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1.
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
693 points by yusufusta 13 hours ago | 362 comments
2.
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)
438 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 256 comments
3.
Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)
398 points by tkhattra 3 days ago | 82 comments
4.
Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
236 points by sph 20 hours ago | 76 comments
5.
Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)
295 points by louiereederson 3 days ago | 116 comments
6.
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
293 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 50 comments
7.
Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)
234 points by boris_m 20 hours ago | 59 comments
8.
Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)
181 points by eshelyaron 3 days ago | 28 comments
9.
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)
137 points by atomfinger 5 days ago | 72 comments
10.
Slop Cop (awnist.com)
233 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 156 comments
11.
State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
342 points by f_r_d 15 hours ago | 114 comments
12.
Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)
272 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 264 comments
13.
"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
289 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 176 comments
14.
Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
329 points by RickJWagner 14 hours ago | 323 comments
15.
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)
439 points by anabranch 10 hours ago | 446 comments
16.
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (nature.com)
112 points by unsuspecting 1 day ago | 133 comments
17.
It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
183 points by coinfused 4 days ago | 120 comments
18.
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
284 points by NelsonMinar 10 hours ago | 82 comments
19.
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)
174 points by Lwrless 3 days ago | 5 comments
20.
The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)
130 points by azhenley 2 days ago | 15 comments
21.
The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
66 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 5 comments
22.
80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)
92 points by wicket 4 days ago | 12 comments
23.
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
197 points by sylvainkalache 15 hours ago | 203 comments
24.
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)
99 points by drasim 11 hours ago | 35 comments
25.
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)
84 points by t-3 3 days ago | 30 comments
26.
Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
77 points by DeathArrow 11 hours ago | 23 comments
27.
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
247 points by cdrnsf 7 hours ago | 161 comments
28.
Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
70 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments
29.
Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time (amitlimaye1.substack.com)
88 points by riteshnoronha16 5 days ago | 40 comments
30.
Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)
66 points by peter_d_sherman 4 days ago | 6 comments

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