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1.		Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
		2184 points by grepsedawk 1 day ago \| 466 comments
2.		I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
		1809 points by blkhp19 1 day ago \| 311 comments
3.		They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
		613 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 167 comments
4.		Veracrypt project update (sourceforge.net)
		1245 points by super256 1 day ago \| 487 comments
5.		US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
		739 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago \| 418 comments
6.		ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
		587 points by pabs3 1 day ago \| 576 comments
7.		MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
		321 points by chrsw 1 day ago \| 56 comments
8.		Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
		409 points by alex_be 1 day ago \| 58 comments
9.		USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
		390 points by WerWolv 1 day ago \| 47 comments
10.		Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
		381 points by chabons 1 day ago \| 362 comments
11.		Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
		581 points by ra 1 day ago \| 584 comments
12.		Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
		444 points by e-topy 3 days ago \| 670 comments
13.		Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
		242 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago \| 70 comments
14.		Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
		561 points by donohoe 1 day ago \| 231 comments
15.		US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
		599 points by g-b-r 1 day ago \| 1997 comments
16.		John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
		369 points by CharlesW 23 hours ago \| 121 comments
17.		Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
		377 points by tetrisgm 1 day ago \| 128 comments
18.		We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
		211 points by bundie 1 day ago \| 211 comments
19.		Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
		118 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago \| 55 comments
20.		I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
		408 points by nickvec 1 day ago \| 190 comments
21.		Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
		308 points by baely 1 day ago \| 79 comments
22.		Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
		159 points by stonecharioteer 3 days ago \| 24 comments
23.		Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
		440 points by anonfunction 22 hours ago \| 192 comments
24.		I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
		161 points by ImGajeed76 4 days ago \| 38 comments
25.		Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
		134 points by frizlab 1 day ago \| 68 comments
26.		A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
		166 points by thomasjb 6 days ago \| 26 comments
27.		Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
		141 points by noztol 3 days ago \| 94 comments
28.		Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
		178 points by transpute 6 days ago \| 93 comments
29.		Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
		139 points by Levitating 1 day ago \| 85 comments
30.		Union types in C# 15 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
		221 points by 0x00C0FFEE 4 days ago \| 201 comments
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