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Why 'Prince Rupert's Drop' Glass Is Strong Enough to Shatter a Bullet (2023) [13d] [hn]
The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D [13d] [hn]
Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-Series CPUs via Microcode Modification [14d] [hn]
Parser Combinators Beat Regexes [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo [14d] [hn]
"It's not that bad" they told me – Coreboot [14d] [hn]
Bye bye 3 way handshake [14d] [hn]
Do Charity Bookshops Drive Out Other Second-Hand Bookshops? [14d] [hn]
Show HN: LLM Based Spark Profiler [14d] [hn]
Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests [14d] [hn]
It's all fun and games until somebody loses their retirement savings [14d] [hn]
Keeping it Old-Tool: REPL habits of a grug-brained Clojure programmer [14d] [hn]
The real effects of basic income [14d] [hn]
ProtoGS: Efficient and High-Quality Rendering with 3D Gaussian Prototypes [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine [14d] [hn]
Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission [14d] [hn]
Baking the Y Combinator from Scratch [14d] [hn]
Meta II (1963) a syntax-oriented compiler writing language [14d] [hn]
Firebase Studio [14d] [hn]
MapStructur – Self-hosted map editor with draggable markers and Docker support [14d] [hn]
Anthropic launches its own $200 plan [14d] [hn]
GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better [14d] [hn]
Trump reduces tariffs to 10% for 90 days on all countries but China [14d] [hn]
Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries [14d] [hn]
Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub [14d] [hn]
Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis [14d] [hn]
Trump's DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud [14d] [hn]
Ask HN: Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices? [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows [14d] [hn]
Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon [14d] [hn]
Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython [14d] [hn]
Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude [14d] [hn]
Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores [14d] [hn]
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs [14d] [hn]
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink [14d] [hn]
Bundeswehr to remove all Microsoft software from its systems [14d] [hn]
Rolex Caliber 7135: new indirect impulse escapement and high frequency movement [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity [14d] [hn]
Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores [14d] [hn]
The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Fermi – A Wordle-style game for order-of-magnitude thinking [14d] [hn]
Ask HN: Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript? [14d] [hn]
EU member states agree first wave of retaliatory tariffs [14d] [hn]
SpacetimeDB [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Dynomate– Fast, Git-Friendly DynamoDB GUI Client (Dynobase Alternative) [14d] [hn]
Man pages are great, man readers are the problem [14d] [hn]
Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games [14d] [hn]
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? [14d] [hn]
An LLM Query Understanding Service [14d] [hn]
Determining IaC ownership – a tag-based approach [14d] [hn]
Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers [14d] [hn]
Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions [14d] [hn]
The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) [14d] [hn]
Treasury's OCC Says Hackers Had Access to 150k Emails [14d] [hn]
American Disruption [14d] [hn]
Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference [14d] [hn]
Whisky is no longer actively maintained [14d] [hn]
Oil hits 4-year low, coffee falls as trade war escalates [14d] [hn]
React for Two Computers [14d] [hn]
CSS Naked Day [14d] [hn]
Show HN: I built a Yahoo Messenger-inspired web chat app – pure nostalgia [14d] [hn]
The guide to reduce screen time [14d] [hn]
How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S. [14d] [hn]
Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies [14d] [hn]
'Sun-Like' Stars [14d] [hn]
Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs? [14d] [hn]
The New Legislators of Silicon Valley [14d] [hn]
Domain Sniped on Launch Day [14d] [hn]
Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells [14d] [hn]
The best programmers I know [14d] [hn]
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws [14d] [hn]
NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV [14d] [hn]
Owner fills restaurant with fresh water to beat Kentucky flooding [14d] [hn]
Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter [14d] [hn]
NNN: Next-Generation Neural Networks for Marketing Mix Modeling [14d] [hn]
Framework stops selling some laptops in the US in response to tariffs [14d] [hn]
Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power [14d] [hn]
The Barium Experiment [14d] [hn]
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro) [14d] [hn]
Work Simplification and the History of Government Efficiency and Management [14d] [hn]
PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth) [14d] [hn]