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1.		Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)
		2039 points by grepsedawk 1 day ago \| 434 comments
2.		I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)
		1574 points by blkhp19 17 hours ago \| 274 comments
3.		Veracrypt project update (sourceforge.net)
		1218 points by super256 1 day ago \| 447 comments
4.		They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)
		537 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago \| 149 comments
5.		US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)
		708 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago \| 400 comments
6.		Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
		571 points by ra 1 day ago \| 564 comments
7.		MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
		294 points by chrsw 21 hours ago \| 54 comments
8.		ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)
		499 points by pabs3 20 hours ago \| 487 comments
9.		Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
		228 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 63 comments
10.		Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)
		532 points by donohoe 18 hours ago \| 207 comments
11.		US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
		593 points by g-b-r 1 day ago \| 1959 comments
12.		Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)
		340 points by chabons 17 hours ago \| 329 comments
13.		Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)
		338 points by alex_be 16 hours ago \| 44 comments
14.		Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)
		369 points by tetrisgm 1 day ago \| 124 comments
15.		We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)
		209 points by bundie 1 day ago \| 196 comments
16.		Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
		366 points by e-topy 3 days ago \| 540 comments
17.		Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)
		306 points by baely 1 day ago \| 79 comments
18.		I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)
		362 points by nickvec 15 hours ago \| 174 comments
19.		Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
		106 points by DamnInteresting 1 day ago \| 47 comments
20.		John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
		308 points by CharlesW 12 hours ago \| 95 comments
21.		Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
		396 points by anonfunction 12 hours ago \| 164 comments
22.		USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)
		297 points by WerWolv 14 hours ago \| 38 comments
23.		Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)
		128 points by stonecharioteer 3 days ago \| 21 comments
24.		A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)
		161 points by thomasjb 6 days ago \| 26 comments
25.		Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)
		137 points by noztol 3 days ago \| 93 comments
26.		Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
		173 points by transpute 6 days ago \| 92 comments
27.		Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)
		115 points by frizlab 14 hours ago \| 52 comments
28.		I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)
		128 points by ImGajeed76 3 days ago \| 19 comments
29.		Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)
		138 points by Levitating 1 day ago \| 83 comments
30.		Native Americans had dice 12k years ago (nbcnews.com)
		133 points by delichon 5 days ago \| 82 comments
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