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  1. 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×3.49 | 578 points by meetpateltech 8 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)
    ×5.21 | 1161 points by ricardbejarano 18 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (karpathy.github.io)
    ×1.23 6 | 43 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)
    ×2.22 | 91 points by psibi 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.23 12 | 525 points by johnbarron 19 hours ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×1.99 2 | 476 points by kilroy123 15 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)
    ×0.80 11 | 115 points by kernelrocks 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015) (huguesjohnson.com)
    ×1.13 17 | 19 points by mondobe 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. You gotta think outside the hypercube (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.06 7 | 20 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com/TomBadash)
    ×2.02 2 | 276 points by avionics-guy 12 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hammerspoon (github.com/Hammerspoon)
    ×1.79 3 | 269 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)
    ×0.70 14 | 32 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
    ×1.77 15 | 249 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Our Experience with I-Ready (wordpress.com)
    ×1.10 9 | 58 points by barry-cotter 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)
    ×2.83 9 | 145 points by gostsamo 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Lost Doctor Who episodes found (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.20 28 | 280 points by edent 22 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Digg is gone again (digg.com)
    ×5.07 10 | 144 points by hammerbrostime 12 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)
    ×2.48 29 | 73 points by billybuckwheat 11 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight (unsw.edu.au)
    ×0.85 29 | 81 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)
    ×1.37 10 | 58 points by ghd_ 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)
    ×3.81 14 | 403 points by merksittich 13 hours ago | 613 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (nytimes.com)
    ×2.07 34 | 109 points by angst 15 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Using Thunderbird for RSS (rubenerd.com)
    ×0.95 28 | 91 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas (getspine.ai)
    ×0.55 52 | 93 points by a24venka 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com/Compresr-ai)
    ×0.56 40 | 74 points by ivzak 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.64 31 | 70 points by eatonphil 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hyperlinks in terminal emulators (github.com/egmontkob)
    ×0.72 55 | 93 points by nvahalik 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
    ×3.16 13 | 298 points by tzury 13 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Your phone is an entire computer (medhir.com)
    ×2.52 16 | 302 points by medhir 13 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)
    ×4.00 20 | 443 points by cf100clunk 15 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (runcaptain.com)
    ×0.36 57 | 50 points by CMLewis 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Simple plugin to get Claude Code to listen to you (gopeek.ai)
    ×1.13 45 | 14 points by itsankur 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
    ×2.59 14 | 583 points by mipselaer 21 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale (underjord.io)
    ×0.28 47 | 11 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.62 67 | 69 points by _ananos_ 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (instagram.com)
    ×3.07 15 | 382 points by mindracer 18 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers (signoz.io)
    ×0.97 2 | 53 points by dhruv_ahuja 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Exploring JEPA for real-time speech translation (startpinch.com)
    ×0.77 33 | 41 points by christiansafka 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees (waldencui.com)
    ×0.96 100 | 3 points by cui 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. An old photo of a large BBS (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×1.80 45 | 283 points by xbryanx 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. $2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (reddit.com)
    ×3.21 10 | 40 points by spaghetdefects 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Kovan: From Production MVCC Systems to Wait-Free Memory Reclamation (vertexclique.com)
    ×0.34 47 | 12 points by EvgeniyZh 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system (github.com/NawfalMotii79)
    ×2.53 58 | 35 points by keepamovin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.64 22 | 94 points by waits 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. MetaGenesis Core – offline verification for computational claims (metagenesis-core.dev)
    ×0.35 66 | 12 points by Lama9901 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What changes happen in the aging brain? (salk.edu)
    ×0.85 68 | 10 points by hhs 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)
    ×5.03 14 | 1394 points by microflash 1 day ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×0.50 45 | 36 points by blewboarwastake 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bucketsquatting is finally dead (onecloudplease.com)
    ×1.45 12 | 320 points by boyter 23 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database (supplementdex.com)
    ×1.08 88 | 5 points by richarlidad 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)
    ×1.52 7 | 215 points by tavro 21 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (newscientist.com)
    ×1.54 1 | 96 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
    ×1.02 39 | 120 points by mohsen1 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025) (88mph.fm)
    ×0.82 30 | 102 points by matteocantiello 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Grief and the AI split (lmorchard.com)
    ×2.16 31 | 229 points by avernet 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat (windowscentral.com)
    ×1.29 6 | 7 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health – and more (vox.com)
    ×3.75 16 | 60 points by epistasis 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)
    ×3.39 24 | 524 points by kothariji 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury (apnews.com)
    ×1.61 4 | 8 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler (ssg.dev)
    ×1.26 39 | 15 points by sedatk 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com/upper-up)
    ×6.05 56 | 1211 points by shaicoleman 21 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (chronicle.com)
    ×2.03 42 | 14 points by robinhouston 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.56 13 | 75 points by wateroo 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Federal Judge Quashes Justice Department Subpoenas of Fed Chair Jerome Powell (cnn.com)
    ×2.56 18 | 22 points by rickcarlino 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Are LLM merge rates not getting better? (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.38 72 | 164 points by 4diii 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices (chromium.org)
    ×1.03 60 | 129 points by ingve 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference (percepta.ai)
    ×1.60 15 | 303 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It (propublica.org)
    ×4.25 30 | 74 points by johnbarron 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite) (runconverge.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Runners who churn butter on their runs (runnersworld.com)
    ×1.32 61 | 130 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License) (voidzero.dev)
    ×1.36 48 | 60 points by cpojer 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I wrote my first neural network (github.com/stupid-genius)
    ×1.36 70 | 5 points by allenng 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.32 59 | 274 points by 2bluesc 2 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due (yale.edu)
    ×1.30 62 | 156 points by speckx 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Svglib a SVG parser and renderer for Windows (github.com/bibhas2)
    ×0.24 74 | 12 points by leopoldj 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework (github.com/jrswab)
    ×1.33 42 | 212 points by jrswab 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.27 3 | 517 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data (theregister.com)
    ×2.73 14 | 20 points by goplayoutside 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. “This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)
    ×5.52 55 | 948 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 1997 Kyl–Bingaman Amendment prohibits high res satellite imagery of Israel (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.35 13 | 16 points by spaghetdefects 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Hardened OpenClaw on AWS with Terraform (github.com/infrahouse)
    ×1.29 66 | 7 points by aleks2 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition (grandforksherald.com)
    ×5.10 39 | 724 points by rectang 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?
    ×0.58 10 | 14 points by chatmasta 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Waller: A game teaching the fundamentals of drystone walling (orthodoxmasonry.com)
    ×2.03 77 | 7 points by CGMthrowaway 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)
    ×2.82 74 | 162 points by e12e 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI (futurism.com)
    ×2.76 18 | 22 points by jsheard 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AutoHarness: Improving LLM agents by automatically synthesizing a code harness (arxiv.org)
    ×1.08 71 | 6 points by simonpure 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony (theguardian.com)
    ×4.90 39 | 83 points by mitchbob 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice (stanford.edu)
    ×1.76 9 | 379 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies (medium.com)
    ×0.57 56 | 55 points by steerpike 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???