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1.		Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
		2072 points by grepsedawk 1 day ago \| 451 comments
2.		I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
		1631 points by blkhp19 19 hours ago \| 284 comments
3.		Veracrypt project update (sourceforge.net)
		1225 points by super256 1 day ago \| 465 comments
4.		They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
		563 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 153 comments
5.		US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
		712 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago \| 406 comments
6.		MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
		304 points by chrsw 23 hours ago \| 54 comments
7.		ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
		514 points by pabs3 22 hours ago \| 511 comments
8.		Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
		572 points by ra 1 day ago \| 569 comments
9.		Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
		231 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 63 comments
10.		Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
		539 points by donohoe 20 hours ago \| 211 comments
11.		Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
		350 points by chabons 19 hours ago \| 335 comments
12.		Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
		360 points by alex_be 18 hours ago \| 46 comments
13.		US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
		593 points by g-b-r 1 day ago \| 1970 comments
14.		Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
		387 points by e-topy 3 days ago \| 571 comments
15.		John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
		329 points by CharlesW 14 hours ago \| 110 comments
16.		Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
		371 points by tetrisgm 1 day ago \| 125 comments
17.		USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
		315 points by WerWolv 16 hours ago \| 38 comments
18.		We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
		210 points by bundie 1 day ago \| 198 comments
19.		Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
		114 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago \| 48 comments
20.		Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
		306 points by baely 1 day ago \| 79 comments
21.		I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
		367 points by nickvec 17 hours ago \| 179 comments
22.		Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
		405 points by anonfunction 13 hours ago \| 171 comments
23.		Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
		135 points by stonecharioteer 3 days ago \| 22 comments
24.		Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
		122 points by frizlab 16 hours ago \| 57 comments
25.		I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
		133 points by ImGajeed76 3 days ago \| 22 comments
26.		A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
		162 points by thomasjb 6 days ago \| 26 comments
27.		Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
		139 points by noztol 3 days ago \| 94 comments
28.		Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
		175 points by transpute 6 days ago \| 92 comments
29.		Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
		139 points by Levitating 1 day ago \| 83 comments
30.		Union types in C# 15 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
		209 points by 0x00C0FFEE 4 days ago \| 187 comments
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