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1.The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
742 points by speckx 1 day ago | 342 comments
2.Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
763 points by flipped 1 day ago | 307 comments
3.Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
561 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 276 comments
4.SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
645 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 191 comments
5.AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
785 points by thm 1 day ago | 683 comments
6.DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
469 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 138 comments
7.AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
319 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 140 comments
8.Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
353 points by instagraham 1 day ago | 117 comments
9.Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
679 points by jeromechoo 2 days ago | 320 comments
10.Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
604 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 238 comments
11.I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
324 points by speckx 1 day ago | 682 comments
12.Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
266 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 202 comments
13.ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
149 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 76 comments
14.RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
282 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 73 comments
15.Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
154 points by wojtczyk 1 day ago | 80 comments
16.Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
196 points by suoken 3 days ago | 88 comments
17.OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
114 points by chabad360 2 days ago | 77 comments
18.Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
151 points by dmos62 3 days ago | 63 comments
19.Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
375 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 297 comments
20.RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
177 points by atilimcetin 4 days ago | 97 comments
21.Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
203 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 102 comments
22.Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
134 points by jruohonen 23 hours ago | 34 comments
23.The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
176 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 74 comments
24.Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
501 points by Qem 1 day ago | 324 comments
25.Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
165 points by mindcrime 4 days ago | 152 comments
26.Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
83 points by zeech 3 days ago | 48 comments
27. [dupe] SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
78 points by jonbaer 2 days ago | 1 comment
28.Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
105 points by blumpy22 1 day ago | 49 comments
29.Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
286 points by speckx 1 day ago | 339 comments
30.The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
184 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 137 comments

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