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  1. Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman (apple.com)
    ×7.17 | 334 points by schappim 33 minutes ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI Resistance Is Growing (stephvee.ca)
    ×3.68 | 135 points by speckx 53 minutes ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.93 4 | 25 points by Vortigaunt 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (qwen.ai)
    ×2.00 5 | 446 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers (kimi.com)
    ×1.51 9 | 73 points by Alifatisk 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090 (github.com/Luce-Org)
    ×2.30 5 | 82 points by GreenGames 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×3.02 15 | 658 points by Liriel 12 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
    ×1.64 13 | 301 points by thomasp85 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.96 6 | 222 points by FiddlerClamp 5 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
    ×1.05 19 | 78 points by conductor 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.91 7 | 81 points by anjel 1 hour ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Modern Rendering Culling Techniques (krupitskas.com)
    ×1.09 19 | 41 points by krupitskas 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys (filippo.io)
    ×1.28 20 | 57 points by hasheddan 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.01 229 | 1 points by RayFitzgerald 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (pmasschelier.github.io)
    ×0.71 29 | 19 points by thaisstein 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
    ×1.11 19 | 159 points by luu 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
    ×4.63 11 | 462 points by meetpateltech 5 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. We accepted surveillance as default (vivianvoss.net)
    ×2.22 10 | 233 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
    ×1.42 18 | 234 points by Someone 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tim Cook Stepping Down (macrumors.com)
    ×2.93 10 | 28 points by schappim 36 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Work Runs on Different Maps (yusufaytas.com)
    ×1.78 9 | 25 points by yusufaytas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/ArcaneNibble)
    ×1.35 16 | 161 points by tuananh 9 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (letsdatascience.com)
    ×2.76 4 | 417 points by kevcampb 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (politico.eu)
    ×2.53 40 | 76 points by axbyte 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    ×1.69 30 | 105 points by lelanthran 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Not buying another Kindle (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.43 10 | 230 points by mikhael 5 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
    ×2.02 9 | 315 points by kyriakosel 7 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)
    ×1.12 8 | 79 points by alongub 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Figma's woes compound with Claude Design (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.77 40 | 74 points by martinald 10 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×1.76 13 | 246 points by feigewalnuss 13 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Chernobyl's last wedding (bbc.com)
    ×0.66 16 | 52 points by 1659447091 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What if database branching was easy? (xata.io)
    ×0.69 47 | 62 points by tee-es-gee 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012) (acm.org)
    ×0.60 15 | 38 points by aragonite 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978) (princeton.edu)
    ×1.16 9 | 80 points by AFF87 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
    ×1.07 26 | 140 points by breve 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
    ×6.12 31 | 773 points by ramonga 7 hours ago | 674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)
    ×0.66 26 | 52 points by signa11 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
    ×3.28 12 | 414 points by Palmik 11 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
    ×1.08 34 | 160 points by janandonly 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)
    ×6.43 37 | 494 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. John Ternus to Become Apple CEO (businesswire.com)
    ×2.14 18 | 14 points by newleaf 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
    ×1.98 24 | 220 points by ndr 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×1.07 9 | 122 points by alegd 7 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×0.98 12 | 160 points by neehao 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tim Cook to step down from Apple (nytimes.com)
    ×2.31 6 | 5 points by frenchman_in_ny 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.32 29 | 54 points by vrganj 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs (surfacedby.com)
    ×1.47 19 | 121 points by startages 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.44 33 | 199 points by twapi 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness (deepmind.google)
    ×0.76 48 | 14 points by LopRabbit 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Confirmed as New Apple CEO (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.88 18 | 8 points by jaredwiener 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. More than 50% of young Dutch adults do not want children (nltimes.nl)
    ×1.73 10 | 8 points by randycupertino 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tim Cook steps down. Ternus to CEO (twitter.com/markgurman)
    ×2.48 25 | 12 points by fudged71 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
    ×1.06 39 | 118 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×0.90 54 | 78 points by ChuckMcM 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers (theverge.com)
    ×1.14 3 | 5 points by speckx 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×2.79 15 | 390 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol (reuters.com)
    ×2.47 11 | 34 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Caztor 1.0 – a browser for small-net protocols like Gemini and Gopher (kevinboone.me)
    ×1.19 56 | 11 points by LaSombra 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Epicycles All the Way Down (2025) (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×0.53 34 | 37 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
    ×0.96 44 | 95 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) (stripe.dev)
    ×0.92 37 | 91 points by tibbar 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children (404media.co)
    ×1.56 12 | 23 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Peter Thiel Is Building a Parallel Justice System – Powered by AI (codastory.com)
    ×2.68 18 | 39 points by cdrnsf 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. NASA Artemis Posters (nasa.gov)
    ×1.43 13 | 91 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.70 11 | 841 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
    ×1.37 50 | 139 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.52 40 | 35 points by Caiero 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cahokia (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.28 8 | 17 points by Amorymeltzer 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Brave Origin (brave.app)
    ×1.59 41 | 21 points by baal80spam 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com/esutcu)
    ×0.80 48 | 60 points by debugga 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019) (columbian.com)
    ×1.74 58 | 41 points by cybermango 1 hour ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first (electrek.co)
    ×2.52 14 | 150 points by Klaster_1 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Allbirds' Move to AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.57 5 | 27 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.34 46 | 41 points by prismatic 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
    ×1.08 54 | 108 points by Akcium 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Sudo for Windows (2024) (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.31 46 | 76 points by luispa 21 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
    ×0.87 44 | 86 points by doener 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI chatbots could be making you stupider (bbc.com)
    ×1.36 16 | 44 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Baltic nations brace for impact of Iran war delaying US weapons shipments (defensenews.com)
    ×0.98 17 | 15 points by Teever 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Turning a Chinese IoT camera into an owl livestream (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.47 11 | 23 points by dado3212 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×2.08 3 | 225 points by doener 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.36 4 | 192 points by shivampkumar 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.20 54 | 147 points by teamchong 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×0.95 78 | 91 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.33 3 | 228 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.07 14 | 297 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.94 47 | 184 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore (allthingssmitty.com)
    ×1.11 31 | 14 points by AllThingsSmitty 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)
    ×0.77 44 | 42 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.46 15 | 353 points by pretext 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???