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1.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1444 points by novemp 1 day ago | 906 comments
2.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
787 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 168 comments
3.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
474 points by ssgodderidge 1 day ago | 176 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
400 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 204 comments
5.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
418 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 80 comments
6.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
282 points by futurecat 3 days ago | 203 comments
7.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
323 points by 0bytematt 4 days ago | 22 comments
8.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
421 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 197 comments
9.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
223 points by zachlatta 17 hours ago | 104 comments
10.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
115 points by kianN 18 hours ago | 28 comments
11.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
501 points by harel 1 day ago | 341 comments
12.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
152 points by varjag 3 days ago | 41 comments
13.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
116 points by yichab0d 19 hours ago | 52 comments
14.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
341 points by mustaphah 17 hours ago | 147 comments
15.
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
136 points by four_fifths 15 hours ago | 66 comments
16.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
168 points by luu 1 day ago | 223 comments
17.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
147 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 97 comments
18.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
379 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 237 comments
19.
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
103 points by dogline 15 hours ago | 19 comments
20.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
89 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 38 comments
21.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
189 points by presbyterian 20 hours ago | 165 comments
22.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
127 points by luu 4 days ago | 91 comments
23.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
134 points by telotortium 5 days ago | 18 comments
24.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
359 points by righthand 23 hours ago | 117 comments
25.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
90 points by lirbank 18 hours ago | 47 comments
26.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
312 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 263 comments
27.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
109 points by icwtyjj 18 hours ago | 64 comments
28.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
361 points by dClauzel 1 day ago | 301 comments
29.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
124 points by tosh 1 day ago | 69 comments
30.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
158 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 63 comments

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