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  • 0 5

    Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web (github.com)
  • 0 8

    Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (med.stanford.edu)
  • 2 4

    Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers (arxiv.org)
  • 0 8

    Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (www.ft.com)
  • 18 23

    Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 (www.python.org)
  • 7 26

    Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC) (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 25

    Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
  • 124 131

    Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
  • 81 51

    Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (blogs.windows.com)
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    San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net)
  • 2 34

    AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
  • 14 46

    Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels (www.newsonjapan.com)
  • 161 295

    Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
  • 16 86

    The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models (research.ibm.com)
  • 81 80

    Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024) (retrocoding.net)
  • 1 24

    Simple and correct snapshot isolation (remy.wang)
  • 50 161

    Open source does not imply open community (blog.feld.me)
  • 7 8

    Show HN: Golang binaries built for your users depending on their arch and system (goblin.run)
  • 119 167

    A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 4

    A Common Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and the Collatz Conjecture (www.academia.edu)
  • 56 59

    Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? (www.latimes.com)
  • 123 162

    Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores (www.nytimes.com)
  • 22 86

    A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
  • 222 37

    When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? (unherd.com)
  • 102 237

    A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (blog.haskell.org)
  • 6 29

    Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
  • 102 70

    The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious (www.dailygrail.com)
  • 4 71

    Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com)
  • 62 84

    Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage (sfist.com)
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  • 106 238

    Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
  • 36 49

    Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights (insideevs.com)
  • 11 111

    Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (www.clojuriststogether.org)
  • 0 27

    Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 59 116

    Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
  • 82 108

    The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (www.mendral.com)
  • 73 309

    Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (www.david-smith.org)
  • 96 198

    Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (www.universiteitleiden.nl)
  • 75 347

    This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
  • 31 89

    A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
  • 634 1223

    VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com)
  • 19 85

    Modern C++ Programming: Busato (github.com)
  • 45 54

    I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  • 0 8

    Demonstrating the idea of gamma camera imaging [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 23 63

    Canonical Under Attack (status.canonical.com)
  • 33 95

    Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
  • 32 69

    Welcome to Hell Developer (noahclements.com)
  • 110 345

    Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
  • 98 89

    Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
  • 5 10

    Ask HN: Where can I go to ask for help?
  • 52 91

    Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
  • 0 18

    Also-RANS: Asymmetric Numeral Systems for Entropy Coding (fergusfinn.com)
  • 135 487

    Dav2d (code.videolan.org)
  • 304 298

    California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (www.bbc.com)
  • 143 461

    NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
  • 140 230

    Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (www.cnbc.com)
  • 158 105

    Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
  • 24 50

    Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you (github.com)
  • 18 205

    Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (www.epo.org)
  • 64 38

    Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art (www.sfgate.com)
  • 136 248

    America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance (www.wsj.com)
  • 111 62

    New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 140 132

    Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies (techcrunch.com)
  • 207 70

    Why IPv6 is so complicated (github.com)
  • 71 109

    Zugzwang (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 171 324

    AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (arxiv.org)
  • 23 163

    Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com)
  • 39 108

    Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
  • 84 56

    Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia (www.yahoo.com)
  • 32 31

    Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026 (terminalbytes.com)
  • 3 16

    Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930 (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 198 251

    Russia Poisons Wikipedia (www.bettedangerous.com)
  • 70 57

    Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022) (www.economist.com)
  • 12 58

    Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (www.economist.com)
  • 2 105

    An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years (32bits.substack.com)
  • 55 117

    Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com)
  • 88 202

    Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com)
  • 18 26

    The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics (danieltan.weblog.lol)
  • 38 44

    SFO Gate Explorer (www.flysfo.com)
  • 63 82

    GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (www.wsj.com)
  • 36 64

    Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore (www.science.org)
  • 48 61

    Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
  • 43 170

    Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com)
  • 10 65

    Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
  • 9 18

    Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
  • 93 249

    How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
  • 13 16

    Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize (github.com)
  • 19 46

    Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
  • 32 103

    Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com)
  • 92 200

    Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 25 51

    Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (copilot.simplepdf.com)
  • 3 11

    Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) (github.com)
  • 17 29

    SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File (github.com)
  • 11 38

    Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
  • 14 76

    Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example (github.com)
  • 329 545

    DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
  • 4 9

    Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system (github.com)
  • 158 130

    The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
  • 69 47

    A Gopher Meets a Crab (miren.dev)
  • 28 34

    Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
  • 95 64

    Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (www.spiritrestructuring.com)
  • 14 40

    Integer Overflow Checking Cost (danluu.com)
  • 292 725

    Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (www.noctua.at)
  • 49 105

    K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com)
  • 14 58

    LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (www.liquid.ai)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 35 93

    Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com)
  • 3 16

    Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste (github.com)
  • 13 36

    Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed (github.com)
  • 223 451

    Ask.com has closed (www.ask.com)
  • 6 13

    Chasing a SharedKey signature mismatch: fix azurerm_storage_table_entity (topaz.thecloudtheory.com)
  • 41 135

    To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (e360.yale.edu)
  • 7 25

    Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service (www.sourcefeed.app)
  • 142 227

    Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (www.citadelsecurities.com)
  • 36 60

    Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry (www.nature.com)
  • 72 126

    Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
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    Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server (tvheadend.org)
  • 73 59

    What did you love about VB6? (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
  • 47 59

    U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says (www.nytimes.com)
  • 64 131

    A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)