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1.
Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
568 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago | 147 comments
2.
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
468 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 416 comments
3.
What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
276 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 66 comments
4.
SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
176 points by Eridanus2 23 hours ago | 69 comments
5.
Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
711 points by colesantiago 17 hours ago | 402 comments
6.
Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
424 points by speckx 3 days ago | 232 comments
7.
The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
325 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 128 comments
8.
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
302 points by pretext 21 hours ago | 174 comments
9.
Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
182 points by larve 4 days ago | 27 comments
10.
The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
275 points by omer_k 1 day ago | 305 comments
11.
Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
130 points by NordStreamYacht 4 days ago | 32 comments
12.
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
366 points by Tiberium 16 hours ago | 130 comments
13.
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
218 points by signa11 1 day ago | 148 comments
14.
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
110 points by tyleo 3 days ago | 56 comments
15.
The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
196 points by crescit_eundo 14 hours ago | 98 comments
16.
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
124 points by teamchong 20 hours ago | 47 comments
17.
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
113 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments
18.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
227 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 112 comments
19.
Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
112 points by vcf 14 hours ago | 37 comments
20.
Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
144 points by ragojose 3 days ago | 42 comments
21.
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
258 points by modelcroissant 22 hours ago | 118 comments
22.
 [dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
377 points by whiteyford 16 hours ago | 2 comments
23.
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
68 points by pizza_man 12 hours ago | 15 comments
24.
It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
103 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 38 comments
25.
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
55 points by random_ 1 day ago | 51 comments
26.
Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
50 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 32 comments
27.
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
179 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 41 comments
28.
Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)
54 points by dado3212 4 days ago | 12 comments
29.
Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
93 points by lukasec 4 days ago | 44 comments
30.
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
159 points by doener 8 hours ago | 43 comments

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