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  1. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    99 pointsby rbanffyyesterday at 8:54 PM47 comments
  2. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
    395 pointsby anabranchyesterday at 4:05 PM414 comments
  3. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
    242 pointsby NelsonMinaryesterday at 4:26 PM71 comments
  4. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    63 pointsby larvelast Wednesday at 2:38 PM5 comments
  5. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    35 pointsby weaksauceyesterday at 8:42 PM14 comments
  6. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    281 pointsby RickJWagneryesterday at 12:29 PM273 comments
  7. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    199 pointsby cdrnsfyesterday at 7:19 PM133 comments
  8. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    661 pointsby yusufustayesterday at 1:29 PM337 comments
  9. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    324 pointsby f_r_dyesterday at 11:42 AM108 comments
  10. Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
    378 pointsby tkhattralast Wednesday at 6:07 PM78 comments
  11. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    31 pointsby hasheddanlast Friday at 10:32 AM1 comment
  12. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
    84 pointsby drasimyesterday at 3:24 PM30 comments
  13. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
    154 pointsby Lwrlesslast Wednesday at 7:56 PM5 comments
  14. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (www.bbc.com)
    24 pointsby tchallayesterday at 10:24 PM6 comments
  15. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
    72 pointsby gmcabritayesterday at 4:50 PM7 comments
  16. Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
    67 pointsby t-3last Wednesday at 7:46 PM26 comments
  17. A story about how I dug into the PostgreSQL sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    5 pointsby alzhi7yesterday at 3:47 AM0 comments
  18. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
    8 pointsby sohkamyungyesterday at 11:47 PM0 comments
  19. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 pointsby Old_Thrashbargyesterday at 5:01 PM0 comments
  20. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    80 pointsby wicketlast Tuesday at 4:00 PM11 comments
  21. Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations (self)
    42 pointsby FailMorelast Wednesday at 11:29 AM22 comments
  22. Show HN: Remoroo. trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (www.remoroo.com)
    23 pointsby adhamghazalilast Tuesday at 1:51 PM4 comments
  23. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    49 pointsby peter_d_shermanlast Wednesday at 2:29 AM6 comments
  24. Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
    227 pointsby sphyesterday at 6:20 AM69 comments
  25. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (www.rtrvr.ai)
    28 pointsby arjunchintlast Friday at 9:03 PM3 comments
  26. 4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
    36 pointsby chmaynardyesterday at 5:21 PM22 comments
  27. Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
    72 pointsby DeathArrowyesterday at 3:24 PM25 comments
  28. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    129 pointsby atomfingerlast Monday at 6:49 PM72 comments
  29. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    220 pointsby boris_myesterday at 6:40 AM58 comments
  30. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    174 pointsby coinfusedlast Tuesday at 4:00 PM115 comments
  31. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
    68 pointsby bryanrasmussenyesterday at 5:12 PM47 comments
  32. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    288 pointsby fouronnes3yesterday at 1:15 AM49 comments
  33. PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (www.sqlservercentral.com)
    22 pointsby tcp_handshakeryesterday at 8:34 PM9 comments
  34. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (www.sidephone.com)
    18 pointsby phantomathkgyesterday at 4:40 PM3 comments
  35. Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (www.malwarebytes.com)
    7 pointsby ilamontyesterday at 11:08 PM0 comments
  36. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (www.theguardian.com)
    229 pointsby trocadoyesterday at 6:36 PM166 comments
  37. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    175 pointsby eshelyaronlast Wednesday at 1:49 PM27 comments
  38. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    184 pointsby sylvainkalacheyesterday at 11:43 AM190 comments
  39. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    64 pointsby y1n0last Tuesday at 2:45 AM26 comments
  40. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    119 pointsby azhenleylast Thursday at 3:09 AM15 comments
  41. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    117 pointsby tech234ayesterday at 3:54 PM109 comments
  42. Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
    1182 pointsby meetpateltechlast Friday at 3:04 PM737 comments
  43. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    89 pointsby gnabgibyesterday at 7:00 PM88 comments
  44. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com)
    79 pointsby signa11yesterday at 6:33 AM178 comments
  45. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    47 pointsby mhbyesterday at 7:19 PM14 comments
  46. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (apps.npr.org)
    65 pointsby nuke-web3yesterday at 4:31 PM7 comments
  47. Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
    7 pointsby prdpx7yesterday at 7:34 PM3 comments
  48. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
    106 pointsby unsuspectinglast Friday at 10:30 PM126 comments
  49. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (www.johndcook.com)
    13 pointsby rolphyesterday at 4:05 PM7 comments
  50. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (www.claudecodecamp.com)
    684 pointsby aray07last Friday at 3:29 PM482 comments