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1.
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
393 points by gpi 23 hours ago | 56 comments
2.
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
563 points by us321 1 day ago | 348 comments
3.
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
729 points by todotask2 12 hours ago | 334 comments
4.
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
504 points by cl3misch 14 hours ago | 240 comments
5.
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
344 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 114 comments
6.
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
312 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 160 comments
7.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
292 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 150 comments
8.
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
198 points by cgwu 1 day ago | 47 comments
9.
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
666 points by tanelpoder 9 hours ago | 442 comments
10.
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
149 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 96 comments
11.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
352 points by jaas 11 hours ago | 208 comments
12.
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
421 points by embedding-shape 12 hours ago | 173 comments
13.
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
269 points by p44v9n 4 days ago | 121 comments
14.
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
218 points by samuel246 18 hours ago | 9 comments
15.
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
223 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 83 comments
16.
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
109 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 140 comments
17.
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
96 points by nz 6 days ago | 15 comments
18.
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
338 points by robertvc 9 hours ago | 114 comments
19.
Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop (github.com/tldraw)
179 points by pranav_rajs 1 day ago | 96 comments
20.
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
113 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 34 comments
21.
All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible (mvr.github.io)
121 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 13 comments
22.
I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)
123 points by zdw 5 days ago | 48 comments
23.
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
67 points by christalwang 10 hours ago | 75 comments
24.
Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (electrek.co)
392 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 517 comments
25.
psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com/loresuso)
85 points by tanelpoder 13 hours ago | 27 comments
26.
Training my smartwatch to track intelligence (dmvaldman.github.io)
132 points by dmvaldman 2 days ago | 62 comments
27.
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
111 points by jamesgresql 5 days ago | 81 comments
28.
The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
90 points by ThierryBuilds 17 hours ago | 33 comments
29.
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
214 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 107 comments
30.
Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents (github.com/bolt-foundry)
87 points by randall 1 day ago | 15 comments

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