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1.
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
816 points by alexharri 14 hours ago | 102 comments
2.
The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
448 points by rendall 1 day ago | 288 comments
3.
High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
242 points by tobr 2 days ago | 122 comments
4.
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
348 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 62 comments
5.
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
211 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 55 comments
6.
US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
323 points by doener 15 hours ago | 292 comments
7.
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
195 points by tin7in 16 hours ago | 90 comments
8.
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/pabannier)
134 points by el_pa_b 16 hours ago | 44 comments
9.
Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
223 points by originalankur 15 hours ago | 57 comments
10.
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
358 points by iamwil 5 days ago | 206 comments
11.
The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
274 points by glimshe 11 hours ago | 227 comments
12.
The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
145 points by c420 18 hours ago | 148 comments
13.
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
131 points by tripdout 23 hours ago | 25 comments
14.
PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
227 points by smurda 14 hours ago | 253 comments
15.
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
62 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 11 comments
16.
The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
90 points by 1659447091 13 hours ago | 63 comments
17.
An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
109 points by Tachyooon 8 hours ago | 130 comments
18.
Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada (ctvnews.ca)
74 points by debo_ 5 days ago | 49 comments
19.
Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
61 points by kurinikku 20 hours ago | 4 comments
20.
After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
186 points by giuliomagnifico 15 hours ago | 209 comments
21.
There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
74 points by 7777777phil 9 hours ago | 43 comments
22.
Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
56 points by zdw 5 days ago | 36 comments
23.
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) (maniek86.xyz)
89 points by rasz 6 days ago | 8 comments
24.
The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail)
139 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 23 comments
25.
Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (lesswrong.com)
82 points by OgsyedIE 3 days ago | 42 comments
26.
Beebo, a wave simulator written in C (sr.ht)
60 points by anon25783 3 days ago | 4 comments
27.
Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
102 points by 7777777phil 11 hours ago | 39 comments
28.
Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go (dsifry.github.io)
34 points by dsifry 15 hours ago | 29 comments
29.
Architecture for Disposable Systems (tuananh.net)
52 points by tuananh 14 hours ago | 26 comments
30.
Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video] (youtube.com)
27 points by basilikum 6 days ago | 22 comments

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