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1.		Claude Design (anthropic.com)
		965 points by meetpateltech 15 hours ago \| 635 comments
2.		Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
		689 points by ColinWright 18 hours ago \| 272 comments
3.		Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
		669 points by hn_acker 15 hours ago \| 172 comments
4.		Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
		576 points by aray07 14 hours ago \| 403 comments
5.		CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
		220 points by gregsadetsky 3 days ago \| 59 comments
6.		Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
		219 points by speckx 15 hours ago \| 99 comments
7.		Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
		140 points by matt_d 4 days ago \| 109 comments
8.		Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
		110 points by cpan22 1 day ago \| 96 comments
9.		Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)
		262 points by Ivoah 1 day ago \| 113 comments
10.		NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
		256 points by LorenDB 14 hours ago \| 260 comments
11.		Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
		119 points by _fizz_buzz_ 1 day ago \| 30 comments
12.		NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
		190 points by mooreds 15 hours ago \| 44 comments
13.		Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
		260 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago \| 181 comments
14.		US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
		385 points by ronsor 1 day ago \| 315 comments
15.		A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
		148 points by xk3 4 days ago \| 48 comments
16.		Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
		172 points by seanieb 13 hours ago \| 67 comments
17.		Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
		297 points by binsquare 12 hours ago \| 92 comments
18.		Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
		161 points by zdw 15 hours ago \| 67 comments
19.		FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
		140 points by Mr_Minderbinder 22 hours ago \| 76 comments
20.		ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com/seeed-projects)
		93 points by rickcarlino 4 days ago \| 22 comments
21.		Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
		110 points by marklit 15 hours ago \| 14 comments
22.		Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
		118 points by apollinaire 1 day ago \| 56 comments
23.		Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
		326 points by evo_9 1 day ago \| 238 comments
24.		A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com/mwallner)
		67 points by schusterfredl 4 days ago \| 18 comments
25.		Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)
		210 points by sams99 1 day ago \| 82 comments
26.		Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
		88 points by mellosouls 2 days ago \| 20 comments
27.		I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
		102 points by wespiser_2018 2 days ago \| 91 comments
28.		Spending 3 months coding by hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
		170 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago \| 175 comments
29.		GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research (openai.com)
		101 points by babelfish 1 day ago \| 29 comments
30.		A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
		151 points by aw1621107 8 hours ago \| 73 comments
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