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Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
159•DamnInteresting•1d ago•37 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
84•Eridanus2•4h ago•36 comments

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
195•speckx•2d ago•125 comments

Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
19•ragojose•2d ago•1 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
57•helloplanets•5h ago•21 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
146•mfiguiere•1d ago•29 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
344•rbanffy•16h ago•150 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
329•gnabgib•18h ago•327 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
553•anabranch•21h ago•535 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
361•NelsonMinar•20h ago•93 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

77•modelcroissant•4h ago•39 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
52•pretext•2h ago•23 comments

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
45•naves•2h ago•39 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
446•RickJWagner•1d ago•423 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
92•tyleo•3d ago•39 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
97•signa11•10h ago•28 comments

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
32•surprisetalk•3d ago•14 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

https://vlad.website/binary-dependencies-identifying-the-hidden-packages-we-all-depend-on/
37•PaulHoule•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
6•teamchong•2h ago•1 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
422•f_r_d•1d ago•129 comments

Binary GCD

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
12•tosh•4h ago•0 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
168•larve•3d ago•21 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
813•yusufusta•23h ago•406 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702
107•nobody9999•6h ago•21 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
109•weaksauce•16h ago•38 comments

Metatextual Literacy

https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
43•dado3212•3d ago•4 comments

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-onc...
34•bookofjoe•2d ago•17 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
227•Lwrless•3d ago•13 comments

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

https://abacusnoir.com/2026/04/18/zero-copy-gpu-inference-from-webassembly-on-apple-silicon/
94•agambrahma•14h ago•37 comments

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

https://github.com/riyaneel/Tachyon/tree/main/docs/adr
59•riyaneel•2d ago•23 comments