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1.		The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)
		417 points by matt_d 1 day ago \| 94 comments
2.		LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
		1090 points by poisonfountain 1 day ago \| 1022 comments
3.		Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
		834 points by gavinray 22 hours ago \| 377 comments
4.		Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com/devenjarvis)
		371 points by devenjarvis 1 day ago \| 67 comments
5.		Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
		255 points by davidbarker 1 day ago \| 32 comments
6.		How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
		456 points by howToTestFE 22 hours ago \| 221 comments
7.		Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/anthropics)
		516 points by predkambrij 1 day ago \| 298 comments
8.		What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (unix.stackexchange.com)
		223 points by tosh 3 days ago \| 83 comments
9.		Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
		294 points by pramodbiligiri 2 days ago \| 200 comments
10.		Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
		172 points by Anon84 1 day ago \| 73 comments
11.		Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/valvesoftware)
		277 points by babuskov 1 day ago \| 133 comments
12.		Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
		314 points by toephu2 2 days ago \| 913 comments
13.		Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
		159 points by mmastrac 3 days ago \| 26 comments
14.		Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
		148 points by supermatou 3 days ago \| 78 comments
15.		Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
		170 points by gscott 1 day ago \| 85 comments
16.		An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight (radioworld.com)
		199 points by pkaeding 1 day ago \| 245 comments
17.		My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
		215 points by kristoff_it 4 days ago \| 154 comments
18.		Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
		153 points by gmays 4 days ago \| 31 comments
19.		How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time (hyperallergic.com)
		191 points by zeech 1 day ago \| 106 comments
20.		Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
		136 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 19 comments
21.		I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
		303 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago \| 260 comments
22.		Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
		152 points by kkm 4 days ago \| 39 comments
23.		Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab (acs.org)
		124 points by crescit_eundo 3 days ago \| 36 comments
24.		Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (righto.com)
		91 points by elpocko 1 day ago \| 28 comments
25.		Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (podman.io)
		127 points by daesorin 1 day ago \| 7 comments
26.		My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
		86 points by aself101 23 hours ago \| 24 comments
27.		Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
		120 points by old_sound 3 days ago \| 39 comments
28.		Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
		139 points by maxloh 23 hours ago \| 54 comments
29.		The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
		72 points by ChrisGammell 4 days ago \| 7 comments
30.		Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com/garethgeorge)
		98 points by flexagoon 6 days ago \| 7 comments
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