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  1. XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.86 1 | 77 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×3.96 1 | 862 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Baochip-1x: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now and How It Came About (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.96 1 | 93 points by timhh 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)
    ×1.26 9 | 44 points by XzetaU8 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Python: The Optimization Ladder (cemrehancavdar.com)
    ×1.61 15 | 25 points by Twirrim 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mothers Defense (YC X26) Is Hiring in Austin (ashbyhq.com)
    5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)
    ×1.45 16 | 81 points by enz 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)
    ×3.07 41 | 211 points by billybuckwheat 17 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)
    ×2.74 8 | 121 points by ramoz 2 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×2.15 9 | 541 points by kilroy123 21 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.47 6 | 52 points by edward 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com/TomBadash)
    ×2.16 14 | 351 points by avionics-guy 19 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (mit.edu)
    ×0.81 29 | 17 points by o4c 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (karpathy.github.io)
    ×1.27 3 | 131 points by vismit2000 10 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Hammerspoon (github.com/Hammerspoon)
    ×1.77 21 | 305 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions (jnkr.tech)
    ×0.77 49 | 32 points by luispa 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)
    ×0.84 37 | 139 points by kernelrocks 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How Lego builds a new Lego set (theverge.com)
    ×1.42 11 | 26 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.52 9 | 1281 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Digg is gone again (digg.com)
    ×4.07 27 | 244 points by hammerbrostime 18 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. You gotta think outside the hypercube (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.11 3 | 84 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents (infisical.com)
    ×0.79 33 | 19 points by vmatsiiako 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015) (huguesjohnson.com)
    ×0.66 52 | 36 points by mondobe 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Browser Becomes Your WordPress (wordpress.org)
    ×1.47 16 | 11 points by vidyesh 51 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)
    ×1.35 42 | 95 points by ghd_ 14 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)
    ×3.06 10 | 242 points by gostsamo 13 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AEP (API Design Standard and Tooling Ecosystem) (aep.dev)
    ×0.59 55 | 22 points by rambleraptor 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.86 53 | 151 points by angst 21 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.35 4 | 640 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)
    ×0.77 38 | 58 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)
    ×2.02 16 | 172 points by psibi 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight (unsw.edu.au)
    ×0.82 56 | 95 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08] (archive.org)
    ×2.62 6 | 7 points by AlexeyBrin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)
    ×3.72 16 | 458 points by merksittich 19 hours ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Using Thunderbird for RSS (rubenerd.com)
    ×0.95 56 | 107 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com/Compresr-ai)
    ×0.58 67 | 85 points by ivzak 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (getspine.ai)
    ×0.58 71 | 103 points by a24venka 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Our Experience with I-Ready (wordpress.com)
    ×1.05 31 | 77 points by barry-cotter 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming five years (metoffice.gov.uk)
    ×1.78 8 | 8 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: AgentArmor – open-source 8-layer security framework for AI agents (github.com/Agastya910)
    ×1.00 75 | 4 points by AgastyaTodi 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018) (bl.uk)
    ×0.81 94 | 4 points by OJFord 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability (csis.org)
    ×1.27 81 | 4 points by msuniverse2026 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Unique AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard for Open-Source Firmware (phoronix.com)
    ×1.90 18 | 6 points by justinclift 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)
    ×4.02 23 | 493 points by cf100clunk 21 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
    ×1.80 17 | 288 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.64 54 | 78 points by eatonphil 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
    ×2.64 9 | 601 points by mipselaer 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (runcaptain.com)
    ×0.36 78 | 53 points by CMLewis 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (chronicle.com)
    ×2.11 71 | 31 points by robinhouston 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
    ×3.19 15 | 332 points by tzury 19 hours ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Your phone is an entire computer (medhir.com)
    ×2.56 17 | 332 points by medhir 19 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Image generation models can think (medium.com)
    ×0.94 2 | 5 points by hungryminded 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. An old photo of a large BBS (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×1.80 57 | 291 points by xbryanx 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.61 80 | 71 points by _ananos_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Lost Doctor Who episodes found (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.16 21 | 288 points by edent 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (instagram.com)
    ×3.04 4 | 396 points by mindracer 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system (github.com/NawfalMotii79)
    ×2.16 70 | 48 points by keepamovin 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)
    ×5.05 1 | 1403 points by microflash 2 days ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees (waldencui.com)
    ×1.46 66 | 14 points by cui 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Exploring JEPA for real-time speech translation (startpinch.com)
    ×0.74 53 | 45 points by christiansafka 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What changes happen in the aging brain? (salk.edu)
    ×0.77 94 | 15 points by hhs 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Grief and the AI split (lmorchard.com)
    ×2.08 52 | 231 points by avernet 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)
    ×1.53 26 | 223 points by tavro 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bucketsquatting is finally dead (onecloudplease.com)
    ×1.45 10 | 323 points by boyter 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
    ×1.03 56 | 125 points by mohsen1 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database (supplementdex.com)
    ×0.76 98 | 10 points by richarlidad 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
    ×0.82 51 | 105 points by matteocantiello 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers (signoz.io)
    ×0.95 30 | 58 points by dhruv_ahuja 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers? (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.53 23 | 14 points by tornikeo 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Are LLM merge rates not getting better? (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.38 90 | 167 points by 4diii 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.30 8 | 116 points by waits 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale (underjord.io)
    ×0.26 76 | 12 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. $2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (reddit.com)
    ×2.96 4 | 56 points by spaghetdefects 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)
    ×3.36 10 | 532 points by kothariji 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Silicon Hegemon (eetimes.com)
    ×1.50 93 | 4 points by y1n0 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×0.48 57 | 37 points by blewboarwastake 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (newscientist.com)
    ×1.58 18 | 106 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices (chromium.org)
    ×1.02 74 | 130 points by ingve 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kovan: From Production MVCC Systems to Wait-Free Memory Reclamation (vertexclique.com)
    ×0.37 62 | 15 points by EvgeniyZh 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.29 69 | 274 points by 2bluesc 2 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hacking the Xbox One (youtube.com)
    ×1.18 28 | 3 points by sjuut 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Runners who churn butter on their runs (runnersworld.com)
    ×1.30 72 | 131 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference (percepta.ai)
    ×1.61 | 307 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com/upper-up)
    ×6.12 72 | 1236 points by shaicoleman 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Anthropic, Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)
    ×2.95 57 | 16 points by ramoz 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due (yale.edu)
    ×1.29 73 | 157 points by speckx 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hyperlinks in terminal emulators (github.com/egmontkob)
    ×0.76 29 | 99 points by nvahalik 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. MetaGenesis Core – offline verification for computational claims (metagenesis-core.dev)
    ×0.36 74 | 14 points by Lama9901 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework (github.com/jrswab)
    ×1.35 48 | 217 points by jrswab 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount: Reuters (cnbc.com)
    ×4.06 79 | 7 points by nova22033 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???