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  1. PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading (stuartbreckenridge.net)
    ×2.48 2 | 485 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.54 4 | 76 points by tejohnso 5 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon (larstofus.com)
    ×2.16 2 | 322 points by mariuz 11 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024) (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×1.14 16 | 16 points by HeliumHydride 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The future of version control (bramcohen.com)
    ×2.41 2 | 487 points by c17r 15 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated (stevekrouse.com)
    ×2.35 5 | 354 points by stevekrouse 14 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why I love NixOS (birkey.co)
    ×2.17 6 | 271 points by birkey 13 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline (projectnomad.us)
    ×2.32 9 | 410 points by jensgk 18 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop (github.com/danveloper)
    ×1.62 20 | 333 points by mft_ 19 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption (jtsylve.blog)
    ×1.37 6 | 26 points by jtsylve 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y (neon.com)
    ×1.39 56 | 6 points by andrenotgiant 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Windows native app development is a mess (domenic.me)
    ×2.95 15 | 392 points by domenicd 20 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Intuitions for Tranformer Circuits (connorjdavis.com)
    ×0.81 5 | 43 points by cjamsonhn 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. MAUI Is Coming to Linux (avaloniaui.net)
    ×1.61 16 | 191 points by DeathArrow 14 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.67 14 | 334 points by nothrowaways 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft (armaansood.com)
    ×1.34 15 | 150 points by Foe 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Migrating the American Express Payment Network, Twice (americanexpress.io)
    ×1.86 4 | 63 points by madflojo 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves (wsj.com)
    ×1.83 16 | 113 points by wallflower 12 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. They're Vibe-Coding Spam Now (tedium.co)
    ×1.32 7 | 70 points by raybb 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LLMs predict my coffee (dynomight.net)
    ×1.31 5 | 107 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. You are not your job (jry.io)
    ×2.54 28 | 124 points by jryio 15 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools (noquiche.fyi)
    ×1.21 22 | 178 points by fayalalebrun 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. First and Lego Education Partnership Update (firstinspires.org)
    ×0.80 31 | 39 points by jchin 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams (ilograph.com)
    ×1.21 34 | 167 points by billyp-rva 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos (bay41.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 67 points by davidklemke 7 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. "Collaboration" Is Bullshit (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×3.49 23 | 77 points by mitchbob 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.62 2 | 114 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 25 Years of Eggs (john-rush.com)
    ×1.83 22 | 271 points by avyfain 22 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award (ibm.com)
    ×1.18 39 | 118 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023) (matejlou.blog)
    ×0.66 35 | 19 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Codala, a social network built on scanning barcodes (google.com)
    ×0.74 30 | 47 points by hsynkrkye 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025) (boardgamegeek.com)
    ×1.22 35 | 137 points by doener 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app (christophermeiklejohn.com)
    ×1.22 9 | 87 points by azhenley 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.43 10 | 314 points by ColinWright 17 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople (2025) (turkisharchaeonews.net)
    ×0.71 28 | 34 points by bcraven 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari (pwa.gripe)
    ×3.77 12 | 170 points by xd1936 17 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DoorDash Tasks (doordash.com)
    ×1.62 39 | 55 points by ChrisArchitect 13 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Vectorization of Verilog Designs and its Effects on Verification and Synthesis (arxiv.org)
    ×0.43 62 | 28 points by matt_d 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream (composio.dev)
    ×3.40 32 | 322 points by fs_software 13 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. My first patch to the Linux kernel (pooladkhay.com)
    ×1.54 31 | 215 points by pooladkhay 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance (dominikrudnik.pl)
    ×1.04 34 | 101 points by qikcik 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A case against currying (emi-h.com)
    ×1.05 31 | 99 points by emih 17 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. JavaScript Is Enough (geajs.com)
    ×2.00 53 | 102 points by arbayi 23 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents (revise.io)
    ×0.96 43 | 65 points by artursapek 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives (wsj.com)
    ×1.38 6 | 6 points by thm 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.49 26 | 230 points by CrypticShift 14 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Unlocking 25 Gigabit/S on 10 GbE Direct Attach Copper (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.28 43 | 12 points by kohlschuetter 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us (inngest.com)
    ×0.73 51 | 68 points by goodoldneon 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Apply video compression on KV cache to 10,000x less error at Q4 quant (github.com/cenconq25)
    ×2.62 29 | 16 points by polymorph1sm 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Storing Solar Energy as Ice for Air Conditioning (hackaday.com)
    ×2.56 18 | 15 points by lxm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AgentVerse – Open social network for AI agents (Mar 2026) (nickakre.github.io)
    ×1.05 67 | 4 points by nickakre 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2 (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.17 3 | 383 points by winkelmann 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. iBook Clamshell (ibook-clamshell.com)
    ×1.07 27 | 67 points by polishdude20 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab (royalbhati.com)
    ×1.39 37 | 124 points by robhati 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Zero ZGC4: A Better Graphing Calculator for School and Beyond (zerocalculators.com)
    ×0.46 53 | 29 points by uticus 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tesla faces wider probe of self-driving feature (apnews.com)
    ×2.48 4 | 13 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The three pillars of JavaScript bloat (43081j.com)
    ×2.42 10 | 458 points by onlyspaceghost 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies (ft.com)
    ×2.42 13 | 17 points by gnabgib 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen resigns because of Epstein files (nhpr.org)
    ×2.99 23 | 16 points by benwen 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Battle of U.S. rail barons: Merger is setting the industry on a collision course (thecanadianpressnews.ca)
    ×1.16 59 | 18 points by cf100clunk 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists (nchagnet.pages.dev)
    ×1.39 43 | 169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch (mixfont.com)
    ×0.56 41 | 29 points by justswim 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why Lab Coats Turned White (asimov.press)
    ×0.94 26 | 68 points by mailyk 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised (github.com/aquasecurity)
    ×0.91 66 | 86 points by batch12 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call (apnews.com)
    ×5.07 57 | 146 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Some things just take time (pocoo.org)
    ×3.49 10 | 816 points by vaylian 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Monuses and Heaps (doisinkidney.com)
    ×0.47 44 | 46 points by aebtebeten 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Slow Collapse of MkDocs (fpgmaas.com)
    ×3.06 16 | 23 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers (nikomatsakis.github.io)
    ×1.84 60 | 131 points by weinzierl 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Personal Computing (2022) (josh8.com)
    ×0.41 40 | 17 points by xk3 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning (tinygrad.org)
    ×2.57 12 | 579 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. It's Their Mona Lisa (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.00 55 | 69 points by ramimac 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI ends online anonymity: the ease of unmasking pseudonymous accounts (elpais.com)
    ×3.45 32 | 16 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ForgeKV – Redis-compatible KV server in Rust that scales with cores (github.com/ForgeKV)
    ×0.84 86 | 3 points by forgekv 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (opencode.ai)
    ×4.70 6 | 1243 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Common Lisp Development Tooling (creativetension.co)
    ×1.08 52 | 111 points by 0bytematt 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.61 70 | 6 points by zdw 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Answer Engine Optimization (juliasolorzano.com)
    ×0.44 1 | 9 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.30 37 | 33 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM (tooscut.app)
    ×2.06 6 | 351 points by mohebifar 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
    ×1.06 12 | 88 points by Bleiglanz 21 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mamba-3 (together.ai)
    ×1.54 38 | 296 points by matt_d 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why craft-lovers are losing their craft (hongminhee.org)
    ×2.51 38 | 91 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.07 50 | 100 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? (pythonic.ninja)
    ×4.84 71 | 623 points by PythonicNinja 21 hours ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. FFmpeg 101 (2024) (igalia.com)
    ×1.42 47 | 236 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Sashiko: An agentic Linux kernel code review system (sashiko.dev)
    ×0.70 55 | 47 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Disintegration Fingerprinting: A Low-Cost Tool to Identify Falsified Medicines (medrxiv.org)
    ×0.83 52 | 8 points by Luc 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages (meta.com)
    ×0.91 54 | 135 points by j0e1 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???