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  1. A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox (github.com/lwthiker)
    ×1.70 7 | 144 points by mmh0000 4 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  2. Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
    ×1.32 5 | 194 points by matser 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ??? ???
  3. Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)
    ×2.36 2 | 233 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 142 comments | ??? ???
  4. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
    ×2.94 6 | 38 points by participant3 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  5. Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)
    ×1.26 14 | 21 points by fidotron 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  6. Declarative Web Push – WebKit (webkit.org)
    ×1.37 7 | 49 points by janandonly 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ??? ???
  7. Declarative Schemas for simpler database management (supabase.com)
    ×1.20 8 | 40 points by kiwicopple 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  8. Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)
    ×1.32 3 | 48 points by liadyo 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ??? ???
  9. InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)
    ×1.02 16 | 114 points by sunshine-o 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  10. I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
    ×2.30 12 | 529 points by Fred34 17 hours ago | 473 comments | ??? ???
  11. Bikes in the Age of Tariffs (renehersecycles.com)
    ×3.34 17 | 20 points by bobchadwick 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  12. Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  13. Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style (mollohq.com)
    ×1.09 16 | 36 points by b0bben 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  14. AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)
    ×7.50 11 | 314 points by adrianvoica 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ??? ???
  15. Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (github.com/c3lang)
    ×1.26 9 | 76 points by lerno 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com/ConduitIO)
    ×0.87 26 | 36 points by lmazgon 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative (github.com/hail-hydrant)
    ×0.82 17 | 78 points by darkseid_is 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  18. Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)
    ×2.97 17 | 331 points by nimbleplum40 16 hours ago | 202 comments | ??? ???
  19. John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)
    ×1.84 27 | 119 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  20. A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)
    ×2.62 11 | 88 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 133 comments | ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)
    ×1.83 43 | 7 points by abelanger 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs (simon-frey.com)
    ×0.91 5 | 62 points by l1am0 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  23. Show HN: The Algorithm Behind the Topological Sort Library TopoSort (github.com/williamw520)
    ×1.74 54 | 3 points by ww520 1 hour ago | discuss | ??? ???
  24. Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com/luskaner)
    ×1.99 17 | 413 points by apitman 21 hours ago | 85 comments | ??? ???
  25. Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.31 38 | 22 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  26. An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com/juanfont)
    ×1.81 22 | 293 points by quyleanh 19 hours ago | 71 comments | ??? ???
  27. An AlphaStation's SROM (thejpster.org.uk)
    ×0.71 13 | 64 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ??? ???
  28. Measuring Acceleration Structures (zeux.io)
    ×0.41 32 | 11 points by luu 3 hours ago | discuss | ??? ???
  29. Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (pico.sh)
    ×2.77 10 | 562 points by TheTaytay 1 day ago | 121 comments | ??? ???
  30. Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)
    ×2.82 8 | 427 points by ChiptuneIsCool 20 hours ago | 69 comments | ??? ???
  31. Why I don't discuss politics with friends (shwin.co)
    ×3.73 21 | 444 points by shw1n 1 day ago | 861 comments | ??? ???
  32. US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)
    ×10.43 21 | 1645 points by belter 23 hours ago | 3050 comments | ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
    ×1.98 42 | 4 points by yathern 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  34. Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)
    ×2.09 25 | 256 points by joshdickson 6 hours ago | 131 comments | ??? ???
  35. The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly (isomorphism.xyz)
    ×2.96 21 | 240 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 216 comments | ??? ???
  36. Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)
    ×2.61 13 | 617 points by jihadjihad 1 day ago | 105 comments | ??? ???
  37. MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks (mit.edu)
    ×1.69 25 | 226 points by imakwana 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in
    ×1.01 17 | 63 points by martianE 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ??? ???
  39. AI/Math Puzzle (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
    ×0.64 27 | 40 points by markerz 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ??? ???
  40. Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat (wsj.com)
    ×2.43 17 | 95 points by Bostonian 7 hours ago | 113 comments | ??? ???
  41. Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection (github.com/apple)
    ×1.29 32 | 180 points by Tycho87 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
    ×6.49 24 | 1752 points by dang 1 day ago | 452 comments | ??? ???
  43. Multi-Token Attention (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 37 | 140 points by fzliu 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ??? ???
  44. How Google built its Gemini robotics models (blog.google)
    ×1.27 49 | 196 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 82 comments | ??? ???
  45. Restructuring Announcement (automattic.com)
    ×1.65 26 | 244 points by markx2 1 day ago | 216 comments | ??? ???
  46. Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (ieee.org)
    ×1.05 43 | 192 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ??? ???
  47. When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.08 47 | 155 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 52 comments | ??? ???
  48. Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 43 | 94 points by jonbaer 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ??? ???
  49. Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] (greshm.org)
    ×0.90 47 | 44 points by Suncho 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
    ×1.39 87 | 235 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 355 comments | ??? ???
  51. Flame – BBS and MUD (ucc.asn.au)
    ×0.60 41 | 49 points by shakna 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code (mermaidchart.com)
    ×0.84 48 | 124 points by msfi 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
    ×0.57 150 | 47 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 215 comments | ??? ???
  54. Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (esa.int)
    ×1.11 | 57 points by defrost 9 hours ago | 62 comments | ??? ???
  55. Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball (ploopy.co)
    ×1.06 33 | 114 points by namanyayg 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ??? ???
  56. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans (evanconnelly.github.io)
    ×1.30 39 | 138 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 30 comments | ??? ???
  57. PaperBench (openai.com)
    ×1.13 48 | 100 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 29 comments | ??? ???
  58. Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge (aptera.us)
    ×0.87 44 | 43 points by geox 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ??? ???
  59. Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS (matrix.org)
    ×1.19 27 | 192 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 138 comments | ??? ???
  60. Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)
    ×4.47 9 | 398 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 289 comments | ??? ???
  61. Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)
    ×2.69 11 | 306 points by trevin 1 day ago | 283 comments | ??? ???
  62. A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports (openculture.com)
    ×1.18 53 | 189 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  63. Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
    ×3.13 7 | 259 points by moonka 22 hours ago | 273 comments | ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Chip-8 emulator written in JavaScript (github.com/victorqribeiro)
    ×0.61 5 | 35 points by atum47 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ??? ???
  65. Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (reuters.com)
    ×4.68 63 | 47 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ??? ???
  66. Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)
    ×0.80 47 | 69 points by DJHenk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ??? ???
  67. Reintroducing Capsul (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.52 49 | 27 points by j3s 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ??? ???
  68. Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses (phys.org)
    ×0.47 46 | 35 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ??? ???
  69. Windows debloat script made by Microsoft (github.com/microsoft)
    ×4.85 53 | 32 points by homebrewer 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ??? ???
  70. Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat (potter-yachters.org)
    ×1.18 29 | 135 points by protonbob 1 day ago | 79 comments | ??? ???
  71. The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023) (idiallo.com)
    ×1.83 8 | 111 points by foxfired 19 hours ago | 102 comments | ??? ???
  72. Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (tailscale.com)
    ×2.63 5 | 353 points by adriangrigore 1 day ago | 92 comments | ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos (google.com)
    ×1.09 28 | 120 points by darajava 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  74. How Silica Gel Took Over the World (scopeofwork.net)
    ×1.73 57 | 214 points by Hooke 2 days ago | 168 comments | ??? ???
  75. Microsoft pulls back on datacenter ambitions (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.88 86 | 5 points by nikcub 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ??? ???
  76. Vets Who Code (vetswhocode.io)
    ×0.88 51 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 51 comments | ??? ???
  77. Certification Authority/Browser Forum adopts new security standards (googleblog.com)
    ×0.65 72 | 57 points by terminalbraid 1 day ago | 23 comments | ??? ???
  78. Stop syncing everything (sqlsync.dev)
    ×2.90 | 636 points by neilk 1 day ago | 121 comments | ??? ???
  79. 2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once (marieclaire.com)
    ×3.60 75 | 67 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | 107 comments | ??? ???
  80. AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
    ×8.17 74 | 121 points by Tenoke 4 hours ago | 83 comments | ??? ???
  81. XWine1 – Xbox One Translation Layer for Windows PCs (github.com/xwine1)
    ×0.86 45 | 26 points by LorenDB 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  82. Mirrors: The Blind Spot of Image and Video Generation Models (medium.com)
    ×0.35 66 | 12 points by yamrzou 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ??? ???
  83. Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers (recessim.com)
    ×0.89 38 | 72 points by BitBangingBytes 1 day ago | 20 comments | ??? ???
  84. Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot (generalagents.com)
    ×1.38 24 | 87 points by huerne 1 day ago | 18 comments | ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture (pointlessprojects.com)
    ×1.06 44 | 52 points by sillysideprojs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ??? ???
  86. Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.24 18 | 165 points by derbOac 1 day ago | 132 comments | ??? ???
  87. Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11 (schneegans.de)
    ×1.54 49 | 215 points by nixass 2 days ago | 75 comments | ??? ???
  88. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (wisc.edu)
    ×3.52 5 | 896 points by tux3 2 days ago | 398 comments | ??? ???
  89. Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps
    ×0.58 90 | 84 points by dli123 2 days ago | 61 comments | ??? ???
  90. Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.76 66 | 76 points by docmechanic 1 day ago | 24 comments | ??? ???