1. Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI ↑ 106 HN Points

2. Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? ↑ 101 HN Points

3. Spade Hardware Description Language ↑ 100 HN Points

4. Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on ''war crimes'' by colleagues ↑ 102 HN Points

5. Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app ↑ 100 HN Points #Show HN

6. HealthBench ↑ 103 HN Points

7. RIP Usenix ATC ↑ 103 HN Points

8. Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s ↑ 102 HN Points

9. Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice ↑ 102 HN Points

10. Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought ↑ 103 HN Points

11. I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) ↑ 148 HN Points

12. The Barbican ↑ 118 HN Points

13. Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read ↑ 103 HN Points

14. CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts ↑ 101 HN Points

15. Embeddings Are Underrated ↑ 137 HN Points

16. Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights ↑ 111 HN Points

17. The FTC puts off enforcing its ''click-to-cancel'' rule ↑ 115 HN Points

18. University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy ↑ 110 HN Points

19. I hacked my clock to control my focus ↑ 104 HN Points

20. Just use HTML ↑ 109 HN Points

21. A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad''s house ↑ 124 HN Points

22. A community-led fork of Organic Maps ↑ 110 HN Points

23. US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired ↑ 105 HN Points

24. 2024 sea level ''report cards'' map futures of U.S. coastal communities ↑ 100 HN Points

25. ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education ↑ 101 HN Points

26. An online exhibition of pretty software bugs ↑ 101 HN Points

27. The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia ↑ 103 HN Points

28. Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? ↑ 101 HN Points #Ask HN

29. Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL ↑ 102 HN Points

30. I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC ↑ 110 HN Points

31. Continuous Thought Machines ↑ 102 HN Points

32. Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected ↑ 101 HN Points

33. Burrito Now, Pay Later ↑ 100 HN Points

34. Why Bell Labs Worked ↑ 103 HN Points

35. LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code ↑ 105 HN Points

36. Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper ↑ 103 HN Points

37. High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers ↑ 107 HN Points

38. Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war ↑ 110 HN Points

39. Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service ↑ 104 HN Points

40. I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) ↑ 109 HN Points

41. DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently ↑ 100 HN Points

42. Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows (WSL) ↑ 103 HN Points

43. The History and Legacy of Visual Basic ↑ 100 HN Points

44. Intel: Winning and Losing ↑ 100 HN Points

45. Plain Vanilla Web – Guide for de-frameworking yourself ↑ 142 HN Points

46. Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping ↑ 112 HN Points

47. In 2025, venture capital can''t pretend everything is fine any more ↑ 115 HN Points

48. The Epochalypse Project ↑ 105 HN Points

49. Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS ↑ 101 HN Points #Show HN

50. Fan Service ↑ 106 HN Points

51. Why the Apple II Didn''t Support Lowercase Letters (2020) ↑ 101 HN Points

52. Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants ↑ 101 HN Points #Show HN

53. One-Click RCE in Asus''s Preinstalled Driver Software ↑ 118 HN Points

54. Leaving Google ↑ 104 HN Points

55. Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators ↑ 100 HN Points

56. Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux ↑ 101 HN Points

57. Dotless Domains ↑ 105 HN Points

58. Show HN: Code Claude Code ↑ 101 HN Points #Show HN

59. Observations from people watching ↑ 106 HN Points

60. Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? ↑ 100 HN Points

61. React Three Ecosystem ↑ 100 HN Points

62. Pope Leo XIV: "AI poses new challenges re: human dignity, justice and labour" ↑ 101 HN Points

63. Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings ↑ 101 HN Points

64. Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022) ↑ 100 HN Points

65. For 595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf] ↑ 102 HN Points

66. ''It cannot provide nuance'': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe ↑ 102 HN Points

67. Reverse engineering the 386 processor''s prefetch queue circuitry ↑ 101 HN Points

68. Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions ↑ 100 HN Points

69. Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball ↑ 117 HN Points

70. A Critical Look at MCP ↑ 123 HN Points

71. ''We Currently Have No Container Ships,'' Seattle Port Says ↑ 101 HN Points

72. Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US ↑ 104 HN Points

73. The cult of doing business ↑ 105 HN Points

74. US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf] ↑ 105 HN Points

75. The deathbed fallacy ↑ 116 HN Points

76. LTXVideo 13B AI video generation ↑ 115 HN Points

77. Slow software for a burning world ↑ 100 HN Points

78. A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules ↑ 105 HN Points

79. Gmail to SQLite ↑ 102 HN Points

80. Odin, a Pragmatic C Alternative with a Go Flavour ↑ 102 HN Points

81. Fleurs du Mal ↑ 100 HN Points

82. Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp ↑ 109 HN Points

83. Brandon''s Semiconductor Simulator ↑ 104 HN Points

84. WebGL Water (2010) ↑ 102 HN Points

85. Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools ↑ 112 HN Points

86. What’s new in Swift 6.2 ↑ 103 HN Points

87. Why 536 was ''the worst year to be alive'' (2018) ↑ 100 HN Points

88. Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax ↑ 101 HN Points

89. Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data ↑ 101 HN Points

90. Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down ↑ 100 HN Points

91. Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me ↑ 100 HN Points

92. Implementing a Struct of Arrays ↑ 101 HN Points

93. More people are getting tattoos removed ↑ 100 HN Points

94. CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite ↑ 108 HN Points

95. Man ''Disappeared'' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows ↑ 118 HN Points

96. Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal ↑ 101 HN Points

97. Entire BART system is down due to computer systems failure ↑ 104 HN Points

98. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC ↑ 131 HN Points

99. 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X ↑ 108 HN Points

100. Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production ↑ 117 HN Points

101. Usenix ATC Announcement ↑ 102 HN Points

102. Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs ↑ 105 HN Points #Show HN

103. Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft''s quantum chip ↑ 108 HN Points

104. How the US built 5k ships in WWII ↑ 101 HN Points

105. Amazon''s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans ↑ 100 HN Points

106. The dark side of account bans ↑ 100 HN Points

107. NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions ↑ 112 HN Points

108. Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor ↑ 110 HN Points #Show HN

109. Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser ↑ 101 HN Points

110. WASM 2.0 ↑ 115 HN Points

111. Dead Reckoning ↑ 101 HN Points

112. Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server ↑ 103 HN Points

113. Doge software engineer''s computer infected by info-stealing malware ↑ 102 HN Points

114. A Formal Analysis of Apple''s iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] ↑ 103 HN Points

115. LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego ↑ 137 HN Points

116. Stability by Design ↑ 103 HN Points

117. Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk ↑ 100 HN Points

118. Static as a Server ↑ 100 HN Points

119. Starlink User Terminal Teardown ↑ 100 HN Points

120. Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context ↑ 103 HN Points

121. How to start a school with your friends ↑ 101 HN Points

122. A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code ↑ 101 HN Points

123. My stackoverflow question was closed so here''s a blog post about CoreWCF ↑ 101 HN Points

124. Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code ↑ 105 HN Points

125. Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria ↑ 103 HN Points

126. From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." ↑ 107 HN Points

127. Reservoir Sampling ↑ 100 HN Points

128. Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy ↑ 108 HN Points #Show HN

129. Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV ↑ 123 HN Points

130. Void: Open-source Cursor alternative ↑ 156 HN Points

131. First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV ↑ 118 HN Points

132. High tariffs become ''real'' with our first 36K bill ↑ 209 HN Points

133. Trump''s NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts ↑ 102 HN Points

134. Microservices are a tax your startup probably can''t afford ↑ 152 HN Points

135. Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? ↑ 100 HN Points #Ask HN

136. Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects ↑ 107 HN Points

137. Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) ↑ 141 HN Points #Ask HN

138. 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth ↑ 127 HN Points

139. WeightWatchers files bankruptcy ↑ 101 HN Points

140. Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US ↑ 102 HN Points #Show HN

141. Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ↑ 100 HN Points

142. Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference ↑ 112 HN Points

143. Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges ↑ 101 HN Points

144. We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution ↑ 101 HN Points

145. Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API ↑ 100 HN Points

146. Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants ↑ 104 HN Points

147. Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us ↑ 100 HN Points

148. Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming ↑ 100 HN Points

149. Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised ↑ 102 HN Points

150. June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) ↑ 100 HN Points

151. Samsung is paying 350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk ↑ 105 HN Points

152. OpenSearch 3.0 Released ↑ 101 HN Points

153. Mississippi Can''t Possibly Have Good Schools ↑ 100 HN Points

154. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study ↑ 101 HN Points

155. OpenAI for Countries ↑ 100 HN Points

156. NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) ↑ 107 HN Points

157. Mac Themes Garden ↑ 104 HN Points

158. ''I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'' ↑ 101 HN Points

159. Introducing Web Search on the Anthropic API ↑ 103 HN Points

160. Open source Google Analytics replacement ↑ 102 HN Points

161. Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview ↑ 104 HN Points

162. Getting Older Isn''t What You Think ↑ 110 HN Points

163. Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem ↑ 100 HN Points

164. Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors ↑ 115 HN Points

165. Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust ↑ 103 HN Points

166. Cuttlefish ''talk'' with their arms, study reveals ↑ 100 HN Points

167. Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (Kobo/ReMarkable) ↑ 113 HN Points #Show HN

168. Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals ↑ 100 HN Points

169. My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer ↑ 110 HN Points

170. Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O ↑ 112 HN Points

171. ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model ↑ 100 HN Points

172. docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable ↑ 104 HN Points

173. So Much Blood ↑ 101 HN Points

174. Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor ↑ 122 HN Points

175. Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC ↑ 155 HN Points

176. CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use ↑ 123 HN Points

177. Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? ↑ 100 HN Points

178. Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt ↑ 103 HN Points #Show HN

179. DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo ↑ 100 HN Points

180. Bloat is still software''s biggest vulnerability (2024) ↑ 101 HN Points

181. Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf] ↑ 100 HN Points

182. Jury orders NSO to pay 167M for hacking WhatsApp users ↑ 104 HN Points

183. EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program ↑ 101 HN Points

184. VVVVVV Source Code ↑ 101 HN Points

185. FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 ↑ 106 HN Points

186. The DEA is now abandoning body cameras ↑ 100 HN Points

187. Claude''s system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools ↑ 111 HN Points

188. Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust ↑ 100 HN Points

189. India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir ↑ 103 HN Points

190. FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 ↑ 152 HN Points

191. iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules ↑ 111 HN Points

192. The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012) ↑ 101 HN Points

193. TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs ↑ 108 HN Points

194. Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses ↑ 103 HN Points #Show HN

195. Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C) ↑ 122 HN Points

196. Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database ↑ 117 HN Points

197. Curl: We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help ↑ 108 HN Points

198. Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English ↑ 102 HN Points

199. Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) ↑ 101 HN Points

200. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs ↑ 138 HN Points #Show HN

201. Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB ↑ 112 HN Points

202. Taking the bite out of Lyme disease ↑ 104 HN Points

203. Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu ↑ 113 HN Points

204. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance ↑ 119 HN Points

205. OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around 3B ↑ 117 HN Points

206. Getting things “done” in large tech companies ↑ 101 HN Points

207. Cursor hits 9B valuation ↑ 100 HN Points

208. Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap" ↑ 100 HN Points

209. Pixels in Islamic art: square Kufic calligraphy ↑ 112 HN Points

210. You can''t git clone a team ↑ 102 HN Points

211. History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600 ↑ 101 HN Points

212. An Appeal to Apple from Anukari: one tiny macOS detail to make Anukari fast ↑ 101 HN Points

213. Critical CSS ↑ 110 HN Points

214. A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory ↑ 100 HN Points

215. Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal ↑ 101 HN Points

216. Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration ↑ 107 HN Points

217. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything ↑ 107 HN Points

218. Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores ↑ 106 HN Points

219. Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) ↑ 109 HN Points

220. Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about 1B ↑ 107 HN Points

221. Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove ↑ 100 HN Points

222. Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023) ↑ 101 HN Points

223. Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) ↑ 103 HN Points

224. Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL ↑ 103 HN Points #Show HN

225. Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at 500ms Latency ↑ 106 HN Points #Show HN

226. Possibly a Serious Possibility ↑ 112 HN Points

227. No Instagram, no privacy ↑ 103 HN Points

228. How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025? ↑ 103 HN Points

229. Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system ↑ 102 HN Points #Show HN

230. The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole ↑ 108 HN Points

231. Evolving OpenAI''s Structure ↑ 109 HN Points

232. As an experienced LLM user, I don''t use generative LLMs often ↑ 105 HN Points

233. Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database ↑ 116 HN Points #Show HN

234. Unparalleled Misalignments ↑ 107 HN Points

235. The Death of Daydreaming: What we lose when phones take away boredom ↑ 117 HN Points

236. AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk ↑ 107 HN Points

237. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI ↑ 141 HN Points

238. I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt ↑ 101 HN Points

239. The vocal effects of Daft Punk ↑ 119 HN Points

240. Nevermind, an album on major chords ↑ 100 HN Points

241. Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ ↑ 116 HN Points

242. Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades ↑ 103 HN Points

243. Load-Store Conflicts ↑ 100 HN Points

244. Modern Latex ↑ 108 HN Points

245. AI Meets WinDBG ↑ 103 HN Points

246. Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs ↑ 111 HN Points

247. Typed Lisp, a Primer ↑ 101 HN Points

248. Show HN: My AI Native Resume ↑ 106 HN Points #Show HN

249. Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source ↑ 102 HN Points #Show HN

250. The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked ↑ 100 HN Points

251. On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots ↑ 106 HN Points

252. A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy ↑ 101 HN Points

253. People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies ↑ 104 HN Points

254. Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns ↑ 101 HN Points

255. Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now ↑ 103 HN Points #Ask HN

256. RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io ↑ 100 HN Points

257. Why Archers Didn''t Volley Fire ↑ 108 HN Points

258. Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials used ↑ 102 HN Points

259. I''d rather read the prompt ↑ 123 HN Points

260. Dummy''s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling ↑ 101 HN Points

261. TScale – distributed training on consumer GPUs ↑ 100 HN Points

262. AI code is legacy code ↑ 102 HN Points

263. Design for 3D-Printing ↑ 107 HN Points

264. We know a little more about Amazon''s satellites ↑ 100 HN Points

265. Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart ↑ 106 HN Points

266. Pascal for Small Machines ↑ 100 HN Points

267. Oberon Pi ↑ 105 HN Points

268. The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing ↑ 100 HN Points

269. Brian Eno''s Theory of Democracy ↑ 104 HN Points

270. Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time ↑ 101 HN Points #Show HN

271. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] ↑ 100 HN Points

272. Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM ↑ 100 HN Points

273. Google Gemini has the worst LLM API ↑ 101 HN Points

274. The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food ↑ 100 HN Points

275. What went wrong with wireless USB ↑ 105 HN Points

276. Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes ↑ 109 HN Points

277. When Flat Rate Movers Won''t Answer Your Calls ↑ 112 HN Points

278. Deadly Screwworm Parasite''s Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply ↑ 101 HN Points

279. DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade ↑ 100 HN Points

280. ''I found your dad'': The mystery of a missing climber ↑ 102 HN Points

281. We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails ↑ 127 HN Points

282. Show HN: Free, 100% in browser PDF editor ↑ 107 HN Points #Show HN

283. How LWN is faring in 2025 ↑ 100 HN Points

284. ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal ↑ 100 HN Points

285. Warren Buffett to Step Down from Berkshire Hathaway at Year-End ↑ 140 HN Points

286. QModem 4.51 Source Code ↑ 106 HN Points

287. Why can''t HTML alone do includes? ↑ 111 HN Points

288. Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution ↑ 100 HN Points

289. Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE) ↑ 104 HN Points

290. Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I''m doing instead) ↑ 105 HN Points

291. N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams ↑ 101 HN Points

292. Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests ↑ 106 HN Points

293. The History of Album Art ↑ 100 HN Points

294. Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis ↑ 101 HN Points

295. Minimum Viable Blog ↑ 107 HN Points

296. Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer ↑ 100 HN Points

297. I put sheet music into smart glasses [video] ↑ 104 HN Points

298. GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases ↑ 101 HN Points

299. Accountability Sinks ↑ 107 HN Points

300. VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber''s fun ↑ 100 HN Points