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1.
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
1747 points by haunter 24 days ago | 593 comments
2.
Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
1634 points by diebillionaires 24 days ago | 652 comments
3.
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
787 points by e12e 24 days ago | 885 comments
4.
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)
658 points by rolph 24 days ago | 368 comments
5.
StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
687 points by signa11 24 days ago | 389 comments
6.
The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
586 points by Anon84 26 days ago | 414 comments
7.
Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (cloud.google.com)
415 points by unforgivenpasta 23 days ago | 443 comments
8.
From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)
304 points by stevekrouse 23 days ago | 240 comments
9.
CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
477 points by hakonjdjohnsen 26 days ago | 65 comments
10.
Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
296 points by pseudolus 24 days ago | 238 comments
11.
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
340 points by veeti 24 days ago | 116 comments
12.
245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)
264 points by neilfrndes 24 days ago | 199 comments
13.
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
205 points by ozkatz 24 days ago | 133 comments
14.
Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
489 points by ColinEberhardt 24 days ago | 207 comments
15.
Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
317 points by bstrama 23 days ago | 267 comments
16.
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)
370 points by cheeaun 24 days ago | 44 comments
17.
Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)
767 points by cianmm 24 days ago | 168 comments
18.
A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
250 points by elonlit 24 days ago | 62 comments
19.
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
248 points by notsentient 24 days ago | 71 comments
20.
Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)
355 points by s1291 23 days ago | 107 comments
21.
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
145 points by jandeboevrie 24 days ago | 52 comments
22.
Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
235 points by gnabgib 26 days ago | 96 comments
23.
Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
161 points by benanne 23 days ago | 23 comments
24.
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
236 points by debo_ 24 days ago | 213 comments
25.
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
512 points by meetpateltech 24 days ago | 486 comments
26.
Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)
134 points by omarsar 27 days ago | 19 comments
27.
Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
169 points by oahmadov 24 days ago | 48 comments
28.
Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (news.mit.edu)
96 points by gmays 27 days ago | 75 comments
29.
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (stripes.com)
354 points by petethomas 24 days ago | 119 comments
30.
Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
149 points by ksymph 25 days ago | 37 comments

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