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1.
The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)
651 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 318 comments
2.
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
645 points by flipped 14 hours ago | 260 comments
3.
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
629 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 184 comments
4.
Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
470 points by bsuh 17 hours ago | 228 comments
5.
AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
664 points by thm 15 hours ago | 570 comments
6.
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (reddit.com)
561 points by newsoftheday 18 hours ago | 218 comments
7.
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
294 points by berlianta 19 hours ago | 123 comments
8.
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
390 points by tamnd 18 hours ago | 109 comments
9.
Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)
621 points by jeromechoo 1 day ago | 308 comments
10.
Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
261 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 196 comments
11.
ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
147 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 74 comments
12.
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)
281 points by instagraham 16 hours ago | 94 comments
13.
I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
295 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 602 comments
14.
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
140 points by wojtczyk 1 day ago | 77 comments
15.
RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google (shkspr.mobi)
270 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 73 comments
16.
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
192 points by suoken 3 days ago | 88 comments
17.
OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family (mendelgreenberg.com)
107 points by chabad360 1 day ago | 75 comments
18.
Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com/crosspoint-reader)
148 points by dmos62 2 days ago | 60 comments
19.
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (lites.dev)
174 points by atilimcetin 3 days ago | 92 comments
20.
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
356 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 285 comments
21.
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
194 points by stereo-highway 1 day ago | 99 comments
22.
The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
173 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 72 comments
23.
Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
495 points by Qem 22 hours ago | 316 comments
24.
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
82 points by zeech 2 days ago | 47 comments
25.
Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (chevrolet.com)
160 points by mindcrime 3 days ago | 149 comments
26.
 [dupe] SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
78 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 1 comment
27.
Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
97 points by blumpy22 16 hours ago | 46 comments
28.
Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
99 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 21 comments
29.
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
273 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 324 comments
30.
The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
184 points by ks2048 1 day ago | 135 comments

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