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  1. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
    (303 points | Comments)

  2. Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
    (427 points | Comments)

  3. DOS Zone
    (355 points | Comments)

  4. Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI
    (117 points | Comments)

  5. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
    (120 points | Comments)

  6. Google Declaring War on the Web
    (636 points | Comments)

  7. My two-part desk setup (2025)
    (356 points | Comments)

  8. Declining America
    (384 points | Comments)

  9. Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
    (306 points | Comments)

  10. SpaceX S-1
    (456 points | Comments)

  11. Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
    (226 points | Comments)

  12. A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
    (268 points | Comments)

  13. Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
    (223 points | Comments)

  14. An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
    (1429 points | Comments)

  15. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
    (213 points | Comments)

  16. Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
    (151 points | Comments)

  17. Flipper One Tech Specs
    (523 points | Comments)

  18. Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
    (197 points | Comments)

  19. Why is Inkwell stuck in review
    (153 points | Comments)

  20. Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler
    (123 points | Comments)

  21. After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban
    (120 points | Comments)

  22. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    (180 points | Comments)

  23. Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year
    (102 points | Comments)

  24. Apparently Google hates us now
    (507 points | Comments)

  25. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
    (205 points | Comments)

  26. Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success
    (153 points | Comments)

  27. The first British person in space
    (107 points | Comments)

  28. SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)
    (161 points | Comments)

  29. Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
    (144 points | Comments)

  30. Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond
    (145 points | Comments)

  31. Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
    (768 points | Comments)

  32. GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
    (1054 points | Comments)

  33. sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
    (225 points | Comments)

  34. Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
    (958 points | Comments)

  35. Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
    (1079 points | Comments)

  36. Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)
    (103 points | Comments)

  37. Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
    (280 points | Comments)

  38. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire
    (115 points | Comments)

  39. The quadratic sandwich
    (146 points | Comments)

  40. Saying goodbye to asm.js
    (409 points | Comments)

  41. College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
    (379 points | Comments)

  42. Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
    (339 points | Comments)

  43. Map of Metal
    (448 points | Comments)

  44. Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
    (720 points | Comments)

  45. Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
    (190 points | Comments)

  46. Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)
    (120 points | Comments)

  47. Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
    (456 points | Comments)

  48. Everything in C is undefined behavior
    (505 points | Comments)

  49. Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
    (176 points | Comments)

  50. India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
    (118 points | Comments)

  51. GitHub Compromised
    (262 points | Comments)

  52. Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
    (364 points | Comments)

  53. FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
    (380 points | Comments)

  54. Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
    (559 points | Comments)

  55. GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
    (634 points | Comments)