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  1. GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)
    ×2.95 1 | 301 points by Liriel 4 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
    ×1.72 3 | 93 points by Someone 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
    ×2.50 1 | 19 points by thomasp85 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (reuters.com)
    ×3.87 1 | 162 points by Palmik 3 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
    ×1.21 15 | 98 points by janandonly 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
    ×1.35 13 | 62 points by breve 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    ×0.96 3 | 109 points by neehao 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×3.71 10 | 789 points by colesantiago 23 hours ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What if database branching was easy? (xata.io)
    ×0.81 17 | 16 points by tee-es-gee 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
    ×2.50 143 | 6 points by luu 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
    ×2.98 11 | 299 points by walterbell 17 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.61 15 | 148 points by twapi 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Epicycles All the Way Down (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×0.66 39 | 5 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
    ×2.26 14 | 102 points by ndr 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
    ×1.37 14 | 88 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/ArcaneNibble)
    ×1.95 37 | 4 points by tuananh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
    ×1.29 14 | 193 points by vinhnx 15 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) (stripe.dev)
    ×1.05 6 | 73 points by tibbar 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. NASA Artemis Posters (nasa.gov)
    ×1.47 7 | 14 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)
    ×0.40 22 | 39 points by prismatic 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.14 23 | 261 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    ×1.11 24 | 207 points by crescit_eundo 19 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
    ×1.04 20 | 69 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum (sheets.works)
    ×1.76 12 | 156 points by akashwadhwani35 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.83 | 21 points by Caiero 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) (github.com/esutcu)
    ×0.98 23 | 50 points by debugga 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first (electrek.co)
    ×3.21 16 | 100 points by Klaster_1 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
    ×1.60 33 | 129 points by jruohonen 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (allaboutcircuits.com)
    ×0.98 30 | 41 points by ChuckMcM 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.45 17 | 16 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
    ×1.02 29 | 84 points by doener 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore (allthingssmitty.com)
    ×1.63 7 | 3 points by AllThingsSmitty 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
    ×1.17 44 | 99 points by Akcium 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)
    ×0.94 23 | 38 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Figma's woes compound with Claude Design (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.97 28 | 56 points by martinald 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.43 15 | 184 points by shivampkumar 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×1.88 29 | 139 points by feigewalnuss 5 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    ×2.22 15 | 211 points by doener 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore (twitter.com/Lina_Hoshino)
    ×2.28 33 | 35 points by tasoeur 1 hour ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    ×0.90 54 | 137 points by NordStreamYacht 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×0.73 45 | 76 points by pizza_man 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law (theconversation.com)
    ×2.09 12 | 14 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    ×1.26 52 | 140 points by teamchong 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
    ×0.96 45 | 183 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Judge sides with ICE tracker creators in DHS/DOJ First Amendment lawsuit (engadget.com)
    ×4.20 36 | 12 points by speckx 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.01 82 | 87 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.53 3 | 342 points by pretext 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Amazon's AI boom is creating mess of duplicate tools and data inside the company (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.24 10 | 5 points by cebert 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)
    ×3.10 16 | 380 points by Tiberium 22 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×0.83 33 | 43 points by juanpabloaj 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
    ×0.92 20 | 119 points by vcf 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Regulators monitor Anthropic's Mythos for banking risks (reuters.com)
    ×1.60 5 | 8 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (markrjohnsongames.com)
    ×0.49 54 | 28 points by Hooke 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
    ×3.23 14 | 323 points by omer_k 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (scheatkode.com)
    ×0.92 60 | 41 points by spudlyo 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
    ×3.26 | 231 points by tambourine_man 23 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
    ×1.22 36 | 150 points by ragojose 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption (hajo.me)
    ×0.79 50 | 24 points by fxtentacle 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) (skmurphy.com)
    ×0.42 55 | 14 points by skmurphy 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    ×2.17 3 | 333 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.10 48 | 109 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.70 25 | 579 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.55 21 | 476 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    ×2.40 2 | 430 points by speckx 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com/coremaze)
    ×0.91 40 | 65 points by Bawoosette 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.88 19 | 417 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    ×0.52 52 | 39 points by kevwedotse 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
    ×1.25 1 | 103 points by lukasec 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×2.81 9 | 610 points by anabranch 1 day ago | 571 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.71 18 | 279 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×1.95 1 | 270 points by modelcroissant 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.93 18 | 559 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
    ×1.11 38 | 88 points by tosh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (philosopher.eu)
    ×1.26 1 | 86 points by isomorphy 17 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.94 22 | 421 points by NelsonMinar 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.01 49 | 145 points by drasim 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.77 19 | 379 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.56 13 | 1221 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.32 45 | 85 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.96 48 | 118 points by t-3 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries (newsmaps.io)
    ×1.13 48 | 14 points by mkoh 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (acs.org)
    ×0.44 40 | 30 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)
    ×1.03 33 | 25 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    ×1.25 36 | 114 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer (theregister.com)
    ×1.83 13 | 16 points by beardyw 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.67 36 | 276 points by aa_is_op 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cheap Batteries Are Taking over the Power Grids (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.13 15 | 10 points by epistasis 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Deleteduser.com a $15 PII Magnet (medium.com)
    ×2.52 7 | 10 points by edent 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996) (dkeenan.com)
    ×0.85 47 | 9 points by pizza 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???