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1.		Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
		2019 points by grepsedawk 23 hours ago \| 428 comments
2.		I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
		1533 points by blkhp19 17 hours ago \| 266 comments
3.		Veracrypt project update (sourceforge.net)
		1209 points by super256 1 day ago \| 445 comments
4.		They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
		529 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago \| 146 comments
5.		US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
		703 points by giuliomagnifico 20 hours ago \| 399 comments
6.		Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
		567 points by ra 23 hours ago \| 561 comments
7.		MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
		294 points by chrsw 20 hours ago \| 52 comments
8.		ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
		489 points by pabs3 19 hours ago \| 482 comments
9.		Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
		527 points by donohoe 18 hours ago \| 199 comments
10.		US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
		593 points by g-b-r 1 day ago \| 1956 comments
11.		Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
		224 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 63 comments
12.		Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
		338 points by chabons 16 hours ago \| 324 comments
13.		Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
		367 points by tetrisgm 1 day ago \| 124 comments
14.		We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
		209 points by bundie 1 day ago \| 194 comments
15.		Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
		329 points by alex_be 15 hours ago \| 44 comments
16.		Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
		353 points by e-topy 3 days ago \| 515 comments
17.		Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
		305 points by baely 1 day ago \| 78 comments
18.		I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
		357 points by nickvec 15 hours ago \| 172 comments
19.		Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
		104 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago \| 46 comments
20.		John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
		300 points by CharlesW 12 hours ago \| 89 comments
21.		Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
		389 points by anonfunction 11 hours ago \| 157 comments
22.		USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
		286 points by WerWolv 13 hours ago \| 33 comments
23.		A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
		159 points by thomasjb 5 days ago \| 26 comments
24.		Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
		135 points by noztol 3 days ago \| 92 comments
25.		Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
		124 points by stonecharioteer 3 days ago \| 20 comments
26.		Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
		172 points by transpute 6 days ago \| 92 comments
27.		Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
		138 points by Levitating 1 day ago \| 81 comments
28.		Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
		112 points by frizlab 13 hours ago \| 52 comments
29.		Native Americans had dice 12k years ago (nbcnews.com)
		133 points by delichon 5 days ago \| 82 comments
30.		I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
		123 points by ImGajeed76 3 days ago \| 15 comments
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