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1.
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
874 points by todotask2 1 day ago | 368 comments
2.
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
922 points by tanelpoder 22 hours ago | 547 comments
3.
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
583 points by us321 1 day ago | 359 comments
4.
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
630 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 270 comments
5.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
439 points by jaas 1 day ago | 247 comments
6.
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
589 points by robertvc 22 hours ago | 243 comments
7.
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
352 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 167 comments
8.
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
398 points by gpi 1 day ago | 57 comments
9.
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
541 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 246 comments
10.
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
255 points by cebert 22 hours ago | 318 comments
11.
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
202 points by cgwu 1 day ago | 47 comments
12.
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
302 points by p44v9n 5 days ago | 133 comments
13.
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
353 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 115 comments
14.
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
278 points by tosh 1 day ago | 108 comments
15.
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
138 points by linolevan 18 hours ago | 80 comments
16.
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
142 points by jamesgresql 5 days ago | 96 comments
17.
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
143 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 164 comments
18.
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
119 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 35 comments
19.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
317 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 167 comments
20.
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
149 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 96 comments
21.
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
242 points by samuel246 1 day ago | 9 comments
22.
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
86 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 80 comments
23.
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
78 points by christalwang 23 hours ago | 83 comments
24.
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
287 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 126 comments
25.
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
105 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments
26.
HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
76 points by zdw 2 days ago | 13 comments
27.
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
127 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 34 comments
28.
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
99 points by nz 6 days ago | 15 comments
29.
The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)
78 points by svilen_dobrev 5 days ago | 20 comments
30.
Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
181 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago | 99 comments

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