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1.
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
953 points by alexharri 20 hours ago | 115 comments
2.
The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
481 points by rendall 1 day ago | 318 comments
3.
High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
257 points by tobr 2 days ago | 139 comments
4.
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
357 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 62 comments
5.
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
216 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 56 comments
6.
The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
394 points by glimshe 16 hours ago | 316 comments
7.
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
203 points by tin7in 22 hours ago | 92 comments
8.
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
425 points by iamwil 5 days ago | 233 comments
9.
Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
250 points by originalankur 21 hours ago | 62 comments
10.
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/pabannier)
145 points by el_pa_b 22 hours ago | 46 comments
11.
US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
342 points by doener 21 hours ago | 308 comments
12.
An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
133 points by Tachyooon 14 hours ago | 148 comments
13.
The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail)
156 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 34 comments
14.
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) (maniek86.xyz)
110 points by rasz 6 days ago | 9 comments
15.
The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
152 points by c420 1 day ago | 152 comments
16.
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
139 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 25 comments
17.
PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
244 points by smurda 20 hours ago | 266 comments
18.
Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
73 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 5 comments
19.
The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
97 points by 1659447091 19 hours ago | 66 comments
20.
There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
84 points by 7777777phil 15 hours ago | 44 comments
21.
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
66 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 11 comments
22.
Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com/kip-dili)
168 points by nhatcher 10 hours ago | 50 comments
23.
Light Mode InFFFFFFlation (willhbr.net)
189 points by Fudgel 9 hours ago | 135 comments
24.
Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
79 points by stefanvdw1 6 days ago | 10 comments
25.
The thing that brought me joy (stephenlewis.me)
92 points by monooso 12 hours ago | 39 comments
26.
Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
61 points by zdw 6 days ago | 44 comments
27.
Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases (github.com/chunkhound)
73 points by NadavBenItzhak 10 hours ago | 24 comments
28.
Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video] (ctvnews.ca)
75 points by debo_ 5 days ago | 49 comments
29.
After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
195 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 220 comments
30.
Common misunderstandings about large software companies (philipotoole.com)
86 points by otoolep 6 days ago | 45 comments

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