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1.
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)
608 points by _alternator_ 23 hours ago | 431 comments
2.
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
471 points by atgctg 2 days ago | 141 comments
3.
Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
352 points by ingve 2 days ago | 195 comments
4.
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
380 points by homebrewer 3 days ago | 97 comments
5.
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
422 points by pretext 21 hours ago | 238 comments
6.
Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
549 points by hggh 14 hours ago | 81 comments
7.
The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
211 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 46 comments
8.
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)
361 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 139 comments
9.
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
160 points by rawgabbit 3 days ago | 99 comments
10.
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
195 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 44 comments
11.
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
316 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 216 comments
12.
Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
118 points by mad 1 day ago | 31 comments
13.
Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
438 points by heldrida 16 hours ago | 420 comments
14.
Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
248 points by pretext 1 day ago | 138 comments
15.
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
103 points by geox 3 days ago | 35 comments
16.
The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
268 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 226 comments
17.
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)
406 points by muse900 20 hours ago | 279 comments
18.
How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
128 points by smig0 2 days ago | 21 comments
19.
GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)
269 points by Georgelemental 12 hours ago | 103 comments
20.
I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)
276 points by susam 10 hours ago | 159 comments
21.
Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
306 points by JumpCrisscross 8 hours ago | 275 comments
22.
When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
64 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 17 comments
23.
Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)
217 points by LorenDB 11 hours ago | 151 comments
24.
PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)
77 points by msephton 11 hours ago | 36 comments
25.
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
127 points by zdw 3 days ago | 39 comments
26.
Zed Editor Theme-Builder (zed.dev)
164 points by cuechan 9 hours ago | 46 comments
27.
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)
111 points by ggallas 9 hours ago | 62 comments
28.
Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
110 points by wrxd 15 hours ago | 117 comments
29.
Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
68 points by tangus 3 days ago | 6 comments
30.
The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
88 points by akkartik 3 days ago | 8 comments

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