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1.		Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
		2331 points by grepsedawk 7 days ago \| 507 comments
2.		I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
		1923 points by blkhp19 7 days ago \| 328 comments
3.		They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
		636 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 180 comments
4.		Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers (sourceforge.net)
		1294 points by super256 7 days ago \| 500 comments
5.		US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
		764 points by giuliomagnifico 7 days ago \| 435 comments
6.		ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
		612 points by pabs3 7 days ago \| 602 comments
7.		MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
		325 points by chrsw 7 days ago \| 57 comments
8.		Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
		432 points by alex_be 7 days ago \| 66 comments
9.		USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
		411 points by WerWolv 7 days ago \| 48 comments
10.		Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
		392 points by chabons 7 days ago \| 367 comments
11.		Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
		614 points by ra 7 days ago \| 599 comments
12.		Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
		482 points by e-topy 10 days ago \| 732 comments
13.		Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
		250 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago \| 73 comments
14.		Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
		594 points by donohoe 7 days ago \| 246 comments
15.		US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
		604 points by g-b-r 8 days ago \| 2031 comments
16.		John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
		398 points by CharlesW 7 days ago \| 129 comments
17.		We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
		215 points by bundie 7 days ago \| 217 comments
18.		Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
		384 points by tetrisgm 7 days ago \| 134 comments
19.		I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
		432 points by nickvec 7 days ago \| 200 comments
20.		Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
		123 points by DamnInteresting 8 days ago \| 56 comments
21.		Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
		483 points by anonfunction 7 days ago \| 209 comments
22.		Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
		319 points by baely 7 days ago \| 84 comments
23.		Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
		177 points by stonecharioteer 9 days ago \| 25 comments
24.		I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
		162 points by ImGajeed76 10 days ago \| 45 comments
25.		Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
		138 points by frizlab 7 days ago \| 71 comments
26.		A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
		167 points by thomasjb 12 days ago \| 26 comments
27.		Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
		145 points by noztol 10 days ago \| 96 comments
28.		Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
		178 points by transpute 12 days ago \| 94 comments
29.		Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
		140 points by Levitating 8 days ago \| 90 comments
30.		Union types in C# 15 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
		224 points by 0x00C0FFEE 10 days ago \| 211 comments
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