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  1. Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months (briefs.co)
    ×3.34 | 244 points by lwhsiao 2 hours ago | 254 comments | ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.34 3 | 130 points by whoishiring 3 hours ago | 137 comments | ??? ???
  3. whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)
    ×0.77 10 | 61 points by peter_d_sherman 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×1.22 5 | 74 points by whoishiring 3 hours ago | 135 comments | ??? ???
  5. Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant (youtube.com)
    ×5.17 2 | 72 points by johnbarron 49 minutes ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  6. Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died (online-tribute.com)
    ×1.23 6 | 69 points by deater 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  7. Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres (github.com/calebwin)
    ×0.82 10 | 8 points by calebhwin 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  8. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×0.83 10 | 96 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  9. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.80 1 | 83 points by proberts 3 hours ago | 119 comments | ??? ???
  10. Understand Anything (github.com/Lum1104)
    ×1.34 9 | 9 points by taubek 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  11. An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)
    ×2.95 7 | 119 points by tvararu 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  12. Your Website Is Not for You (websmith.studio)
    ×1.49 1 | 218 points by pumbaa 7 hours ago | 151 comments | ??? ???
  13. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)
    ×1.34 24 | 179 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ??? ???
  14. Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs (github.com/intel)
    ×1.29 15 | 89 points by lastdong 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk (github.com/leox255)
    ×0.61 26 | 25 points by todience 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  16. Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration (nature.com)
    ×0.67 59 | 5 points by warbaker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  17. AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.49 1 | 11 points by johnbarron 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
    ×0.74 9 | 89 points by mayerwin 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  19. OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
    ×1.36 33 | 175 points by zero-lab 16 hours ago | 126 comments | ??? ???
  20. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
    ×1.97 33 | 448 points by j12y 1 day ago | 171 comments | ??? ???
  21. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)
    ×2.44 10 | 440 points by ilamont 21 hours ago | 236 comments | ??? ???
  22. Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
    ×3.32 8 | 337 points by simianwords 9 hours ago | 446 comments | ??? ???
  23. Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
    ×1.59 39 | 189 points by herbertl 18 hours ago | 210 comments | ??? ???
  24. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.07 33 | 105 points by smaddrellmander 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ??? ???
  25. How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)
    ×2.33 30 | 503 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 173 comments | ??? ???
  26. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
    ×2.43 11 | 291 points by sleepingNomad 9 hours ago | 109 comments | ??? ???
  27. If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
    ×1.62 5 | 114 points by matricaria 7 hours ago | 131 comments | ??? ???
  28. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)
    ×6.21 5 | 1286 points by elmean 1 day ago | 696 comments | ??? ???
  29. A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982) (jsoftware.com)
    ×0.85 16 | 37 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  30. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
    ×1.70 38 | 329 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 74 comments | ??? ???
  31. Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (x.com)
    ×3.79 25 | 340 points by andruby 7 hours ago | 265 comments | ??? ???
  32. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.18 52 | 139 points by zikani_03 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  33. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.29 9 | 706 points by Cider9986 21 hours ago | 304 comments | ??? ???
  34. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.69 46 | 198 points by armadsen 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  35. The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced (midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
    ×1.99 9 | 6 points by Teever 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  36. Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac (ieee.org)
    ×0.58 71 | 52 points by oldnetguy 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  37. Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
    ×1.81 41 | 236 points by patrickhulin 23 hours ago | 68 comments | ??? ???
  38. Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine (lovable.dev)
    ×1.26 25 | 60 points by vikeri 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  39. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.40 59 | 171 points by ethagnawl 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  40. Auto Polo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.20 3 | 100 points by canjobear 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  41. I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers (gregraiz.com)
    ×1.75 33 | 123 points by graiz 16 hours ago | 129 comments | ??? ???
  42. Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)
    ×1.53 55 | 164 points by KraftyOne 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  43. Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023) (journalofcognition.org)
    ×1.31 70 | 23 points by XzetaU8 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  44. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.60 14 | 674 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 237 comments | ??? ???
  45. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
    ×3.41 13 | 846 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 921 comments | ??? ???
  46. NHS Goes to War Against Open Source (shkspr.mobi)
    ×5.08 21 | 68 points by edent 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  47. Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests (ij.org)
    ×5.83 45 | 220 points by loteck 1 hour ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  48. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×0.91 68 | 43 points by droppedasbaby 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  49. A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025) (btxx.org)
    ×1.19 7 | 53 points by bradley_taunt 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  50. The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023) (skysedge.com)
    ×0.99 2 | 57 points by tzury 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ??? ???
  51. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.50 48 | 302 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 200 comments | ??? ???
  52. How we run iSCSI over the internet (scsipub.com)
    ×1.11 50 | 34 points by qdotme 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  53. American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were (derekthompson.org)
    ×2.65 56 | 138 points by ozozozd 1 day ago | 188 comments | ??? ???
  54. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
    ×2.73 18 | 575 points by ori_b 1 day ago | 497 comments | ??? ???
  55. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.31 6 | 2104 points by salkahfi 2 days ago | 678 comments | ??? ???
  56. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.70 47 | 215 points by gpjt 1 day ago | 158 comments | ??? ???
  57. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down (theregister.com)
    ×2.89 47 | 65 points by ndsipa_pomu 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  58. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)
    ×1.23 48 | 103 points by wglb 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  59. For first time since World War II, US national debt now larger than its economy (fortune.com)
    ×3.44 25 | 38 points by Geekette 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ??? ???
  60. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h (canonical.com)
    ×3.06 32 | 117 points by jtlebigot 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ??? ???
  61. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)
    ×3.14 10 | 498 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 220 comments | ??? ???
  62. What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.84 78 | 116 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 124 comments | ??? ???
  63. A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
    ×1.03 60 | 144 points by mostlyk 1 day ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  64. Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months (macrumors.com)
    ×3.06 25 | 117 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  65. The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.12 45 | 106 points by Sir_Twist 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  66. Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ??? ???
  67. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)
    ×3.28 3 | 634 points by jaffathecake 1 day ago | 225 comments | ??? ???
  68. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.91 9 | 3477 points by WadeGrimridge 2 days ago | 1036 comments | ??? ???
  69. Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) (nikhiljha.com)
    ×0.76 39 | 41 points by ninjha 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ??? ???
  70. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
    ×5.64 6 | 1426 points by unsnap_biceps 2 days ago | 501 comments | ??? ???
  71. How People ask Claude for personal guidance (anthropic.com)
    ×1.25 53 | 22 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  72. Darkness can travel faster than light (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.47 20 | 3 points by brycehalley 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  73. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
    ×1.84 8 | 348 points by vok 1 day ago | 155 comments | ??? ???
  74. A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mit.edu)
    ×0.98 48 | 101 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 33 comments | ??? ???
  75. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.80 54 | 72 points by speckx 1 day ago | 19 comments | ??? ???
  76. Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)
    ×1.24 52 | 196 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 161 comments | ??? ???
  77. Xmemory: Benchmarking Structured AI Memory Against RAG and Hybrid RAG (arxiv.org)
    ×0.48 66 | 7 points by alex_petrov 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  78. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
    ×0.91 64 | 64 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 85 comments | ??? ???
  79. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.06 59 | 130 points by gbourne1 7 hours ago | 114 comments | ??? ???
  80. Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo (dustri.org)
    ×0.84 41 | 73 points by homebrewer 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  81. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×0.87 55 | 12 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  82. A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (alphaxiv.org)
    ×0.64 56 | 34 points by measurablefunc 20 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  83. Foundations of Metrology(1981) [pdf] (nist.gov)
    ×0.87 72 | 9 points by pillars 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  84. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
    ×1.29 42 | 204 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  85. SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
    ×0.60 61 | 32 points by pmw 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  86. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)
    ×2.45 10 | 491 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 108 comments | ??? ???
  87. Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)
    ×1.30 52 | 30 points by wglb 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  88. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
    ×1.57 45 | 202 points by noleary 1 day ago | 100 comments | ??? ???
  89. DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
    ×1.28 43 | 143 points by louisbarclay 1 day ago | 28 comments | ??? ???
  90. My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
    ×0.77 47 | 84 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 26 comments | ??? ???