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1.Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
641 points by l1am0 15 hours ago | 242 comments
2.In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
286 points by ingve 1 day ago | 152 comments
3.Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
230 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 113 comments
4.Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)
300 points by CrossVR 4 days ago | 121 comments
5.Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
255 points by schlichtm 4 days ago | 861 comments
6.List animals until failure (rose.systems)
326 points by l1n 1 day ago | 177 comments
7.Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
169 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 81 comments
8.Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
144 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 13 comments
9.What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
347 points by SatvikBeri 16 hours ago | 149 comments
10.The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
201 points by 0x54MUR41 17 hours ago | 37 comments
11.The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
185 points by doppp 5 days ago | 141 comments
12.Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
141 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 101 comments
13.Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/datadog)
125 points by tanelpoder 4 days ago | 15 comments
14.Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
207 points by kohlschuetter 5 days ago | 105 comments
15.VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
149 points by demail 4 days ago | 66 comments
16.Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
264 points by doener 11 hours ago | 49 comments
17.FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
179 points by yannick2k 15 hours ago | 105 comments
18.Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
110 points by donatj 14 hours ago | 40 comments
19.MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
175 points by mikece 3 days ago | 52 comments
20.Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
101 points by merelysounds 4 days ago | 28 comments
21.I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
519 points by firefoxd 6 hours ago | 211 comments
22.EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
51 points by 1970-01-01 3 days ago | 27 comments
23.Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)
88 points by zaptrem 2 days ago | 36 comments
24.A web server on a single floppy disk (ddns.net)
93 points by ActionRetro 3 days ago | 33 comments
25.Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
174 points by janandonly 8 hours ago | 113 comments
26.Sparse File LRU Cache (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
49 points by paladin314159 1 day ago | 12 comments
27.Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
49 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 29 comments
28.Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci (cern.ch)
51 points by nill0 4 days ago | 10 comments
29.Ferrari vs. Markets (enigmatechnologies.dev)
58 points by merinid 3 days ago | 33 comments
30.English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
113 points by cmsefton 9 hours ago | 153 comments

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