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1.Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)
603 points by thatxliner 14 days ago | 482 comments
2.New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (newyorker.com)
463 points by XzetaU8 14 days ago | 271 comments
3.For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
601 points by ori_b 15 days ago | 548 comments
4.Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
566 points by sleepingNomad 14 days ago | 168 comments
5.I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
212 points by proberts 14 days ago | 250 comments
6.Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)
472 points by ilamont 16 days ago | 257 comments
7.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
311 points by whoishiring 14 days ago | 552 comments
8.City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo (404media.co)
478 points by joshcsimmons 14 days ago | 122 comments
9.The gay jailbreak technique (2025) (github.com/exocija)
684 points by bobsmooth 14 days ago | 257 comments
10.Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)
154 points by peter_d_sherman 14 days ago | 37 comments
11.Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)
226 points by herbertl 17 days ago | 309 comments
12.Apocalypse Early Warning System (kylemcdonald.net)
261 points by carlsborg 14 days ago | 129 comments
13.Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment (wired.com)
172 points by zdw 16 days ago | 241 comments
14.New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)
217 points by giuliomagnifico 16 days ago | 134 comments
15.OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
209 points by zero-lab 15 days ago | 148 comments
16.CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
158 points by zikani_03 15 days ago | 59 comments
17.AI uses less water than the public thinks (californiawaterblog.com)
409 points by hirpslop 14 days ago | 395 comments
18.Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
154 points by ingve 14 days ago | 36 comments
19.Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (bbc.com)
287 points by reconnecting 14 days ago | 308 comments
20.Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
405 points by simianwords 14 days ago | 529 comments
21.Your website is not for you (websmith.studio)
268 points by pumbaa 14 days ago | 189 comments
22.Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
153 points by whoishiring 14 days ago | 579 comments
23.The smelly baby problem (worksinprogress.news)
215 points by dionysou 16 days ago | 145 comments
24.Understand Anything (github.com/lum1104)
169 points by taubek 14 days ago | 48 comments
25.Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)
134 points by smaddrellmander 18 days ago | 47 comments
26.Whimsical Animations Course Open House (joshwcomeau.com)
112 points by SpyCoder77 14 days ago | 10 comments
27.An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)
262 points by tvararu 14 days ago | 14 comments
28.Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died (online-tribute.com)
124 points by deater 14 days ago | 43 comments
29.Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (x.com)
384 points by andruby 14 days ago | 321 comments
30.Show HN: AI CAD Harness (adam.new)
101 points by zachdive 14 days ago | 96 comments

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