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1.Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
523 points by dbushell 1 day ago | 372 comments
2.Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
891 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 571 comments
3.Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
323 points by yesturi 1 day ago | 110 comments
4.Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
380 points by personjerry 1 day ago | 346 comments
5.Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
252 points by rvermeulen98 1 day ago | 85 comments
6.Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
998 points by nhod 1 day ago | 494 comments
7.Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
348 points by pavel_lishin 20 hours ago | 353 comments
8.Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
402 points by rocauc 18 hours ago | 276 comments
9.KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
239 points by bpierre 22 hours ago | 106 comments
10.I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
461 points by codetheweb 1 day ago | 101 comments
11.Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
360 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 164 comments
12.Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
150 points by nomaxx117 18 hours ago | 48 comments
13.The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
205 points by at1as 21 hours ago | 271 comments
14.Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
241 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 148 comments
15.Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
319 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 127 comments
16.AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
461 points by zdw 4 days ago | 225 comments
17.New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
263 points by sarreph 18 hours ago | 132 comments
18.Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
104 points by hahahacorn 15 hours ago | 14 comments
19.Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
144 points by timsneath 1 day ago | 34 comments
20.Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
274 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 132 comments
21.Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
88 points by mnazzaro 19 hours ago | 39 comments
22.AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
488 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 263 comments
23.Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
175 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago | 124 comments
24.Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
71 points by janandonly 5 days ago | 28 comments
25.Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
79 points by avaer 21 hours ago | 19 comments
26.Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
82 points by chaz6 19 hours ago | 23 comments
27.Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
95 points by elpocko 19 hours ago | 12 comments
28.Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
111 points by chmaynard 4 days ago | 11 comments
29.Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
220 points by 01jonny01 1 day ago | 180 comments
30.Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
138 points by marklit 5 days ago | 98 comments

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