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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1353 points by rubenbe 1 day ago | 420 comments
2.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
900 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 1500 comments
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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
624 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 day ago | 179 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
761 points by nilirl 1 day ago | 317 comments
5.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
901 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 956 comments
6.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
520 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 41 comments
7.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
361 points by chizhik-pyzhik 1 day ago | 215 comments
8.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
471 points by _vaporwave_ 1 day ago | 59 comments
9.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
693 points by adunk 1 day ago | 381 comments
10.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
440 points by xz18r 1 day ago | 161 comments
11.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
560 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 187 comments
12.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
364 points by aduffy 1 day ago | 76 comments
13.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
583 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 114 comments
14.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
229 points by tcp_handshaker 23 hours ago | 199 comments
15.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
245 points by devhouse 1 day ago | 212 comments
16.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
328 points by smhx 2 days ago | 51 comments
17.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
507 points by thm 1 day ago | 457 comments
18.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
88 points by sai18 1 day ago | 45 comments
19.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
225 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
20.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
224 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
21.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
364 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 118 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
164 points by luispa 5 days ago | 62 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 1 day ago | 21 comments
24.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
55 points by namanyayg 1 day ago | 22 comments
25.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
215 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 40 comments
26.
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
139 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 128 comments
27.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
119 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 26 comments
28.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
268 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 246 comments
29.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
111 points by azurewraith 1 day ago | 51 comments
30.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
69 points by fedek_ 1 day ago | 43 comments

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