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1.
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
1167 points by signa11 1 day ago | 433 comments
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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
580 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 231 comments
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
887 points by thm 18 hours ago | 409 comments
4.
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
375 points by subract 1 day ago | 79 comments
5.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
553 points by vrganj 19 hours ago | 219 comments
6.
Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
280 points by GodelNumbering 19 hours ago | 297 comments
7.
Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
212 points by evakhoury 4 days ago | 153 comments
8.
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
324 points by dynip 1 day ago | 120 comments
9.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
149 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 75 comments
10.
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
358 points by ggcr 15 hours ago | 732 comments
11.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
511 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 583 comments
12.
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)
129 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 95 comments
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia (medium.com/jakeorlowitz)
480 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 286 comments
14.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
334 points by zdw 1 day ago | 69 comments
15.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (cnbc.com)
336 points by aghuang 18 hours ago | 359 comments
16.
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
377 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 222 comments
17.
The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
286 points by croes 1 day ago | 249 comments
18.
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View” (retrogamecoders.com)
85 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 12 comments
19.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (science.org)
317 points by nooks 12 hours ago | 119 comments
20.
 [dupe] GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
649 points by cebert 20 hours ago | 1 comment
21.
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline (djspeckhals.com)
226 points by dustin1114 4 days ago | 58 comments
22.
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
87 points by fchishtie 16 hours ago | 54 comments
23.
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
153 points by samuell 5 days ago | 38 comments
24.
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
141 points by speckx 4 days ago | 59 comments
25.
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
118 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 150 comments
26.
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
120 points by lumpa 3 days ago | 56 comments
27.
Squares in Squares (myphotos.cc)
103 points by carlos-menezes 2 days ago | 22 comments
28.
The Ballad of TIGIT (owlposting.com)
102 points by crescit_eundo 15 hours ago | 20 comments
29.
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? (buffrr.dev)
89 points by ca98am79 5 days ago | 55 comments
30.
The Steinwinter Supercargo (thedrive.com)
65 points by itronitron 3 days ago | 17 comments

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