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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1316 points by rubenbe 22 hours ago | 406 comments
2.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
888 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 937 comments
3.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
840 points by tambourine_man 20 hours ago | 1378 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
659 points by nilirl 22 hours ago | 287 comments
5.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
531 points by HenryNdubuaku 19 hours ago | 157 comments
6.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
502 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 40 comments
7.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
679 points by adunk 1 day ago | 369 comments
8.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
556 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 186 comments
9.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
414 points by xz18r 21 hours ago | 149 comments
10.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
340 points by chizhik-pyzhik 19 hours ago | 179 comments
11.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
566 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments
12.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
406 points by _vaporwave_ 17 hours ago | 54 comments
13.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
326 points by aduffy 19 hours ago | 69 comments
14.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
224 points by devhouse 20 hours ago | 193 comments
15.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
326 points by smhx 1 day ago | 51 comments
16.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
503 points by thm 1 day ago | 452 comments
17.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
82 points by sai18 20 hours ago | 43 comments
18.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
225 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
19.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
195 points by tcp_handshaker 14 hours ago | 162 comments
20.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
220 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
21.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
350 points by Brajeshwar 20 hours ago | 111 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
157 points by luispa 4 days ago | 57 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 21 hours ago | 20 comments
24.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
213 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 32 comments
25.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
117 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 26 comments
26.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
261 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 243 comments
27.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
52 points by namanyayg 21 hours ago | 20 comments
28.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
101 points by azurewraith 23 hours ago | 44 comments
29.
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
102 points by Brajeshwar 20 hours ago | 98 comments
30.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
68 points by fedek_ 19 hours ago | 42 comments

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