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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1337 points by rubenbe 1 day ago | 413 comments
2.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
876 points by tambourine_man 22 hours ago | 1458 comments
3.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
723 points by nilirl 1 day ago | 309 comments
4.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
575 points by HenryNdubuaku 22 hours ago | 165 comments
5.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
890 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 944 comments
6.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
515 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 40 comments
7.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
354 points by chizhik-pyzhik 22 hours ago | 191 comments
8.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
685 points by adunk 1 day ago | 375 comments
9.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
434 points by xz18r 1 day ago | 157 comments
10.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
440 points by _vaporwave_ 20 hours ago | 56 comments
11.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
558 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 187 comments
12.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
351 points by aduffy 22 hours ago | 75 comments
13.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
571 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments
14.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
236 points by devhouse 22 hours ago | 206 comments
15.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
327 points by smhx 1 day ago | 51 comments
16.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
214 points by tcp_handshaker 17 hours ago | 185 comments
17.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
504 points by thm 1 day ago | 454 comments
18.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
83 points by sai18 23 hours ago | 43 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)
360 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 116 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
159 points by luispa 4 days ago | 59 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 1 day ago | 20 comments
24.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
215 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 36 comments
25.
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
129 points by Brajeshwar 23 hours ago | 117 comments
26.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
117 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 26 comments
27.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
265 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 246 comments
28.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
53 points by namanyayg 23 hours ago | 20 comments
29.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
105 points by azurewraith 1 day ago | 47 comments
30.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
69 points by fedek_ 22 hours ago | 43 comments

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