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1.The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
639 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 313 comments
2.Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
626 points by flipped 13 hours ago | 257 comments
3.SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
625 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 184 comments
4.Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
461 points by bsuh 16 hours ago | 222 comments
5.AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
636 points by thm 14 hours ago | 558 comments
6.Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
554 points by newsoftheday 17 hours ago | 216 comments
7.AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
289 points by berlianta 17 hours ago | 123 comments
8.DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
381 points by tamnd 17 hours ago | 103 comments
9.Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
608 points by jeromechoo 1 day ago | 304 comments
10.Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (reuters.com)
690 points by PriorityLeft 12 hours ago | 440 comments
11.Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
258 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 196 comments
12.ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
141 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 74 comments
13.I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
289 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 600 comments
14.Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
135 points by wojtczyk 1 day ago | 77 comments
15.RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
264 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 72 comments
16.Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
188 points by suoken 3 days ago | 87 comments
17.OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
106 points by chabad360 1 day ago | 74 comments
18.Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
271 points by instagraham 15 hours ago | 89 comments
19.Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
147 points by dmos62 2 days ago | 60 comments
20.RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
172 points by atilimcetin 3 days ago | 92 comments
21.Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
355 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 284 comments
22.Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
194 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 99 comments
23.The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
168 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 71 comments
24.Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
494 points by Qem 21 hours ago | 315 comments
25.Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
81 points by zeech 2 days ago | 47 comments
26.Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
157 points by mindcrime 3 days ago | 149 comments
27. [dupe] SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
77 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 1 comment
28.Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
93 points by blumpy22 15 hours ago | 47 comments
29.Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
271 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 321 comments
30.The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
184 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 135 comments

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