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1.
I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)
553 points by jernestomg 6 hours ago | 316 comments
2.
Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
623 points by ajyoon 14 hours ago | 719 comments
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Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
331 points by deofoo 2 days ago | 74 comments
4.
The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (thedrive.com)
99 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 45 comments
5.
Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)
115 points by banteg 2 days ago | 30 comments
6.
Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (openpetition.de)
178 points by numeri 5 hours ago | 37 comments
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 [flagged] Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws (capitolnewsillinois.com)
120 points by doener 10 hours ago | 37 comments
8.
High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)
34 points by jnord 3 days ago | 7 comments
9.
How watercolor brushes are made (2015) (handprint.com)
25 points by YeGoblynQueenne 6 days ago | 2 comments
10.
Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering (github.com/bethington)
46 points by xerzes 3 hours ago | 14 comments
11.
Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)
40 points by Agreed3750 3 days ago | 5 comments
12.
Why poor countries stopped catching up (davidoks.blog)
53 points by j-bos 8 hours ago | 104 comments
13.
Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (lttlabs.com)
28 points by viraptor 7 days ago | 6 comments
14.
The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (ucr.edu)
14 points by u1hcw9nx 4 days ago | 1 comment
15.
Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too (igalia.com)
12 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | discuss
16.
X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)
372 points by vikaveri 1 day ago | 648 comments
17.
The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)
44 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 16 comments
18.
Machinery and English Style (1904) (theatlantic.com)
8 points by danidiaz 2 days ago | 1 comment
19.
The world is more equal than you think (economist.com)
17 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 43 comments
20.
Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines
3 points by DenisDolya 2 days ago | discuss
21.
A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub (lord.io)
18 points by stackptr 7 hours ago | 8 comments
22.
Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (theguardian.com)
54 points by jnord 9 hours ago | 36 comments
23.
GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com/openaidevs)
57 points by davidbarker 10 hours ago | 32 comments
24.
Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents (crikey.com.au)
32 points by stuaxo 9 hours ago | 1 comment
25.
A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left (twitter.com/davidmarcus)
17 points by latchkey 4 hours ago | discuss
26.
A Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018) (miamiherald.com)
22 points by belter 10 hours ago | 5 comments
27.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS (tomshardware.com)
11 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 1 comment
28.
Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up (marketwatch.com)
13 points by zerosizedweasle 3 hours ago | discuss
29.
"Superhuman": A 13 year old boy swims 2.5 miles to save family swept out to sea (cbsnews.com)
11 points by gurjeet 3 hours ago | discuss
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36 Years in Making, GNU's Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead (itsfoss.com)
10 points by pkaeding 7 hours ago | 1 comment

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