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  1. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×1.43 | 41 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.08 1 | 111 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.82 4 | 312 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.64 7 | 82 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.99 4 | 520 points by anabranch 18 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.40 7 | 285 points by gnabgib 15 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.86 7 | 336 points by NelsonMinar 17 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×1.14 12 | 84 points by tyleo 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×1.45 14 | 22 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.83 8 | 414 points by RickJWagner 21 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
    ×3.14 6 | 56 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
    ×3.17 10 | 62 points by nobody9999 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.13 9 | 402 points by f_r_d 22 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.62 5 | 157 points by larve 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.25 18 | 9 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×2.15 1 | 71 points by fanf2 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.12 11 | 784 points by yusufusta 20 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.64 7 | 83 points by agambrahma 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.17 9 | 102 points by weaksauce 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.90 19 | 31 points by dado3212 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.75 28 | 26 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.72 12 | 215 points by Lwrless 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.82 13 | 308 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. William Cecil's Succession Plan (historytoday.com)
    ×0.47 3 | 6 points by Petiver 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.55 7 | 43 points by riyaneel 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.14 10 | 3 points by modelcroissant 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×1.13 38 | 45 points by random_ 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.97 25 | 115 points by drasim 18 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.03 34 | 106 points by t-3 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.72 22 | 178 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.22 36 | 96 points by peter_d_sherman 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.96 34 | 102 points by DeathArrow 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.10 42 | 107 points by wicket 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.80 26 | 300 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.75 20 | 203 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. EU age verification app: "Worry-free package" with security vulnerabilities (heise.de)
    ×3.24 13 | 7 points by _tk_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.30 8 | 120 points by gmcabrita 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.85 38 | 52 points by hasheddan 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    ×1.11 24 | 43 points by alzhi7 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
    ×1.08 29 | 80 points by FailMore 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.13 50 | 182 points by eshelyaron 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.51 17 | 1196 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 745 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.49 14 | 404 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Air Is Full of DNA (nature.com)
    ×1.85 63 | 20 points by howrude 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.78 8 | 94 points by bryanrasmussen 17 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)
    ×0.84 62 | 15 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.21 42 | 48 points by chmaynard 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.38 40 | 135 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×1.30 66 | 18 points by neehao 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
    ×3.77 35 | 140 points by tchalla 11 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.84 34 | 40 points by arjunchint 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.79 15 | 222 points by sylvainkalache 22 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025 (freedomhouse.org)
    ×2.84 1 | 25 points by Cider9986 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.93 52 | 96 points by signa11 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)
    ×1.32 64 | 27 points by phantomathkg 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.61 1 | 249 points by sph 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.10 10 | 696 points by aray07 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.97 62 | 112 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment (house.gov)
    ×1.90 15 | 21 points by num42 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×2.72 57 | 39 points by omer_k 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.11 12 | 26 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.24 8 | 445 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.42 5 | 242 points by boris_m 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.36 54 | 132 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.45 14 | 762 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.52 45 | 278 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.31 12 | 341 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)
    ×0.56 68 | 8 points by mmaaz 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.28 30 | 143 points by tech234a 18 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.46 52 | 65 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.34 46 | 190 points by zdw 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.06 53 | 73 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.58 62 | 301 points by trocado 15 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.37 49 | 115 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 68 | 67 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.65 4 | 460 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
    ×1.28 47 | 16 points by prdpx7 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.15 51 | 107 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.66 3 | 299 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator (github.com/sahil-shubham)
    ×1.40 52 | 11 points by davidcollantes 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.26 1 | 298 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×0.97 46 | 119 points by marklit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (johndcook.com)
    ×1.11 57 | 17 points by rolph 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.46 37 | 134 points by wespiser_2018 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.15 11 | 274 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
    ×2.09 15 | 81 points by nuke-web3 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.06 17 | 236 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Air Canada suspends 6 routes 'no longer economically feasible' (cbc.ca)
    ×2.77 15 | 15 points by geox 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.75 12 | 249 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???