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  • 0 7

    How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists into Exploited Gig Workers (www.thenation.com)
  • 0 9

    Average Is All You Need (rawquery.dev)
  • 8 25

    中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron (blog.kevinzwu.com)
  • 9 24

    EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted (xcancel.com)
  • 5 8

    Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine (neofeed.com.br)
  • 14 59

    How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.investigate-europe.eu)
  • 49 111

    Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages (www.iqiipi.com)
  • 0 13

    Precision over perception: Why architecture matters in benchmarking (www.redhat.com)
  • 51 17

    How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful (www.economist.com)
  • 0 17

    PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis (www.schutzwerk.com)
  • 37 75

    FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (www.nongnu.org)
  • 7 28

    Building a Web Page That Edits Itself (www.patrickweaver.net)
  • 5 11

    First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones (www.welovecycling.com)
  • 12 30

    Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006) (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
  • 34 69

    30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages (chapel-lang.org)
  • 31 64

    Human Accelerated Region 1 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 23 80

    A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
  • 51 116

    Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day (www.theverge.com)
  • 10 36

    FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why (arstechnica.com)
  • 139 217

    US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
  • 11 44

    A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com)
  • 56 157

    Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (blog.discourse.org)
  • 15 68

    ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com)
  • Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 11 13

    288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio (marcindudek.dev)
  • 42 164

    CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
  • 2 27

    Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
  • 19 93

    Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
  • 193 277

    Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
  • 110 164

    Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 16

    "Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 52 76

    George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (www.openculture.com)
  • 4 9

    Python Package Compiler:Package Matlab Programs for Deployment as Python Package (www.mathworks.com)
  • 57 228

    New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (www.theguardian.com)
  • 26 31

    U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines (www.wsj.com)
  • 2 6

    Sir-Bench – benchmark for security incident response agents (arxiv.org)
  • 40 197

    Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com)
  • 4 31

    IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf] (gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net)
  • 80 173

    Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (news.play.date)
  • 34 56

    U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20 (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 27 25

    Five men control AI. Who should control them? (www.economist.com)
  • 31 62

    Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding (github.com)
  • 63 241

    Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)
  • 127 106

    The beginning of scarcity in AI (tomtunguz.com)
  • 22 136

    A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)
  • 1 9

    How the Roll Function Works (In APL\360 and Its Descendants) (www.jsoftware.com)
  • 25 96

    GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research (openai.com)
  • 210 325

    The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (www.joanwestenberg.com)
  • Join Akkari's Founding Team (YC P26) as an Engineer
  • 102 258

    Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (android-developers.googleblog.com)
  • 3 43

    Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof (natetyoung.github.io)
  • 77 115

    European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp (www.politico.eu)
  • 61 47

    German Dog Commands (www.fluentu.com)
  • 34 65

    TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 79 108

    Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left" (apnews.com)
  • 84 413

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
  • 39 109

    PCI Express over Fiber [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 34 58

    Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (www.wired.com)
  • 470 908

    Codex for almost everything (openai.com)
  • 122 154

    Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (www.japantimes.co.jp)
  • 21 92

    Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com)
  • 112 98

    Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip (raymii.org)
  • 24 195

    Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (blog.cloudflare.com)
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  • 272 194

    We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit (andonlabs.com)
  • 77 91

    Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (www.zatanna.ai)
  • 14 98

    Six Characters (ajitem.com)
  • 1296 1809

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 115 197

    Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent (techstackups.com)
  • 5 16

    Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis
  • 62 50

    There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains (www.engadget.com)
  • 80 172

    Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card (anthropic.com)
  • 12 186

    Claude Opus 4.7 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 40 140

    Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com)
  • 17 20

    Fly Drones from the Browser (fpvsim.com)
  • 312 358

    Mozilla Thunderbolt (www.thunderbolt.io)
  • 481 1138

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
  • 198 440

    Cloudflare Email Service (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 659 642

    The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here? (aphyr.com)
  • 73 291

    Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 3 28

    Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512 (dl.acm.org)
  • 85 225

    AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)
  • 25 72

    Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
  • 73 83

    Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials (www.apple.com)
  • 282 389

    €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)
  • 19 15

    Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries (adelaide.edu.au)
  • 43 118

    PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations (wiki.php.net)
  • 63 63

    The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 65 44

    The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces (vale.rocks)
  • 128 244

    Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (blog.calif.io)
  • 60 65

    Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)
  • 122 125

    SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com)
  • 21 180

    Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (www.lighterra.com)
  • 12 17

    Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (superheroetc.wordpress.com)
  • 25 60

    The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
  • 116 50

    Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45 (www.bbc.com)
  • 4 59

    FIXAPL (fixapl.netlify.app)
  • RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 586 794

    IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (www.google.com)
  • 7 19

    Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (www.b-list.org)
  • 207 624

    The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama (sleepingrobots.com)
  • 90 149

    North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
  • 73 58

    Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet (www.chalkbeat.org)
  • 20 75

    Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (medium.com)
  • 17 35

    Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations
  • 113 145

    Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
  • 106 123

    Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) (www.ietf.org)
  • 11 12

    AWS/GCP too expensive? Cloudexit.pro will help you move to bare-metal (cloudexit.pro)
  • 221 382

    FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)
  • 13 76

    A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 51 180

    RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com)
  • 237 484

    Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
  • 22 101

    Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
  • 8 49

    Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast (x86.fr)
  • 6 36

    Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator (github.com)
  • 57 115

    Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 87 282

    The paper computer (jsomers.net)
  • 32 78

    Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com)
  • 6 18

    A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator (www.universetoday.com)
  • 10 62

    Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics (www.kleefeldoncomics.com)
  • 38 71

    Arguing with Agents (blowmage.com)
  • 8 39

    A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (ldjam.com)
  • 15 25

    Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env (www.keycard.studio)
  • 29 147

    Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
  • 61 64

    Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk' (www.afr.com)
  • 10 21

    The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks (zenodo.org)
  • 27 54

    Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 4 20

    Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King (www.theguardian.com)