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1.
Claude Design (anthropic.com)
1231 points by meetpateltech 9 days ago | 760 comments
2.
Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)
714 points by aray07 9 days ago | 498 comments
3.
Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
766 points by hn_acker 9 days ago | 198 comments
4.
Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)
790 points by ColinWright 9 days ago | 306 comments
5.
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)
497 points by binsquare 9 days ago | 151 comments
6.
Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)
270 points by speckx 9 days ago | 128 comments
7.
NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
335 points by LorenDB 9 days ago | 312 comments
8.
I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)
364 points by evakhoury 9 days ago | 355 comments
9.
Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)
262 points by seanieb 9 days ago | 116 comments
10.
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
235 points by mooreds 9 days ago | 54 comments
11.
Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)
276 points by Ivoah 10 days ago | 114 comments
12.
CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)
231 points by gregsadetsky 12 days ago | 65 comments
13.
A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)
208 points by aw1621107 9 days ago | 136 comments
14.
Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)
130 points by cpan22 10 days ago | 111 comments
15.
Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)
146 points by matt_d 13 days ago | 123 comments
16.
US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
399 points by ronsor 10 days ago | 337 comments
17.
Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
286 points by mpweiher 9 days ago | 223 comments
18.
Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)
121 points by _fizz_buzz_ 10 days ago | 35 comments
19.
A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
157 points by xk3 13 days ago | 54 comments
20.
Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
144 points by evakhoury 11 days ago | 22 comments
21.
Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)
195 points by zdw 9 days ago | 78 comments
22.
FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)
146 points by Mr_Minderbinder 9 days ago | 82 comments
23.
ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com/seeed-projects)
95 points by rickcarlino 13 days ago | 23 comments
24.
The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
118 points by matt_d 12 days ago | 29 comments
25.
Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
120 points by marklit 9 days ago | 16 comments
26.
Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)
124 points by apollinaire 9 days ago | 58 comments
27.
I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)
144 points by wespiser_2018 11 days ago | 126 comments
28.
Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)
347 points by evo_9 10 days ago | 247 comments
29.
Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
110 points by mellosouls 11 days ago | 24 comments
30.
Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)
225 points by sams99 9 days ago | 83 comments

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