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  1. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.14 5 | 132 points by moosia 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.33 2 | 479 points by buildbot 10 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.94 8 | 19 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.61 8 | 116 points by ankitg12 7 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×1.17 14 | 14 points by fagnerbrack 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.84 4 | 83 points by steveharing1 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)
    ×1.03 11 | 66 points by karakanb 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (economist.com)
    ×1.07 9 | 24 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.96 4 | 96 points by reikonomusha 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)
    ×2.45 6 | 516 points by thatxliner 19 hours ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)
    ×1.81 4 | 41 points by sambigeara 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Russia Poisons Wikipedia (bettedangerous.com)
    ×6.50 11 | 137 points by exceptione 2 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.71 9 | 36 points by pplonski86 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)
    ×2.12 9 | 278 points by geerlingguy 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SFO Gate Explorer (flysfo.com)
    ×0.77 24 | 20 points by CaliforniaKarl 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (newyorker.com)
    ×2.10 12 | 394 points by XzetaU8 21 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.53 20 | 30 points by 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.75 16 | 35 points by nip 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (yale.edu)
    ×1.18 29 | 105 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (simonwillison.net)
    ×6.00 24 | 291 points by indigodaddy 22 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years (32bits.substack.com)
    ×2.47 16 | 46 points by bbayles 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example (github.com/mxgmn)
    ×1.26 10 | 54 points by futurecat 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia (yahoo.com)
    ×2.75 15 | 21 points by delichon 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.80 26 | 27 points by brettnbutter 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask.com has closed (ask.com)
    ×3.41 18 | 353 points by supermdguy 11 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.07 54 | 179 points by proberts 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)
    ×1.40 29 | 118 points by susam 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.58 33 | 171 points by wooster 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.30 26 | 278 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (liquid.ai)
    ×0.82 38 | 52 points by nateb2022 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930 (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.61 17 | 8 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apocalypse Early Warning System (kylemcdonald.net)
    ×2.29 28 | 225 points by carlsborg 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment (wired.com)
    ×1.35 36 | 156 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)
    ×0.83 57 | 145 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com/rancher)
    ×1.53 6 | 81 points by jzebedee 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry (nature.com)
    ×0.90 51 | 57 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.74 57 | 26 points by trangram 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (wsj.com)
    ×2.93 29 | 61 points by voisin 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022) (economist.com)
    ×2.05 31 | 49 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The gay jailbreak technique (2025) (github.com/Exocija)
    ×5.77 21 | 579 points by bobsmooth 22 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (cnn.com)
    ×3.51 18 | 19 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×0.86 63 | 143 points by ingve 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Understand Anything (github.com/Lum1104)
    ×1.35 38 | 143 points by taubek 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The smelly baby problem (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.77 | 191 points by dionysou 18 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) (github.com/InsaneInfinity)
    ×0.74 74 | 9 points by insane_infinity 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AI CAD Harness (adam.new)
    ×0.91 60 | 88 points by zachdive 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Whimsical Animations Course Open House (joshwcomeau.com)
    ×0.96 41 | 99 points by SpyCoder77 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo (404media.co)
    ×3.83 24 | 426 points by joshcsimmons 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.87 49 | 130 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.47 11 | 9 points by 0in 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS (canonical.com)
    ×2.34 57 | 183 points by jtlebigot 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Integer Overflow Checking Cost (danluu.com)
    ×1.20 27 | 37 points by iwsk 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982) (jsoftware.com)
    ×0.70 83 | 61 points by tosh 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died (online-tribute.com)
    ×0.94 48 | 119 points by deater 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (bbc.com)
    ×2.27 2 | 250 points by reconnecting 22 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
    ×0.64 36 | 13 points by 1000xcat 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.13 56 | 23 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
    ×2.74 12 | 515 points by sleepingNomad 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs (github.com/intel)
    ×1.22 57 | 130 points by lastdong 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. IBM Granite 4.1 family of models (ibm.com)
    ×1.64 80 | 31 points by srameshc 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI uses less water than the public thinks (californiawaterblog.com)
    ×3.07 32 | 384 points by hirpslop 22 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. LibreOffice 26.2.3 Released – What Is New and What Was Fixed? (tux.re)
    ×1.67 73 | 11 points by tux033 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers (staysafeonline.org)
    ×2.32 12 | 25 points by saikatsg 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.61 60 | 213 points by armadsen 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)
    ×2.54 3 | 245 points by tvararu 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×2.42 15 | 88 points by lahfir 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks (nextc.org)
    ×2.17 30 | 228 points by kodbraker 19 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Your website is not for you (websmith.studio)
    ×1.44 9 | 255 points by pumbaa 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Chasing a SharedKey signature mismatch: fix azurerm_storage_table_entity (thecloudtheory.com)
    ×0.33 72 | 13 points by kamilmrzyglod 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.14 59 | 152 points by zikani_03 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Have Your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index (jack-vanlightly.com)
    ×0.98 3 | 4 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)
    ×3.31 6 | 736 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
    ×7.34 1 | 2117 points by salkahfi 3 days ago | 682 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.42 22 | 113 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent (vasi.li)
    ×1.41 74 | 15 points by vsviridov 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
    ×1.77 44 | 252 points by patrickhulin 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.09 48 | 127 points by smaddrellmander 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud (bitsaboutmoney.com)
    ×1.45 55 | 20 points by Redoubts 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.42 49 | 193 points by ethagnawl 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US to Withdraw Troops from Germany (dw.com)
    ×4.63 21 | 19 points by pera 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server (tvheadend.org)
    ×0.90 34 | 35 points by hyperific 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
    ×11.94 9 | 3489 points by WadeGrimridge 3 days ago | 1045 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac (github.com/cashapp)
    ×0.83 72 | 9 points by zikani_03 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
    ×3.18 20 | 389 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.09 49 | 65 points by jilles 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
    ×1.51 40 | 313 points by steveharing1 2 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk (github.com/leox255)
    ×0.69 51 | 53 points by todience 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)
    ×1.49 44 | 178 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.30 11 | 148 points by johnbarron 22 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???