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1.		15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
		978 points by cheeaun 1 day ago \| 370 comments
2.		If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
		829 points by soheilpro 23 hours ago \| 374 comments
3.		AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)
		775 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago \| 714 comments
4.		Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)
		708 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 376 comments
5.		Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
		467 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 185 comments
6.		Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
		378 points by sz4kerto 14 hours ago \| 189 comments
7.		Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)
		308 points by idoxer 14 hours ago \| 156 comments
8.		Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
		341 points by jfantl 12 hours ago \| 107 comments
9.		Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
		443 points by zdw 9 hours ago \| 230 comments
10.		Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (vogons.org)
		158 points by LowLevelMahn 4 days ago \| 58 comments
11.		Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com/lopespm)
		146 points by lopespm 1 day ago \| 59 comments
12.		DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
		245 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago \| 111 comments
13.		Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
		421 points by mkurz 20 hours ago \| 153 comments
14.		Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)
		511 points by speckx 17 hours ago \| 310 comments
15.		A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com/taleshape-com)
		166 points by wowi42 1 day ago \| 40 comments
16.		Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
		79 points by ekrsulov 15 hours ago \| 25 comments
17.		Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (vermaden.wordpress.com)
		116 points by vermaden 20 hours ago \| 55 comments
18.		Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)
		79 points by debo_ 14 hours ago \| 14 comments
19.		TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com/datanoisetv)
		117 points by sylwester 1 day ago \| 26 comments
20.		Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)
		104 points by vinhnx 3 days ago \| 13 comments
21.		'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mitpress.mit.edu)
		83 points by anarbadalov 1 day ago \| 23 comments
22.		R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)
		79 points by tosh 11 hours ago \| 10 comments
23.		Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
		276 points by aloknnikhil 1 day ago \| 159 comments
24.		What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (acm.org)
		68 points by underscoreF 11 hours ago \| 39 comments
25.		How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
		176 points by hisamafahri 1 day ago \| 87 comments
26.		The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)
		110 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago \| 58 comments
27.		Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com/pocketbase)
		119 points by Onavo 14 hours ago \| 90 comments
28.		Show HN: CEL by Example (celbyexample.com)
		76 points by bufbuild 16 hours ago \| 39 comments
29.		Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com/khalildh)
		135 points by prathyvsh 15 hours ago \| 36 comments
30.		Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
		108 points by cpojer 19 hours ago \| 79 comments
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