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  1. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.21 6 | 126 points by crescit_eundo 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×4.30 3 | 428 points by colesantiago 8 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (swissinfo.ch)
    ×4.49 1 | 180 points by doener 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×1.88 22 | 4 points by doener 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents (browser-use.com)
    ×1.34 16 | 27 points by lukasec 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
    ×0.95 7 | 81 points by vcf 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.41 28 | 156 points by pretext 12 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.64 14 | 32 points by pizza_man 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.60 1 | 512 points by DamnInteresting 13 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.08 23 | 259 points by helloplanets 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.33 21 | 395 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×0.93 26 | 108 points by NordStreamYacht 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Six Levels of Dark Mode (cssence.com)
    ×1.51 33 | 18 points by Akcium 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.56 39 | 142 points by omer_k 15 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.25 9 | 300 points by Tiberium 7 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.14 7 | 50 points by isomorphy 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.92 23 | 154 points by Eridanus2 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
    ×1.24 44 | 8 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.71 28 | 251 points by mfiguiere 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.98 19 | 46 points by Bawoosette 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.98 9 | 44 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (acs.org)
    ×0.54 37 | 24 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    ×1.93 12 | 78 points by lelanthran 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (infoq.com)
    ×1.84 1 | 15 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    ×0.57 45 | 30 points by kevwedotse 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.24 11 | 130 points by ragojose 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (mtc.com.au)
    ×0.46 48 | 10 points by abrax3141 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity (fortune.com)
    ×6.57 25 | 50 points by tcp_handshaker 1 hour ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.09 98 | 67 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×1.06 70 | 10 points by spudlyo 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.42 2 | 6 points by type0 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×2.21 31 | 202 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.09 47 | 92 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.63 20 | 231 points by aa_is_op 9 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    ×0.88 66 | 108 points by tyleo 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.21 6 | 236 points by modelcroissant 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    ×0.76 46 | 38 points by bachmeier 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.71 14 | 113 points by theahura 8 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.16 39 | 79 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.05 14 | 80 points by teamchong 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills (commondreams.org)
    ×3.95 5 | 11 points by MiguelX413 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.54 13 | 455 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.87 9 | 405 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    ×1.07 64 | 129 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
    ×0.47 43 | 24 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
    ×1.95 18 | 101 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
    ×1.34 46 | 179 points by larve 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.43 61 | 80 points by fanf2 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
    ×1.61 56 | 236 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    ×0.75 60 | 50 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.81 4 | 600 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.32 54 | 111 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.65 74 | 46 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Yoshihisa Kishimoto (1961 – 2026), creator of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (reddit.com)
    ×1.44 3 | 8 points by alberto-m 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.93 17 | 414 points by NelsonMinar 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.74 10 | 360 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.23 41 | 106 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.91 10 | 542 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×0.98 60 | 136 points by drasim 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
    ×0.77 61 | 53 points by dado3212 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
    ×1.23 53 | 71 points by riyaneel 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
    ×2.74 19 | 171 points by nobody9999 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.97 60 | 115 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers with 25,000 Ground Robots (united24media.com)
    ×3.24 49 | 7 points by Teever 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    ×1.12 59 | 107 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.64 52 | 210 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend (yahoo.com)
    ×2.95 48 | 50 points by dakiol 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Banned by Anthropic? (bannedbyanthropic.com)
    ×4.76 68 | 79 points by gck1 34 minutes ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.55 12 | 1215 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'Meow, meow': Pilots scolded after animal noises heard on air traffic radio (abcnews.com)
    ×2.16 10 | 6 points by osnium123 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×2.17 9 | 454 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.00 54 | 150 points by tambourine_man 9 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.05 56 | 116 points by wicket 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.56 11 | 24 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.92 50 | 110 points by DeathArrow 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×0.89 59 | 53 points by random_ 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.43 18 | 412 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The time when we suffer from large amounts of AI slop is gone (haxx.se)
    ×5.70 48 | 16 points by jicea 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.11 39 | 856 points by yusufusta 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
    ×3.29 4 | 220 points by sohkamyung 23 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Prepping for the Endgame of the Open Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
    ×1.39 10 | 18 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.63 40 | 108 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.78 56 | 58 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.52 58 | 116 points by signa11 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)
    ×3.38 12 | 63 points by naves 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.00 30 | 136 points by gmcabrita 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.11 14 | 707 points by aray07 2 days ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.95 63 | 117 points by unsuspecting 2 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
    ×3.39 24 | 9 points by jbegley 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???