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1.		BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp (birdy.chat)
		680 points by joooscha 21 hours ago \| 425 comments
2.		Banned C++ features in Chromium (googlesource.com)
		232 points by szmarczak 1 day ago \| 243 comments
3.		Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms (twitter.com/nicerinperson)
		474 points by AffableSpatula 1 day ago \| 305 comments
4.		Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered (windowscentral.com)
		521 points by blacktulip 1 day ago \| 318 comments
5.		Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)
		456 points by user5994461 1 day ago \| 266 comments
6.		Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)
		218 points by signa11 6 days ago \| 151 comments
7.		Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) (albedo.com)
		206 points by topherhaddad 20 hours ago \| 68 comments
8.		Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison (the-diy-life.com)
		204 points by verginer 22 hours ago \| 86 comments
9.		Maze Algorithms (2017) (jamisbuck.org)
		158 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 34 comments
10.		Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)
		346 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago \| 210 comments
11.		European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
		781 points by s_dev 2 days ago \| 492 comments
12.		Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
		244 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago \| 61 comments
13.		How I estimate work (seangoedecke.com)
		491 points by mattjhall 1 day ago \| 288 comments
14.		Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
		194 points by goopthink 1 day ago \| 120 comments
15.		Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)
		287 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 88 comments
16.		Memory layout in Zig with formulas (raymondtana.github.io)
		125 points by raymondtana 1 day ago \| 28 comments
17.		Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (tansu.io)
		97 points by rmoff 5 days ago \| 24 comments
18.		Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg (bloomberg.github.io)
		124 points by clarus 5 days ago \| 27 comments
19.		Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public (sharedclaude.com)
		77 points by reasonableklout 1 day ago \| 26 comments
20.		Agent orchestration for the timid (substack.com)
		114 points by markferree 20 hours ago \| 29 comments
21.		I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog (micahcantor.com)
		278 points by hydroxideOH- 19 hours ago \| 97 comments
22.		Understanding Rust Closures (vandecreme.net)
		65 points by avandecreme 21 hours ago \| 33 comments
23.		When employees feel slighted, they work less (upenn.edu)
		329 points by consumer451 5 days ago \| 242 comments
24.		“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)
		167 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 71 comments
25.		80386 Multiplication and Division (nand2mario.github.io)
		104 points by nand2mario 1 day ago \| 30 comments
26.		Traintrackr – Live LED Maps (traintrackr.co.uk)
		98 points by recursion 6 days ago \| 30 comments
27.		Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (github.com/nrrb)
		201 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago \| 95 comments
28.		Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
		209 points by io_eric 4 days ago \| 67 comments
29.		Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents (simonwillison.net)
		70 points by lumpa 1 day ago \| 53 comments
30.		Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)
		172 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 109 comments
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