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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1327 points by rubenbe 23 hours ago | 408 comments
2.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
858 points by tambourine_man 21 hours ago | 1410 comments
3.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
889 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 942 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
682 points by nilirl 23 hours ago | 295 comments
5.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
554 points by HenryNdubuaku 20 hours ago | 157 comments
6.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
509 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 40 comments
7.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
683 points by adunk 1 day ago | 372 comments
8.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
426 points by xz18r 23 hours ago | 151 comments
9.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
557 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 187 comments
10.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
347 points by chizhik-pyzhik 20 hours ago | 180 comments
11.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
426 points by _vaporwave_ 18 hours ago | 55 comments
12.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
567 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments
13.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
339 points by aduffy 20 hours ago | 73 comments
14.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
233 points by devhouse 21 hours ago | 200 comments
15.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
326 points by smhx 1 day ago | 51 comments
16.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
503 points by thm 1 day ago | 454 comments
17.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
82 points by sai18 21 hours ago | 43 comments
18.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
209 points by tcp_handshaker 15 hours ago | 170 comments
19.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
225 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
20.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
220 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
21.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
357 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 113 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
157 points by luispa 4 days ago | 58 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 23 hours ago | 20 comments
24.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
215 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 33 comments
25.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
117 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 26 comments
26.
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
117 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 104 comments
27.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
264 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 245 comments
28.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
52 points by namanyayg 22 hours ago | 20 comments
29.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
103 points by azurewraith 1 day ago | 45 comments
30.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
68 points by fedek_ 20 hours ago | 42 comments

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