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1.		2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
		903 points by simonw 1 day ago \| 571 comments
2.		Linux is good now (pcgamer.com)
		1111 points by Vinnl 1 day ago \| 890 comments
3.		A website to destroy all websites (henry.codes)
		732 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago \| 359 comments
4.		Cameras and Lenses (2020) (ciechanow.ski)
		527 points by sebg 1 day ago \| 57 comments
5.		Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (ccc.de)
		533 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago \| 206 comments
6.		Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)
		483 points by max_lt 1 day ago \| 147 comments
7.		BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal (bloomberg.com)
		342 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago \| 578 comments
8.		I rebooted my social life (jamesomalley.co.uk)
		483 points by edent 1 day ago \| 371 comments
9.		Python numbers every programmer should know (mkennedy.codes)
		401 points by WoodenChair 1 day ago \| 170 comments
10.		2025 Letter (danwang.co)
		376 points by Amorymeltzer 1 day ago \| 307 comments
11.		Can Bundler be as fast as uv? (tenderlovemaking.com)
		342 points by ibobev 23 hours ago \| 97 comments
12.		Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)
		381 points by coldpie 2 days ago \| 456 comments
13.		Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (wiley.com)
		228 points by Luc 1 day ago \| 344 comments
14.		Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (github.com/quickemu-project)
		200 points by teekert 3 days ago \| 41 comments
15.		Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)
		216 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago \| 47 comments
16.		If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app (jgc.org)
		241 points by jgrahamc 5 days ago \| 147 comments
17.		50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player (lightcapai.medium.com)
		259 points by ResisBey 1 day ago \| 310 comments
18.		iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan (developer.apple.com)
		413 points by eklavya 1 day ago \| 393 comments
19.		Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)
		133 points by jbaptiste 1 day ago \| 69 comments
20.		Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points (jeffgeerling.com)
		145 points by thomasjb 1 day ago \| 87 comments
21.		C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)
		89 points by thetechstech 7 days ago \| 14 comments
22.		Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)
		147 points by picture 1 day ago \| 10 comments
23.		Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them (sherwood.news)
		316 points by wtcactus 1 day ago \| 106 comments
24.		Pokémon Team Optimization (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		185 points by nchagnet 6 days ago \| 65 comments
25.		Pixar's True Story (computerhistory.org)
		96 points by kristianp 1 day ago \| 24 comments
26.		Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes (tomshardware.com)
		272 points by gloxkiqcza 1 day ago \| 91 comments
27.		Build a Deep Learning Library (quarto.pub)
		124 points by butanyways 1 day ago \| 15 comments
28.		Build Software. Build Users (dima.day)
		68 points by dinerville 5 days ago \| 18 comments
29.		Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)
		153 points by aussieguy1234 1 day ago \| 120 comments
30.		All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)
		123 points by Kyro38 5 days ago \| 68 comments
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