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1.
The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
747 points by speckx 1 day ago | 344 comments
2.
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
783 points by flipped 1 day ago | 310 comments
3.
Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
566 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 281 comments
4.
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
647 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 192 comments
5.
AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
793 points by thm 1 day ago | 687 comments
6.
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
471 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 141 comments
7.
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
321 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 140 comments
8.
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
354 points by instagraham 1 day ago | 118 comments
9.
Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
686 points by jeromechoo 2 days ago | 322 comments
10.
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
607 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 238 comments
11.
I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
327 points by speckx 1 day ago | 696 comments
12.
Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
266 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 205 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 | 74 comments
15.
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
155 points by wojtczyk 1 day ago | 80 comments
16.
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
196 points by suoken 4 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)
378 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 302 comments
20.
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
178 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 1 day ago | 36 comments
23.
The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
177 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)
503 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)
106 points by blumpy22 1 day ago | 49 comments
29.
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
288 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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