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  1. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    81 points • by rbanffy • today at 8:54 PM • 37 comments
  2. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (www.righto.com)
    236 points • by NelsonMinar • today at 4:26 PM • 69 comments
  3. Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
    174 points • by cdrnsf • today at 7:19 PM • 118 comments
  4. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    30 points • by weaksauce • today at 8:42 PM • 14 comments
  5. Modern Common Lisp with FSET (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    49 points • by larve • last Wednesday at 2:38 PM • 1 comment
  6. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    652 points • by yusufusta • today at 1:29 PM • 337 comments
  7. State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
    322 points • by f_r_d • today at 11:42 AM • 107 comments
  8. Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (www.theguardian.com)
    197 points • by trocado • today at 6:36 PM • 124 comments
  9. Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)
    374 points • by tkhattra • last Wednesday at 6:07 PM • 78 comments
  10. Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
    80 points • by drasim • today at 3:24 PM • 29 comments
  11. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (www.sumida-aquarium.com)
    152 points • by Lwrless • last Wednesday at 7:56 PM • 5 comments
  12. PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
    64 points • by gmcabrita • today at 4:50 PM • 6 comments
  13. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    85 points • by gnabgib • today at 7:00 PM • 80 comments
  14. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)
    26 points • by hasheddan • yesterday at 10:32 AM • 1 comment
  15. Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% (tokens.billchambers.me)
    386 points • by anabranch • today at 4:05 PM • 407 comments
  16. Show HN: SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations (self)
    40 points • by FailMore • last Wednesday at 11:29 AM • 22 comments
  17. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (www.rtrvr.ai)
    27 points • by arjunchint • yesterday at 9:03 PM • 3 comments
  18. Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (www.sciencedaily.com)
    66 points • by t-3 • last Wednesday at 7:46 PM • 25 comments
  19. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)
    1 points • by Old_Thrashbarg • today at 5:01 PM • 0 comments
  20. Show HN: Remoroo. trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (www.remoroo.com)
    22 points • by adhamghazali • last Tuesday at 1:51 PM • 4 comments
  21. 80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
    76 points • by wicket • last Tuesday at 4:00 PM • 11 comments
  22. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
    47 points • by peter_d_sherman • last Wednesday at 2:29 AM • 6 comments
  23. Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
    226 points • by sph • today at 6:20 AM • 69 comments
  24. Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
    65 points • by bryanrasmussen • today at 5:12 PM • 41 comments
  25. Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
    70 points • by DeathArrow • today at 3:24 PM • 25 comments
  26. 4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
    33 points • by chmaynard • today at 5:21 PM • 19 comments
  27. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    219 points • by boris_m • today at 6:40 AM • 58 comments
  28. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    171 points • by coinfused • last Tuesday at 4:00 PM • 114 comments
  29. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
    286 points • by fouronnes3 • today at 1:15 AM • 49 comments
  30. In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning (www.economist.com)
    24 points • by hebelehubele • today at 6:38 PM • 5 comments
  31. Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
    277 points • by RickJWagner • today at 12:29 PM • 272 comments
  32. Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (www.sidephone.com)
    17 points • by phantomathkg • today at 4:40 PM • 2 comments
  33. Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
    175 points • by eshelyaron • last Wednesday at 1:49 PM • 27 comments
  34. PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (www.sqlservercentral.com)
    21 points • by tcp_handshaker • today at 8:34 PM • 9 comments
  35. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    183 points • by sylvainkalache • today at 11:43 AM • 189 comments
  36. Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (www.malwarebytes.com)
    4 points • by ilamont • today at 11:08 PM • 0 comments
  37. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)
    63 points • by y1n0 • last Tuesday at 2:45 AM • 25 comments
  38. The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
    118 points • by azhenley • last Thursday at 3:09 AM • 15 comments
  39. Claude Design (www.anthropic.com)
    1182 points • by meetpateltech • yesterday at 3:04 PM • 735 comments
  40. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
    47 points • by mhb • today at 7:19 PM • 15 comments
  41. The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (apps.npr.org)
    64 points • by nuke-web3 • today at 4:31 PM • 6 comments
  42. Hardware Is Hard? (prdpx7.github.io)
    7 points • by prdpx7 • today at 7:34 PM • 2 comments
  43. Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
    129 points • by atomfinger • last Monday at 6:49 PM • 72 comments
  44. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (www.johndcook.com)
    13 points • by rolph • today at 4:05 PM • 7 comments
  45. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
    106 points • by unsuspecting • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 126 comments
  46. Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)
    25 points • by mindcrime • today at 5:46 PM • 10 comments
  47. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (www.claudecodecamp.com)
    684 points • by aray07 • yesterday at 3:29 PM • 481 comments
  48. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (www.esa.int)
    436 points • by cybermango • yesterday at 6:17 PM • 251 comments
  49. I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
    326 points • by evakhoury • yesterday at 4:19 PM • 322 comments
  50. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
    123 points • by evakhoury • last Wednesday at 4:59 PM • 21 comments