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  1. OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×2.06 1 | 80 points by feigewalnuss 2 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×2.73 1 | 84 points by Liriel 1 hour ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×0.86 1 | 69 points by neehao 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
    ×1.51 9 | 49 points by janandonly 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.74 4 | 746 points by colesantiago 19 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.75 8 | 112 points by twapi 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.36 10 | 28 points by prismatic 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) (stripe.dev)
    ×1.06 3 | 47 points by tibbar 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
    ×1.49 6 | 56 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×2.95 8 | 222 points by walterbell 13 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.35 5 | 180 points by vinhnx 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
    ×1.31 11 | 60 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.13 15 | 199 points by crescit_eundo 16 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
    ×2.01 16 | 40 points by ndr 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.23 16 | 238 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (politico.eu)
    ×3.00 13 | 31 points by axbyte 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.54 21 | 320 points by pretext 23 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first (electrek.co)
    ×3.87 10 | 40 points by Klaster_1 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum (sheets.works)
    ×1.74 6 | 125 points by akashwadhwani35 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com/esutcu)
    ×1.17 9 | 37 points by debugga 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds (sciencealert.com)
    ×3.78 15 | 61 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
    ×1.04 20 | 70 points by doener 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)
    ×0.97 14 | 26 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×1.25 19 | 27 points by ChuckMcM 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.26 35 | 304 points by omer_k 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
    ×1.64 22 | 106 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.37 17 | 162 points by shivampkumar 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×2.19 16 | 188 points by doener 11 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
    ×1.24 37 | 91 points by Akcium 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.76 42 | 75 points by pizza_man 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×0.92 50 | 136 points by NordStreamYacht 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.95 47 | 179 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.25 52 | 132 points by teamchong 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (markrjohnsongames.com)
    ×0.48 63 | 25 points by Hooke 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.80 32 | 37 points by juanpabloaj 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.03 95 | 84 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
    ×0.93 17 | 116 points by vcf 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.14 16 | 372 points by Tiberium 18 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×1.01 69 | 40 points by spudlyo 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.39 | 225 points by tambourine_man 19 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
    ×1.28 5 | 101 points by lukasec 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.22 40 | 146 points by ragojose 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) (skmurphy.com)
    ×0.42 62 | 12 points by skmurphy 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (hajo.me)
    ×0.82 52 | 21 points by fxtentacle 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sudo for Windows (2024) (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.75 11 | 71 points by luispa 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.19 5 | 330 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.96 54 | 64 points by Bawoosette 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.70 22 | 574 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (acs.org)
    ×0.45 68 | 29 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.41 1 | 428 points by speckx 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.10 56 | 105 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer (theregister.com)
    ×2.32 17 | 12 points by beardyw 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.53 24 | 469 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.55 9 | 8 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    ×0.55 59 | 38 points by kevwedotse 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cheap Batteries Are Taking over the Power Grids (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.31 12 | 8 points by epistasis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.25 4 | 82 points by isomorphy 13 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.88 20 | 415 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries (newsmaps.io)
    ×1.24 70 | 12 points by mkoh 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages (wsj.com)
    ×2.17 5 | 23 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.00 4 | 263 points by modelcroissant 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
    ×1.08 48 | 24 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.71 17 | 277 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996) (dkeenan.com)
    ×1.03 64 | 9 points by pizza 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.81 9 | 608 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.11 43 | 86 points by tosh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.93 19 | 556 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.93 22 | 418 points by NelsonMinar 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.35 54 | 85 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.83 | 73 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.98 55 | 140 points by drasim 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.73 36 | 274 points by aa_is_op 20 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.77 15 | 376 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. They Went Abroad to Save Money. Moving Back Seems Unaffordable (nytimes.com)
    ×3.51 15 | 20 points by toomanyrichies 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (mtc.com.au)
    ×0.53 43 | 21 points by abrax3141 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.97 56 | 118 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.27 43 | 114 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.56 10 | 1219 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    ×0.77 36 | 45 points by bachmeier 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.25 46 | 77 points by riyaneel 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.78 11 | 131 points by theahura 19 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×0.71 49 | 51 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The race to build the next WordPress (opencomputer.dev)
    ×1.20 14 | 17 points by iacguy 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis (ft.com)
    ×1.93 1 | 12 points by petethomas 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.18 5 | 220 points by signa11 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.74 50 | 54 points by dado3212 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.18 11 | 460 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.67 52 | 50 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.95 3 | 30 points by type0 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???