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  • 0 5

    The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
  • 2 18

    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
  • 1 10

    Polypad (polypad.amplify.com)
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    Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014) (theappendix.net)
  • 1 11

    Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker (evanhahn.com)
  • 2 7

    Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium (github.com)
  • 0 3

    Show HN: Closed Rings – A CLI-first time tracker for developers (closedrings.sh)
  • 4 7

    LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap (www.llmcap.io)
  • 13 55

    Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver (www.kv4p.com)
  • 34 62

    Codex-maxxing (jxnl.co)
  • 0 16

    Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com)
  • 1 12

    Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys (apps.apple.com)
  • 1 46

    Peter Neumann has died (www.tuhs.org)
  • 12 43

    As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury (nationalsecurityjournal.org)
  • 17 40

    Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter (twitter.com)
  • 3 23

    PyTorch Landscape (pytorch.landscape2.io)
  • 3 19

    Why is it called Kent House? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
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  • 53 46

    War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
  • 51 88

    Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (www.abgeo.dev)
  • 8 114

    Peter Salus has died (www.tuhs.org)
  • 184 301

    The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
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  • 97 99

    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam (www.wsj.com)
  • 24 41

    Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (www.zdnet.com)
  • 20 99

    Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (nicholas.carlini.com)
  • 13 52

    When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 39 77

    What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5) (vas-blog.pages.dev)
  • 20 68

    Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)
  • 113 200

    Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (www.vaticannews.va)
  • 51 137

    Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
  • 69 276

    Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
  • 0 6

    Heirs and Spares in Early Modern France (www.historytoday.com)
  • 35 65

    Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space (www.thescientificdrop.com)
  • 38 44

    Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated (konstantintkachuk.com)
  • 47 60

    The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means (loup-vaillant.fr)
  • 19 48

    Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
  • 77 63

    US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero (electrek.co)
  • 271 233

    Who will buy your services if you fire us all? (carette.xyz)
  • 5 62

    Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch (baltazarstudios.com)
  • 3 13

    The tyranny of single page apps (blog.bidisaster.party)
  • 169 128

    No more JetBrains products for me (matthewkosarek.xyz)
  • 25 96

    Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE (loopmaster.xyz)
  • 12 10

    Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules (www.standwithcrypto.org)
  • 9 65

    Understanding Singleflight in Go (www.codingexplorations.com)
  • 64 61

    Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS (www.advanced-research.net)
  • 83 166

    Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (www.ftc.gov)
  • 109 274

    The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (www.404media.co)
  • 198 135

    New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC (apnews.com)
  • 35 151

    Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
  • 198 236

    We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
  • 4 20

    Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient Moe (dl.acm.org)
  • 20 102

    Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
  • 6 64

    Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (www.osnews.com)
  • 96 298

    Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (discuss.haiku-os.org)
  • 28 67

    At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo (www.bbc.com)
  • 13 27

    Anduril and Meta's quest to make smart glasses for warfare (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 132 110

    Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (www.cnn.com)
  • 18 81

    Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (modal.com)
  • 26 132

    The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
  • 156 512

    Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
  • 453 917

    Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
  • 524 307

    Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 62 115

    Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
  • 290 430

    Anthropic acquires Stainless (www.anthropic.com)
  • 84 230

    Qwen 3.7 Preview (twitter.com)
  • 119 202

    Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
  • 6 44

    Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com)
  • 13 11

    For 20 years, Stephen Colbert distinguished truth from truthiness (www.npr.org)
  • 3 7

    A Rust-Python thing I am working on. Apache 2 licence (github.com)
  • 14 134

    Learn Harness Engineering (walkinglabs.github.io)
  • 57 146

    What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
  • 29 94

    Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI (www.404media.co)
  • 217 460

    We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
  • 126 324

    Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 15 27

    I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code? (www.wired.com)
  • 62 37

    What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” tells us about what Amazon is (gadallon.substack.com)
  • 30 117

    Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 6 8

    Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people (catslock.app)
  • 3 26

    The era of free money may have ended (www.reuters.com)
  • 281 624

    The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (blog.ppb1701.com)
  • 82 136

    1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com)
  • 19 40

    Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them (www.experimental-history.com)
  • 213 305

    Actually, democracy dies in H.R. (www.nytimes.com)
  • 54 94

    Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks (www.plough.com)
  • 303 620

    Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com)
  • 38 87

    The Aperiodic Table (blog.jgc.org)
  • 7 13

    The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly (www.theguardian.com)
  • 53 25

    Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend (www.adweek.com)
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  • 62 217

    'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 62 55

    Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine (www.economist.com)
  • 81 152

    Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO (www.theregister.com)
  • 113 205

    AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
  • 13 82

    Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K (github.com)
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  • 99 106

    Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets (www.theguardian.com)
  • 101 204

    Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' (www.theregister.com)
  • 51 90

    Don't answer the first question (lalitm.com)
  • 375 353

    Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation (www.nbcnews.com)
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  • 132 321

    Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com)
  • 52 100

    Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland (storica.club)
  • 47 42

    Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025) (dogma25.dk)
  • 49 36

    The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 98 98

    NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era (spacedaily.com)
  • 11 38

    Graphing Scientific Calculator Based on the ESP32 (github.com)
  • 348 264

    Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? (indiepixel.de)
  • 77 103

    The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (www.csl.sri.com)
  • 165 152

    Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 6 6

    The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle (beeble.com)
  • 121 55

    Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes (www.ft.com)
  • 29 36

    Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late (howtocenterdiv.com)
  • 9 18

    Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain (www.reuters.com)
  • 22 65

    Build a radio wave detector with balls of aluminum foil (www.wired.com)
  • 51 115

    Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena? (www.reddit.com)
  • 15 54

    Ksharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C# (github.com)
  • 20 40

    Profunctor Equipment in Haskell (bartoszmilewski.com)
  • 34 65

    BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (github.com)
  • 10 20

    Which country voted the best at Eurovision? (lalitm.com)
  • 86 175

    Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 4 42

    Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth (www.youtube.com)
  • 13 10

    Freelang – a Libc-free, direct sys/kernel call language with weird concurrency (freelang.dev)
  • 10 38

    Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting (github.com)
  • 36 62

    America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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    Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview (cognitum.one)
  • 702 285

    It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (www.noemamag.com)
  • 88 131

    Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) (www.theverge.com)
  • 28 45

    The SGI Buyer's Guide (2003) (hardware.majix.org)
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  • 32 192

    WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (hellmood.111mb.de)
  • 20 88

    A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (sites.math.rutgers.edu)
  • 45 78

    Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (www.science.org)