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1.
Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
751 points by cutoff 10 days ago | 234 comments
2.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
629 points by speckx 10 days ago | 172 comments
3.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)
502 points by Tomte 14 days ago | 261 comments
4.
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)
401 points by keithcarolus 10 days ago | 65 comments
5.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
501 points by thm 10 days ago | 594 comments
6.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
401 points by jcurbo 10 days ago | 239 comments
7.
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
240 points by Bluestein 10 days ago | 139 comments
8.
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)
284 points by geox 11 days ago | 84 comments
9.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
253 points by con 12 days ago | 61 comments
10.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)
603 points by metrofun 10 days ago | 140 comments
11.
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
245 points by ijidak 10 days ago | 63 comments
12.
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)
216 points by vinnyglennon 11 days ago | 233 comments
13.
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
229 points by robinpie 10 days ago | 184 comments
14.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
761 points by twapi 10 days ago | 621 comments
15.
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
318 points by hazebooth 14 days ago | 236 comments
16.
Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
351 points by gmays 11 days ago | 197 comments
17.
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
397 points by thecsw 13 days ago | 63 comments
18.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
388 points by WithinReason 10 days ago | 107 comments
19.
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
184 points by volodia 11 days ago | 20 comments
20.
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
193 points by BirAdam 11 days ago | 80 comments
21.
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
225 points by dbalatero 10 days ago | 88 comments
22.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
399 points by Recursing 10 days ago | 121 comments
23.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
242 points by vghaisas 13 days ago | 268 comments
24.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
59 points by kushagrchitkar 10 days ago | 48 comments
25.
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/hebbian-robotics)
46 points by kstonekuan 10 days ago | 12 comments
26.
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
215 points by samizdis 13 days ago | 123 comments
27.
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
64 points by Bluestein 15 days ago | 42 comments
28.
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)
231 points by tosh 10 days ago | 121 comments
29.
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
250 points by reasonableklout 11 days ago | 147 comments
30.
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
199 points by jllyhill 10 days ago | 184 comments

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