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  1. All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
    ×2.85 1 | 395 points by pizza 8 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind (viktorcessan.com)
    ×1.88 1 | 140 points by kiyanwang 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
    ×1.12 13 | 170 points by mindcrime 11 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
    ×2.74 5 | 449 points by _Microft 17 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (johnloeber.com)
    ×2.35 12 | 559 points by phil294 21 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)
    ×2.00 8 | 372 points by a-ve 16 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 21 | 78 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
    ×1.41 22 | 129 points by yuppiemephisto 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Most people can't juggle one ball (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.18 10 | 359 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.38 17 | 223 points by david927 16 hours ago | 706 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I gave every train in New York an instrument (trainjazz.com)
    ×1.77 18 | 282 points by joshuawolk 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card) (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×1.03 30 | 196 points by Rochus 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×4.93 6 | 907 points by littlecranky67 21 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
    ×0.84 32 | 44 points by robinhouston 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees (wpcomstaging.com)
    ×2.09 21 | 261 points by em-bee 21 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×3.63 13 | 189 points by walterbell 7 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)
    ×2.37 39 | 525 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A Canonical Generalization of OBDD (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 34 | 14 points by luu 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Opus 4.6 hallucinates twice as more today than when it released (bridgebench.ai)
    ×4.26 8 | 14 points by jiwidi 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. JVM Options Explorer (chriswhocodes.com)
    ×1.01 33 | 195 points by 0x54MUR41 23 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 37 | 99 points by radeeyate 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024) (the-independent.com)
    ×3.52 9 | 581 points by mpweiher 20 hours ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play (bsky.app)
    ×4.03 18 | 455 points by super256 14 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone (phyphox.org)
    ×1.33 31 | 217 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.92 13 | 13 points by LostMyLogin 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage (github.com/anthropics)
    ×4.16 16 | 643 points by cmaster11 20 hours ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website (madebywindmill.com)
    ×0.88 9 | 58 points by jscalo 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
    ×2.56 22 | 66 points by dvaughan 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The peril of laziness lost (dtrace.org)
    ×2.38 21 | 392 points by gpm 14 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Tour of Oodi (blinry.org)
    ×1.08 35 | 142 points by zdw 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024) (typotheque.com)
    ×1.65 51 | 37 points by yurivish 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts (awi.de)
    ×1.13 9 | 85 points by tannhaeuser 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User (github.com/halfwhey)
    ×0.95 18 | 107 points by halfwhey 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Textbooks and Methods of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe (2008) (harvard.edu)
    ×0.60 62 | 39 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring (easypost.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mark's Magic Multiply (wren.wtf)
    ×0.64 42 | 48 points by luu 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Doom, Played over Curl (github.com/xsawyerx)
    ×0.97 38 | 107 points by creaktive 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Cooperative Vectors Introduction (evolvebenchmark.com)
    ×0.35 56 | 47 points by JasperBekkers 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Basics of Radar Technology (radartutorial.eu)
    ×1.41 59 | 23 points by _Microft 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th (github.com/anthropics)
    ×3.47 7 | 512 points by lsdmtme 1 day ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why AI Sucks at Front End (nerdy.dev)
    ×1.97 36 | 85 points by tobr 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI (github.com/imbue-ai)
    ×0.84 42 | 47 points by steveharing1 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Physics of GPS (perthirtysix.com)
    ×1.30 20 | 129 points by maouida 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" (reddit.com)
    ×2.90 40 | 65 points by crmrc114 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The End of Eleventy (brennan.day)
    ×1.32 24 | 213 points by ValentineC 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. An Interview with Pat Gelsinger (morethanmoore.substack.com)
    ×0.79 41 | 107 points by zdw 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels (apollo.com)
    ×2.52 23 | 136 points by akyuu 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack (stevehanov.ca)
    ×5.78 27 | 885 points by tradertef 1 day ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
    ×5.10 5 | 1370 points by normanvalentine 2 days ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. State of Homelab 2026 (mrlokans.work)
    ×1.98 28 | 82 points by swq115 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. IrDA (computer.rip)
    ×1.72 52 | 25 points by Sniffnoy 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Closing of the Frontier (tanyaverma.sh)
    ×1.75 21 | 182 points by MindGods 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. European AI. A playbook to own it (mistral.ai)
    ×2.70 28 | 183 points by hjouneau 14 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Compute iOS XNU offset from kernel cache (reversesociety.co)
    ×0.43 55 | 32 points by tonygo 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017) (thinkingcomplete.com)
    ×0.86 51 | 48 points by o4c 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Triumph of Stupidity (1933) (russell-j.com)
    ×1.40 62 | 15 points by downbad_ 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found (aisle.com)
    ×4.85 25 | 1248 points by dominicq 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Problem That Built an Industry (ajitem.com)
    ×0.97 53 | 145 points by ShaggyHotDog 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain (hamy.xyz)
    ×1.46 56 | 71 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (flight-viz.com)
    ×2.74 8 | 378 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
    ×0.84 52 | 108 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The APL programming language source code (2012) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.83 59 | 80 points by tosh 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.67 9 | 23 points by thunderbong 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours (mastodon.social)
    ×2.16 7 | 159 points by miadabdi 22 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×2.42 15 | 485 points by vidluther 2 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.79 4 | 980 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew (nytimes.com)
    ×2.00 3 | 33 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
    ×0.75 59 | 24 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
    ×3.26 7 | 615 points by iceberger2001 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Code Review Is the New Bottleneck for Engineering Teams (eng-leadership.com)
    ×1.42 8 | 10 points by gpi 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Now is the best time to write code by hand (sitebloom.ch)
    ×2.27 49 | 109 points by nickgreg 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane (zenodo.org)
    ×1.57 7 | 259 points by iliatoli 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.64 56 | 42 points by quuxplusone 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Dark Castle (darkcastle.co.uk)
    ×1.53 9 | 241 points by evo_9 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access (theregister.com)
    ×3.10 4 | 409 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Claude Opus 4.6 accuracy on BridgeBench hallucination test drops from 83% to 68% (twitter.com/bridgemindai)
    ×3.41 16 | 60 points by bratao 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. How Passive Radar Works (passiveradar.com)
    ×1.64 31 | 194 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI (cirruslabs.org)
    ×1.27 15 | 279 points by seekdeep 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Productive Procrastination (maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
    ×1.41 40 | 158 points by maxvij 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Jim Allchin to Gates and Ballmer on the state of quality at Microsoft (2004) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×1.23 53 | 11 points by Austin_Conlon 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)
    ×7.20 55 | 121 points by babelfish 11 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.61 38 | 170 points by smokel 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances (aphyr.com)
    ×2.27 9 | 275 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.73 10 | 499 points by pabs3 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A social feed with no strangers (grateful.so)
    ×0.82 50 | 5 points by rpatni 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust (brooklynzelenka.com)
    ×1.39 11 | 242 points by codetheweb 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.79 43 | 84 points by danielam 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove (apnews.com)
    ×2.53 7 | 384 points by geox 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Standard Control Flow Flattening is fundamentally broken (github.com/xkilldash9x)
    ×0.75 47 | 7 points by BlackVectorOps 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
    ×1.06 38 | 136 points by GenericCanadian 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???