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Laws of Software Engineering

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

Types and Neural Networks

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

Air is full of DNA

High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers

Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring

Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

I learned Unity the wrong way

Sauna effect on heart rate

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

GitHub's fake star economy

Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)

F-35 is built for the wrong war

Tim Cook Steps Down as CEO of Apple Inc

What if database branching was easy?

I Made the \"Next-Level\" Camera and I love it

Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

Linux PTP mainline development war story and new features

Grafana 13

We accepted surveillance as default

Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee

SDF Public Access Unix System

Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

Corner-Case RCU Implementations

Not buying another Kindle

Real-Time Visualization of Human Finger Joint Cavitation (2015)

Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication (2008) [pdf]

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1

Amazon 'strong-armed' Levi's, Hanes to hike prices on rival sites, DA says

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs

Chernobyl's last wedding

Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98

Vercel April 2026 security incident

Who Killed the Florida Orange?

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

Homeland Security is making \"smart glasses\" to collect intelligence on Americans

EU Age Verification Hacked in 2 Minutes: What Happened

Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)

4-bit floating point FP4

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

The Work Runs on Different Maps

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

Brave Origin

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want

The Fencing Visualization System

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

Sudo for Windows (2024)

Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

Epicycles All the Way Down (2025)

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

At long last, InfoWars is ours

Who Is Blake Whiting?

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a 'Natural' Health Hack

Caztor 1.0 – a browser for small-net protocols like Gemini and Gopher

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

Show HN: Git Push No-Mistakes

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

Scientists stunned by 'fundamentally new way' life produces DNA

New Tractor with 12-Valve Cummins and Zero Electronics Goes Back to the Basics

Berea college makes tuition free with its endowment

The RAM shortage could last years

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

Less human AI agents, please

The Bromine Chokepoint

San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism with One Neat Trick

NASA Artemis Posters

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

18 Years Later, IPv6 Reaches Majority

French prosecutors issue summons to Musk after raid on X offices in Paris

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

The Hero's Journey Is Burning the Planet

Claude Design

Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

Peter Thiel Is Building a Parallel Justice System – Powered by AI

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

Sony implementing age verification for PlayStation users

Knitout and Kniterate 3

MerJS: A Zig-native web framework that ships without Node

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

The AI engineering stack we built internally – on the platform we ship

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

Why Japan has such good railways

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

Hot-wiring the Lisp machine

Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

Show HN: MCPfinder – An MCP server that finds and installs other MCP servers

File System Wars

I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

What are skiplists good for?

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

SI Units for Request Rate (2024)

Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

State of Kdenlive

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

John Ternus to Become Apple CEO

Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of $100B cloud deal

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

Binary GCD

Pica: Better Font Management for macOS

Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages

Allbirds' Move to AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy

Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

Fuzix OS

Why is IPv6 so complicated?

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

Cahokia

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)

Amazon's AI boom is creating mess of duplicate tools and data inside the company

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

Emails show Amazon colluded to raise prices, California authorities allege

All 12 moonwalkers had \"lunar hay fever\" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

Tim Cook Stepping Down

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption

AI chatbots could be making you stupider

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower

Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex

Car Owners Are Revolting over Tesla's Self-Driving Promises

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law

Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026

I’m spending months coding the old way

Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage

Baltic nations brace for impact of Iran war delaying US weapons shipments

KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode

Show HN: Themeable HN

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore

3D-Printing a Trombone

Amiga Graphics Archive

Tim Cook to step down from Apple

The simple geometry behind any road

Quirky Electric Car Rides the Rails

Making RAM at Home [video]

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

Mathematician Collapses All Functions to One Weird Formula [video]

What Makes Docs Beautiful?

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

WhatsApp Plus is rolling out new premium features

Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors

Deleteduser.com –A $15 PII Magnet

A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017)

Denver Water draining, closing Antero Reservoir for drought savings

The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood

Experiment with ICEYE Open Data

\"cat readme.txt\" is not safe if you use iTerm2

Casus Belli Engineering

FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

Notes from the SF peptide scene

The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video]

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

Show HN: CyberWriter – a .md editor built on Apple's (barely-used) on-device AI

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries

Slop Cop

Category Theory Illustrated – Orders

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads

A P2P Network for Reproducible Autoresearch Code Experiments

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

ChatGPT and Codex Down

Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)

The great Scouse pasty war

Clanker

It is incorrect to \"normalize\" // in HTTP URL paths

The beginning of scarcity in AI

Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

Users unable to load ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)

North American English Dialects

Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs

NASA Force

Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements

Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Confirmed as New Apple CEO

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

Human Accelerated Region 1

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers

Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%

To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996)

NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh

John Ternus, 51-yr-old former swimming champ who succeeds Tim Cook as Apple CEO

AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

Claude Opus 4.7

I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver

A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab

Bringing the Power of the Sun to Earth: Nuclear Fusion Reactors

Judge sides with ICE tracker creators in DHS/DOJ First Amendment lawsuit

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Interview: Christopher Borgert on an Infamous Glyphosate Paper

Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Evolution

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

Tim Cook steps down. Ternus to CEO

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans

Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale

A simplified model of Fil-C

Does your DSL little language need operator precedence?

Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th

Using a USB switch as a full KVM

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages

Ban the sale of precise geolocation

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

Cloudflare Email Service

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Picture of the Year 2025

Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k

Iran claims US backdoors knocked out networking equipment

Your Company Is a Skill Now

Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage

The race to build the next WordPress

War Is a Racket (1935)

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust

The big business of survival bunkers

Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List

Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war

Self-hosted webmail client for JMAP protocol: Email, calendar, contacts, files

Tim Cook is stepping down

Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

How Finland's \"Math Miracle\" Deceived the World

Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks

Cheap Batteries Are Taking over the Power Grids

The \"Passive Income\" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]

No Lines, No 'Regular' People: Flying Ultra-Luxury from Paris

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy

Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust

Apple names John Ternus CEO, replacing Tim Cook, who becomes Chairman

Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus

Codex for almost everything

They Went Abroad to Save Money. Moving Back Seems Unaffordable

Hardware Is Hard?

Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

Everything we like is a psyop?

German Dog Commands

NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

Slava's Monoid Zoo

Regulators monitor Anthropic's Mythos for banking risks

The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light

Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024)

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud

Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025

Most people care about farm animals – our food system doesn't reflect that

The economy of software just flipped

Scientists Uncover Potential Brain Risks of Popular Fish Oil Supplements

Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean

Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes

Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find

Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

Deleteduser.com a $15 PII Magnet

Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy

EU age verification app: \"Worry-free package\" with security vulnerabilities

Why one of the largest digital banks chose Clojure [video]

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

Salesforce Goes Headless: The Smart Self-Disruption Play

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore

Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location

Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis

€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution

Looksmaxxing

No more Opus for Copilot Pro plan users

Lovable leaks source code, secrets, chats for projects created before Nov 2025

Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service

SDL bans AI-written commits

Giving RISC-V 1024 registers for zkVMs

Prepping for the Endgame of the Open Web

Uber is betting that people don't realize 70 * 0.25 = 17.5

Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?

Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator

Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

Nevada police may be tracking your phone's location without a warrant

I made a terminal pager

Wife Acceptance Factor

Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time

\"Liberation Day\" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving

How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

Tesla settles wrongful death lawsuit over crash that killed Florida teenager

Plexus P/20 Emulator

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing

Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner

EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol

Mozilla Thunderbolt

Learn Vim for the Last Time

Fuck Facebook, Again

Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows

Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card

Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness

Experts warn climate change will make parts of Israel uninhabitable in decades

Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment

Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

Show HN: Clone, a small Rust VMM, forks VMs in under 20ms via CoW

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

C++26: Structured Bindings in Conditions

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout

Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think

Idle CPU power management: cpuidle

Remember? \"Sideloading\" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?

Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun

Japan warns of increased risk of earthquakes at M8.0 or stronger

EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted

PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis

Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald [audio]

Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly?

Deutsche Telekom has a bad DKIM key

Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018)

How I sequenced my genome at home

AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis worse

US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Show HN: Pvm – A TUI to browse and run commands across multiple Python venvs

Offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions

Why scientists are nervous about fungi

Sherry Turkle: \"We're losing the raw human part of being with each other\" (2013)

NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation

Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session

Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs

20000 Gates and 20 MIPS [pdf]

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science

Show HN: I can't write Python. It works anyway

Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Show HN: Ilha – a UI library that fits in an AI context window

Yoshihisa Kishimoto (1961 – 2026), creator of Double Dragon and Kunio-kun

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow

HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform

Adobe Has Run Out of Allies

Europe has \"maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left\"

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

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software

Show HN: I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard

Yann LeCun says Dario Amodei \"knows nothing about AI effects on jobs\"

C64GFX – Commodore 64 Pixel Art Gallery

Gitea 1.26.0

There is no you in your brain – your identity is a \"society of the mind\"

Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD

Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick

Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee

Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

Show HN: Llama.cpp Tutorial 2026: Run GGUF Models Locally on CPU and GPU

Show HN: Rapid-MLX – Run local LLMs on Mac, 2-3x faster than alternatives

I calculated AI image generation cost for 18 models

Is Prolog Worth Learning?

As helium-3 runs scarce, researchers seek new ways to chill quantum computers

The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Château, Part 4: Non-Fiction Meets Fiction

Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer

EFF pushes back on Google data scandal response: 'Google screwed up'

In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

Self-Hosting

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

The time when we suffer from large amounts of AI slop is gone

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting (2011)

Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager

IMDB recent update: user reviews can't be accessed anymore without an account

Air Canada suspends 6 routes 'no longer economically feasible'

Why Top Chinese and Russian Students Don't Use Apostol or Spivak

The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama

Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity

Kent Beck: Parkinson's

U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Matt Mullenweg Says \"The Wheels Have Fallen Off\" in WordPress

AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups

South African-led HIV vaccine trial offers a significant moment of promise

US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service

Show HN: Tracking Top US Science Olympiad Alumni over Last 25 Years

Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen

The Trouble with Transformers

Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer

List of Heaviest People

Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers

Bodega Cats of New York

Nicholas Pardini on real inflation vs. CPI and financial repression [video]

The largest US study, which tracked 11,036 children from ages 9 to 10 through to ages 16 and 17, discovered that cannabis use slows cognitive development, impairs memory, and reduces learning speed during crucial years of brain growth

Excessive Napping May Be a Warning Sign of Underlying or Developing Health Conditions in Older Adults

Southern Whites that migrated after the Civil War played a pivotal role in spreading Confederate symbols and racial terror across the United States – Greater levels of KKK activities, black lynchings, and confederate memorials could be observed in areas where they went.

Men who identify as incels (involuntary celibates) consume more pornography and experience greater bodily dissatisfaction than other men. Frequent adult media use, combined with the belief that women expect men to look like pornographic actors, tends to worsen how these men view their own bodies.

Study suggests link between prenatal exposure to certain medications and increased autism risk. Medications known to inhibit the cholesterol synthesis pathway (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, beta-blockers and statins) were consistently associated with higher rates of ASD in offspring.

The Strange Way Cocaine Water Pollution is Changing Salmon

In the early days of the internet, some scholars thought the web's free flow of ideas would bring societies together around accurate beliefs. A new study using agent-based models helps explain why that didn't happen: Unlimited information flow reduces the accuracy of group beliefs in echo chambers.

There's more to ADHD than inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. ADHD symptoms can be broken down into nine categories. Some categories are not fully represented in the diagnostic criteria. Broadening the diagnostic criteria with patient lived experiences could make for better intervention.

Bad influence: LLMs can transmit malicious traits using hidden signals

Standard-Dose Antibiotic the ‘Preferred Choice’ of Treatment for Uncomplicated Acute Sinusitis

Researchers have developed a prototype electronics-free smart contact lens that can track glaucoma in real time and deliver drugs in response

Based on a survey dataset of 1,833 family farms across five Chinese provinces, researchers from Germany found that the use of online agricultural information significantly increased agrochemical expenses, particularly among smallholders.

Scientists adapted 3D printing for copper alloy components. The findings pave the way for manufacturing complex-shaped components using laser powder bed fusion that match the strength and thermal conductivity of traditionally cast parts, and in some cases, even exceed them.

Study evaluates performance of large language models on medical certification questions, reporting differences in accuracy and consistency across difficulty levels in geriatrics assessment tasks

Meeting Report: Toward actionable interventions in human aging (12th ARDD meeting, 2025)

Modeling interplant competition in maize: Integrating density-dependent specific leaf area plasticity enhances canopy light and nitrogen use efficiency

An interactive explainer of how audio fingerprinting lets Shazam identify a song in seconds

Highlights from Git 2.54

Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy

Theseus, a static Windows emulator

How To Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

From-scratch HEVC/H.265 decoder in C++17 compiled to WebAssembly (236KB, pixel-perfect vs ffmpeg)

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World

What if database branching was easy?

“shutting down the goldmine”

Designing a portable and human-readable data format: trying to solve the visual displacement problem in tabular data and spreadsheets

A leaky analogy for incident management

State of the Art of Java in 2026 • Ben Evans

CSS safe alignment (flex & grid)

The Power of the Pointer: How Memory Management Is Still Relevant Today

Controlled chaos tests of retries, Retry-After, and hedging in JS HTTP clients

What actually happens when you “clean system cache” from a Node.js CLI?

Introducing DSA Panicle - Visualize linked list, trees, and many more.

Yoda Principle for better integrations

Which software engineering laws did you experienced?

IRLid produces a signed receipt proving two people were physically co-located within 12 metres at a specific time. No app, no accounts, no central server.

putting a chat interface on your existing app and calling it a brain is not innovation

Tokenized Tokens

Java'fying the infrastructure or why mediocrity rules the enterprise

How Computers Work: Explained from First Principles
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