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1.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
1396 points by rubenbe 4 days ago | 427 comments
2.
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
929 points by tambourine_man 4 days ago | 1556 comments
3.
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
756 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 days ago | 210 comments
4.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
814 points by nilirl 4 days ago | 329 comments
5.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
914 points by indigodaddy 5 days ago | 980 comments
6.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
534 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 41 comments
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CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
376 points by chizhik-pyzhik 4 days ago | 241 comments
8.
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
494 points by _vaporwave_ 4 days ago | 60 comments
9.
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
707 points by adunk 4 days ago | 393 comments
10.
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
448 points by xz18r 4 days ago | 177 comments
11.
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
561 points by tokenburner 4 days ago | 191 comments
12.
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
381 points by aduffy 4 days ago | 83 comments
13.
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
605 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 120 comments
14.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
237 points by tcp_handshaker 4 days ago | 209 comments
15.
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
251 points by devhouse 4 days ago | 213 comments
16.
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
329 points by smhx 5 days ago | 53 comments
17.
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
514 points by thm 4 days ago | 468 comments
18.
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
97 points by sai18 4 days ago | 50 comments
19.
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
226 points by matrixhelix 4 days ago | 89 comments
20.
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
234 points by aragonite 4 days ago | 33 comments
21.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
378 points by Brajeshwar 4 days ago | 133 comments
22.
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
171 points by luispa 8 days ago | 64 comments
23.
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
59 points by ttpost 4 days ago | 22 comments
24.
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
60 points by namanyayg 4 days ago | 27 comments
25.
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
221 points by pinewurst 4 days ago | 45 comments
26.
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
163 points by Brajeshwar 4 days ago | 145 comments
27.
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
122 points by tsiry 7 days ago | 28 comments
28.
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
272 points by Cider9986 4 days ago | 248 comments
29.
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
124 points by azurewraith 4 days ago | 54 comments
30.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
71 points by fedek_ 4 days ago | 45 comments

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