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1.
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
955 points by todotask2 5 days ago | 391 comments
2.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
504 points by jaas 5 days ago | 280 comments
3.
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
719 points by robertvc 5 days ago | 302 comments
4.
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
719 points by embedding-shape 5 days ago | 308 comments
5.
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
1027 points by tanelpoder 5 days ago | 598 comments
6.
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
603 points by us321 5 days ago | 368 comments
7.
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
371 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 172 comments
8.
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
407 points by gpi 5 days ago | 57 comments
9.
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
559 points by cl3misch 5 days ago | 257 comments
10.
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
289 points by cebert 5 days ago | 358 comments
11.
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
209 points by cgwu 5 days ago | 47 comments
12.
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
366 points by wilson090 5 days ago | 116 comments
13.
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
314 points by p44v9n 9 days ago | 141 comments
14.
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
162 points by linolevan 4 days ago | 88 comments
15.
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
308 points by tosh 5 days ago | 117 comments
16.
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
159 points by jamesgresql 9 days ago | 106 comments
17.
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
148 points by gmays 4 days ago | 43 comments
18.
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
161 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | 182 comments
19.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
343 points by 1659447091 5 days ago | 177 comments
20.
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
273 points by samuel246 5 days ago | 9 comments
21.
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
155 points by azhenley 5 days ago | 102 comments
22.
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
102 points by giuliomagnifico 5 days ago | 95 comments
23.
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
83 points by christalwang 5 days ago | 93 comments
24.
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
321 points by speckx 4 days ago | 137 comments
25.
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
114 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 26 comments
26.
HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
87 points by zdw 7 days ago | 14 comments
27.
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
135 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 38 comments
28.
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
100 points by nz 10 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
109 points by npmipg 4 days ago | 117 comments
30.
The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)
90 points by svilen_dobrev 9 days ago | 23 comments

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