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1.
Playa Phone (playaphone.com)
748 points by cutoff 2 days ago | 230 comments
2.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
625 points by speckx 2 days ago | 171 comments
3.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)
502 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 252 comments
4.
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)
397 points by keithcarolus 2 days ago | 64 comments
5.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)
495 points by thm 2 days ago | 590 comments
6.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)
396 points by jcurbo 2 days ago | 237 comments
7.
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)
235 points by Bluestein 2 days ago | 138 comments
8.
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)
278 points by geox 3 days ago | 84 comments
9.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
250 points by con 4 days ago | 60 comments
10.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)
597 points by metrofun 2 days ago | 138 comments
11.
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
243 points by ijidak 2 days ago | 63 comments
12.
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)
214 points by vinnyglennon 3 days ago | 231 comments
13.
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
227 points by robinpie 2 days ago | 178 comments
14.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)
754 points by twapi 2 days ago | 611 comments
15.
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)
315 points by hazebooth 6 days ago | 233 comments
16.
Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
347 points by gmays 2 days ago | 196 comments
17.
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)
396 points by thecsw 5 days ago | 63 comments
18.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
387 points by WithinReason 2 days ago | 106 comments
19.
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)
182 points by volodia 2 days ago | 20 comments
20.
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)
191 points by BirAdam 2 days ago | 80 comments
21.
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
222 points by dbalatero 2 days ago | 88 comments
22.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)
397 points by Recursing 2 days ago | 120 comments
23.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
241 points by vghaisas 5 days ago | 263 comments
24.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
58 points by kushagrchitkar 2 days ago | 48 comments
25.
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/hebbian-robotics)
46 points by kstonekuan 2 days ago | 12 comments
26.
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)
215 points by samizdis 5 days ago | 122 comments
27.
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)
64 points by Bluestein 7 days ago | 40 comments
28.
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)
231 points by tosh 2 days ago | 117 comments
29.
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)
246 points by reasonableklout 3 days ago | 147 comments
30.
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
192 points by jllyhill 2 days ago | 181 comments

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