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1.		Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)
		827 points by zdw 11 days ago \| 425 comments
2.		If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)
		905 points by soheilpro 12 days ago \| 386 comments
3.		AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)
		792 points by virgildotcodes 12 days ago \| 752 comments
4.		Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
		470 points by sz4kerto 11 days ago \| 251 comments
5.		Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
		467 points by jfantl 11 days ago \| 152 comments
6.		Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)
		379 points by idoxer 11 days ago \| 219 comments
7.		15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)
		1047 points by cheeaun 12 days ago \| 398 comments
8.		Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)
		763 points by walterbell 12 days ago \| 395 comments
9.		DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)
		321 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago \| 162 comments
10.		Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
		495 points by tosh 12 days ago \| 206 comments
11.		The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)
		160 points by evakhoury 11 days ago \| 87 comments
12.		R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)
		96 points by tosh 11 days ago \| 26 comments
13.		What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (acm.org)
		106 points by underscoreF 11 days ago \| 81 comments
14.		Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (vogons.org)
		166 points by LowLevelMahn 15 days ago \| 62 comments
15.		Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)
		131 points by vinhnx 14 days ago \| 16 comments
16.		Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com/lopespm)
		155 points by lopespm 12 days ago \| 66 comments
17.		Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
		466 points by mkurz 12 days ago \| 185 comments
18.		Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)
		545 points by speckx 11 days ago \| 321 comments
19.		A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com/taleshape-com)
		179 points by wowi42 12 days ago \| 40 comments
20.		Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)
		86 points by ekrsulov 11 days ago \| 35 comments
21.		Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)
		89 points by debo_ 11 days ago \| 17 comments
22.		Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (vermaden.wordpress.com)
		118 points by vermaden 11 days ago \| 62 comments
23.		TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com/datanoisetv)
		130 points by sylwester 12 days ago \| 30 comments
24.		Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
		111 points by FailMore 11 days ago \| 53 comments
25.		'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mitpress.mit.edu)
		84 points by anarbadalov 12 days ago \| 24 comments
26.		How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)
		203 points by hisamafahri 12 days ago \| 94 comments
27.		Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
		279 points by aloknnikhil 12 days ago \| 160 comments
28.		Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql)
		368 points by anonymous908213 11 days ago \| 239 comments
29.		All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)
		116 points by mirawelner 11 days ago \| 86 comments
30.		Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com/pocketbase)
		125 points by Onavo 11 days ago \| 101 comments
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