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1.
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
909 points by todotask2 1 day ago | 379 comments
2.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
462 points by jaas 1 day ago | 256 comments
3.
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
631 points by robertvc 1 day ago | 267 comments
4.
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
660 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 288 comments
5.
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
947 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 560 comments
6.
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
588 points by us321 1 day ago | 360 comments
7.
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
357 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 167 comments
8.
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
400 points by gpi 1 day ago | 57 comments
9.
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
543 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 248 comments
10.
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
265 points by cebert 1 day ago | 328 comments
11.
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
205 points by cgwu 2 days ago | 47 comments
12.
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
358 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 115 comments
13.
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
304 points by p44v9n 5 days ago | 135 comments
14.
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
143 points by linolevan 21 hours ago | 82 comments
15.
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
282 points by tosh 1 day ago | 109 comments
16.
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
144 points by jamesgresql 5 days ago | 98 comments
17.
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
147 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 167 comments
18.
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
128 points by gmays 1 day ago | 37 comments
19.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
321 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 168 comments
20.
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
251 points by samuel246 1 day ago | 9 comments
21.
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
150 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 96 comments
22.
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
88 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 89 comments
23.
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
79 points by christalwang 1 day ago | 86 comments
24.
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
294 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 129 comments
25.
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
109 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments
26.
HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
79 points by zdw 3 days ago | 14 comments
27.
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
127 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 36 comments
28.
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
99 points by nz 6 days ago | 15 comments
29.
The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)
82 points by svilen_dobrev 5 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
181 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago | 102 comments

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