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  1. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    253 pointsby rbanffyyesterday at 8:54 PM109 comments
  2. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    229 pointsby gnabgibyesterday at 7:00 PM205 comments
  3. Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
    483 pointsby anabranchyesterday at 4:05 PM484 comments
  4. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    60 pointsby tyleolast Thursday at 12:00 PM20 comments
  5. What Are Skiplists Good For? (antithesis.com)
    29 pointsby mfiguierelast Friday at 1:57 PM5 comments
  6. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
    308 pointsby NelsonMinaryesterday at 4:26 PM87 comments
  7. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    358 pointsby RickJWagneryesterday at 12:29 PM353 comments
  8. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
    60 pointsby agambrahmayesterday at 10:46 PM21 comments
  9. Metatextual Literacy (www.jenn.site)
    18 pointsby dado3212last Wednesday at 7:18 PM2 comments
  10. The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate (entropicthoughts.com)
    23 pointsby fanf2last Thursday at 8:42 AM7 comments
  11. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    129 pointsby larvelast Wednesday at 2:38 PM17 comments
  12. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    84 pointsby weaksauceyesterday at 8:42 PM28 comments
  13. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    367 pointsby f_r_dyesterday at 11:42 AM118 comments
  14. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    730 pointsby yusufustayesterday at 1:29 PM373 comments
  15. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    276 pointsby cdrnsfyesterday at 7:19 PM180 comments
  16. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
    197 pointsby Lwrlesslast Wednesday at 7:56 PM7 comments
  17. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
    135 pointsby sohkamyungyesterday at 11:47 PM59 comments
  18. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
    107 pointsby drasimyesterday at 3:24 PM39 comments
  19. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    12 pointsby bookofjoelast Thursday at 3:08 PM4 comments
  20. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
    31 pointsby random_yesterday at 9:50 PM24 comments
  21. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
    93 pointsby t-3last Wednesday at 7:46 PM36 comments
  22. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    101 pointsby wicketlast Tuesday at 4:00 PM14 comments
  23. Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com)
    25 pointsby riyaneellast Thursday at 5:13 PM11 comments
  24. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)
    37 pointsby alzhi7yesterday at 3:47 AM5 comments
  25. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    77 pointsby peter_d_shermanlast Wednesday at 2:29 AM9 comments
  26. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    47 pointsby hasheddanlast Friday at 10:32 AM5 comments
  27. Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
    93 pointsby DeathArrowyesterday at 3:24 PM23 comments
  28. Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations (self)
    70 pointsby FailMorelast Wednesday at 11:29 AM32 comments
  29. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    193 pointsby coinfusedlast Tuesday at 4:00 PM124 comments
  30. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    297 pointsby fouronnes3yesterday at 1:15 AM50 comments
  31. Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment (baumgartner.house.gov)
    15 pointsby num42today at 3:33 AM7 comments
  32. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
    108 pointsby gmcabritayesterday at 4:50 PM30 comments
  33. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 pointsby Old_Thrashbargyesterday at 5:01 PM0 comments
  34. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
    17 pointsby neehaoyesterday at 8:48 PM3 comments
  35. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    182 pointsby eshelyaronlast Wednesday at 1:49 PM28 comments
  36. Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025 (freedomhouse.org)
    18 pointsby Cider9986today at 1:42 AM9 comments
  37. Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
    403 pointsby tkhattralast Wednesday at 6:07 PM82 comments
  38. Air Is Full of DNA (www.nature.com)
    16 pointsby howrudeyesterday at 9:38 PM0 comments
  39. 4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
    46 pointsby chmaynardyesterday at 5:21 PM30 comments
  40. Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
    1191 pointsby meetpateltechlast Friday at 3:04 PM740 comments
  41. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    132 pointsby azhenleylast Thursday at 3:09 AM15 comments
  42. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (www.rtrvr.ai)
    39 pointsby arjunchintlast Friday at 9:03 PM9 comments
  43. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
    84 pointsby bryanrasmussenyesterday at 5:12 PM52 comments
  44. Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (www.tomshardware.com)
    19 pointsby thunderbongtoday at 1:49 AM5 comments
  45. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    11 pointsby ingvelast Friday at 6:12 AM6 comments
  46. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    209 pointsby sylvainkalacheyesterday at 11:43 AM225 comments
  47. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (www.bbc.com)
    123 pointsby tchallayesterday at 10:24 PM95 comments
  48. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (www.sidephone.com)
    24 pointsby phantomathkgyesterday at 4:40 PM14 comments
  49. Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
    246 pointsby sphyesterday at 6:20 AM77 comments
  50. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com)
    92 pointsby signa11yesterday at 6:33 AM192 comments