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1.		How does a screen work? (makingsoftware.com)
		537 points by chkhd 1 day ago \| 103 comments
2.		GLP-1s are breaking life insurance (glp1digest.com)
		408 points by alexslobodnik 1 day ago \| 539 comments
3.		The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL (mechanize.work)
		225 points by jxmorris12 5 days ago \| 95 comments
4.		OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative (github.com/opencut-app)
		423 points by nateb2022 22 hours ago \| 144 comments
5.		Zig's New Async I/O (kristoff.it)
		374 points by afirium 1 day ago \| 273 comments
6.		Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python (inventwithpython.com)
		211 points by AlSweigart 2 days ago \| 23 comments
7.		A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns (zola.ink)
		246 points by znano 1 day ago \| 108 comments
8.		Let me pay for Firefox (discourse.mozilla.org)
		771 points by csmantle 1 day ago \| 592 comments
9.		Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 (mbh4h.substack.com)
		408 points by keiferski 1 day ago \| 375 comments
10.		C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes (c3-lang.org)
		137 points by lerno 3 days ago \| 144 comments
11.		Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux (github.com/byteatatime)
		184 points by ByteAtATime 1 day ago \| 59 comments
12.		Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered (github.com/dsekz)
		370 points by dsekz 3 days ago \| 130 comments
13.		Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency (eff.org)
		246 points by zdw 3 days ago \| 162 comments
14.		Hacking Coroutines into C (wiomoc.de)
		156 points by jmillikin 1 day ago \| 41 comments
15.		Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker (timsh.org)
		259 points by timsh 3 days ago \| 153 comments
16.		APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code (github.com/apklab)
		145 points by nateb2022 22 hours ago \| 11 comments
17.		The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous (theregister.com)
		294 points by rntn 1 day ago \| 341 comments
18.		Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style (github.com/exorust)
		170 points by Exorust 1 day ago \| 19 comments
19.		The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018) (bbc.com)
		156 points by barry-cotter 4 days ago \| 58 comments
20.		Monitoring My Homelab, Simply (b.tuxes.uk)
		160 points by Bogdanp 4 days ago \| 60 comments
21.		Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market (marketsaintefficient.substack.com)
		281 points by goinggetthem 22 hours ago \| 308 comments
22.		Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips (lelanthran.com)
		126 points by lelanthran 5 days ago \| 71 comments
23.		Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents (github.com/katanemo)
		101 points by honorable_coder 1 day ago \| 13 comments
24.		Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable (sfgate.com)
		111 points by borski 1 day ago \| 237 comments
25.		Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity (phys.org)
		85 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago \| 49 comments
26.		Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet (newyorker.com)
		118 points by pseudolus 1 day ago \| 16 comments
27.		How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs (jxmo.io)
		78 points by jxmorris12 3 days ago \| 7 comments
28.		Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power? (lttlabs.com)
		207 points by LorenDB 1 day ago \| 176 comments
29.		Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport (github.com/aeron-io)
		87 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 37 comments
30.		HNSW as abstract data structure: video intro to Redis vector sets [video] (youtube.com)
		48 points by antirez 4 days ago \| discuss
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