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1.		Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (htmhell.dev)
		693 points by soheilpro 1 day ago \| 258 comments
2.		Calendar (neatnik.net)
		963 points by twapi 21 hours ago \| 116 comments
3.		Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)
		698 points by Vincent_Yan404 19 hours ago \| 300 comments
4.		Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA (quantamagazine.org)
		290 points by vismit2000 1 day ago \| 180 comments
5.		Project Vend: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
		189 points by kubami 6 days ago \| 89 comments
6.		Text rendering hates you (2019) (faultlore.com)
		185 points by andsoitis 7 days ago \| 77 comments
7.		Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF (github.com/rex-rs)
		139 points by zdw 5 days ago \| 62 comments
8.		Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure (rastrian.dev)
		142 points by rastrian 1 day ago \| 152 comments
9.		Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)
		110 points by rickcarlino 22 hours ago \| 48 comments
10.		Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++ (github.com/arximboldi)
		125 points by smartmic 7 days ago \| 15 comments
11.		One year of keeping a tada list (ducktyped.org)
		227 points by egonschiele 6 days ago \| 69 comments
12.		Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)
		234 points by angristan 14 hours ago \| 101 comments
13.		Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 (exquisite.tube)
		148 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 26 comments
14.		The Origins of APL (1974) [video] (youtube.com)
		55 points by ofalkaed 7 days ago \| 12 comments
15.		Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)
		432 points by vitosartori 16 hours ago \| 344 comments
16.		What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
		531 points by zdw 3 hours ago \| 135 comments
17.		Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free (scratchapixel.com)
		183 points by theusus 15 hours ago \| 26 comments
18.		Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer (ucsf.edu)
		149 points by mrtnmrtn 16 hours ago \| 39 comments
19.		[dupe] 7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (keshikan.net)
		44 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago \| 8 comments
20.		C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		107 points by ibobev 19 hours ago \| 124 comments
21.		Say No to Palantir in the NHS (goodlawproject.org)
		573 points by _____k 1 day ago \| 208 comments
22.		Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years (github.com/mockito)
		212 points by saikatsg 6 hours ago \| 108 comments
23.		Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee (arxiv.org)
		55 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago \| 11 comments
24.		Remembering Lou Gerstner (ibm.com)
		71 points by thm 7 hours ago \| 32 comments
25.		Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014) (dheera.net)
		115 points by basilikum 7 days ago \| 35 comments
26.		Public Domain Day 2026 (duke.edu)
		108 points by rolph 1 day ago \| 14 comments
27.		PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python (pysdr.org)
		114 points by kklisura 6 hours ago \| 6 comments
28.		2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)
		90 points by nickswalker 4 days ago \| 12 comments
29.		MongoBleed Explained Simply (2minutestreaming.com)
		103 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago \| 27 comments
30.		We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003) (kegel.com)
		101 points by birdculture 3 days ago \| 78 comments
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