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1.		Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
		556 points by DarkContinent 14 hours ago \| 173 comments
2.		Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
		309 points by mapping365 16 hours ago \| 431 comments
3.		How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
		386 points by atan2 2 days ago \| 159 comments
4.		Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)
		663 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago \| 133 comments
5.		Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
		272 points by greyblake 3 days ago \| 99 comments
6.		Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
		229 points by Xeophon 21 hours ago \| 57 comments
7.		Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
		65 points by rbanffy 7 days ago \| 26 comments
8.		Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
		181 points by binyu 8 days ago \| 78 comments
9.		Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
		194 points by Wirbelwind 6 hours ago \| 160 comments
10.		On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/universal-debloater-alliance)
		195 points by microtonal 12 hours ago \| 155 comments
11.		I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (twitter.com/nikitabier)
		132 points by DearAll 21 hours ago \| 265 comments
12.		Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
		59 points by skogstokig 5 days ago \| 19 comments
13.		Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
		117 points by nanochess 5 days ago \| 28 comments
14.		Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)
		46 points by ksec 3 days ago \| 43 comments
15.		Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
		53 points by shuklaayush 8 days ago \| 33 comments
16.		What I love about Django (buttondown.com/blog)
		122 points by j4mie 11 hours ago \| 105 comments
17.		Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
		102 points by msephton 12 hours ago \| 77 comments
18.		Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)
		33 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago \| 10 comments
19.		The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (truegrittexturesupply.com)
		33 points by Michelangelo11 7 days ago \| 2 comments
20.		Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
		217 points by aemerson_ 4 hours ago \| 175 comments
21.		Something is changing in the unit economics of software (nicolo.xyz)
		65 points by coconido 1 day ago \| 53 comments
22.		Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
		104 points by willcarkner 2 hours ago \| 79 comments
23.		Almost no skill required to cook a steak (sydorets.com)
		123 points by yusyd 3 hours ago \| 141 comments
24.		LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
		72 points by rowbin 17 hours ago \| 90 comments
25.		The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018) (ggwash.org)
		48 points by quuxplusone 2 days ago \| 18 comments
26.		Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
		31 points by pradiptasarma 15 hours ago \| 21 comments
27.		Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
		55 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago \| 70 comments
28.		GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
		129 points by Footkerchief 3 hours ago \| 66 comments
29.		The Simple Elegance of the Integrated Timing Belt Loopback Fastener (danielmangum.com)
		50 points by hasheddan 4 days ago \| 11 comments
30.		Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/copilotkit)
		53 points by davidmckayv 2 hours ago \| 15 comments
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