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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1186 points by rubenbe 15 hours ago | 378 comments
2.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
863 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 921 comments
3.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
662 points by adunk 1 day ago | 343 comments
4.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
551 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 185 comments
5.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
711 points by tambourine_man 12 hours ago | 1187 comments
6.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
544 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 109 comments
7.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
446 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 38 comments
8.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
489 points by nilirl 15 hours ago | 210 comments
9.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
383 points by HenryNdubuaku 12 hours ago | 136 comments
10.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
487 points by thm 19 hours ago | 427 comments
11.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
222 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
12.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
345 points by xz18r 14 hours ago | 135 comments
13.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
324 points by smhx 1 day ago | 49 comments
14.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
212 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
15.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
282 points by chizhik-pyzhik 12 hours ago | 130 comments
16.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
320 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 105 comments
17.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
50 points by ttpost 14 hours ago | 19 comments
18.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
209 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 24 comments
19.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
291 points by _vaporwave_ 10 hours ago | 36 comments
20.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
68 points by sai18 13 hours ago | 39 comments
21.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
138 points by luispa 4 days ago | 50 comments
22.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
248 points by aduffy 12 hours ago | 52 comments
23.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
115 points by tsiry 3 days ago | 25 comments
24.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
177 points by devhouse 12 hours ago | 145 comments
25.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
46 points by namanyayg 13 hours ago | 19 comments
26.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
251 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 235 comments
27.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
90 points by azurewraith 15 hours ago | 31 comments
28.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
66 points by fedek_ 12 hours ago | 39 comments
29.
Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS (github.com/jameslockman)
80 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 29 comments
30.
Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
66 points by AlexeyBrin 3 days ago | 23 comments

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