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1.
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
759 points by teleforce 22 hours ago | 432 comments
2.
A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
418 points by unignorant 1 day ago | 215 comments
3.
This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
492 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 146 comments
4.
OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
431 points by donsupreme 1 day ago | 382 comments
5.
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
409 points by nullagent 19 hours ago | 132 comments
6.
A desktop made for one (isene.org)
381 points by xngbuilds 21 hours ago | 214 comments
7.
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
451 points by dryadin 18 hours ago | 428 comments
8.
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
537 points by alattaran 15 hours ago | 221 comments
9.
Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
279 points by KatiMichel 20 hours ago | 83 comments
10.
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
172 points by bring-shrubbery 1 day ago | 43 comments
11.
Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)
375 points by rickcarlino 18 hours ago | 367 comments
12.
Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)
172 points by miohtama 21 hours ago | 15 comments
13.
US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
174 points by leopoldj 2 days ago | 67 comments
14.
Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)
136 points by softservo 3 days ago | 36 comments
15.
A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
118 points by BSTRhino 2 days ago | 40 comments
16.
Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)
169 points by mobeigi 22 hours ago | 191 comments
17.
Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores (nytimes.com)
228 points by doener 1 day ago | 238 comments
18.
What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)
120 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 38 comments
19.
I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video] (youtube.com)
114 points by cyrc 19 hours ago | 37 comments
20.
Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels (newsonjapan.com)
104 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 53 comments
21.
A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
120 points by signa11 3 days ago | 40 comments
22.
Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (thegamer.com)
285 points by rishabhd 20 hours ago | 131 comments
23.
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
365 points by bazlightyear 1 day ago | 217 comments
24.
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
270 points by brendanmc6 1 day ago | 286 comments
25.
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
166 points by jovial_cavalier 2 days ago | 504 comments
26.
I built my own hair electrolysis machine (scd31.com)
238 points by y1n0 5 days ago | 63 comments
27.
Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study (stanford.edu)
120 points by hhs 3 days ago | 37 comments
28.
How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
183 points by skaul 20 hours ago | 60 comments
29.
Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
76 points by zdw 4 days ago | 13 comments
30.
Alert-driven monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
117 points by khazit 23 hours ago | 43 comments

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