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1.Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
866 points by armanified 1 day ago | 128 comments
2.France pulls last gold held in US (mining.com)
583 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 322 comments
3.Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)
788 points by naves 1 day ago | 556 comments
4.Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (github.com/anthropics)
1014 points by StanAngeloff 18 hours ago | 570 comments
5.I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok (0xsid.com)
866 points by ssiddharth 17 hours ago | 507 comments
6.What being ripped off taught me (belief.horse)
394 points by doctorhandshake 18 hours ago | 198 comments
7.Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game (wesnoth.org)
467 points by akyuu 14 hours ago | 128 comments
8.German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (krebsonsecurity.com)
297 points by Bender 18 hours ago | 143 comments
9.The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok (bramcohen.com)
543 points by drob518 13 hours ago | 454 comments
10.Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)
439 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 279 comments
11.Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (newyorker.com)
1292 points by adrianhon 21 hours ago | 500 comments
12.A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (filippo.io)
440 points by thadt 16 hours ago | 182 comments
13.The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes (twitter.com/exquizitely)
286 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 182 comments
14.Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (stephendiehl.com)
242 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 172 comments
15.An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon (moonrf.com)
252 points by hillcrestenigma 1 day ago | 61 comments
16.Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
312 points by nevernothing 1 day ago | 196 comments
17.Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents (freestyle.sh)
263 points by benswerd 15 hours ago | 145 comments
18.Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool (github.com/maaslalani)
193 points by _____k 3 days ago | 52 comments
19.Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
151 points by ikessler 1 day ago | 21 comments
20.The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
210 points by coinfused 2 days ago | 116 comments
21.Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)
270 points by karimf 1 day ago | 34 comments
22.Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)
270 points by player_piano 15 hours ago | 78 comments
23.Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
354 points by MattHart88 12 hours ago | 162 comments
24.Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go (github.com/anzellai)
160 points by whalesalad 16 hours ago | 57 comments
25.Signals, the push-pull based algorithm (willybrauner.com)
160 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 36 comments
26.Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
97 points by mohshomis 1 day ago | 22 comments
27.Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (osnews.com)
295 points by rglullis 14 hours ago | 142 comments
28.AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)
160 points by flinner 15 hours ago | 239 comments
29.Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com/kdave)
116 points by salt4034 1 day ago | 64 comments
30.One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
109 points by gmays 4 days ago | 27 comments

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