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1.
Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
499 points by mchro 13 hours ago | 294 comments
2.
JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (openculture.com)
312 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 127 comments
3.
TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
488 points by admp 10 hours ago | 201 comments
4.
Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (bbc.com)
176 points by reconnecting 17 hours ago | 60 comments
5.
FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems (jakobemmerling.de)
202 points by jakobem 1 day ago | 67 comments
6.
39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video] (ccc.de)
249 points by fried-gluttony 3 days ago | 108 comments
7.
Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri (cnbc.com)
651 points by stygiansonic 10 hours ago | 381 comments
8.
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
627 points by adocomplete 6 hours ago | 333 comments
9.
LLVM: The bad parts (npopov.com)
281 points by vitaut 11 hours ago | 55 comments
10.
The next two years of software engineering (addyosmani.com)
293 points by napolux 1 day ago | 339 comments
11.
Date is out, Temporal is in (piccalil.li)
316 points by alexanderameye 10 hours ago | 110 comments
12.
Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon (lesswrong.com)
120 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 23 comments
13.
Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2 (yiningkarlli.com)
317 points by pantalaimon 5 days ago | 68 comments
14.
Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions (gripdev.xyz)
134 points by martinpeck 13 hours ago | 57 comments
15.
Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)
174 points by dgacmu 1 day ago | 47 comments
16.
Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C (github.com/z-libs)
160 points by simonpure 13 hours ago | 93 comments
17.
Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig (lightpanda.io)
185 points by gearnode 16 hours ago | 115 comments
18.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (archaeologist.dev)
218 points by codesparkle 15 hours ago | 179 comments
19.
Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)
269 points by The28thDuck 8 hours ago | 136 comments
20.
Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)
101 points by taykolasinski 12 hours ago | 30 comments
21.
Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)
298 points by mikece 21 hours ago | 226 comments
22.
Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
857 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 776 comments
23.
Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (bbc.com)
160 points by koolhead17 23 hours ago | 158 comments
24.
Erich von Däniken has died (daniken.com)
124 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 247 comments
25.
Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US (cornell.edu)
319 points by giuliomagnifico 13 hours ago | 573 comments
26.
Show HN: AI in SolidWorks (trylad.com)
127 points by WillNickols 9 hours ago | 68 comments
27.
Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (cy.md)
233 points by CyberShadow 1 day ago | 66 comments
28.
Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] (youtube.com)
73 points by rib3ye 1 day ago | 42 comments
29.
Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (kikkia.dev)
130 points by zdw 6 days ago | 51 comments
30.
Garbage collection is contrarian (trynova.dev)
66 points by aapoalas 3 days ago | 18 comments

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