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  1. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
    ×3.32 1 | 535 points by participant3 9 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (eater.net)
    ×1.89 3 | 95 points by jcartw 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Building Gearbox Dynamometer (thriftybuilder.dev)
    ×2.10 28 | 3 points by nill0 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (github.com/lwthiker)
    ×1.78 6 | 289 points by mmh0000 11 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)
    ×2.87 7 | 153 points by walterbell 8 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code (gatesnotes.com)
    ×2.50 5 | 225 points by EvgeniyZh 5 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age (kiessling.net)
    ×2.48 2 | 174 points by briankelly 8 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
    ×1.39 7 | 264 points by matser 12 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point (aom.org)
    ×1.26 11 | 73 points by rustoo 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers (science.org)
    ×0.71 29 | 49 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The cultural evolution of distortion in music (royalsocietypublishing.org)
    ×0.69 23 | 36 points by anigbrowl 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)
    ×1.06 29 | 66 points by abelanger 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Was Houdini a Spy? (2021) (cia.gov)
    ×0.60 14 | 34 points by carlos-menezes 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)
    ×2.67 14 | 204 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Binary Distribution Rebuilds (josefsson.org)
    ×0.36 49 | 9 points by JNRowe 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities (microsoft.com)
    ×1.93 6 | 44 points by hacknslack 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform (ycombinator.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating (niila.fi)
    ×1.32 7 | 104 points by duckling23 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)
    ×2.35 13 | 327 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)
    ×1.20 1 | 100 points by liadyo 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)
    ×1.77 31 | 176 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
    ×5.93 14 | 339 points by Tenoke 10 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc (vmssoftware.com)
    ×0.84 31 | 36 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
    ×1.55 12 | 63 points by yathern 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)
    ×7.05 22 | 585 points by adrianvoica 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Servo Motors Work (jameco.com)
    ×1.30 6 | 57 points by kaycebasques 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)
    ×1.00 15 | 141 points by sunshine-o 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (yahoo.com)
    ×3.99 24 | 32 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years (seattletimes.com)
    ×0.96 11 | 8 points by rmason 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Simple Denoising Diffusion (github.com/utkuozbulak)
    ×0.42 38 | 14 points by jvkersch 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)
    ×10.49 18 | 1742 points by belter 1 day ago | 3312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative (github.com/hail-hydrant)
    ×0.75 29 | 87 points by darkseid_is 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com/ConduitIO)
    ×0.61 41 | 45 points by lmazgon 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters (mainframesociety.com)
    ×0.58 32 | 15 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Slipstream – A Python library for stateful stream processing (slipstream.readthedocs.io)
    ×0.62 30 | 20 points by menziess 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Darkest Timeline – how I see the 54% tariff impacting the game industry (stonemaiergames.com)
    ×2.01 31 | 18 points by vyrotek 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
    ×2.40 7 | 565 points by Fred34 1 day ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An AlphaStation's SROM (thejpster.org.uk)
    ×0.73 31 | 73 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks (mit.edu)
    ×1.70 36 | 237 points by imakwana 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style (mollohq.com)
    ×1.00 17 | 58 points by b0bben 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs (simon-frey.com)
    ×0.86 15 | 75 points by l1am0 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms – By Marcel Salathé (engineeringprompts.substack.com)
    ×0.91 74 | 4 points by absqueued 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.32 53 | 27 points by Petiver 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection (github.com/apple)
    ×1.26 40 | 183 points by Tycho87 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly (isomorphism.xyz)
    ×3.03 22 | 273 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)
    ×2.88 8 | 392 points by nimbleplum40 23 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
    ×6.49 29 | 1768 points by dang 1 day ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Multi-Token Attention (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 40 | 145 points by fzliu 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)
    ×2.12 33 | 276 points by joshdickson 13 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Restructuring Announcement (automattic.com)
    ×1.66 29 | 254 points by markx2 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com/luskaner)
    ×2.00 2 | 432 points by apitman 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
    ×1.34 92 | 240 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors (arxiv.org)
    ×0.28 79 | 6 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (ieee.org)
    ×1.08 38 | 200 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com/juanfont)
    ×1.84 3 | 317 points by quyleanh 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
    ×0.57 154 | 52 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AI/Math Puzzle (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
    ×0.62 33 | 44 points by markerz 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (pico.sh)
    ×2.80 13 | 583 points by TheTaytay 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.08 41 | 159 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why I don't discuss politics with friends (shwin.co)
    ×3.66 | 469 points by shw1n 1 day ago | 931 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Measuring Acceleration Structures (zeux.io)
    ×0.36 46 | 14 points by luu 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)
    ×2.84 15 | 451 points by ChiptuneIsCool 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat (wsj.com)
    ×2.41 17 | 115 points by Bostonian 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code (mermaidchart.com)
    ×0.85 44 | 127 points by msfi 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
    ×0.93 37 | 96 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)
    ×2.62 11 | 623 points by jihadjihad 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] (greshm.org)
    ×0.91 47 | 49 points by Suncho 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in
    ×1.07 17 | 74 points by martianE 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Flame – BBS and MUD (ucc.asn.au)
    ×0.63 36 | 54 points by shakna 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn't waiting (theregister.com)
    ×3.70 17 | 10 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access (matterrank.ai)
    ×1.11 48 | 55 points by mfkhalil 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Declarative Web Push (webkit.org)
    ×1.35 35 | 76 points by janandonly 10 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans (evanconnelly.github.io)
    ×1.32 31 | 143 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball (ploopy.co)
    ×1.04 25 | 115 points by namanyayg 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PaperBench (openai.com)
    ×1.12 45 | 102 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (github.com/c3lang)
    ×1.26 26 | 94 points by lerno 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports (openculture.com)
    ×1.19 49 | 192 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)
    ×2.65 2 | 308 points by trevin 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.68 96 | 3 points by four_fifths 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)
    ×4.44 18 | 410 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
    ×3.13 9 | 269 points by moonka 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Big VC Tech Money Has Greatly Misunderstood Real Estate (medium.com)
    ×1.88 16 | 4 points by simondodson 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How Silica Gel Took Over the World (scopeofwork.net)
    ×1.75 58 | 219 points by Hooke 2 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS (matrix.org)
    ×1.19 9 | 193 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)
    ×0.80 50 | 71 points by DJHenk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Reintroducing Capsul (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.65 48 | 36 points by j3s 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How Google built its Gemini robotics models (blog.google)
    ×1.25 10 | 199 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge (aptera.us)
    ×0.85 37 | 45 points by geox 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Stop syncing everything (sqlsync.dev)
    ×2.90 8 | 638 points by neilk 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (tailscale.com)
    ×2.62 14 | 358 points by adriangrigore 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???