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1.		A faster heart for F-Droid (f-droid.org)
		519 points by kasabali 1 day ago \| 210 comments
2.		Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)
		342 points by Xyra 1 day ago \| 117 comments
3.		Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (uvic.ca)
		296 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 88 comments
4.		Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)
		596 points by ValentineC 13 hours ago \| 427 comments
5.		I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)
		485 points by azhenley 16 hours ago \| 275 comments
6.		Animated AI (animatedai.github.io)
		296 points by frozenseven 6 days ago \| 26 comments
7.		The most famous transcendental numbers (wisc.edu)
		159 points by vismit2000 22 hours ago \| 105 comments
8.		When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)
		128 points by PaulHoule 21 hours ago \| 58 comments
9.		Tell HN: Happy New Year
		345 points by schappim 21 hours ago \| 182 comments
10.		Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)
		135 points by a1k0n 18 hours ago \| 30 comments
11.		The compiler is your best friend (daniel-beskin.com)
		163 points by based2 19 hours ago \| 115 comments
12.		Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo (andros.dev)
		179 points by andros 4 days ago \| 52 comments
13.		Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics (github.com/tixl3d)
		186 points by nateb2022 5 days ago \| 28 comments
14.		Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame (monogame.net)
		544 points by haunter 19 hours ago \| 232 comments
15.		Microtonal Spiral Piano (shih1.github.io)
		107 points by phoenix_ashes 6 days ago \| 16 comments
16.		Demystifying DVDs (hiddenpalace.org)
		175 points by boltzmann-brain 3 days ago \| 16 comments
17.		The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)
		231 points by chrisloy 1 day ago \| 164 comments
18.		Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video] (ccc.de)
		126 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 12 comments
19.		Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015) (redbook.io)
		143 points by teleforce 1 day ago \| 17 comments
20.		My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 (miguelcarranza.es)
		133 points by ridruejo 5 days ago \| 112 comments
21.		On privacy and control (toidiu.com)
		169 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago \| 94 comments
22.		Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) (audio-database.com)
		77 points by anigbrowl 3 days ago \| 24 comments
23.		Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation (techcrunch.com)
		121 points by fcpguru 5 days ago \| 147 comments
24.		All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision (science.org)
		70 points by QueensGambit 14 hours ago \| 14 comments
25.		Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (helsinki.fi)
		267 points by lrasinen 20 hours ago \| 298 comments
26.		Sabotaging Bitcoin (dshr.org)
		195 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 187 comments
27.		PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review (pypi.org)
		73 points by miketheman 15 hours ago \| 24 comments
28.		Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (goldsteinsfuneral.com)
		227 points by spankibalt 17 hours ago \| 68 comments
29.		Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side (chipsandcheese.com)
		79 points by ingve 22 hours ago \| 10 comments
30.		The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf] (vpri.org)
		110 points by fanf2 7 days ago \| 31 comments
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