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1.
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)
588 points by _alternator_ 21 hours ago | 417 comments
2.
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
466 points by atgctg 2 days ago | 140 comments
3.
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
376 points by homebrewer 3 days ago | 96 comments
4.
Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
343 points by ingve 2 days ago | 190 comments
5.
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
406 points by pretext 19 hours ago | 234 comments
6.
Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
512 points by hggh 12 hours ago | 76 comments
7.
The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
209 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 46 comments
8.
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
153 points by rawgabbit 3 days ago | 98 comments
9.
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
190 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 42 comments
10.
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)
337 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 130 comments
11.
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
315 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 209 comments
12.
Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
117 points by mad 1 day ago | 31 comments
13.
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
100 points by geox 3 days ago | 35 comments
14.
Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
246 points by pretext 1 day ago | 137 comments
15.
How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
125 points by smig0 2 days ago | 20 comments
16.
GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)
262 points by Georgelemental 10 hours ago | 87 comments
17.
When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
64 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 17 comments
18.
The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
244 points by ColinWright 10 hours ago | 199 comments
19.
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
125 points by zdw 3 days ago | 39 comments
20.
Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
363 points by heldrida 13 hours ago | 353 comments
21.
EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push (cyberinsider.com)
369 points by muse900 18 hours ago | 267 comments
22.
Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
66 points by tangus 3 days ago | 6 comments
23.
PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)
72 points by msephton 9 hours ago | 35 comments
24.
I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)
237 points by susam 7 hours ago | 127 comments
25.
The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
85 points by akkartik 3 days ago | 8 comments
26.
Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)
79 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 21 comments
27.
Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)
178 points by LorenDB 9 hours ago | 111 comments
28.
Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
233 points by JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | 210 comments
29.
Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019) (byu.edu)
74 points by d_tr 3 days ago | 58 comments
30.
Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
102 points by wrxd 12 hours ago | 108 comments

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