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1.
LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
1369 points by pluc 4 days ago | 456 comments
2.
EFF is leaving X (eff.org)
1424 points by gregsadetsky 4 days ago | 1310 comments
3.
Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)
642 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 326 comments
4.
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)
395 points by argentum47 4 days ago | 244 comments
5.
Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (thunderbird.net)
577 points by playfultones 4 days ago | 390 comments
6.
Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (elastiq.ch)
316 points by rickcarlino 4 days ago | 86 comments
7.
Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (skypilot.co)
212 points by hopechong 4 days ago | 54 comments
8.
Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation (axios.com)
629 points by giuliomagnifico 4 days ago | 253 comments
9.
PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)
225 points by rickcarlino 4 days ago | 34 comments
10.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator (nytimes.com)
633 points by jfirebaugh 5 days ago | 835 comments
11.
Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)
365 points by vinhnx 4 days ago | 109 comments
12.
Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)
333 points by fork-bomber 4 days ago | 193 comments
13.
Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)
347 points by kisamoto 4 days ago | 233 comments
14.
The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)
316 points by Caiero 7 days ago | 208 comments
15.
Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming (patater.com)
243 points by medbar 5 days ago | 58 comments
16.
A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)
150 points by juretriglav 4 days ago | 23 comments
17.
Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (bbc.com)
215 points by eigenspace 4 days ago | 147 comments
18.
Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)
133 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 41 comments
19.
Haunted Paper Toys (ravensblight.com)
246 points by exvi 7 days ago | 32 comments
20.
Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)
175 points by _tk_ 4 days ago | 54 comments
21.
Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com/randerson112)
176 points by randerson_112 4 days ago | 167 comments
22.
Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)
215 points by stopachka 4 days ago | 123 comments
23.
Claude mixes up who said what (dwyer.co.za)
464 points by sixhobbits 4 days ago | 357 comments
24.
Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage? (lzon.ca)
393 points by jpmitchell 4 days ago | 244 comments
25.
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence (perfectlynormal.co.uk)
113 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 32 comments
26.
Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated (relvy.ai)
48 points by behat 4 days ago | 25 comments
27.
Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)
217 points by powera 4 days ago | 217 comments
28.
How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU (pizzalegacy.nl)
303 points by FinnKuhn 4 days ago | 62 comments
29.
Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers (gadgetreview.com)
305 points by rmason 4 days ago | 439 comments
30.
Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
172 points by SirHound 4 days ago | 107 comments

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