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  1. Humanoid Robot Actuators (firgelli.com)
    ×1.36 | 110 points by ofrzeta 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
    ×1.72 4 | 181 points by samcollins 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
    ×1.67 8 | 353 points by nullagent 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
    ×3.45 2 | 411 points by alattaran 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)
    ×1.10 11 | 67 points by TapamN 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
    ×1.61 3 | 152 points by jdgr 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.00 18 | 21 points by worldvoyageur 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A desktop made for one (isene.org)
    ×2.37 7 | 326 points by xngbuilds 16 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
    ×1.40 10 | 238 points by KatiMichel 15 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
    ×3.04 4 | 383 points by donsupreme 17 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
    ×1.24 17 | 147 points by leopoldj 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)
    ×0.95 20 | 46 points by rickcarlino 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)
    ×1.31 11 | 92 points by heresie-dabord 10 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)
    ×0.96 28 | 7 points by o4c 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.26 35 | 320 points by oceansky 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Introduction to Atom (w3.org)
    ×1.28 6 | 87 points by susam 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)
    ×1.40 18 | 142 points by miohtama 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.91 10 | 373 points by dryadin 13 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
    ×4.09 12 | 682 points by teleforce 17 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
    ×2.69 15 | 205 points by SpyCoder77 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)
    ×1.23 18 | 110 points by softservo 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.78 10 | 30 points by OuterVale 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)
    ×0.73 17 | 9 points by LolWolf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)
    ×2.61 14 | 322 points by rickcarlino 13 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.07 13 | 99 points by cyrc 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.36 18 | 80 points by bschoepke 14 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.33 7 | 42 points by ChrisArchitect 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)
    ×1.42 9 | 152 points by mobeigi 17 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
    ×3.77 26 | 312 points by bjhess 8 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.92 32 | 108 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×1.01 30 | 171 points by bring-shrubbery 22 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I built my own hair electrolysis machine (scd31.com)
    ×2.20 1 | 225 points by y1n0 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (lelanthran.com)
    ×2.59 3 | 113 points by lelanthran 14 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (stanford.edu)
    ×0.99 43 | 118 points by hhs 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Make your own microforest (2025) (ambrook.com)
    ×1.30 1 | 92 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×4.65 32 | 343 points by ayoisaiah 9 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (thegamer.com)
    ×3.16 20 | 262 points by rishabhd 15 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)
    ×1.05 41 | 58 points by whycome 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
    ×1.51 13 | 177 points by skaul 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Alert-driven monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
    ×0.90 14 | 112 points by khazit 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.73 44 | 50 points by 0in 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study (sciencex.com)
    ×1.49 21 | 119 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.60 53 | 31 points by thedebuglife 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
    ×1.52 26 | 163 points by jovial_cavalier 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.56 48 | 634 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Buckets and objects are not enough (sagi.org)
    ×0.46 62 | 11 points by sagiba 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cordouan Lighthouse (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 47 | 35 points by Petiver 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
    ×1.22 56 | 21 points by andyjohnson0 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Automatic Brightness in Plasma (zamundaaa.github.io)
    ×0.55 37 | 19 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Talking to Transformers (miraos.org)
    ×0.80 33 | 35 points by taylorsatula 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
    ×1.91 4 | 410 points by unignorant 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (porsche.com)
    ×1.36 1 | 111 points by Amorymeltzer 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Dav2d (videolan.org)
    ×2.66 5 | 603 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.68 3 | 106 points by brandonb 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.30 6 | 487 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author? (github.com/notepad-plus-plus)
    ×2.38 13 | 25 points by jethronethro 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (mendral.com)
    ×1.25 33 | 169 points by shad42 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.02 43 | 135 points by dragandj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.71 2 | 518 points by RubyGuy 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.08 45 | 119 points by signa11 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    ×1.32 57 | 111 points by lerno 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (electrek.co)
    ×2.32 41 | 63 points by m463 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS (david-smith.org)
    ×2.16 8 | 430 points by valzevul 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×0.92 43 | 39 points by Flex247A 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    ×0.99 47 | 117 points by BSTRhino 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.15 44 | 180 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude (claude.com)
    ×1.33 7 | 41 points by eddiehammond 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
    ×2.48 23 | 266 points by brendanmc6 1 day ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.30 44 | 75 points by victorkulla 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.59 33 | 221 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.91 70 | 203 points by proberts 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.71 44 | 75 points by zdw 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 57 | 114 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia (theconversation.com)
    ×1.96 2 | 37 points by debo_ 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
    ×1.71 2 | 282 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.32 43 | 177 points by reikonomusha 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.33 37 | 208 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.59 13 | 757 points by buildbot 2 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death (jamiesimon.io)
    ×0.63 57 | 9 points by jamie-simon 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×0.84 52 | 14 points by TeaVMFan 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    ×0.43 53 | 34 points by deut-erium 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case (arxiv.org)
    ×1.42 30 | 152 points by mrtz 20 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.19 14 | 149 points by yunusabd 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Interview with Josh Fisher – Inventing VLIW, Multiflow, Itanium, VLIW's Success [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.35 20 | 5 points by tambourine_man 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Minimal Fab Promoting Organization (minimalfab.com)
    ×0.61 62 | 7 points by nz 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work (github.com/systalyze)
    ×0.72 25 | 47 points by nateb2022 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
    ×3.21 29 | 507 points by rsaarelm 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.94 33 | 109 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician (science.org)
    ×0.52 57 | 6 points by kakoni 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (epo.org)
    ×1.28 2 | 240 points by JeanKage 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???