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  1. Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI spend in real-time) (github.com/liorwn)
    ×1.68 4 | 27 points by liorwn 43 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)
    ×1.62 8 | 202 points by bilsbie 6 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)
    ×0.82 15 | 20 points by Velocifyer 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war (twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC)
    ×6.68 2 | 50 points by theahura 33 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
    ×1.17 15 | 15 points by katspaugh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.02 16 | 55 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. It's time to move your docs in the repo (dein.fr)
    ×2.22 4 | 33 points by gregdoesit 40 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March (technode.global)
    ×2.71 | 15 points by ninadwrites 22 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.77 19 | 237 points by timhh 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)
    ×1.55 6 | 88 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter' (bbc.com)
    ×2.71 2 | 93 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CSMWrap: Legacy BIOS booting on UEFI-only systems via SeaBIOS (github.com/CSMWrap)
    ×0.63 45 | 6 points by _joel 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Python: The Optimization Ladder (cemrehancavdar.com)
    ×2.08 13 | 205 points by Twirrim 10 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)
    ×2.39 7 | 119 points by homebrewer 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input (abjadpro.com)
    ×1.22 12 | 38 points by adangit 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mit.edu)
    ×2.98 15 | 254 points by inaros 3 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 9 Mothers Defense (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin (ashbyhq.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (gitagent.sh)
    ×1.45 15 | 60 points by sivasurend 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)
    ×0.99 20 | 101 points by XzetaU8 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (csis.org)
    ×1.80 30 | 75 points by msuniverse2026 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Generalizing Knuth's Pseudocode Architecture From Algorithms to Knowledge (researchgate.net)
    ×0.78 42 | 13 points by isomorphist 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×4.31 1 | 1072 points by meetpateltech 20 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)
    ×3.20 23 | 379 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Cookie jars capture American kitsch (2023) (eater.com)
    ×0.29 48 | 21 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden (dbushell.com)
    ×0.58 34 | 21 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. In Praise of Stupid Questions (wordpress.com)
    ×0.79 17 | 11 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. UBI as a productivity dividend (scottsantens.substack.com)
    ×5.19 15 | 76 points by 2noame 3 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.84 12 | 210 points by y1n0 8 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gimp 3.2 Released (gimp.org)
    ×3.44 | 5 points by F3nd0 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Digg is gone again (digg.com)
    ×3.80 26 | 376 points by hammerbrostime 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Zap Code – AI code generator that teaches kids real HTML/CSS/JS (zapcode.dev)
    ×0.89 6 | 7 points by eibrahim 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022) (sagepub.com)
    ×1.86 13 | 66 points by xyzal 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.17 10 | 221 points by edward 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)
    ×2.28 20 | 128 points by sebastian_z 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: KeyID – Free email and phone infrastructure for AI agents (MCP) (keyid.ai)
    ×1.01 54 | 7 points by vasilyt 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Nominal Types in WebAssembly (wingolog.org)
    ×0.63 46 | 32 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.69 6 | 1375 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)
    ×1.31 15 | 132 points by enz 14 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Claude March 2026 usage promotion (claude.com)
    ×3.04 33 | 22 points by enceladus06 33 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills (ml.ink)
    ×0.61 33 | 24 points by august- 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)
    ×0.82 44 | 152 points by kernelrocks 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (nytimes.com)
    ×1.91 55 | 195 points by angst 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015) (huguesjohnson.com)
    ×0.63 58 | 54 points by mondobe 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (karpathy.github.io)
    ×1.26 10 | 160 points by vismit2000 16 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff (theverge.com)
    ×6.65 36 | 23 points by jbraithwaite 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Secure Secrets Management for Cursor Cloud Agents (infisical.com)
    ×0.57 46 | 36 points by vmatsiiako 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions (jnkr.tech)
    ×0.56 57 | 42 points by luispa 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)
    ×1.39 45 | 128 points by ghd_ 20 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.35 2 | 665 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Data-anim – Animate HTML with just data attributes (github.com/ryo-manba)
    ×1.10 74 | 5 points by ryo-manba 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)
    ×3.11 11 | 303 points by gostsamo 20 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (mit.edu)
    ×0.56 43 | 32 points by o4c 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. You gotta think outside the hypercube (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.03 25 | 97 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AEP (API Design Standard and Tooling Ecosystem) (aep.dev)
    ×0.55 64 | 30 points by rambleraptor 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)
    ×3.70 14 | 488 points by merksittich 1 day ago | 758 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Using Thunderbird for RSS (rubenerd.com)
    ×0.93 56 | 112 points by ingve 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08] (1980) (archive.org)
    ×1.53 1 | 38 points by AlexeyBrin 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight (unsw.edu.au)
    ×0.79 55 | 98 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)
    ×0.74 43 | 65 points by vinhnx 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×2.23 18 | 577 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War with Iran Causes Chaos Online (nytimes.com)
    ×2.09 24 | 6 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (getspine.ai)
    ×0.58 65 | 106 points by a24venka 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.26 15 | 13 points by tartoran 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com/Compresr-ai)
    ×0.58 59 | 88 points by ivzak 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (chronicle.com)
    ×2.42 57 | 62 points by robinhouston 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built Wool, a lightweight distributed Python runtime (github.com/wool-labs)
    ×2.00 63 | 7 points by bzurak 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Our Experience with I-Ready (wordpress.com)
    ×0.97 36 | 80 points by barry-cotter 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com/TomBadash)
    ×2.23 16 | 403 points by avionics-guy 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Hammerspoon (github.com/Hammerspoon)
    ×1.78 2 | 333 points by tosh 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
    ×1.30 4 | 27 points by trashymctrash 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)
    ×4.04 26 | 522 points by cf100clunk 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)
    ×2.06 21 | 194 points by psibi 17 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
    ×1.79 15 | 294 points by tosh 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
    ×2.65 10 | 610 points by mipselaer 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An old photo of a large BBS (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×1.79 51 | 295 points by xbryanx 2 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming five years (metoffice.gov.uk)
    ×2.28 14 | 38 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (runcaptain.com)
    ×0.36 65 | 54 points by CMLewis 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Parsing semiconductor datasheets into structured register maps for under $0.25 (regforge.dev)
    ×0.87 13 | 8 points by coleman2247 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a index I've ever seen (substack.substack.com)
    ×5.98 49 | 52 points by Zigurd 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
    ×3.20 12 | 351 points by tzury 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)
    ×5.06 5 | 1408 points by microflash 2 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.59 65 | 72 points by _ananos_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Lost Doctor Who episodes found (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.14 16 | 293 points by edent 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system (github.com/NawfalMotii79)
    ×2.06 52 | 58 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Your phone is an entire computer (medhir.com)
    ×2.59 19 | 348 points by medhir 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.66 33 | 83 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (instagram.com)
    ×3.03 7 | 405 points by mindracer 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018) (bl.uk)
    ×0.51 72 | 7 points by OJFord 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Browser Becomes Your WordPress (wordpress.org)
    ×1.34 18 | 27 points by vidyesh 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Unique AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard for Open-Source Firmware (phoronix.com)
    ×1.36 16 | 16 points by justinclift 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???