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1.
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
1133 points by haunter 11 hours ago | 371 comments
2.
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
628 points by rolph 1 day ago | 355 comments
3.
StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
647 points by signa11 1 day ago | 353 comments
4.
The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
527 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 344 comments
5.
CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
454 points by hakonjdjohnsen 2 days ago | 56 comments
6.
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
325 points by veeti 1 day ago | 109 comments
7.
245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
250 points by neilfrndes 23 hours ago | 185 comments
8.
Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
782 points by diebillionaires 11 hours ago | 308 comments
9.
Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
433 points by ColinEberhardt 22 hours ago | 186 comments
10.
Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)
735 points by cianmm 17 hours ago | 164 comments
11.
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
231 points by notsentient 21 hours ago | 62 comments
12.
Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
210 points by gnabgib 3 days ago | 87 comments
13.
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
442 points by e12e 12 hours ago | 485 comments
14.
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
334 points by cheeaun 22 hours ago | 43 comments
15.
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
129 points by jandeboevrie 16 hours ago | 46 comments
16.
Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
243 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 192 comments
17.
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
228 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 207 comments
18.
Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
121 points by omarsar 3 days ago | 16 comments
19.
Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (news.mit.edu)
86 points by gmays 3 days ago | 63 comments
20.
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
407 points by meetpateltech 11 hours ago | 361 comments
21.
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (stripes.com)
333 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 108 comments
22.
Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
124 points by ksymph 2 days ago | 29 comments
23.
From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
219 points by stevekrouse 10 hours ago | 147 comments
24.
Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
236 points by s1291 8 hours ago | 66 comments
25.
Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (cloud.google.com)
230 points by unforgivenpasta 9 hours ago | 218 comments
26.
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
130 points by ozkatz 11 hours ago | 99 comments
27.
Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
109 points by oahmadov 11 hours ago | 26 comments
28.
What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
90 points by zdw 1 day ago | 55 comments
29.
Make some art with your phone sensors (tautme.github.io)
88 points by adm4 3 days ago | 17 comments
30.
A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
143 points by elonlit 1 day ago | 29 comments

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