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  1. Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    187 points • by DamnInteresting • last Friday at 2:07 PM • 42 comments
  2. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (www.usenix.org)
    89 points • by Eridanus2 • today at 8:45 AM • 40 comments
  3. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    209 points • by speckx • last Thursday at 2:05 PM • 128 comments
  4. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    72 points • by helloplanets • today at 7:38 AM • 29 comments
  5. Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
    23 points • by ragojose • last Thursday at 5:32 PM • 1 comment
  6. The EU digital ID wallet can't deliver the privacy properties it claims (github.com)
    4 points • by gasull • today at 1:08 PM • 0 comments
  7. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    156 points • by mfiguiere • last Friday at 1:57 PM • 30 comments
  8. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    349 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 8:54 PM • 150 comments
  9. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    334 points • by gnabgib • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 329 comments
  10. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
    558 points • by anabranch • yesterday at 4:05 PM • 538 comments
  11. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
    366 points • by NelsonMinar • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 96 comments
  12. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (self)
    87 points • by modelcroissant • today at 9:17 AM • 43 comments
  13. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    56 points • by pretext • today at 10:36 AM • 33 comments
  14. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    8 points • by teamchong • today at 11:17 AM • 6 comments
  15. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    450 points • by RickJWagner • yesterday at 12:29 PM • 426 comments
  16. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
    103 points • by signa11 • today at 2:50 AM • 31 comments
  17. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    94 points • by tyleo • last Thursday at 12:00 PM • 41 comments
  18. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    3 points • by NordStreamYacht • last Wednesday at 11:38 AM • 0 comments
  19. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    33 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 2:20 PM • 15 comments
  20. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)
    38 points • by PaulHoule • last Thursday at 7:05 PM • 2 comments
  21. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    425 points • by f_r_d • yesterday at 11:42 AM • 130 comments
  22. Turning Point USA Is Expanding Its Reach to K-12 Schools (www.edweek.org)
    10 points • by geox • today at 1:18 PM • 1 comment
  23. Binary GCD (en.algorithmica.org)
    14 points • by tosh • today at 8:33 AM • 0 comments
  24. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
    10 points • by aa_is_op • today at 1:13 PM • 1 comment
  25. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    171 points • by larve • last Wednesday at 2:38 PM • 21 comments
  26. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    816 points • by yusufusta • yesterday at 1:29 PM • 409 comments
  27. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
    113 points • by nobody9999 • today at 7:05 AM • 22 comments
  28. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    114 points • by weaksauce • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 40 comments
  29. Metatextual Literacy (www.jenn.site)
    45 points • by dado3212 • last Wednesday at 7:18 PM • 4 comments
  30. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    36 points • by bookofjoe • last Thursday at 3:08 PM • 17 comments
  31. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
    227 points • by Lwrless • last Wednesday at 7:56 PM • 14 comments
  32. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com)
    61 points • by riyaneel • last Thursday at 5:13 PM • 25 comments
  33. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    96 points • by agambrahma • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 37 comments
  34. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    340 points • by cdrnsf • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 215 comments
  35. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
    128 points • by drasim • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 47 comments
  36. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
    114 points • by t-3 • last Wednesday at 7:46 PM • 41 comments
  37. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    104 points • by peter_d_sherman • last Wednesday at 2:29 AM • 11 comments
  38. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
    202 points • by sohkamyung • yesterday at 11:47 PM • 87 comments
  39. Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
    105 points • by DeathArrow • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 28 comments
  40. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    110 points • by wicket • last Tuesday at 4:00 PM • 16 comments
  41. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
    52 points • by random_ • yesterday at 9:50 PM • 40 comments
  42. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    204 points • by coinfused • last Tuesday at 4:00 PM • 127 comments
  43. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 points • by Old_Thrashbarg • yesterday at 5:01 PM • 0 comments
  44. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    75 points • by fanf2 • last Thursday at 8:42 AM • 58 comments
  45. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
    130 points • by gmcabrita • yesterday at 4:50 PM • 33 comments
  46. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    185 points • by eshelyaron • last Wednesday at 1:49 PM • 31 comments
  47. Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
    1203 points • by meetpateltech • last Friday at 3:04 PM • 746 comments
  48. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    53 points • by hasheddan • last Friday at 10:32 AM • 6 comments
  49. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    46 points • by alzhi7 • yesterday at 3:47 AM • 9 comments
  50. Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
    406 points • by tkhattra • last Wednesday at 6:07 PM • 83 comments