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1.		The browser is the sandbox (simonwillison.net)
		330 points by enos_feedler 19 hours ago \| 175 comments
2.		Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' (sciencealert.com)
		300 points by mikhael 1 day ago \| 88 comments
3.		Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager (jampa.dev)
		520 points by jampa 5 days ago \| 134 comments
4.		After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand (atmoio.substack.com)
		618 points by mobitar 11 hours ago \| 471 comments
5.		MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format (maplibre.org)
		396 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago \| 79 comments
6.		Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries (theguardian.com)
		346 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago \| 192 comments
7.		The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen (github.com/quaadgras)
		206 points by Splizard 17 hours ago \| 181 comments
8.		Television is 100 years old today (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
		463 points by qassiov 10 hours ago \| 153 comments
9.		Qwen3-Max-Thinking (qwen.ai)
		411 points by vinhnx 9 hours ago \| 367 comments
10.		France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. (twitter.com/lellouchenico)
		495 points by bwb 8 hours ago \| 424 comments
11.		Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant (github.com/clawdbot)
		363 points by KuzeyAbi 1 day ago \| 217 comments
12.		The future of software engineering is SRE (swizec.com)
		247 points by Swizec 1 day ago \| 131 comments
13.		Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids (lighthouses.app)
		96 points by idd2 1 day ago \| 20 comments
14.		Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs (tomaszmachnik.pl)
		120 points by musculus 1 day ago \| 90 comments
15.		LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (nature.com)
		199 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 183 comments
16.		Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only (restofworld.org)
		381 points by siev 20 hours ago \| 322 comments
17.		Guix for Development (dthompson.us)
		134 points by clircle 6 days ago \| 61 comments
18.		Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 (bsky.app)
		413 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago \| 154 comments
19.		Text Is King (experimental-history.com)
		161 points by zdw 6 days ago \| 77 comments
20.		San Francisco Graffiti (walzr.com)
		139 points by walz 14 hours ago \| 151 comments
21.		The Science of Fermentation [audio] (bbc.co.uk)
		66 points by fallinditch 3 days ago \| 20 comments
22.		Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone (github.com/kxzk)
		134 points by beigebrucewayne 13 hours ago \| 77 comments
23.		Video Games as Art (gwern.net)
		96 points by andsoitis 22 hours ago \| 74 comments
24.		Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water (sfgate.com)
		148 points by voxadam 21 hours ago \| 83 comments
25.		A static site generator written in POSIX shell (aashvik.com)
		68 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago \| 37 comments
26.		Vibe coding kills open source (arxiv.org)
		295 points by kgwgk 11 hours ago \| 261 comments
27.		Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews (reddit.com)
		184 points by adamnemecek 6 hours ago \| 62 comments
28.		There is an AI code review bubble (greptile.com)
		148 points by dakshgupta 9 hours ago \| 117 comments
29.		OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen (llmspy.org)
		116 points by mythz 9 hours ago \| 27 comments
30.		Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month (vjeux.com)
		148 points by ibobev 10 hours ago \| 99 comments
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