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1.		Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
		1491 points by dwwoelfel 11 days ago \| 671 comments
2.		Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
		1069 points by theanonymousone 11 days ago \| 889 comments
3.		AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
		695 points by technewssss 11 days ago \| 381 comments
4.		OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
		587 points by abhisek 12 days ago \| 450 comments
5.		Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
		484 points by adam_rida 11 days ago \| 229 comments
6.		What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
		426 points by nickthegreek 11 days ago \| 204 comments
7.		Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
		296 points by mpweiher 11 days ago \| 70 comments
8.		Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
		492 points by benbreen 12 days ago \| 240 comments
9.		Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
		270 points by ibobev 11 days ago \| 142 comments
10.		DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
		268 points by r2sk5t 11 days ago \| 336 comments
11.		The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
		487 points by glinscott 12 days ago \| 99 comments
12.		Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
		394 points by dhorthy 11 days ago \| 271 comments
13.		Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
		229 points by MarcoDewey 11 days ago \| 87 comments
14.		The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
		310 points by jjfoooo4 11 days ago \| 215 comments
15.		Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
		191 points by harrisontin 11 days ago \| 39 comments
16.		Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
		160 points by helonaut 12 days ago \| 76 comments
17.		Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
		178 points by speckx 11 days ago \| 95 comments
18.		Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
		110 points by Jonathanfishner 11 days ago \| 32 comments
19.		A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
		102 points by MarcoDewey 11 days ago \| 34 comments
20.		Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
		88 points by louis030195 11 days ago \| 67 comments
21.		Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
		112 points by ibobev 11 days ago \| 15 comments
22.		Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
		156 points by ErenayDev 11 days ago \| 117 comments
23.		Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
		368 points by Shortness8 11 days ago \| 229 comments
24.		Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
		180 points by giuliomagnifico 11 days ago \| 171 comments
25.		Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)
		376 points by intunderflow 12 days ago \| 652 comments
26.		git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
		184 points by ErenayDev 13 days ago \| 121 comments
27.		Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
		111 points by s0ck_r4w 11 days ago \| 86 comments
28.		Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
		118 points by evakhoury 14 days ago \| 16 comments
29.		Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
		134 points by jjba23 13 days ago \| 121 comments
30.		Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
		65 points by wuemeli 14 days ago \| 20 comments
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