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1.
Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
550 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago | 143 comments
2.
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
464 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 410 comments
3.
What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
273 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 65 comments
4.
Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
418 points by speckx 3 days ago | 228 comments
5.
SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
169 points by Eridanus2 19 hours ago | 68 comments
6.
The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
308 points by helloplanets 20 hours ago | 117 comments
7.
Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
182 points by larve 4 days ago | 26 comments
8.
Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
605 points by colesantiago 14 hours ago | 342 comments
9.
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
216 points by signa11 1 day ago | 143 comments
10.
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
110 points by tyleo 3 days ago | 52 comments
11.
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
249 points by pretext 17 hours ago | 146 comments
12.
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
340 points by Tiberium 12 hours ago | 120 comments
13.
Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
125 points by NordStreamYacht 4 days ago | 28 comments
14.
The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
231 points by omer_k 21 hours ago | 246 comments
15.
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
112 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments
16.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
226 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 111 comments
17.
Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
140 points by ragojose 3 days ago | 41 comments
18.
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
97 points by teamchong 17 hours ago | 44 comments
19.
The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
173 points by crescit_eundo 10 hours ago | 78 comments
20.
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
248 points by modelcroissant 19 hours ago | 116 comments
21.
 [dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
376 points by whiteyford 12 hours ago | 2 comments
22.
It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
96 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 38 comments
23.
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
55 points by random_ 1 day ago | 51 comments
24.
Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
49 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 31 comments
25.
Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
54 points by dado3212 4 days ago | 12 comments
26.
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
176 points by nobody9999 21 hours ago | 40 comments
27.
Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
106 points by vcf 10 hours ago | 35 comments
28.
The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
200 points by tambourine_man 14 hours ago | 153 comments
29.
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)
74 points by riyaneel 3 days ago | 32 comments
30.
Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)
81 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 1 comment

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