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1.
Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
694 points by cutoff 1 day ago | 220 comments
2.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
562 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 147 comments
3.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)
469 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 206 comments
4.
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)
368 points by keithcarolus 20 hours ago | 53 comments
5.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
464 points by thm 1 day ago | 528 comments
6.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
382 points by jcurbo 1 day ago | 222 comments
7.
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
219 points by Bluestein 22 hours ago | 123 comments
8.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)
576 points by metrofun 1 day ago | 134 comments
9.
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)
254 points by geox 2 days ago | 75 comments
10.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
231 points by con 3 days ago | 48 comments
11.
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
231 points by ijidak 1 day ago | 57 comments
12.
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
219 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 163 comments
13.
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)
183 points by vinnyglennon 1 day ago | 192 comments
14.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
714 points by twapi 17 hours ago | 542 comments
15.
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
281 points by hazebooth 4 days ago | 190 comments
16.
Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
338 points by gmays 1 day ago | 192 comments
17.
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
379 points by thecsw 3 days ago | 63 comments
18.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
381 points by WithinReason 1 day ago | 87 comments
19.
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
178 points by volodia 1 day ago | 20 comments
20.
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
188 points by BirAdam 1 day ago | 77 comments
21.
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
220 points by dbalatero 1 day ago | 85 comments
22.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
381 points by Recursing 1 day ago | 116 comments
23.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
236 points by vghaisas 3 days ago | 255 comments
24.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
56 points by kushagrchitkar 23 hours ago | 47 comments
25.
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/hebbian-robotics)
44 points by kstonekuan 23 hours ago | 12 comments
26.
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
198 points by samizdis 4 days ago | 115 comments
27.
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
64 points by Bluestein 6 days ago | 38 comments
28.
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)
222 points by tosh 1 day ago | 114 comments
29.
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
222 points by reasonableklout 2 days ago | 126 comments
30.
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
181 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 176 comments

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