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In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)

×0.99 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I want to try S.Y's GasTown to create code from a Spec without spending any $ (github.com/stevef1uk)

×0.92 | 1 points by apiemotion 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSON logging isn't enough anymore: A deep dive into OTel Logs (dash0.com)

×0.86 | 1 points by ayoisaiah 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poll: Do you customize the TCP/IP settings of your OS, Router or Firewall?

×0.80 | 1 points by Bender 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Reading AI Assisted Essays

×0.75 | 1 points by parentheses 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Students noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong – and not like them (theconversation.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by paulpauper 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Something Big Is Happening on Campus (theatlantic.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by paulpauper 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)

×0.76 | 1 points by zdw 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lawsuit Blames ChatGPT Maker OpenAI for Helping Plan a School Shooting (mississippifreepress.org)

×0.76 | 1 points by droidjj 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
La Machine (la-machine.fr)

×0.75 | 1 points by jgrahamc 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What are we getting out of code review? (static2.website)

×0.70 | 1 points by ur_tech_friend 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is AI putting graduates out of work already? (economist.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by paulpauper 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memory trees and Taylor expansion of the lambda|-calculus (2012) [pdf] (irif.fr)

×0.69 | 1 points by sargstuff 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning on the Shop Floor (twitter.com/tobi)

×0.63 | 1 points by cmbailey 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A freehand drawing guestbook for my portfolio (paco.fyi)

×0.65 | 1 points by leoverdura 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pixie, a local-first workbench for your tools and models (github.com/AlexKapadia)

×0.66 | 1 points by alexkapadia1 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deep Dive into SHA-3: Understanding Keccak and Sponge Functions (kerkour.com)

×1.52 | 2 points by randomint64 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
REST in Peace GraphQL (raheeljunaid.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by raheelrjunaid 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)

×1.84 66 | 3 points by Bibabomas 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peter G. Neumann (RISKS) has died (laurenweinstein.org)

×0.62 | 1 points by davidgerard 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system (devever.net)

×0.62 | 2 points by pona-a 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. eyes attack-drone threat from Cuba (axios.com)

×1.49 | 2 points by cwwc 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solomon's Paradox (wikipedia.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by andrewstetsenko 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency (washingtonpost.com)

×2.17 63 | 3 points by greenburger 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Handling the great code forge fragmentation (alexselimov.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Use-outside-click – tiny framework-agnostic outside click utility (npmjs.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by kitsunechaos 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The German town where people print their own money [video] (youtube.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by dataflow 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A choose-your-own-adventure through 28 possible AI futures (es92.github.io)

×0.58 | 1 points by evanevan 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Object-oriented Programming in C (2017) (jordanlord.co.uk)

×0.59 | 1 points by mooreds 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WhispHub CLI – push your projects to WhispHub from the terminal (crates.io)

×0.57 | 1 points by whispem 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who will maintain the web when PHP's veterans retire? (thenewstack.io)

×0.59 | 1 points by mooreds 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists Discover New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast (404media.co)

×0.59 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain (leonardo-boquillon.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by lboquillon 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alan Kay at UCLA CS 201 2026-05-05 [video] (youtube.com)

×2.29 56 | 3 points by muhic 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Voyager Spacecraft Code (spacedaily.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by ohjeez 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Give every tool LLM wiki and bypass Claude Code SSH Throttle

×0.57 | 1 points by jakemattison 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mojo: SIMD (mojolang.org)

×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Germany's spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir (politico.eu)

×1.15 | 2 points by rustoo 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLM Fine-Tuning Guide (promptinjection.net)

×0.49 | 1 points by JustMyNews 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Forecasting my backyard weather with a 22M time-series model (huggingface.co)

×1.18 | 2 points by chrisdevs 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ecsypno and UT Austin ISO join forces for free services to non-profits (ecsypno.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by tasos_laskos 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reduce software supply-chain risks with coordinated agentic review (thirdpass.dev)

×0.51 | 1 points by rndhouse 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RapidFire Lite – Zero-dependency API load tester in pure Python (github.com/arjuninfotechinc)

×0.44 | 1 points by hifiarjun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
100 Best Novels of All Time (theguardian.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Wild Cyberwest (xm4ch1ne.github.io)

×0.47 | 1 points by futurisold 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proper, a Rails-shaped Python web framework (properproject.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by jp_sc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simulacra Levels and Their Interactions (lesswrong.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by epestr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KV Cache Is Becoming the Memory Hierarchy of Inference (touchdown-labs.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a printable graph papaer templates website (printablegraphpaper.org)

×1.04 48 | 3 points by atharvtathe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LocalLightChat – New AI Chat UI that handles 500k tokens on a 15 year old laptop (locallightai.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by JustMyNews 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HuggingFace (huggingface.co)

×0.53 | 2 points by hankerapp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of The Nuclear Emergency Support Team (thebulletin.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by novafacing 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Kind of AI Adoption I Believe In (namar0x0309.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by namar0x0309 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS (chrismorgan.info)

×1.84 45 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Share the AI Windfall (economist.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone (xslang.org)

×1.81 38 | 3 points by yacin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Freelang – a direct-to-assembly syscall lang with rad concurrency (freelang.dev)

×0.46 | 1 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices (arstechnica.com)

×2.38 55 #81 | 5 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Programming Language for Agents (zerolang.ai)

×0.47 | 1 points by alex_x 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO (arstechnica.com)

×1.14 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Software Is Made Of (dreamwidth.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by teddyh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Whisper Large V3 Turbo Stream API (makeform.ai)

×0.45 | 1 points by tamnv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EV charging station fire caused by remote technician, report finds (citynews.ca)

×0.46 | 1 points by Throwthrowbob 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
South Korea says it will pursue all options to avoid Samsung strike (reuters.com)

×2.28 53 | 4 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe Just Unveiled a Serious Rival to SpaceX's Starship (scitechdaily.com)

×2.36 52 | 4 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AVX-512 (wikipedia.org)

×0.48 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% (theregister.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar (theregister.com)

×1.81 29 | 3 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Britain Ungovernable? (cnn.com)

×1.55 27 | 3 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The filesystem is the API (with TigerFS) (youtube.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by der_gopher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brown vs. Board of Education (May 17th, 1954) (wikipedia.org)

×2.05 47 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PyPI packages are increasing rapidly (rushter.com)

×2.03 46 | 4 points by f311a 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Physicists Can't Agree on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality (scientificamerican.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by rramadass 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
God Exists. Here Is How Things Work (barabeke.substack.com)

×2.05 40 | 4 points by barabeke 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AutoAlert – Android app that announces UPI payments (google.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by anithakarri001 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft AI chief gives 18 months for whitecollar work to be automated by AI (fortune.com)

×1.49 15 | 3 points by RyeCombinator 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gonfire – Assess how candidates think and steer AI coding agents

×0.42 | 1 points by abr0ahm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Llama.cpp b9180: MTP support landed (github.com/ggml-org)

×0.89 | 2 points by usagisushi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenClaw is just not dangerous enough. I needed something else (github.com/kkovacs)

×0.87 | 2 points by kkovacs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search (google.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by tjek 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What do you want to ask the online safety minister about social media? (bbc.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by DropDead 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Replaced a $460/Month Sales Stack with a $0.41/Day System I Built Myself (medium.com)

×1.96 33 | 4 points by encinas88 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once (ft.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by mmarian 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Before it gets a number – About CVE, CWE and vulnerabilities prevention (quodeq.ai)

×0.87 9 | 3 points by quodeq 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A passage from Homer's Iliad has been discovered inside the an Egyptian mummy (scientificamerican.com)

×0.35 | 1 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)

×5.01 3 #4 | 189 points by nolok 2 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease (arstechnica.com)

×1.76 18 #39 | 10 points by 0in 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The reason nearly all humans are right-handed (thebrighterside.news)

×0.36 | 1 points by amichail 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPU sidecar routed my ASIC proxy in under 10 seconds (github.com/AcculuxSystems)

×0.84 | 2 points by chaz_n 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Solved Personal Siri [video] (youtube.com)

×0.84 | 2 points by zacksiri 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???