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Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (dlazaro.ca)
788 points by dlazaro 61 days ago | 160 comments
2.
OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second (hyperknot.com)
609 points by hyperknot 61 days ago | 133 comments
3.
Debian 13 “Trixie” (debian.org)
974 points by ducktective 61 days ago | 407 comments
4.
My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup (simonwillison.net)
430 points by vismit2000 61 days ago | 115 comments
5.
Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia (cam.ac.uk)
355 points by hhs 61 days ago | 124 comments
6.
Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop (quickshell.org)
373 points by abhinavk 65 days ago | 50 comments
7.
A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package (righto.com)
314 points by robin_reala 61 days ago | 107 comments
8.
The Framework Desktop is a beast (world.hey.com)
498 points by lemonberry 62 days ago | 448 comments
9.
The current state of LLM-driven development (tolki.dev)
222 points by Signez 61 days ago | 233 comments
10.
Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API (ch.at)
269 points by ownlife 61 days ago | 72 comments
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Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants (forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel)
253 points by hhs 61 days ago | 540 comments
12.
Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment? (nber.org)
196 points by lxm 61 days ago | 491 comments
13.
Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets (ratfactor.com)
217 points by zdw 61 days ago | 32 comments
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People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say (bbc.com)
96 points by bookofjoe 63 days ago | 14 comments
15.
MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems (julsimon.medium.com)
409 points by yodon 61 days ago | 227 comments
16.
An engineer's perspective on hiring (jyn.dev)
191 points by pabs3 61 days ago | 239 comments
17.
I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (shkspr.mobi)
285 points by blenderob 64 days ago | 237 comments
18.
An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language (acm.org)
112 points by tosh 61 days ago | 21 comments
19.
Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite (sandstorm.org)
183 points by nalinidash 62 days ago | 43 comments
20.
ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol (github.com/geo-tp)
164 points by geo-tp 61 days ago | 31 comments
21.
R0ML's Ratio (glyph.im)
77 points by zdw 61 days ago | 13 comments
22.
A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021) (carlini.com)
87 points by jxmorris12 64 days ago | 13 comments
23.
Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread (usda.gov)
273 points by burnt-resistor 61 days ago | 198 comments
24.
Let's properly analyze an AI article for once (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
226 points by pabs3 62 days ago | 140 comments
25.
Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution (tribblix.org)
95 points by bilegeek 62 days ago | 35 comments
26.
Testing Bitchat at the music festival (primal.net)
105 points by alexcos 64 days ago | 55 comments
27.
Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong (cbc.ca)
230 points by Sgt_Apone 65 days ago | 266 comments
28.
Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths (arxiv.org)
99 points by pentestercrab 62 days ago | 3 comments
29.
How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements (sirre.al)
86 points by dmsnell 62 days ago | 46 comments
30.
What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem (ethanding.substack.com)
173 points by whoami_nr 62 days ago | 49 comments

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