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1.
The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
767 points by speckx 20 days ago | 353 comments
2.
Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
819 points by flipped 20 days ago | 332 comments
3.
Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
590 points by bsuh 20 days ago | 296 comments
4.
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
663 points by whatisabcdefgh 21 days ago | 192 comments
5.
AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
834 points by thm 20 days ago | 734 comments
6.
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
499 points by tamnd 20 days ago | 159 comments
7.
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
327 points by berlianta 20 days ago | 149 comments
8.
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
370 points by instagraham 20 days ago | 122 comments
9.
Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
726 points by jeromechoo 21 days ago | 337 comments
10.
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
639 points by newsoftheday 20 days ago | 252 comments
11.
I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
344 points by speckx 20 days ago | 734 comments
12.
Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
272 points by andsoitis 21 days ago | 212 comments
13.
ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
150 points by jonbaer 21 days ago | 80 comments
14.
RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
297 points by SpyCoder77 21 days ago | 80 comments
15.
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
178 points by wojtczyk 21 days ago | 90 comments
16.
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
198 points by suoken 23 days ago | 89 comments
17.
OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
117 points by chabad360 21 days ago | 79 comments
18.
Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
156 points by dmos62 22 days ago | 66 comments
19.
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
388 points by surprisetalk 20 days ago | 319 comments
20.
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
188 points by atilimcetin 23 days ago | 105 comments
21.
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
208 points by stereo-highway 21 days ago | 103 comments
22.
Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
142 points by jruohonen 20 days ago | 38 comments
23.
The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
188 points by surprisetalk 20 days ago | 75 comments
24.
Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
512 points by Qem 20 days ago | 335 comments
25.
Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
168 points by mindcrime 23 days ago | 153 comments
26.
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
87 points by zeech 22 days ago | 49 comments
27.
 [dupe] SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
78 points by jonbaer 21 days ago | 1 comment
28.
Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
112 points by blumpy22 20 days ago | 50 comments
29.
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
300 points by speckx 20 days ago | 343 comments
30.
The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
187 points by ks2048 21 days ago | 138 comments

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