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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1278 points by rubenbe 19 hours ago | 399 comments
2.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
879 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 933 comments
3.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
796 points by tambourine_man 17 hours ago | 1303 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
591 points by nilirl 19 hours ago | 261 comments
5.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
481 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 39 comments
6.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
672 points by adunk 1 day ago | 352 comments
7.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
474 points by HenryNdubuaku 16 hours ago | 154 comments
8.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
553 points by tokenburner 1 day ago | 185 comments
9.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
558 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 109 comments
10.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
382 points by xz18r 18 hours ago | 143 comments
11.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
321 points by chizhik-pyzhik 16 hours ago | 162 comments
12.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
499 points by thm 23 hours ago | 442 comments
13.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
326 points by smhx 1 day ago | 51 comments
14.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
364 points by _vaporwave_ 14 hours ago | 46 comments
15.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
224 points by matrixhelix 1 day ago | 89 comments
16.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
292 points by aduffy 16 hours ago | 60 comments
17.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
79 points by sai18 17 hours ago | 41 comments
18.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
208 points by devhouse 17 hours ago | 173 comments
19.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
214 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments
20.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
337 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 106 comments
21.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
152 points by luispa 4 days ago | 57 comments
22.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
55 points by ttpost 18 hours ago | 20 comments
23.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
209 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 27 comments
24.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
165 points by tcp_handshaker 11 hours ago | 115 comments
25.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
116 points by tsiry 3 days ago | 26 comments
26.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
257 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 240 comments
27.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
50 points by namanyayg 18 hours ago | 20 comments
28.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
92 points by azurewraith 20 hours ago | 33 comments
29.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
66 points by fedek_ 16 hours ago | 41 comments
30.
Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS (github.com/jameslockman)
80 points by classichasclass 1 day ago | 29 comments

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