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1.
Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
622 points by cutoff 18 hours ago | 210 comments
2.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
495 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 118 comments
3.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)
562 points by metrofun 23 hours ago | 132 comments
4.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)
409 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 168 comments
5.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
402 points by thm 20 hours ago | 448 comments
6.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
339 points by jcurbo 21 hours ago | 195 comments
7.
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
212 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 153 comments
8.
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
216 points by ijidak 19 hours ago | 52 comments
9.
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
198 points by Bluestein 16 hours ago | 114 comments
10.
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)
325 points by keithcarolus 14 hours ago | 38 comments
11.
Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
331 points by gmays 1 day ago | 188 comments
12.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
676 points by twapi 12 hours ago | 521 comments
13.
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
375 points by thecsw 3 days ago | 62 comments
14.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
375 points by WithinReason 1 day ago | 83 comments
15.
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
177 points by volodia 1 day ago | 20 comments
16.
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
184 points by BirAdam 1 day ago | 77 comments
17.
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)
211 points by geox 2 days ago | 61 comments
18.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
190 points by con 2 days ago | 40 comments
19.
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
220 points by dbalatero 1 day ago | 84 comments
20.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
369 points by Recursing 1 day ago | 116 comments
21.
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
217 points by hazebooth 4 days ago | 126 comments
22.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
234 points by vghaisas 3 days ago | 253 comments
23.
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)
138 points by vinnyglennon 1 day ago | 133 comments
24.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
53 points by kushagrchitkar 17 hours ago | 47 comments
25.
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/hebbian-robotics)
44 points by kstonekuan 18 hours ago | 12 comments
26.
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
64 points by Bluestein 5 days ago | 38 comments
27.
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
181 points by samizdis 3 days ago | 111 comments
28.
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)
217 points by tosh 1 day ago | 107 comments
29.
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
171 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 174 comments
30.
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
194 points by reasonableklout 2 days ago | 115 comments

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