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1.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		806 points by pizza 1 day ago \| 253 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		708 points by _Microft 1 day ago \| 219 comments
3.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		798 points by speckx 10 hours ago \| 224 comments
4.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		319 points by david927 1 day ago \| 1070 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)
		442 points by ffin 16 hours ago \| 140 comments
8.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		392 points by kiyanwang 23 hours ago \| 262 comments
9.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		377 points by m-hodges 13 hours ago \| 198 comments
10.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		403 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 356 comments
11.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		340 points by speckx 14 hours ago \| 213 comments
12.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		344 points by t-3 15 hours ago \| 245 comments
13.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		334 points by bundie 15 hours ago \| 251 comments
14.		How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
		127 points by radeeyate 1 day ago \| 38 comments
15.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		549 points by ezekg 8 hours ago \| 300 comments
16.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		280 points by soheilpro 13 hours ago \| 91 comments
17.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		322 points by edent 17 hours ago \| 283 comments
18.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		290 points by laurex 13 hours ago \| 172 comments
19.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		78 points by robinhouston 1 day ago \| 28 comments
20.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		250 points by dvaughan 1 day ago \| 103 comments
21.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		210 points by iamnothere 16 hours ago \| 119 comments
22.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		109 points by mpweiher 1 day ago \| 14 comments
23.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		105 points by luu 1 day ago \| 21 comments
24.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		288 points by aphyr 12 hours ago \| 157 comments
25.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		82 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago \| 36 comments
26.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		148 points by mbitsnbites 9 hours ago \| 24 comments
27.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		133 points by cvrajeesh 9 hours ago \| 33 comments
28.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		167 points by tie-in 2 days ago \| 128 comments
29.		Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)
		73 points by flipacholas 10 hours ago \| 10 comments
30.		Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 (collabora.com)
		79 points by mfilion 15 hours ago \| 24 comments
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