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1.		Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (htmhell.dev)
		683 points by soheilpro 23 hours ago \| 254 comments
2.		Calendar (neatnik.net)
		947 points by twapi 19 hours ago \| 115 comments
3.		Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA (quantamagazine.org)
		288 points by vismit2000 22 hours ago \| 175 comments
4.		Project Vend: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
		186 points by kubami 6 days ago \| 88 comments
5.		Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)
		673 points by Vincent_Yan404 17 hours ago \| 292 comments
6.		Text rendering hates you (2019) (faultlore.com)
		185 points by andsoitis 7 days ago \| 77 comments
7.		Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF (github.com/rex-rs)
		138 points by zdw 5 days ago \| 61 comments
8.		Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure (rastrian.dev)
		141 points by rastrian 1 day ago \| 148 comments
9.		Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)
		108 points by rickcarlino 20 hours ago \| 48 comments
10.		Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++ (github.com/arximboldi)
		125 points by smartmic 7 days ago \| 14 comments
11.		One year of keeping a tada list (ducktyped.org)
		216 points by egonschiele 6 days ago \| 60 comments
12.		The Origins of APL (1974) [video] (youtube.com)
		54 points by ofalkaed 6 days ago \| 12 comments
13.		Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 (exquisite.tube)
		145 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 26 comments
14.		Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)
		219 points by angristan 12 hours ago \| 96 comments
15.		Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)
		417 points by vitosartori 14 hours ago \| 321 comments
16.		Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer (ucsf.edu)
		147 points by mrtnmrtn 14 hours ago \| 39 comments
17.		[dupe] 7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (keshikan.net)
		44 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago \| 8 comments
18.		Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free (scratchapixel.com)
		163 points by theusus 13 hours ago \| 19 comments
19.		C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		107 points by ibobev 17 hours ago \| 124 comments
20.		Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee (arxiv.org)
		54 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago \| 11 comments
21.		Say No to Palantir in the NHS (goodlawproject.org)
		569 points by _____k 1 day ago \| 201 comments
22.		Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014) (dheera.net)
		115 points by basilikum 7 days ago \| 34 comments
23.		2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)
		84 points by nickswalker 4 days ago \| 12 comments
24.		Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years (github.com/mockito)
		180 points by saikatsg 4 hours ago \| 84 comments
25.		An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools (rcrdbl.com)
		28 points by promptfluid 1 day ago \| 22 comments
26.		Public Domain Day 2026 (duke.edu)
		104 points by rolph 1 day ago \| 14 comments
27.		We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003) (kegel.com)
		97 points by birdculture 3 days ago \| 71 comments
28.		AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos (kapwing.com)
		154 points by aquir 17 hours ago \| 158 comments
29.		Interton Video Computer 4000 (wikipedia.org)
		17 points by doener 7 days ago \| 1 comment
30.		Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors (thegreenplace.net)
		16 points by ingve 6 days ago \| 3 comments
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