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1.
The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
1415 points by herbertl 31 days ago | 705 comments
2.
Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
959 points by nichochar 33 days ago | 768 comments
3.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
465 points by NaOH 31 days ago | 326 comments
4.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
636 points by Topfi 32 days ago | 449 comments
5.
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
383 points by phoenix120 31 days ago | 198 comments
6.
fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
318 points by handfuloflight 31 days ago | 137 comments
7.
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
597 points by tomasreimers 32 days ago | 454 comments
8.
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
302 points by fittingopposite 31 days ago | 33 comments
9.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
454 points by _djo_ 31 days ago | 422 comments
10.
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
328 points by andros 31 days ago | 125 comments
11.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
675 points by haunter 32 days ago | 566 comments
12.
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
348 points by porridgeraisin 31 days ago | 229 comments
13.
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
547 points by flaburgan 31 days ago | 313 comments
14.
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
168 points by j4mie 31 days ago | 297 comments
15.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
453 points by otherayden 31 days ago | 73 comments
16.
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
616 points by pseudolus 31 days ago | 422 comments
17.
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
247 points by neom 31 days ago | 48 comments
18.
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
282 points by pizzaiolo 32 days ago | 75 comments
19.
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
425 points by jp_sc 31 days ago | 301 comments
20.
Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
627 points by KolmogorovComp 31 days ago | 158 comments
21.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
291 points by newusertoday 31 days ago | 459 comments
22.
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
397 points by Vinnl 31 days ago | 199 comments
23.
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
269 points by andrewjanke 37 days ago | 69 comments
24.
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
299 points by zeristor 31 days ago | 59 comments
25.
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
182 points by rglover 32 days ago | 48 comments
26.
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
109 points by whobre 37 days ago | 58 comments
27.
Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
259 points by honungsburk 31 days ago | 161 comments
28.
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
198 points by jeroenjanssens 31 days ago | 41 comments
29.
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
313 points by cwwc 31 days ago | 502 comments
30.
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
83 points by bwm 31 days ago | 44 comments

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