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  1. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.77 1 | 82 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% (billchambers.me)
    ×3.87 2 | 387 points by anabranch 7 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.76 3 | 237 points by NelsonMinar 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.68 3 | 178 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.16 4 | 32 points by weaksauce 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Modern Common Lisp with FSET (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.27 1 | 50 points by larve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×3.95 2 | 652 points by yusufusta 10 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×1.98 2 | 322 points by f_r_d 11 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.27 6 | 202 points by trocado 4 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.57 7 | 375 points by tkhattra 16 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.02 13 | 82 points by drasim 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.65 9 | 152 points by Lwrless 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.87 7 | 64 points by gmcabrita 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.97 9 | 26 points by hasheddan 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.03 7 | 85 points by gnabgib 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations
    ×0.87 17 | 40 points by FailMore 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.94 15 | 66 points by t-3 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.89 9 | 27 points by arjunchint 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.11 21 | 77 points by wicket 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Remoroo. trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (remoroo.com)
    ×0.68 25 | 22 points by adhamghazali 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.01 17 | 47 points by peter_d_sherman 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.61 15 | 226 points by sph 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.57 8 | 65 points by bryanrasmussen 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.40 12 | 34 points by chmaynard 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.87 3 | 70 points by DeathArrow 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.36 9 | 219 points by boris_m 16 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.69 6 | 171 points by coinfused 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.82 11 | 286 points by fouronnes3 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.69 19 | 277 points by RickJWagner 11 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)
    ×1.83 40 | 17 points by phantomathkg 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    ×1.13 32 | 175 points by eshelyaron 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.74 14 | 183 points by sylvainkalache 11 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (sqlservercentral.com)
    ×1.86 19 | 21 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.91 24 | 63 points by y1n0 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (malwarebytes.com)
    ×2.71 11 | 4 points by ilamont 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×1.32 18 | 119 points by azhenley 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.48 12 | 1182 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 735 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    ×1.72 27 | 47 points by mhb 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
    ×2.00 18 | 64 points by nuke-web3 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
    ×1.14 34 | 7 points by prdpx7 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    ×1.42 28 | 129 points by atomfinger 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (johndcook.com)
    ×1.39 49 | 13 points by rolph 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.97 52 | 106 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)
    ×2.47 1 | 25 points by mindcrime 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.08 3 | 684 points by aray07 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning (economist.com)
    ×3.62 12 | 24 points by hebelehubele 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.23 1 | 436 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.35 50 | 124 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.27 3 | 326 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.03 58 | 66 points by b-man 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.43 5 | 752 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.53 42 | 276 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
    ×1.20 25 | 87 points by riteshnoronha16 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.80 64 | 65 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.40 47 | 113 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.34 40 | 187 points by zdw 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store (brunocalza.me)
    ×0.22 60 | 5 points by brunocalza 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.57 9 | 440 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Loonies for Loongsons (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.68 46 | 29 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.16 53 | 105 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.64 6 | 288 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.26 7 | 294 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG (github.com/yapstudios)
    ×0.49 51 | 24 points by olliewagner 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.44 39 | 128 points by wespiser_2018 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.16 12 | 271 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×0.98 46 | 118 points by marklit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why scientists are nervous about fungi (npr.org)
    ×2.26 1 | 22 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.05 18 | 230 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.27 3 | 200 points by aw1621107 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.36 14 | 29 points by plenched 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Generating a color spectrum for an image (amandahinton.com)
    ×0.91 52 | 53 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Version 1.0 Released: WireGuard for Windows and WireGuardNT (kernel.org)
    ×2.03 25 | 14 points by zx2c4 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.74 10 | 243 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.03 53 | 75 points by atan2 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Adobe Has Run Out of Allies (petapixel.com)
    ×3.52 9 | 10 points by MBCook 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.48 12 | 261 points by speckx 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.43 52 | 110 points by AlexC04 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.61 38 | 148 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.01 8 | 315 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.86 59 | 70 points by mcookly 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×0.99 44 | 145 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
    ×0.81 50 | 66 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.70 60 | 53 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.06 44 | 156 points by xk3 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.48 5 | 225 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)
    ×1.67 47 | 48 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.31 74 | 117 points by tech234a 7 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bluetooth tracker in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.71 1 | 10 points by tcp_handshaker 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Phantom Camerawork: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) (theasc.com)
    ×0.96 26 | 5 points by exvi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???