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  1. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (blog.haskell.org)
    215 points • by unignorant • today at 12:01 AM • 87 comments
  2. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    328 points • by richardboegli • yesterday at 8:46 PM • 74 comments
  3. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    20 points • by deut-erium • last Thursday at 7:14 PM • 1 comment
  4. Dav2d (code.videolan.org)
    477 points • by dabinat • yesterday at 5:32 PM • 131 comments
  5. Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (www.david-smith.org)
    290 points • by valzevul • yesterday at 9:14 PM • 67 comments
  6. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
    111 points • by brendanmc6 • today at 6:33 AM • 105 comments
  7. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (blogs.windows.com)
    41 points • by jovial_cavalier • last Friday at 9:02 PM • 55 comments
  8. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    330 points • by RubyGuy • yesterday at 5:40 PM • 108 comments
  9. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (www.universiteitleiden.nl)
    190 points • by andsoitis • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 82 comments
  10. Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels (www.newsonjapan.com)
    42 points • by mikhael • today at 1:38 AM • 12 comments
  11. Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (www.epo.org)
    202 points • by JeanKage • last Thursday at 9:12 AM • 16 comments
  12. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com)
    1187 points • by indrora • yesterday at 7:57 PM • 608 comments
  13. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    81 points • by signa11 • last Friday at 7:28 AM • 20 comments
  14. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (www.mendral.com)
    103 points • by shad42 • yesterday at 9:21 PM • 78 comments
  15. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (www.clojuriststogether.org)
    107 points • by dragandj • yesterday at 9:34 PM • 11 comments
  16. Because it doesn't have to (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
    51 points • by zdw • last Wednesday at 4:42 PM • 13 comments
  17. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    110 points • by yunusabd • yesterday at 9:25 PM • 58 comments
  18. San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net)
    27 points • by SeenNotHeard • last Thursday at 10:25 PM • 37 comments
  19. Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024) (retrocoding.net)
    72 points • by phendrenad2 • today at 2:53 AM • 75 comments
  20. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores (www.nytimes.com)
    154 points • by doener • today at 1:24 AM • 116 comments
  21. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    88 points • by BSTRhino • yesterday at 12:12 AM • 30 comments
  22. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
    248 points • by moosia • yesterday at 9:30 AM • 90 comments
  23. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    28 points • by victorkulla • today at 2:42 AM • 1 comment
  24. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
    281 points • by bazlightyear • today at 4:05 AM • 138 comments
  25. When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? (unherd.com)
    30 points • by pentestercrab • last Friday at 8:36 AM • 193 comments
  26. Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service (www.sourcefeed.app)
    21 points • by bjhess • last Tuesday at 7:12 PM • 6 comments
  27. The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
    128 points • by herbertl • last Wednesday at 4:49 PM • 153 comments
  28. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    94 points • by prismatic • last Thursday at 2:03 PM • 33 comments
  29. NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
    453 points • by rsaarelm • yesterday at 6:03 PM • 139 comments
  30. Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 (www.python.org)
    15 points • by ankitg12 • today at 7:25 AM • 13 comments
  31. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com)
    162 points • by nateb2022 • last Wednesday at 1:54 PM • 23 comments
  32. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    543 points • by indigodaddy • last Friday at 4:52 PM • 329 comments
  33. A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (www.bbc.com)
    164 points • by 1659447091 • today at 1:22 AM • 115 comments
  34. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    87 points • by lerno • yesterday at 6:40 PM • 95 comments
  35. Simple and correct snapshot isolation (remy.wang)
    23 points • by remywang • last Thursday at 11:54 PM • 1 comment
  36. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
    28 points • by pasxizeis • yesterday at 8:37 AM • 6 comments
  37. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    107 points • by fagnerbrack • yesterday at 1:15 PM • 38 comments
  38. Open source does not imply open community (blog.feld.me)
    157 points • by RohanAdwankar • today at 2:36 AM • 44 comments
  39. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (www.bbc.com)
    297 points • by geox • yesterday at 5:59 PM • 303 comments
  40. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com)
    200 points • by steveharing1 • yesterday at 12:16 PM • 88 comments
  41. Modern C++ Programming: Busato (github.com)
    84 points • by KnuthIsGod • yesterday at 4:40 PM • 19 comments
  42. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com)
    170 points • by reikonomusha • last Thursday at 4:33 PM • 43 comments
  43. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    200 points • by ankitg12 • yesterday at 8:23 AM • 92 comments
  44. Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com)
    70 points • by mahimai • yesterday at 10:03 PM • 4 comments
  45. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (www.cnbc.com)
    230 points • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 • yesterday at 5:10 PM • 140 comments
  46. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (www.noctua.at)
    721 points • by buildbot • yesterday at 4:38 AM • 292 comments
  47. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
    89 points • by momentmaker • yesterday at 5:32 PM • 51 comments
  48. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com)
    117 points • by sambigeara • last Thursday at 1:15 PM • 55 comments
  49. Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer (physicsworld.com)
    3 points • by zeristor • today at 8:58 AM • 0 comments
  50. Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies (techcrunch.com)
    132 points • by nickvec • yesterday at 3:38 PM • 139 comments