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  1. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.23 20 | 10 points by prismatic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.69 1 | 689 points by colesantiago 16 hours ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) (stripe.dev)
    ×1.65 50 | 5 points by tibbar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.38 4 | 159 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.68 5 | 63 points by twapi 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×2.77 8 | 148 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.13 13 | 189 points by crescit_eundo 13 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
    ×1.30 5 | 29 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
    ×1.79 10 | 19 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum (sheets.works)
    ×1.66 2 | 90 points by akashwadhwani35 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)
    ×1.62 18 | 12 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.11 14 | 194 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.33 11 | 140 points by shivampkumar 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com/esutcu)
    ×1.64 4 | 22 points by debugga 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.45 19 | 279 points by pretext 20 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
    ×0.98 15 | 51 points by doener 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×1.88 12 | 137 points by doener 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
    ×1.62 21 | 82 points by jruohonen 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.24 40 | 263 points by omer_k 23 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
    ×1.22 13 | 86 points by lukasec 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
    ×1.16 39 | 71 points by Akcium 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.77 26 | 28 points by juanpabloaj 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.72 35 | 64 points by pizza_man 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Sudo for Windows (2024) (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.88 7 | 64 points by luispa 6 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×0.91 43 | 128 points by NordStreamYacht 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (markrjohnsongames.com)
    ×0.53 44 | 23 points by Hooke 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
    ×0.92 11 | 111 points by vcf 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.94 39 | 174 points by Eridanus2 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) (skmurphy.com)
    ×0.45 51 | 10 points by skmurphy 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.15 49 | 113 points by teamchong 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No (vucense.com)
    ×2.97 57 | 51 points by anju-kushwaha 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.14 21 | 360 points by Tiberium 15 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering (github.com/outcomeops)
    ×0.76 12 | 42 points by linsys 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.04 98 | 80 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×1.03 61 | 36 points by spudlyo 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.34 4 | 208 points by tambourine_man 16 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (hajo.me)
    ×0.74 41 | 16 points by fxtentacle 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.23 28 | 143 points by ragojose 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages (wsj.com)
    ×2.69 9 | 18 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (acs.org)
    ×0.47 66 | 29 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.97 44 | 61 points by Bawoosette 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.26 6 | 79 points by isomorphy 10 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.67 28 | 565 points by DamnInteresting 21 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.17 2 | 323 points by helloplanets 23 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    ×0.56 60 | 37 points by kevwedotse 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.40 5 | 422 points by speckx 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
    ×1.25 48 | 23 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. They Went Abroad to Save Money. Moving Back Seems Unaffordable (nytimes.com)
    ×3.20 1 | 10 points by toomanyrichies 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.10 49 | 102 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries (newsmaps.io)
    ×1.78 73 | 10 points by mkoh 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.55 18 | 468 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996) (dkeenan.com)
    ×1.06 69 | 7 points by pizza 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.04 2 | 256 points by modelcroissant 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.89 17 | 414 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.87 3 | 70 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (mtc.com.au)
    ×0.52 52 | 20 points by abrax3141 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly? (lemire.me)
    ×1.52 17 | 6 points by signa11 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The race to build the next WordPress (opencomputer.dev)
    ×1.29 4 | 16 points by iacguy 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.71 13 | 275 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis (ft.com)
    ×1.83 6 | 8 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.09 38 | 83 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.68 35 | 265 points by aa_is_op 17 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.81 | 605 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.38 53 | 85 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.93 16 | 553 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 544 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.93 18 | 417 points by NelsonMinar 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    ×0.75 42 | 43 points by bachmeier 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.76 14 | 372 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.97 59 | 138 points by drasim 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.27 45 | 112 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.97 62 | 118 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why one of the largest digital banks chose Clojure [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.12 7 | 18 points by amb135cm 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.77 17 | 128 points by theahura 16 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    ×1.90 26 | 92 points by lelanthran 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis worse (restofworld.org)
    ×1.82 21 | 7 points by i7l 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×0.70 52 | 50 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.27 49 | 77 points by riyaneel 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.55 7 | 1217 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 750 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.95 5 | 26 points by type0 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency (bbc.com)
    ×8.67 80 | 235 points by blondie9x 5 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bringing the Power of the Sun to Earth: Nuclear Fusion Reactors (simonsfoundation.org)
    ×2.15 49 | 9 points by ganitam 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.19 | 218 points by signa11 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.75 52 | 54 points by dado3212 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
    ×0.45 41 | 25 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.66 54 | 49 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud (reuters.com)
    ×3.49 83 | 152 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.18 4 | 459 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (infoq.com)
    ×1.50 16 | 34 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Evolution (harvard.edu)
    ×1.07 57 | 7 points by consumer451 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???