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1.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1450 points by novemp 1 day ago | 911 comments
2.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
841 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 179 comments
3.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
493 points by ssgodderidge 1 day ago | 180 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
417 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 207 comments
5.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
438 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 84 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
282 points by futurecat 4 days ago | 203 comments
7.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
357 points by 0bytematt 4 days ago | 25 comments
8.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
423 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 199 comments
9.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
245 points by zachlatta 19 hours ago | 110 comments
10.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
124 points by kianN 20 hours ago | 29 comments
11.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
504 points by harel 1 day ago | 343 comments
12.
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
151 points by four_fifths 17 hours ago | 73 comments
13.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
136 points by yichab0d 21 hours ago | 70 comments
14.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
154 points by varjag 3 days ago | 42 comments
15.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
345 points by mustaphah 19 hours ago | 147 comments
16.
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
111 points by dogline 16 hours ago | 22 comments
17.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
168 points by luu 1 day ago | 225 comments
18.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
215 points by presbyterian 22 hours ago | 197 comments
19.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
147 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 99 comments
20.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
382 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 239 comments
21.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
89 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 38 comments
22.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
127 points by luu 4 days ago | 91 comments
23.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
134 points by telotortium 5 days ago | 18 comments
24.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
361 points by righthand 1 day ago | 117 comments
25.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
92 points by lirbank 20 hours ago | 49 comments
26.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
321 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 271 comments
27.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
109 points by icwtyjj 19 hours ago | 64 comments
28.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
364 points by dClauzel 1 day ago | 303 comments
29.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
124 points by tosh 1 day ago | 69 comments
30.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
159 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 64 comments

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