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1.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		810 points by pizza 1 day ago \| 253 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		710 points by _Microft 1 day ago \| 220 comments
3.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		836 points by speckx 12 hours ago \| 235 comments
4.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		320 points by david927 1 day ago \| 1076 comments
5.		Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
		256 points by mindcrime 1 day ago \| 190 comments
6.		A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
		204 points by yuppiemephisto 1 day ago \| 119 comments
7.		Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
		445 points by ffin 17 hours ago \| 141 comments
8.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		393 points by m-hodges 14 hours ago \| 211 comments
9.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		393 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago \| 266 comments
10.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		406 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 357 comments
11.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		361 points by t-3 16 hours ago \| 249 comments
12.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		345 points by speckx 15 hours ago \| 214 comments
13.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		603 points by ezekg 9 hours ago \| 337 comments
14.		How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
		128 points by radeeyate 1 day ago \| 38 comments
15.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		287 points by soheilpro 14 hours ago \| 93 comments
16.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		339 points by bundie 16 hours ago \| 254 comments
17.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		333 points by edent 18 hours ago \| 287 comments
18.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		296 points by laurex 15 hours ago \| 175 comments
19.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		81 points by robinhouston 1 day ago \| 28 comments
20.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		253 points by dvaughan 1 day ago \| 106 comments
21.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		111 points by luu 1 day ago \| 21 comments
22.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		210 points by iamnothere 17 hours ago \| 119 comments
23.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		109 points by mpweiher 1 day ago \| 14 comments
24.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		159 points by mbitsnbites 11 hours ago \| 27 comments
25.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		290 points by aphyr 13 hours ago \| 158 comments
26.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		82 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago \| 36 comments
27.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		137 points by cvrajeesh 10 hours ago \| 33 comments
28.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		175 points by tie-in 2 days ago \| 131 comments
29.		I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
		138 points by g0xA52A2A 2 days ago \| 78 comments
30.		Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)
		76 points by flipacholas 11 hours ago \| 10 comments
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