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 1.                                                                  Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 ( archive.org )                               
     233 points by DamnInteresting 4 hours ago | hide | 55 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            
 2.                                                                  SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) ( usenix.org )                
     96 points by Eridanus2 5 hours ago | hide | 44 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
 3.                                                                  Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game ( kotaku.com )                     
     232 points by speckx 9 hours ago | hide | 134 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
 4.                                                                  Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group ( lbc.co.uk )            
     57 points by aa_is_op 1 hour ago | hide | 32 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
 5.                                                                  The seven programming ur-languages (2022) ( madhadron.com )                                            
     95 points by helloplanets 6 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
 6.                                                                  Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language ( nanopass.org )                                  
     18 points by NordStreamYacht 2 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
 7.                                                                  Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders ( basement.studio )                                
     35 points by ragojose 3 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
 8.                                                                  What are skiplists good for? ( antithesis.com )                                                        
     165 points by mfiguiere 11 hours ago | hide | 35 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                            
 9.                                                                  NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers ( nist.gov )                                            
     355 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | hide | 154 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
10.                                                                  College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work ( sentinelcolorado.com )               
     344 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | hide | 336 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
11.                                                                  Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 ( billchambers.me )                     
     562 points by anabranch 22 hours ago | hide | 541 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
12.                                                                  Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?                            
     103 points by modelcroissant 5 hours ago | hide | 48 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                            
13.                                                                  The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker ( righto.com )              
     370 points by NelsonMinar 22 hours ago | hide | 96 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
14.                                                                  Why Japan has such good railways ( worksinprogress.co )                                                
     459 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | hide | 434 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                            
15.                                                                  Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) ( teamchong.github.io )     
     13 points by teamchong 3 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
16.                                                                  Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 ( simonwillison.net )                     
     65 points by pretext 3 hours ago | hide | 39 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
17.                                                                  Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine ( jackpritz.com )                                 
     96 points by tyleo 14 hours ago | hide | 43 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
18.                                                                  Vercel April 2026 security incident ( vercel.com )                                                     
     7 points by colesantiago 14 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
19.                                                                  Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On ( vlad.website )                 
     44 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
20.                                                                  It's cool to care (2025) ( alexwlchan.net )                                                            
     41 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
21.                                                                  The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) ( apenwarr.ca )                                       
     116 points by signa11 11 hours ago | hide | 39 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
22.                                                                  Binary GCD ( algorithmica.org )                                                                        
     20 points by tosh 5 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            
23.                                                                  State of Kdenlive ( kdenlive.org )                                                                     
     427 points by f_r_d 1 day ago | hide | 130 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                            
24.                                                                  Modern Common Lisp with FSet ( common-lisp.dev )                                                       
     172 points by larve 17 hours ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
25.                                                                  Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner ( isayeter.com )                                                
     825 points by yusufusta 1 day ago | hide | 411 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
26.                                                                  Optimizing Ruby Path Methods ( byroot.github.io )                                                      
     114 points by weaksauce 17 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                            
27.                                                                  Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 ( eff.org )                                    
     119 points by nobody9999 7 hours ago | hide | 23 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                            
28.                                                                  Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon ( abacusnoir.com )                           
     101 points by agambrahma 15 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
29.                                                                  Metatextual Literacy ( jenn.site )                                                                     
     46 points by dado3212 12 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
30.                                                                  Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower ( smithsonianmag.com )
     37 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
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