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  1. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×4.05 5 | 480 points by colesantiago 10 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.11 7 | 132 points by crescit_eundo 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.86 12 | 24 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×1.82 1 | 38 points by doener 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference (github.com/outcomeops)
    ×0.70 44 | 7 points by linsys 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.34 35 | 174 points by pretext 13 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
    ×0.95 12 | 90 points by vcf 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
    ×1.16 16 | 36 points by lukasec 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud (reuters.com)
    ×4.19 4 | 38 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (markrjohnsongames.com)
    ×0.30 87 | 3 points by Hooke 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Six Levels of Dark Mode (cssence.com)
    ×1.55 32 | 33 points by Akcium 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.60 | 519 points by DamnInteresting 14 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.58 19 | 34 points by pizza_man 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite (aliens.gov)
    ×3.49 17 | 11 points by johnnyApplePRNG 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.61 40 | 170 points by omer_k 16 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
    ×2.31 47 | 17 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.09 23 | 272 points by helloplanets 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×0.91 30 | 110 points by NordStreamYacht 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (nytimes.com)
    ×3.64 9 | 16 points by eigenhombre 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.19 12 | 311 points by Tiberium 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.90 31 | 154 points by Eridanus2 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.18 11 | 59 points by isomorphy 4 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.70 37 | 255 points by mfiguiere 21 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.93 29 | 49 points by Bawoosette 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.05 41 | 84 points by teamchong 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×1.28 64 | 19 points by spudlyo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (mtc.com.au)
    ×0.47 52 | 13 points by abrax3141 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (infoq.com)
    ×1.85 7 | 26 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (acs.org)
    ×0.51 44 | 25 points by PaulHoule 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.98 14 | 55 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    ×0.60 46 | 34 points by kevwedotse 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.25 14 | 135 points by ragojose 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.10 95 | 71 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.20 35 | 206 points by signa11 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.88 13 | 14 points by type0 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.34 3 | 402 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.06 54 | 92 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×0.87 66 | 108 points by tyleo 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×1.02 81 | 4 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.62 22 | 237 points by aa_is_op 11 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.13 47 | 79 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    ×0.75 50 | 39 points by bachmeier 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.19 9 | 241 points by modelcroissant 14 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.54 21 | 457 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.71 16 | 115 points by theahura 9 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    ×1.98 29 | 84 points by lelanthran 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills (commondreams.org)
    ×4.67 14 | 21 points by MiguelX413 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.88 14 | 407 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.06 59 | 129 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.33 48 | 179 points by larve 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.42 58 | 81 points by fanf2 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (swissinfo.ch)
    ×4.26 50 | 195 points by doener 3 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
    ×1.94 17 | 103 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
    ×0.46 46 | 24 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×0.74 60 | 50 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.81 2 | 600 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.31 49 | 111 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.64 73 | 46 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.93 15 | 414 points by NelsonMinar 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.72 11 | 360 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.90 12 | 542 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.98 61 | 136 points by drasim 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.77 62 | 53 points by dado3212 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.97 62 | 116 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.24 52 | 72 points by riyaneel 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
    ×2.73 11 | 172 points by nobody9999 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.12 61 | 107 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.63 54 | 210 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers with 25,000 Ground Robots (united24media.com)
    ×4.77 56 | 16 points by Teever 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.55 14 | 1215 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 749 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Yoshihisa Kishimoto (1961 – 2026), creator of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (reddit.com)
    ×1.26 11 | 8 points by alberto-m 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
    ×7.22 69 | 67 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.22 49 | 107 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.17 12 | 454 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.05 56 | 116 points by wicket 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.91 53 | 110 points by DeathArrow 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×0.90 61 | 54 points by random_ 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service (newsweek.com)
    ×3.88 41 | 9 points by Teever 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.05 57 | 154 points by tambourine_man 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Nevada police may be tracking your phone's location without a warrant (apnews.com)
    ×2.35 8 | 7 points by breve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend (yahoo.com)
    ×2.91 52 | 51 points by dakiol 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.43 16 | 412 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.11 33 | 857 points by yusufusta 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.52 5 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.28 5 | 221 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.62 38 | 108 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.78 56 | 58 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.51 56 | 117 points by signa11 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.11 13 | 707 points by aray07 2 days ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???