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1.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
2458 points by lylejantzi3rd 3 days ago | 949 comments
2.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
704 points by viveknathani_ 4 days ago | 191 comments
3.
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)
939 points by illithid0 3 days ago | 444 comments
4.
Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (grahamyooll.com)
574 points by yuppiepuppie 6 days ago | 269 comments
5.
How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
186 points by spacemarine1 3 days ago | 119 comments
6.
I switched from VSCode to Zed (tenthousandmeters.com)
452 points by r4victor 3 days ago | 415 comments
7.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
343 points by awaaz 3 days ago | 165 comments
8.
Welcome to Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com)
335 points by gmays 7 days ago | 217 comments
9.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (brave.com)
505 points by skaul 3 days ago | 272 comments
10.
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (stats.stackexchange.com)
304 points by azeemba 4 days ago | 75 comments
11.
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (github.com/adversis)
277 points by thesubtlety 3 days ago | 28 comments
12.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension (torrentfreak.com)
673 points by CTOSian 3 days ago | 357 comments
13.
Google broke my heart (perishablepress.com)
539 points by ingve 3 days ago | 286 comments
14.
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician (koreaherald.com)
258 points by mikhael 4 days ago | 84 comments
15.
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (sparkbox.com)
344 points by CqtGLRGcukpy 4 days ago | 187 comments
16.
A spider web unlike any seen before (nytimes.com)
293 points by juanplusjuan 4 days ago | 142 comments
17.
Agentic Patterns (github.com/nibzard)
170 points by PretzelFisch 4 days ago | 46 comments
18.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018) (arxiv.org)
120 points by felineflock 6 days ago | 27 comments
19.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
501 points by randycupertino 3 days ago | 292 comments
20.
Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution (mehmetince.net)
113 points by ozirus 7 days ago | 25 comments
21.
Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? (calnewport.com)
233 points by zdw 3 days ago | 382 comments
22.
Dealing with abandonware (2024) (hris.to)
147 points by mondobe 3 days ago | 52 comments
23.
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died (theguardian.com)
254 points by n1b0m 3 days ago | 38 comments
24.
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)
152 points by rmason 8 days ago | 51 comments
25.
Decorative Cryptography (dlp.rip)
170 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 52 comments
26.
Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023) (retool.com)
144 points by twalichiewicz 3 days ago | 30 comments
27.
The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves (matduggan.com)
201 points by sagacity 10 days ago | 148 comments
28.
Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)
135 points by rafinha 8 days ago | 19 comments
29.
Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density (donutlab.com)
269 points by aeonfox 3 days ago | 265 comments
30.
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info (ca.gov)
302 points by memalign 4 days ago | 83 comments

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