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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1310 points by rubenbe 21 hours ago | 406 comments
2.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
886 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 935 comments
3.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
824 points by tambourine_man 19 hours ago | 1358 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
642 points by nilirl 21 hours ago | 281 comments
5.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
496 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 39 comments
6.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
515 points by HenryNdubuaku 18 hours ago | 156 comments
7.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
674 points by adunk 1 day ago | 361 comments
8.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
556 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 186 comments
9.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
397 points by xz18r 20 hours ago | 147 comments
10.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
336 points by chizhik-pyzhik 18 hours ago | 174 comments
11.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
563 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments
12.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
397 points by _vaporwave_ 16 hours ago | 51 comments
13.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
314 points by aduffy 18 hours ago | 65 comments
14.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
326 points by smhx 1 day ago | 51 comments
15.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
223 points by devhouse 18 hours ago | 187 comments
16.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
502 points by thm 1 day ago | 450 comments
17.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
81 points by sai18 19 hours ago | 42 comments
18.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
224 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
19.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
217 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
20.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
183 points by tcp_handshaker 13 hours ago | 148 comments
21.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
345 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 109 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
156 points by luispa 4 days ago | 57 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 20 hours ago | 20 comments
24.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
211 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 31 comments
25.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
117 points by tsiry 3 days ago | 26 comments
26.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
259 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 243 comments
27.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
52 points by namanyayg 20 hours ago | 20 comments
28.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
99 points by azurewraith 22 hours ago | 41 comments
29.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
68 points by fedek_ 18 hours ago | 42 comments
30.
Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS (github.com/jameslockman)
80 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 29 comments

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