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  1. Claude Design (anthropic.com)
    ×4.48 15 #39 | 1182 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 735 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
    ×3.43 7 #53 | 752 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.03 50 | 736 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×3.08 4 #46 | 684 points by aray07 1 day ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×3.94 2 #7 | 652 points by yusufusta 10 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
    ×2.58 11 #60 | 441 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
    ×2.23 1 #49 | 436 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×5.30 3 | 394 points by ronsor 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
    ×3.84 2 #2 | 387 points by anabranch 7 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.67 17 | 338 points by evo_9 2 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    ×2.27 #51 | 326 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    ×1.98 2 #8 | 322 points by f_r_d 11 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
    ×2.01 10 #81 | 315 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.64 4 #63 | 288 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    ×1.82 9 #30 | 286 points by fouronnes3 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)
    ×12.08 11 | 280 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.70 20 #31 | 278 points by RickJWagner 11 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
    ×1.53 41 #54 | 276 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
    ×2.16 10 #67 | 271 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×1.48 9 #78 | 261 points by speckx 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
    ×1.74 8 #74 | 243 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.75 3 #3 | 237 points by NelsonMinar 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.05 16 #70 | 230 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.61 12 #25 | 226 points by sph 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
    ×1.48 4 #87 | 225 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×1.36 8 #28 | 219 points by boris_m 16 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)
    ×2.71 21 | 219 points by sams99 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
    ×5.44 12 | 216 points by breve 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
    ×7.28 6 #9 | 205 points by trocado 4 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
    ×1.27 1 #71 | 200 points by aw1621107 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
    ×1.34 39 #58 | 187 points by zdw 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.73 16 #34 | 183 points by sylvainkalache 11 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (investigate-europe.eu)
    ×3.84 19 | 182 points by cyberlimerence 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan (bbc.com)
    ×3.57 41 | 180 points by flykespice 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    ×2.67 3 #4 | 179 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (theverge.com)
    ×2.50 36 | 165 points by dotmanish 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) (archives.gov)
    ×1.61 36 #80 | 148 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
    ×0.99 43 #83 | 145 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.11 51 | 121 points by apollinaire 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? (thenation.com)
    ×4.26 32 | 120 points by ZunarJ5 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
    ×0.79 54 | 119 points by _fizz_buzz_ 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×0.98 45 #68 | 118 points by marklit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.30 75 #89 | 117 points by tech234a 7 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.41 30 | 108 points by WesSouza 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
    ×0.97 51 #45 | 106 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models (vidocsecurity.com)
    ×3.03 31 | 106 points by __natty__ 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The FBI Director Is MIA (theatlantic.com)
    ×7.41 7 | 94 points by osnium123 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. America Lost the Mandate of Heaven (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.72 33 | 92 points by mefengl 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.02 7 #15 | 85 points by gnabgib 4 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
    ×1.77 1 #1 | 84 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
    ×1.02 12 #11 | 82 points by drasim 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (openculture.com)
    ×3.18 65 | 82 points by doener 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)
    ×5.55 47 | 81 points by jhonovich 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret (theguardian.com)
    ×3.41 60 | 81 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×3.47 15 | 79 points by signa11 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
    ×4.30 29 | 79 points by doener 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. "Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving (mas.to)
    ×3.92 6 | 77 points by riffraff 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
    ×2.97 58 | 77 points by johanstokking 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
    ×1.03 52 #76 | 75 points by atan2 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
    ×0.87 2 #27 | 70 points by DeathArrow 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
    ×0.86 58 #82 | 70 points by mcookly 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement (reuters.com)
    ×3.82 16 | 67 points by Jimmc414 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.59 8 #23 | 66 points by bryanrasmussen 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.03 57 #52 | 66 points by b-man 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)
    ×2.87 6 #13 | 65 points by gmcabrita 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)
    ×2.00 19 #41 | 64 points by nuke-web3 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.79 65 | 64 points by pjmlp 7 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
    ×5.20 78 | 60 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (heise.de)
    ×1.90 46 | 60 points by doener 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)
    ×1.53 2 | 59 points by pabs3 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
    ×4.15 26 | 58 points by decide1000 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber (medium.com)
    ×4.26 20 | 56 points by anon-ex-uber 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.84 66 | 53 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590% (github.com/dacracot)
    ×0.70 59 #85 | 53 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.07 68 | 52 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? (floss.social)
    ×4.43 10 | 49 points by pabs3 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)
    ×1.66 46 #88 | 48 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (npr.org)
    ×2.50 59 | 48 points by speckx 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    ×1.72 28 #40 | 47 points by mhb 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)
    ×4.24 57 | 42 points by speckx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.91 44 | 40 points by doctaj 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (motherjones.com)
    ×2.75 47 | 40 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups (twitter.com/_iainmartin)
    ×2.43 76 | 40 points by harambae 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind" (bigthink.com)
    ×2.82 45 | 39 points by lschueller 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cerebras S-1 (sec.gov)
    ×3.27 52 | 39 points by herpderperator 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00 (ietf.org)
    ×2.28 63 | 39 points by varun_ch 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money (9news.com.au)
    ×6.57 38 | 38 points by johnbarron 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
    ×0.90 62 | 36 points by speckx 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
    ×1.43 11 #24 | 35 points by chmaynard 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SteamOS ARM64 Reaches Nintendo Switch in First Experiment (onejailbreak.com)
    ×25.23 69 | 34 points by SockThief 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???