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1.
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
1098 points by alexharri 1 day ago | 123 comments
2.
The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
563 points by glimshe 1 day ago | 437 comments
3.
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
509 points by iamwil 6 days ago | 272 comments
4.
High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
265 points by tobr 3 days ago | 143 comments
5.
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
369 points by vitaelabitur 3 days ago | 62 comments
6.
The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
513 points by rendall 2 days ago | 337 comments
7.
The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail)
221 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 61 comments
8.
Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com/kip-dili)
221 points by nhatcher 20 hours ago | 62 comments
9.
An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
169 points by Tachyooon 1 day ago | 166 comments
10.
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
222 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 57 comments
11.
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
209 points by tin7in 1 day ago | 95 comments
12.
Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
269 points by originalankur 1 day ago | 63 comments
13.
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/pabannier)
152 points by el_pa_b 1 day ago | 47 comments
14.
US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
348 points by doener 1 day ago | 316 comments
15.
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) (maniek86.xyz)
116 points by rasz 6 days ago | 9 comments
16.
The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
163 points by c420 1 day ago | 159 comments
17.
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
144 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 28 comments
18.
PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
254 points by smurda 1 day ago | 296 comments
19.
Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
79 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 6 comments
20.
Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
94 points by stefanvdw1 7 days ago | 17 comments
21.
The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
100 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 67 comments
22.
There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
94 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 48 comments
23.
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
69 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 11 comments
24.
Light Mode InFFFFFFlation (willhbr.net)
211 points by Fudgel 19 hours ago | 153 comments
25.
Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases (github.com/chunkhound)
91 points by NadavBenItzhak 20 hours ago | 27 comments
26.
The thing that brought me joy (stephenlewis.me)
100 points by monooso 22 hours ago | 47 comments
27.
Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
64 points by zdw 6 days ago | 44 comments
28.
Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video] (ctvnews.ca)
76 points by debo_ 6 days ago | 50 comments
29.
After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
197 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 228 comments
30.
Common misunderstandings about large software companies (philipotoole.com)
92 points by otoolep 6 days ago | 49 comments

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