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1.
The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
560 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 291 comments
2.
Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
252 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 195 comments
3.
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
607 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 182 comments
4.
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
187 points by suoken 3 days ago | 86 comments
5.
AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
493 points by thm 8 hours ago | 467 comments
6.
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
492 points by newsoftheday 11 hours ago | 188 comments
7.
ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
141 points by jonbaer 23 hours ago | 73 comments
8.
RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
256 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 69 comments
9.
Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
496 points by jeromechoo 1 day ago | 276 comments
10.
Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
145 points by dmos62 2 days ago | 60 comments
11.
OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
102 points by chabad360 1 day ago | 73 comments
12.
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
130 points by wojtczyk 21 hours ago | 75 comments
13.
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
164 points by atilimcetin 3 days ago | 89 comments
14.
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
339 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 272 comments
15.
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
187 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 95 comments
16.
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
254 points by berlianta 12 hours ago | 108 comments
17.
Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
357 points by bsuh 10 hours ago | 190 comments
18.
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
460 points by flipped 8 hours ago | 204 comments
19.
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
319 points by tamnd 11 hours ago | 92 comments
20.
Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
486 points by Qem 16 hours ago | 310 comments
21.
The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
157 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 66 comments
22.
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
80 points by zeech 2 days ago | 47 comments
23.
I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
256 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 533 comments
24.
Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
154 points by mindcrime 3 days ago | 149 comments
25.
 [dupe] SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
77 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 1 comment
26.
The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
183 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 135 comments
27.
Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (itsnicethat.com)
154 points by sahar_builds 3 days ago | 33 comments
28.
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
216 points by instagraham 9 hours ago | 71 comments
29.
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
252 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 294 comments
30.
Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
89 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 21 comments

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