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1.Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
568 points by zakirullin 14 hours ago | 285 comments
2.Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
194 points by gaws 3 days ago | 23 comments
3.Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
837 points by nycdatasci 10 hours ago | 429 comments
4.The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
567 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | 259 comments
5.Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
428 points by Bibabomas 1 day ago | 139 comments
6.Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
211 points by DASD 3 days ago | 52 comments
7.We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
433 points by ildari 12 hours ago | 195 comments
8.It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
280 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 688 comments
9.Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
385 points by tomeraberbach 10 hours ago | 261 comments
10.Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
298 points by Fysi 14 hours ago | 112 comments
11.Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
282 points by srameshc 10 hours ago | 457 comments
12.Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
170 points by jumploops 3 days ago | 83 comments
13.WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
190 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 32 comments
14.The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
245 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 98 comments
15.Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
289 points by tekkertje 9 hours ago | 96 comments
16.Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
182 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | 102 comments
17.What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
136 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 56 comments
18.Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
316 points by stephenlthorn 16 hours ago | 130 comments
19.A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
87 points by susam 2 days ago | 20 comments
20.Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)
77 points by gmays 4 days ago | 45 comments
21.Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
112 points by SVI 15 hours ago | 29 comments
22.Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
495 points by gok 12 hours ago | 147 comments
23.The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
116 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | 23 comments
24.'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' (bbc.co.uk)
213 points by bauc 14 hours ago | 62 comments
25.Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (ftc.gov)
156 points by Lihh27 7 hours ago | 69 comments
26.Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' (theregister.com)
199 points by jonbaer 15 hours ago | 101 comments
27.We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
196 points by lukaspetersson 9 hours ago | 175 comments
28.Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
141 points by veqq 8 hours ago | 29 comments
29.Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks (plough.com)
93 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 52 comments
30.Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (modal.com)
74 points by charles_irl 9 hours ago | 18 comments

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