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  1. Vercel April 2026 security incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    311 points • by colesantiago • today at 2:14 PM • 226 comments
  2. The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips (warontherocks.com)
    55 points • by crescit_eundo • today at 5:44 PM • 16 comments
  3. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (www.philosopher.eu)
    15 points • by isomorphy • today at 8:04 PM • 0 comments
  4. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (www.vincentgregoire.com)
    52 points • by vcf • today at 5:44 PM • 20 comments
  5. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com)
    18 points • by pizza_man • today at 7:21 PM • 4 comments
  6. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    32 points • by lelanthran • last Thursday at 7:59 AM • 10 comments
  7. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    481 points • by DamnInteresting • last Friday at 2:07 PM • 120 comments
  8. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    87 points • by pretext • today at 10:36 AM • 50 comments
  9. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)
    244 points • by Tiberium • today at 3:20 PM • 78 comments
  10. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    371 points • by speckx • last Thursday at 2:05 PM • 202 comments
  11. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    228 points • by helloplanets • today at 7:38 AM • 89 comments
  12. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    97 points • by NordStreamYacht • last Wednesday at 11:38 AM • 23 comments
  13. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (pubs.acs.org)
    20 points • by PaulHoule • last Wednesday at 10:32 PM • 1 comment
  14. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (www.usenix.org)
    142 points • by Eridanus2 • today at 8:45 AM • 63 comments
  15. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com)
    35 points • by Bawoosette • yesterday at 2:21 PM • 1 comment
  16. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
    118 points • by ragojose • last Thursday at 5:32 PM • 34 comments
  17. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    237 points • by mfiguiere • last Friday at 1:57 PM • 50 comments
  18. The RAM shortage could last years (www.theverge.com)
    77 points • by omer_k • today at 7:18 AM • 71 comments
  19. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    439 points • by gnabgib • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 400 comments
  20. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    401 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 8:54 PM • 182 comments
  21. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    14 points • by rbanffy • today at 7:41 PM • 1 comment
  22. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    71 points • by teamchong • today at 11:17 AM • 35 comments
  23. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    23 points • by kevwedotse • last Friday at 5:14 PM • 4 comments
  24. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
    594 points • by anabranch • yesterday at 4:05 PM • 558 comments
  25. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
    403 points • by NelsonMinar • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 102 comments
  26. 4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
    56 points • by chmaynard • yesterday at 5:21 PM • 43 comments
  27. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    529 points • by RickJWagner • yesterday at 12:29 PM • 497 comments
  28. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    185 points • by signa11 • today at 2:50 AM • 80 comments
  29. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
    212 points • by aa_is_op • today at 1:13 PM • 134 comments
  30. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    107 points • by theahura • today at 2:43 PM • 94 comments
  31. Binary GCD (en.algorithmica.org)
    74 points • by tosh • today at 8:33 AM • 1 comment
  32. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (self)
    227 points • by modelcroissant • today at 9:17 AM • 103 comments
  33. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    81 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 2:20 PM • 37 comments
  34. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    452 points • by f_r_d • yesterday at 11:42 AM • 143 comments
  35. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    108 points • by tyleo • last Thursday at 12:00 PM • 52 comments
  36. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
    89 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 2:34 PM • 42 comments
  37. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    34 points • by bachmeier • last Wednesday at 4:13 PM • 6 comments
  38. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (www.pcgamer.com)
    101 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 3:48 PM • 76 comments
  39. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    852 points • by yusufusta • yesterday at 1:29 PM • 420 comments
  40. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    126 points • by weaksauce • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 52 comments
  41. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    80 points • by fanf2 • last Thursday at 8:42 AM • 61 comments
  42. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    179 points • by larve • last Wednesday at 2:38 PM • 24 comments
  43. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    49 points • by PaulHoule • last Thursday at 7:05 PM • 13 comments
  44. Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements (morwenn.github.io)
    22 points • by ibobev • last Thursday at 7:34 PM • 1 comment
  45. Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend (finance.yahoo.com)
    39 points • by dakiol • today at 6:13 PM • 52 comments
  46. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
    235 points • by Lwrless • last Wednesday at 7:56 PM • 18 comments
  47. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    110 points • by agambrahma • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 46 comments
  48. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (www.theverge.com)
    141 points • by tambourine_man • today at 2:05 PM • 125 comments
  49. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    44 points • by bookofjoe • last Thursday at 3:08 PM • 31 comments
  50. Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    22 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 4:37 PM • 11 comments