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1.		Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
		1284 points by adocomplete 1 day ago \| 1162 comments
2.		GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)
		1146 points by to3k 1 day ago \| 891 comments
3.		Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)
		404 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 145 comments
4.		Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)
		412 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 79 comments
5.		Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
		447 points by moWerk 1 day ago \| 66 comments
6.		BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/zaneham)
		440 points by rurban 1 day ago \| 189 comments
7.		Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
		1081 points by chaseadam17 1 day ago \| 109 comments
8.		HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)
		352 points by hentrep 1 day ago \| 180 comments
9.		Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
		436 points by max-m 2 days ago \| 77 comments
10.		So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)
		267 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago \| 105 comments
11.		Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)
		564 points by colinprince 1 day ago \| 356 comments
12.		Async/Await on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		222 points by Philpax 1 day ago \| 54 comments
13.		Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)
		238 points by cdegroot 1 day ago \| 87 comments
14.		Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
		502 points by acnops 1 day ago \| 413 comments
15.		I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (edbn.me)
		267 points by kewonit 1 day ago \| 51 comments
16.		Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)
		336 points by tempodox 3 days ago \| 78 comments
17.		Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)
		84 points by tesserato 5 days ago \| 41 comments
18.		DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
		96 points by TMWNN 4 days ago \| 47 comments
19.		A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)
		161 points by MrFinch 4 days ago \| 61 comments
20.		Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)
		110 points by lorisdev 1 day ago \| 64 comments
21.		Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)
		106 points by rbanffy 5 days ago \| 18 comments
22.		Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
		192 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 130 comments
23.		Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)
		110 points by NaOH 5 days ago \| 41 comments
24.		Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
		450 points by Bender 1 day ago \| 258 comments
25.		Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
		255 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 139 comments
26.		Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)
		146 points by signa11 4 days ago \| 28 comments
27.		Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)
		167 points by elayabharath 2 days ago \| 22 comments
28.		Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)
		201 points by mustaphah 2 days ago \| 156 comments
29.		I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)
		175 points by Ariarule 1 day ago \| 57 comments
30.		AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
		412 points by VorpalWay 1 day ago \| 337 comments
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