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1.
Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
473 points by mchro 11 hours ago | 283 comments
2.
JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (openculture.com)
309 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 125 comments
3.
TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
451 points by admp 8 hours ago | 188 comments
4.
39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video] (ccc.de)
247 points by fried-gluttony 3 days ago | 107 comments
5.
FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems (jakobemmerling.de)
201 points by jakobem 1 day ago | 67 comments
6.
Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (bbc.com)
171 points by reconnecting 15 hours ago | 58 comments
7.
Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri (cnbc.com)
609 points by stygiansonic 8 hours ago | 338 comments
8.
LLVM: The bad parts (npopov.com)
270 points by vitaut 10 hours ago | 52 comments
9.
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
537 points by adocomplete 4 hours ago | 269 comments
10.
The next two years of software engineering (addyosmani.com)
291 points by napolux 1 day ago | 333 comments
11.
Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig (lightpanda.io)
181 points by gearnode 14 hours ago | 115 comments
12.
Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon (lesswrong.com)
120 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 23 comments
13.
Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)
174 points by dgacmu 22 hours ago | 46 comments
14.
Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2 (yiningkarlli.com)
293 points by pantalaimon 5 days ago | 62 comments
15.
Date is out, Temporal is in (piccalil.li)
293 points by alexanderameye 8 hours ago | 92 comments
16.
Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions (gripdev.xyz)
130 points by martinpeck 11 hours ago | 53 comments
17.
Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C (github.com/z-libs)
148 points by simonpure 11 hours ago | 90 comments
18.
Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)
297 points by mikece 19 hours ago | 225 comments
19.
Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (bbc.com)
160 points by koolhead17 21 hours ago | 158 comments
20.
Erich von Däniken has died (daniken.com)
123 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 245 comments
21.
Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
849 points by 0xedb 23 hours ago | 760 comments
22.
Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US (cornell.edu)
317 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 571 comments
23.
Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)
96 points by taykolasinski 10 hours ago | 30 comments
24.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (archaeologist.dev)
200 points by codesparkle 13 hours ago | 170 comments
25.
Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] (youtube.com)
73 points by rib3ye 1 day ago | 42 comments
26.
Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)
229 points by The28thDuck 6 hours ago | 114 comments
27.
Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (kikkia.dev)
128 points by zdw 6 days ago | 51 comments
28.
Garbage collection is contrarian (trynova.dev)
66 points by aapoalas 3 days ago | 18 comments
29.
Show HN: AI in SolidWorks (trylad.com)
116 points by WillNickols 7 hours ago | 55 comments
30.
Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser (kushaldas.in)
56 points by kushaldas 3 days ago | 14 comments

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