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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
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notepad-plus-plus.org
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| 116 points by
mysterydip
37 minutes ago
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
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dmitrybrant.com
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| 255 points by
zdw
5 hours ago
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76 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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| 186 points by
jimminyx
3 hours ago
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55 comments
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Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]
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dtic.mil
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| 14 points by
kioku
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
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bbc.com
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| 30 points by
breve
3 hours ago
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8 comments
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Apple I Advertisement (1976)
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chez.com
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| 179 points by
janandonly
9 hours ago
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119 comments
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Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
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xikipedia.org
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| 25 points by
rebane2001
2 hours ago
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10 comments
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My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
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rafaelcosta.me
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| 154 points by
rafaelcosta
5 hours ago
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76 comments
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Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
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samuelhewitt.com
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| 28 points by
accrual
2 hours ago
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10 comments
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Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
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adventuregamestudio.co.uk
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| 273 points by
doener
12 hours ago
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50 comments
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Founding is a snowball
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bawolf.com
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| 38 points by
bryantwolf
5 hours ago
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Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
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cedardb.com
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| 85 points by
jandrewrogers
8 hours ago
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17 comments
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Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
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idiallo.com
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| 544 points by
firefoxd
7 hours ago
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239 comments
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Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
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solidean.com
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| 31 points by
PaulHoule
5 hours ago
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3 comments
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History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)
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archive.org
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| 5 points by
brudgers
2 hours ago
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1 comments
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MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
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cnx-software.com
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| 177 points by
mikece
15 hours ago
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56 comments
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Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]
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mit.edu
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| 57 points by
zem
7 hours ago
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32 comments
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
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kohlschuetter.github.io
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| 214 points by
kohlschuetter
18 hours ago
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113 comments
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Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford
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lrb.co.uk
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| 8 points by
against
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
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netbird.io
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| 646 points by
l1am0
16 hours ago
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245 comments
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
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forkingmad.blog
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| 53 points by
cyanbane
8 hours ago
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67 comments
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Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)
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ycombinator.com
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7 hours ago
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discuss
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MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
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sciencedaily.com
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| 78 points by
amichail
5 hours ago
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22 comments
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Amiga Unix (Amix)
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amigaunix.com
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| 113 points by
donatj
15 hours ago
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41 comments
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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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| 46 points by
gmays
8 hours ago
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19 comments
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Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
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| 63 points by
CzaxTanmay
10 hours ago
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14 comments
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
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gyptazy.com
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| 188 points by
yannick2k
16 hours ago
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107 comments
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VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
(
visualjj.com
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| 156 points by
demail
19 hours ago
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67 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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| 19 points by
drewgregory
2 hours ago
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18 comments
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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
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taoofmac.com
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| 185 points by
rcarmo
6 hours ago
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115 comments
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English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
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yaledailynews.com
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| 114 points by
cmsefton
10 hours ago
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158 comments
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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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| 65 points by
mitchbob
13 hours ago
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31 comments
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Ian's Shoelace Site
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fieggen.com
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| 25 points by
righthand
7 hours ago
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1 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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| 151 points by
arwt
6 hours ago
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68 comments
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A web server on a single floppy disk
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floppy.ddns.net
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| 93 points by
ActionRetro
15 hours ago
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Margin Call
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asymco.com
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| 133 points by
zdw
5 hours ago
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73 comments
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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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| 22 points by
PaulHoule
8 hours ago
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14 comments
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
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mariozechner.at
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| 352 points by
SatvikBeri
17 hours ago
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155 comments
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Good if make prior after data instead of before
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lesswrong.com
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| 10 points by
surprisetalk
6 hours ago
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2 comments
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
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dywa.ng
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| 838 points by
cbeuw
1 day ago
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524 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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| 11 points by
ibobev
7 hours ago
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1 comments
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FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect
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belnet.be
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| 10 points by
obeleh
7 hours ago
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2 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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| 73 points by
bikenaga
9 hours ago
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20 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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| 46 points by
speckx
11 hours ago
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9 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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| 40 points by
dhruv3006
11 hours ago
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21 comments
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Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
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github.com/DataDog
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| 127 points by
tanelpoder
23 hours ago
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15 comments
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
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martinalderson.com
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| 43 points by
martinald
2 hours ago
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54 comments
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Outsourcing thinking
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erikjohannes.no
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| 248 points by
todsacerdoti
1 day ago
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210 comments
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Opentrees.org (2024)
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opentrees.org
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| 144 points by
surprisetalk
1 day ago
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13 comments
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Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
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github.com/zuckermanai
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| 65 points by
ddaniel10
12 hours ago
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45 comments
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Therac-25: A landmark case study in software engineering failure
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wikipedia.org
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| 5 points by
insuranceguru
1 hour ago
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1 comments
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The Book of PF, 4th edition
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nostarch.com
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| 201 points by
0x54MUR41
18 hours ago
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37 comments
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Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy
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phys.org
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| 49 points by
PaulHoule
20 hours ago
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30 comments
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List animals until failure
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rose.systems
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| 328 points by
l1n
23 hours ago
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178 comments
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Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
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lab174.com
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| 101 points by
merelysounds
22 hours ago
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28 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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| 196 points by
breve
1 day ago
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179 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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×1.27
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| 41 points by
PaulHoule
7 hours ago
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2 comments
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
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crl.io
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| 175 points by
Antibabelic
1 day ago
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41 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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×5.14
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| 710 points by
Teever
1 day ago
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532 comments
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Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
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apple.com
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×1.88
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| 210 points by
pieterr
1 day ago
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180 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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×1.13
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| 5 points by
Noaidi
6 hours ago
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2 comments
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Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
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github.com/zupat
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×1.36
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| 141 points by
behnamoh
1 day ago
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102 comments
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L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel
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l4ka.org
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×0.73
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| 6 points by
doener
7 hours ago
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2 comments
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In praise of –dry-run
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henrikwarne.com
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| 287 points by
ingve
1 day ago
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152 comments
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Automatic Programming
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antirez.com
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×2.62
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| 256 points by
dvrp
1 day ago
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230 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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×1.53
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| 186 points by
doppp
22 hours ago
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143 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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| 173 points by
csmantle
1 day ago
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114 comments
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Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product
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simonberens.com
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| 9 points by
sberens
6 hours ago
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9 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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| 303 points by
pera
2 days ago
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313 comments
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'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year
(
vktr.com
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| 28 points by
ohjeez
7 hours ago
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21 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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| 110 points by
ritvikarya98
1 day ago
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29 comments
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Kiki – The accountability monster for people who are easily distracted
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kiki.computer
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| 41 points by
pikseladam
6 hours ago
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47 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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OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
(
garymarcus.substack.com
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| 36 points by
geox
7 hours ago
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13 comments
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Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
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nemin.hu
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| 186 points by
todsacerdoti
1 day ago
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97 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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×1.11
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| 3 points by
LutumVeritas
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
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quantamagazine.org
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| 170 points by
marojejian
23 hours ago
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81 comments
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Magnetic core memory 128-byte USB drive
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tomshardware.com
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| 8 points by
stevenjgarner
4 hours ago
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1 comments
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Tuning Semantic Search on JFMM.net – Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual
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carlkolon.com
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| 28 points by
cckolon
17 hours ago
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10 comments
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GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building
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phoronix.com
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| 44 points by
sergiogdr
8 hours ago
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14 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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×1.13
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| 85 points by
doener
1 day ago
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44 comments
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The L4Re Operating System Framework
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l4re.org
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| 4 points by
doener
7 hours ago
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discuss
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Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings
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oregonlive.com
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| 52 points by
xqcgrek2
6 hours ago
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74 comments
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Real engineering failures instead of success stories
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failhub.substack.com
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| 40 points by
birdculture
9 hours ago
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10 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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| 95 points by
Thevet
1 day ago
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92 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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| 230 points by
ColinWright
1 day ago
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115 comments
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NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston
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arstechnica.com
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| 167 points by
verzali
1 day ago
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86 comments
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Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications
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arxiv.org
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| 83 points by
matt_d
1 day ago
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18 comments
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The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control – TDF Community Blog
(
documentfoundation.org
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| 18 points by
cratermoon
7 hours ago
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1 comments
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Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
(
moltbook.com
)
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| 255 points by
schlichtm
1 day ago
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861 comments
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