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1.
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
836 points by todotask2 21 hours ago | 363 comments
2.
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
580 points by us321 1 day ago | 356 comments
3.
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
850 points by tanelpoder 17 hours ago | 522 comments
4.
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
575 points by embedding-shape 20 hours ago | 244 comments
5.
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
350 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 165 comments
6.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
421 points by jaas 19 hours ago | 234 comments
7.
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
398 points by gpi 1 day ago | 57 comments
8.
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
531 points by cl3misch 23 hours ago | 246 comments
9.
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
542 points by robertvc 18 hours ago | 199 comments
10.
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
200 points by cgwu 1 day ago | 47 comments
11.
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
352 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 115 comments
12.
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
295 points by p44v9n 4 days ago | 133 comments
13.
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
272 points by tosh 1 day ago | 104 comments
14.
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
136 points by jamesgresql 5 days ago | 96 comments
15.
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
137 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 159 comments
16.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
311 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 158 comments
17.
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
232 points by cebert 18 hours ago | 294 comments
18.
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
149 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 96 comments
19.
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
236 points by samuel246 1 day ago | 9 comments
20.
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
105 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 23 comments
21.
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
84 points by giuliomagnifico 17 hours ago | 78 comments
22.
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
74 points by christalwang 19 hours ago | 82 comments
23.
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
122 points by linolevan 13 hours ago | 70 comments
24.
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
272 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 124 comments
25.
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
126 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago | 34 comments
26.
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
97 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 23 comments
27.
HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
72 points by zdw 2 days ago | 13 comments
28.
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
99 points by nz 6 days ago | 15 comments
29.
Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
181 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago | 98 comments
30.
All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible (mvr.github.io)
123 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 16 comments

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