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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
552 points by zakirullin 12 hours ago | 280 comments
2.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
3.
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
779 points by nycdatasci 8 hours ago | 412 comments
4.
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 51 comments
5.
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
427 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 138 comments
6.
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
526 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 244 comments
7.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
279 points by ahalbert4 22 hours ago | 682 comments
8.
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
411 points by ildari 10 hours ago | 189 comments
9.
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
169 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 83 comments
10.
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
187 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 31 comments
11.
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
359 points by tomeraberbach 8 hours ago | 254 comments
12.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
281 points by Fysi 12 hours ago | 108 comments
13.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
262 points by srameshc 8 hours ago | 421 comments
14.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
283 points by tekkertje 7 hours ago | 91 comments
15.
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
316 points by stephenlthorn 14 hours ago | 130 comments
16.
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
87 points by susam 2 days ago | 20 comments
17.
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
77 points by gmays 4 days ago | 44 comments
18.
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
483 points by gok 10 hours ago | 143 comments
19.
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
220 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 91 comments
20.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
170 points by ankitg12 2 days ago | 95 comments
21.
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
109 points by SVI 14 hours ago | 29 comments
22.
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
132 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 54 comments
23.
'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (bbc.co.uk)
210 points by bauc 12 hours ago | 61 comments
24.
Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' (theregister.com)
197 points by jonbaer 13 hours ago | 97 comments
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Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks (plough.com)
92 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 52 comments
26.
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
109 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 20 comments
27.
The Aperiodic Table (jgc.org)
79 points by jgrahamc 3 days ago | 36 comments
28.
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
102 points by rurban 16 hours ago | 72 comments
29.
Build a radio wave detector with balls of aluminum foil (wired.com)
64 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Actually, democracy dies in H.R. (nytimes.com)
288 points by mitchbob 11 hours ago | 198 comments

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