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1.		Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
		1189 points by adocomplete 19 hours ago \| 1057 comments
2.		GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
		1125 points by to3k 1 day ago \| 831 comments
3.		Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
		429 points by max-m 1 day ago \| 77 comments
4.		Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)
		373 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago \| 129 comments
5.		Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
		556 points by colinprince 1 day ago \| 349 comments
6.		Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
		385 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago \| 75 comments
7.		HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
		333 points by hentrep 20 hours ago \| 167 comments
8.		So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
		245 points by crescit_eundo 20 hours ago \| 90 comments
9.		Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
		410 points by moWerk 18 hours ago \| 51 comments
10.		Async/Await on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		209 points by Philpax 20 hours ago \| 53 comments
11.		Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
		224 points by cdegroot 21 hours ago \| 80 comments
12.		BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/zaneham)
		365 points by rurban 16 hours ago \| 151 comments
13.		Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
		480 points by acnops 1 day ago \| 400 comments
14.		Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
		920 points by chaseadam17 20 hours ago \| 91 comments
15.		I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (edbn.me)
		264 points by kewonit 22 hours ago \| 50 comments
16.		Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
		332 points by tempodox 3 days ago \| 78 comments
17.		Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
		82 points by tesserato 5 days ago \| 40 comments
18.		DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
		92 points by TMWNN 4 days ago \| 46 comments
19.		A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
		160 points by MrFinch 4 days ago \| 58 comments
20.		Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
		107 points by lorisdev 1 day ago \| 63 comments
21.		Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)
		99 points by rbanffy 4 days ago \| 17 comments
22.		Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
		192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 129 comments
23.		Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)
		107 points by NaOH 4 days ago \| 35 comments
24.		Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
		245 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago \| 134 comments
25.		Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
		144 points by signa11 4 days ago \| 28 comments
26.		Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
		435 points by Bender 18 hours ago \| 239 comments
27.		Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
		165 points by elayabharath 2 days ago \| 22 comments
28.		Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
		194 points by mustaphah 2 days ago \| 154 comments
29.		I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)
		163 points by Ariarule 15 hours ago \| 54 comments
30.		AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
		406 points by VorpalWay 1 day ago \| 334 comments
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