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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
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dmitrybrant.com
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| 494 points by
zdw
11 hours ago
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Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
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lapcatsoftware.com
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| 83 points by
zdw
5 hours ago
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My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
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rafaelcosta.me
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| 274 points by
rafaelcosta
12 hours ago
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124 comments
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Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
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github.com/gavrielc
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| 349 points by
jimminyx
10 hours ago
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Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
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xikipedia.org
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| 160 points by
rebane2001
8 hours ago
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Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)
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dtic.mil
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| 70 points by
kioku
7 hours ago
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Contracts in Nix
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sraka.xyz
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| 44 points by
todsacerdoti
6 hours ago
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Apple I Advertisement (1976)
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chez.com
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| 223 points by
janandonly
15 hours ago
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Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
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adventuregamestudio.co.uk
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| 312 points by
doener
19 hours ago
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63 comments
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Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
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bbc.com
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| 57 points by
breve
9 hours ago
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Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce
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wired.com
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smurda
3 hours ago
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Ian's Shoelace Site
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fieggen.com
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| 144 points by
righthand
14 hours ago
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Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
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samuelhewitt.com
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| 71 points by
accrual
9 hours ago
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Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
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solidean.com
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| 70 points by
PaulHoule
12 hours ago
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32 comments
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Ratchets in Software Development
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qntm.org
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nvader
2 hours ago
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discuss
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Rev Up the Viral Factories
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science.org
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etiam
3 hours ago
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging
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martinalderson.com
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| 167 points by
martinald
9 hours ago
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Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
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cedardb.com
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| 116 points by
jandrewrogers
15 hours ago
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Founding is a snowball
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bawolf.com
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| 73 points by
bryantwolf
11 hours ago
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MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
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cnx-software.com
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| 209 points by
mikece
22 hours ago
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Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
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netbird.io
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| 674 points by
l1am0
23 hours ago
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
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gyptazy.com
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| 230 points by
yannick2k
22 hours ago
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
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forkingmad.blog
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| 90 points by
cyanbane
15 hours ago
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Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
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research.google
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| 80 points by
gmays
15 hours ago
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Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy
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flashblaze.xyz
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flashblaze
6 hours ago
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Stop Using Pseudo-Types
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f2r.github.io
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speckx
5 hours ago
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Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)
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ycombinator.com
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14 hours ago
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discuss
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Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)
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tomverbeure.github.io
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hasheddan
8 hours ago
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Amiga Unix (Amix)
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amigaunix.com
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donatj
22 hours ago
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Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
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idiallo.com
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| 677 points by
firefoxd
14 hours ago
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316 comments
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Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
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| 77 points by
CzaxTanmay
16 hours ago
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Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford
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lrb.co.uk
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against
10 hours ago
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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
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notepad-plus-plus.org
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mysterydip
7 hours ago
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Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents
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github.com/rivet-dev
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NathanFlurry
8 hours ago
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Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned
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theguardian.com
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mitchbob
20 hours ago
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Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]
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mit.edu
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zem
14 hours ago
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Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed
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sintef.no
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PaulHoule
14 hours ago
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28 comments
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History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)
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archive.org
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brudgers
9 hours ago
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English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
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yaledailynews.com
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cmsefton
17 hours ago
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A web server on a single floppy disk
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floppy.ddns.net
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ActionRetro
22 hours ago
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MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
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sciencedaily.com
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amichail
11 hours ago
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
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dywa.ng
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| 849 points by
cbeuw
1 day ago
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
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mariozechner.at
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| 382 points by
SatvikBeri
23 hours ago
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Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications
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vatican.va
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theresistor
10 hours ago
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Outsourcing thinking
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erikjohannes.no
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| 257 points by
todsacerdoti
1 day ago
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209 comments
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
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kohlschuetter.github.io
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| 255 points by
kohlschuetter
1 day ago
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124 comments
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Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all
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joinformal.com
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drewgregory
9 hours ago
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20 comments
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Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
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github.com/DataDog
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| 128 points by
tanelpoder
1 day ago
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The Reasons Teens Say No to AI
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wsj.com
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1vuio0pswjnm7
2 hours ago
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2 comments
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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
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taoofmac.com
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| 209 points by
rcarmo
13 hours ago
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128 comments
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1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
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depthfirst.com
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| 160 points by
arwt
13 hours ago
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70 comments
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Why do people still talk about AGI?
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| 18 points by
cermicelli
5 hours ago
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27 comments
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Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.
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leventhalmap.org
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| 50 points by
speckx
18 hours ago
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9 comments
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List animals until failure
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rose.systems
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| 338 points by
l1n
1 day ago
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The Book of PF, 4th edition
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nostarch.com
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0x54MUR41
1 day ago
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Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
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lab174.com
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| 108 points by
merelysounds
1 day ago
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29 comments
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Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown
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github.com/VoidenHQ
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| 43 points by
dhruv3006
17 hours ago
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25 comments
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
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crl.io
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| 179 points by
Antibabelic
1 day ago
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42 comments
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Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
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theregister.com
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| 202 points by
breve
1 day ago
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186 comments
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VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
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visualjj.com
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×1.41
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| 168 points by
demail
1 day ago
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78 comments
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Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy
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phys.org
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| 50 points by
PaulHoule
1 day ago
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31 comments
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Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
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yle.fi
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| 720 points by
Teever
1 day ago
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543 comments
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Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
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cnbc.com
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| 311 points by
pera
2 days ago
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316 comments
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Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
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apple.com
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| 215 points by
pieterr
1 day ago
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184 comments
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Automatic Programming
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antirez.com
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| 263 points by
dvrp
1 day ago
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238 comments
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Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up
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openjdk.org
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| 177 points by
csmantle
1 day ago
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117 comments
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FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect
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belnet.be
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| 22 points by
obeleh
14 hours ago
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5 comments
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Good if make prior after data instead of before
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lesswrong.com
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| 13 points by
surprisetalk
13 hours ago
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8 comments
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Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
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phys.org
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| 80 points by
bikenaga
15 hours ago
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23 comments
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X8.11 Solar Flare from AR4366
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spaceweatherlive.com
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| 7 points by
ruined
8 hours ago
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1 comments
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Dan Pelzer's List of 3,599 Books He Read from 1962-2025
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what-dan-read.com
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| 5 points by
YoctoYARN
5 hours ago
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discuss
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In praise of –dry-run
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henrikwarne.com
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| 292 points by
ingve
1 day ago
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155 comments
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Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images
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github.com/rtvkiz
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| 111 points by
ritvikarya98
1 day ago
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28 comments
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The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]
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youtube.com
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| 189 points by
doppp
1 day ago
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146 comments
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Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, what if we get there?
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frontiersin.org
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| 9 points by
Noaidi
12 hours ago
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4 comments
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Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge
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quantamagazine.org
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| 15 points by
ibobev
14 hours ago
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2 comments
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Margin Call
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asymco.com
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| 146 points by
zdw
11 hours ago
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85 comments
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The L4Re Operating System Framework
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l4re.org
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| 9 points by
doener
14 hours ago
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discuss
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Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
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nemin.hu
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| 188 points by
todsacerdoti
1 day ago
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98 comments
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A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
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thetimes.com
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Thevet
2 days ago
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93 comments
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Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it
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github.com/IamLumae
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| 9 points by
LutumVeritas
13 hours ago
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1 comments
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Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland
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github.com/noctalia-dev
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| 86 points by
doener
1 day ago
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46 comments
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Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
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quantamagazine.org
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| 176 points by
marojejian
1 day ago
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NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston
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arstechnica.com
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| 168 points by
verzali
1 day ago
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L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel
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l4ka.org
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| 8 points by
doener
14 hours ago
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2 comments
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
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wikiedu.org
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| 234 points by
ColinWright
1 day ago
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115 comments
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Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
(
moltbook.com
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| 262 points by
schlichtm
2 days ago
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862 comments
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EV-1 for Lease (1996)
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loe.org
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| 51 points by
1970-01-01
1 day ago
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27 comments
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Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications
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arxiv.org
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| 85 points by
matt_d
1 day ago
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18 comments
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Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life
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nature.com
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| 47 points by
PaulHoule
14 hours ago
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3 comments
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