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  1. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
    ×1.54 5 | 228 points by unignorant 10 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.12 6 | 340 points by richardboegli 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Dav2d (videolan.org)
    ×2.52 10 | 484 points by dabinat 17 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    ×1.24 16 | 24 points by deut-erium 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (david-smith.org)
    ×1.95 5 | 303 points by valzevul 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
    ×2.29 3 | 125 points by brendanmc6 4 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.28 9 | 340 points by RubyGuy 17 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
    ×1.60 13 | 194 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
    ×1.57 6 | 44 points by jovial_cavalier 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service (sourcefeed.app)
    ×0.64 5 | 24 points by bjhess 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels (newsonjapan.com)
    ×1.13 27 | 44 points by mikhael 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (epo.org)
    ×1.29 21 | 204 points by JeanKage 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com/microsoft)
    ×6.33 11 | 1214 points by indrora 14 hours ago | 626 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (stanford.edu)
    ×0.93 48 | 5 points by hhs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.16 15 | 83 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (mendral.com)
    ×1.18 16 | 105 points by shad42 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.17 11 | 109 points by dragandj 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.69 13 | 52 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.14 8 | 112 points by yunusabd 13 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024) (retrocoding.net)
    ×1.46 2 | 76 points by phendrenad2 7 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net)
    ×0.72 14 | 27 points by SeenNotHeard 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.21 24 | 249 points by moosia 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    ×1.01 21 | 89 points by BSTRhino 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores (nytimes.com)
    ×2.64 15 | 157 points by doener 9 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.56 17 | 31 points by victorkulla 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
    ×3.13 25 | 289 points by bazlightyear 6 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 (python.org)
    ×2.44 10 | 20 points by ankitg12 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.28 48 | 130 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? (unherd.com)
    ×0.87 34 | 34 points by pentestercrab 11 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.93 24 | 94 points by prismatic 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.14 18 | 163 points by nateb2022 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.91 27 | 544 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
    ×3.20 22 | 460 points by rsaarelm 16 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers (arxiv.org)
    ×1.54 51 | 4 points by pizza 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    ×1.45 16 | 89 points by lerno 16 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (bbc.com)
    ×1.96 29 | 166 points by 1659447091 9 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
    ×0.46 41 | 29 points by pasxizeis 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Simple and correct snapshot isolation (remy.wang)
    ×0.64 18 | 24 points by remywang 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 33 | 107 points by fagnerbrack 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (ft.com)
    ×1.95 3 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (bbc.com)
    ×2.93 22 | 297 points by geox 16 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Open source does not imply open community (feld.me)
    ×2.97 38 | 160 points by RohanAdwankar 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.59 2 | 200 points by steveharing1 22 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.39 26 | 170 points by reikonomusha 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.38 16 | 200 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Modern C++ Programming: Busato (github.com/federico-busato)
    ×1.44 22 | 84 points by KnuthIsGod 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (cnbc.com)
    ×2.66 23 | 230 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com/mahimairaja)
    ×1.35 5 | 70 points by mahimai 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.55 26 | 725 points by buildbot 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)
    ×1.13 30 | 117 points by sambigeara 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
    ×1.08 6 | 90 points by momentmaker 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.08 2 | 132 points by nickvec 19 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)
    ×0.82 35 | 102 points by karakanb 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.98 58 | 200 points by proberts 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Welcome to Hell Developer (noahclements.com)
    ×1.10 18 | 69 points by denysvitali 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention (janestreet.com)
    ×1.07 33 | 27 points by jxmorris12 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC) (bbc.com)
    ×3.34 43 | 26 points by walden789 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer (physicsworld.com)
    ×1.30 8 | 3 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
    ×4.65 47 | 238 points by breve 11 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance (wsj.com)
    ×3.41 36 | 246 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)
    ×2.51 14 | 579 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (wordpress.com)
    ×1.19 45 | 6 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? (latimes.com)
    ×2.07 30 | 59 points by robotlaunch 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.65 38 | 65 points by pplonski86 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (newyorker.com)
    ×2.16 5 | 447 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask.com has closed (ask.com)
    ×3.44 27 | 450 points by supermdguy 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)
    ×2.17 4 | 361 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com/rancher)
    ×1.36 33 | 105 points by jzebedee 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Also-RANS: Asymmetric Numeral Systems for Entropy Coding (fergusfinn.com)
    ×0.39 63 | 18 points by mezark 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. SFO Gate Explorer (flysfo.com)
    ×0.64 49 | 44 points by CaliforniaKarl 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example (github.com/mxgmn)
    ×1.08 41 | 76 points by futurecat 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Wyoming celebrates 'nuclear Renaissance' as feds approve license for a reactor (npr.org)
    ×2.26 6 | 25 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.40 58 | 38 points by 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.60 44 | 51 points by nip 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.31 31 | 61 points by patillacode 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.79 45 | 19 points by mikolajw 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×0.86 49 | 150 points by ingve 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS (canonical.com)
    ×2.22 44 | 203 points by jtlebigot 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The gay jailbreak technique (2025) (github.com/Exocija)
    ×5.56 28 | 639 points by bobsmooth 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (liquid.ai)
    ×0.73 50 | 58 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights (insideevs.com)
    ×1.97 27 | 49 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Understand Anything (github.com/Lum1104)
    ×1.35 31 | 159 points by taubek 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.75 40 | 46 points by brettnbutter 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Unified Understanding and Generation (github.com/facebookresearch)
    ×0.93 57 | 9 points by neehao 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.37 5 | 2130 points by salkahfi 3 days ago | 687 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.83 38 | 136 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.96 14 | 3497 points by WadeGrimridge 4 days ago | 1048 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (yale.edu)
    ×1.11 8 | 135 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.36 37 | 105 points by idontwantthis 17 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???