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1.		Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
		537 points by dbushell 1 day ago \| 409 comments
2.		Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
		986 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 611 comments
3.		Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
		341 points by yesturi 1 day ago \| 114 comments
4.		Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
		453 points by rocauc 1 day ago \| 298 comments
5.		Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
		380 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago \| 399 comments
6.		Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
		418 points by tosh 22 hours ago \| 194 comments
7.		Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
		380 points by personjerry 1 day ago \| 350 comments
8.		Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
		264 points by rvermeulen98 1 day ago \| 86 comments
9.		Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
		1034 points by nhod 1 day ago \| 503 comments
10.		KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
		253 points by bpierre 1 day ago \| 110 comments
11.		New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
		286 points by sarreph 1 day ago \| 157 comments
12.		I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
		467 points by codetheweb 1 day ago \| 103 comments
13.		Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
		160 points by nomaxx117 1 day ago \| 60 comments
14.		The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
		225 points by at1as 1 day ago \| 315 comments
15.		Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
		119 points by hahahacorn 22 hours ago \| 20 comments
16.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		243 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| 150 comments
17.		Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
		324 points by mustaphah 1 day ago \| 131 comments
18.		AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
		464 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 226 comments
19.		Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
		147 points by timsneath 1 day ago \| 34 comments
20.		Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
		93 points by mnazzaro 1 day ago \| 42 comments
21.		Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
		278 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 137 comments
22.		AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
		496 points by mefengl 1 day ago \| 269 comments
23.		Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
		178 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago \| 126 comments
24.		Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
		78 points by janandonly 6 days ago \| 31 comments
25.		Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
		82 points by avaer 1 day ago \| 19 comments
26.		Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
		88 points by chaz6 1 day ago \| 25 comments
27.		Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
		101 points by elpocko 1 day ago \| 14 comments
28.		Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
		116 points by chmaynard 4 days ago \| 13 comments
29.		Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
		224 points by 01jonny01 1 day ago \| 184 comments
30.		Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
		138 points by marklit 5 days ago \| 99 comments
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