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  1. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×3.77 | 764 points by meetpateltech 8 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×2.11 | 60 points by aw1621107 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.18 3 | 184 points by cybermango 4 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.44 1 | 505 points by aray07 7 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×1.43 6 | 16 points by unsuspecting 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm spending 3 months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.58 1 | 97 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.18 1 | 588 points by ColinWright 11 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.29 1 | 183 points by binsquare 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.19 4 | 194 points by LorenDB 7 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (davidma.org)
    ×1.16 14 | 5 points by taikon 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.52 2 | 186 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
    ×1.68 5 | 63 points by wespiser_2018 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.74 1 | 35 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
    ×2.88 3 | 43 points by louiereederson 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.61 | 157 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe (calif.io)
    ×3.78 2 | 52 points by arkadiyt 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.38 3 | 96 points by nowflux 6 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    ×1.12 5 | 24 points by evakhoury 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech (citizenlab.ca)
    ×1.05 11 | 50 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 18 | 9 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.18 18 | 555 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.27 | 134 points by zdw 8 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 10 | 60 points by mellosouls 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
    ×0.98 30 | 86 points by charleslpan 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Iceye Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×1.13 4 | 99 points by marklit 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.18 13 | 50 points by atan2 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×6.26 21 | 134 points by breve 4 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.69 9 | 95 points by seanieb 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.93 18 | 51 points by mcookly 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.71 20 | 37 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.50 | 243 points by mpweiher 14 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)
    ×1.00 8 | 66 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
    ×1.11 45 | 134 points by matt_d 18 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.78 18 | 125 points by bryanrasmussen 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NASA's X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight (nasa.gov)
    ×2.88 7 | 4 points by big_toast 12 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Average is all you need (rawquery.dev)
    ×1.59 30 | 85 points by AlexC04 13 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (write.as)
    ×1.05 3 | 24 points by aniijbod 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×1.01 23 | 134 points by Mr_Minderbinder 15 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
    ×1.25 37 | 216 points by gregsadetsky 23 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
    ×0.94 65 | 152 points by sebg 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.90 27 | 20 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
    ×1.04 40 | 141 points by xk3 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Self-Hosting (pcora.eu)
    ×1.18 81 | 3 points by speckx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)
    ×1.98 29 | 320 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (googleblog.com)
    ×1.79 36 | 298 points by ingve 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)
    ×1.92 42 | 256 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)
    ×9.86 21 | 104 points by tcp_handshaker 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (heise.de)
    ×1.74 23 | 46 points by doener 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cerebras S-1 (sec.gov)
    ×3.68 33 | 26 points by herpderperator 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com/gainsec)
    ×1.32 33 | 221 points by scaredpelican 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard (lse.ac.uk)
    ×0.56 48 | 33 points by AusiasTsel 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.06 25 | 34 points by doener 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
    ×0.80 51 | 118 points by _fizz_buzz_ 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.17 40 | 114 points by apollinaire 19 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.30 18 | 92 points by WesSouza 9 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Codex for almost everything (openai.com)
    ×3.82 21 | 985 points by mikeevans 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception (cornell.edu)
    ×2.16 1 | 8 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.05 44 | 169 points by gmays 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ryan Mather: My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design (twitter.com/flomerboy)
    ×1.44 11 | 6 points by taubek 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×1.30 30 | 22 points by ericHosick 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)
    ×0.54 74 | 94 points by alexblackwell_ 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What Psychedelics Do to the Brain (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×1.15 10 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Age verification app ready as EU moves to curb children's social media access (reuters.com)
    ×1.58 19 | 7 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (npr.org)
    ×2.19 7 | 31 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.47 1 | 442 points by simonw 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.95 45 | 1933 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 1417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.46 49 | 206 points by jgrahamc 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/SeanFDZ)
    ×0.89 59 | 146 points by hammer32 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)
    ×2.64 5 | 254 points by kmfrk 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
    ×2.45 1 | 154 points by dotmanish 19 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
    ×1.31 1 | 5 points by breve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)
    ×2.65 12 | 206 points by sams99 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.58 14 | 315 points by evo_9 23 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (php.net)
    ×0.91 63 | 121 points by moebrowne 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We beat Google's zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis (trailofbits.com)
    ×3.37 26 | 12 points by lr0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research (openai.com)
    ×1.13 50 | 99 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
    ×1.16 61 | 155 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com/AgentSeal)
    ×0.77 53 | 99 points by agentseal 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.40 70 | 188 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Airline adds bunk beds for economy travelers but bans snacks, smells and cuddles (apnews.com)
    ×2.66 3 | 18 points by randycupertino 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×5.14 18 | 372 points by devonnull 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
    ×2.19 19 | 491 points by twapi 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse)
    ×1.12 50 | 187 points by airhangerf15 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cloudflare Email Service (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.56 5 | 450 points by jilles 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Controversial FISA program extended by House but only until April 30 (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.10 23 | 8 points by anigbrowl 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
    ×5.38 50 | 1233 points by cmitsakis 1 day ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof (natetyoung.github.io)
    ×0.54 59 | 45 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
    ×2.94 3 | 70 points by johanstokking 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find (bbc.com)
    ×1.06 63 | 29 points by Lyngbakr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???