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (tokyodev.com)
    ×0.78 18 | 55 points by pwim 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. FIXAPL (fixapl.netlify.app)
    ×1.06 10 | 35 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
    ×1.15 18 | 68 points by sebg 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (lighterra.com)
    ×1.22 2 | 15 points by Flex247A 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.89 9 | 218 points by armcat 13 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
    ×0.93 34 | 38 points by skogstokig 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (medium.com)
    ×0.57 23 | 34 points by jmarbach 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)
    ×1.94 19 | 318 points by Benjamin_Dobell 19 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (eff.org)
    ×7.63 18 | 1511 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)
    ×0.94 15 | 137 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
    ×1.29 13 | 103 points by luu 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters (tratt.net)
    ×0.98 37 | 94 points by ltratt 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic (github.com/saffron-health)
    ×0.78 73 | 104 points by muchael 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.89 37 | 170 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.59 65 | 141 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew (mcdonalds.co.jp)
    ×4.34 20 | 480 points by bckygldstn 13 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com/macOS26)
    ×1.11 39 | 55 points by jv22222 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux (tinycorelinux.net)
    ×0.83 32 | 115 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (wordpress.com)
    ×0.65 24 | 10 points by barbazoo 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.88 22 | 550 points by Alex_Bond 16 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Gemini app is now on Mac (blog.google)
    ×1.62 34 | 144 points by thm 17 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written (dwyer.co.za)
    ×3.69 17 | 7 points by sixhobbits 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.63 31 | 242 points by upmostly 22 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 14 | 99 points by WaitWaitWha 8 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale (tailscale.com)
    ×2.09 48 | 27 points by phantomathkg 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023) (aalonso.dev)
    ×1.01 35 | 132 points by cyclopeanutopia 18 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com/SethPyle376)
    ×0.53 54 | 25 points by ozarkerD 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How can I keep from singing? (danieljanus.pl)
    ×1.10 48 | 73 points by nathell 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
    ×0.77 56 | 47 points by ankitg12 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. God sleeps in the minerals (wordpress.com)
    ×2.19 13 | 523 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared (warped3.substack.com)
    ×2.25 57 | 188 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.26 19 | 286 points by misterchocolat 15 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hacker News CLI (2014) (pythonhosted.org)
    ×0.78 54 | 52 points by rolph 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (theverge.com)
    ×4.01 35 | 286 points by pentagrama 11 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama (sleepingrobots.com)
    ×7.85 45 | 521 points by Zetaphor 7 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998) (pbs.org)
    ×0.58 68 | 34 points by opengrass 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Open Source Isn't Dead (strix.ai)
    ×2.30 14 | 332 points by bearsyankees 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. C++26: Structured Bindings in Conditions (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.71 84 | 9 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)
    ×2.17 8 | 490 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference (gizmoweek.com)
    ×2.18 39 | 283 points by takumi123 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017) (bbc.com)
    ×1.30 3 | 101 points by harambae 13 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think (letaigamble.com)
    ×1.94 63 | 21 points by mackbrowne 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (b-list.org)
    ×0.42 25 | 15 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.98 4 | 408 points by askl 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King (theguardian.com)
    ×0.41 92 | 14 points by lermontov 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)
    ×1.99 | 396 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. EU Age Verification Solution (ageverification.dev)
    ×1.34 79 | 19 points by t0bia_s 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. One interface, every protocol (openbindings.com)
    ×1.10 53 | 49 points by clevengermatt 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.75 10 | 42 points by canucker2016 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.50 24 | 5 points by geox 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (ldjam.com)
    ×0.99 18 | 35 points by raincole 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself? (github.com/gastownhall)
    ×2.48 40 | 237 points by rektomatic 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)
    ×1.84 6 | 257 points by aphyr 21 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How Wake-On-LAN works (2020) (xaner.dev)
    ×0.91 43 | 86 points by swq115 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Golden eagles' return to English skies (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.56 55 | 46 points by techterrier 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.26 56 | 183 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 (deepmind.google)
    ×1.86 5 | 212 points by markerbrod 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
    ×0.71 72 | 53 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet (chalkbeat.org)
    ×1.27 50 | 51 points by the-mitr 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations
    ×0.48 40 | 11 points by FailMore 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log (stylewarning.com)
    ×1.25 59 | 142 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Claude Code Routines (claude.com)
    ×2.81 2 | 704 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)
    ×0.98 68 | 195 points by petalmind 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases (semafor.com)
    ×1.48 7 | 124 points by thm 16 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 56 | 60 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Stop Flock (stopflock.com)
    ×5.74 30 | 958 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.74 10 | 698 points by jrm-veris 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)
    ×1.14 61 | 193 points by xnx 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Arguing with Agents (blowmage.com)
    ×2.20 41 | 67 points by asaaki 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)
    ×0.74 48 | 34 points by parzivalt 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Costasiella kuroshimae (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.93 28 | 148 points by vinnyglennon 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI (github.com/steipete)
    ×1.43 12 | 235 points by dinakars777 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.85 2 | 7 points by wasimsk 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
    ×4.45 20 | 1182 points by speckx 2 days ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
    ×1.40 8 | 179 points by porsche959 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.20 51 | 216 points by zdw 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. My adventure in designing API keys (vjay15.github.io)
    ×1.03 47 | 108 points by vjay15 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×4.35 | 1128 points by thebiblelover7 2 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???