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  1. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    607 points • by zdw • yesterday at 9:30 PM • 183 comments
  2. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library (github.com)
    7 points • by rumatoest • yesterday at 10:29 AM • 2 comments
  3. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
    122 points • by zdw • today at 3:29 AM • 32 comments
  4. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (journal.rafaelcosta.me)
    322 points • by rafaelcosta • yesterday at 8:51 PM • 144 comments
  5. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    251 points • by rebane2001 • today at 12:12 AM • 93 comments
  6. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com)
    404 points • by jimminyx • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 144 comments
  7. Ratchets in Software Development (qntm.org)
    43 points • by nvader • last Thursday at 6:31 PM • 17 comments
  8. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (apps.dtic.mil)
    97 points • by kioku • today at 1:11 AM • 40 comments
  9. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    64 points • by todsacerdoti • yesterday at 8:15 AM • 16 comments
  10. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (apple1.chez.com)
    246 points • by janandonly • yesterday at 5:36 PM • 133 comments
  11. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    338 points • by doener • yesterday at 1:56 PM • 69 comments
  12. Ian's Shoelace Site (www.fieggen.com)
    201 points • by righthand • yesterday at 6:38 PM • 35 comments
  13. Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload (www.windowscentral.com)
    7 points • by jsheard • today at 11:52 AM • 0 comments
  14. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (www.bbc.com)
    72 points • by breve • yesterday at 10:14 PM • 39 comments
  15. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
    13 points • by bryanrasmussen • last Friday at 1:29 PM • 1 comment
  16. EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push (spacenews.com)
    44 points • by benkan • today at 8:59 AM • 20 comments
  17. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce (www.wired.com)
    148 points • by smurda • today at 5:10 AM • 74 comments
  18. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    87 points • by PaulHoule • yesterday at 8:40 PM • 35 comments
  19. Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
    12 points • by tontony • today at 7:58 AM • 1 comment
  20. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    85 points • by accrual • today at 12:00 AM • 39 comments
  21. Rev Up the Viral Factories (www.science.org)
    16 points • by etiam • last Friday at 11:02 AM • 1 comment
  22. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    133 points • by jandrewrogers • last Friday at 4:02 PM • 34 comments
  23. High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB (github.com)
    4 points • by jgarzik • last Thursday at 4:38 AM • 0 comments
  24. Show HN: Sklad – Secure, offline-first snippet manager (Rust, Tauri v2) (github.com)
    11 points • by rench321 • today at 9:25 AM • 1 comment
  25. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    233 points • by martinald • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 210 comments
  26. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (www.cnx-software.com)
    225 points • by mikece • last Thursday at 4:54 PM • 89 comments
  27. Founding is a snowball (blog.bawolf.com)
    91 points • by bryantwolf • last Thursday at 6:46 PM • 31 comments
  28. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    17 points • by speckx • last Wednesday at 1:36 PM • 3 comments
  29. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    244 points • by yannick2k • yesterday at 10:30 AM • 179 comments
  30. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    691 points • by l1am0 • yesterday at 9:44 AM • 267 comments
  31. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by anteloper • yesterday at 6:41 PM • 0 comments
  32. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    105 points • by cyanbane • yesterday at 5:54 PM • 114 comments
  33. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
    26 points • by flashblaze • today at 3:02 AM • 5 comments
  34. Amiga Unix (Amix) (www.amigaunix.com)
    129 points • by donatj • yesterday at 10:57 AM • 54 comments
  35. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    89 points • by gmays • yesterday at 6:00 PM • 31 comments
  36. Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
    22 points • by hasheddan • last Friday at 9:40 PM • 26 comments
  37. Editor of UploadVR on why he was fired (goodvr.substack.com)
    6 points • by mellosouls • today at 11:05 AM • 0 comments
  38. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    717 points • by firefoxd • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 339 comments
  39. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code (self)
    83 points • by CzaxTanmay • last Friday at 4:59 AM • 27 comments
  40. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (www.sintef.no)
    50 points • by PaulHoule • yesterday at 6:15 PM • 39 comments
  41. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (www.theguardian.com)
    75 points • by mitchbob • last Friday at 7:41 PM • 32 comments
  42. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (www.lrb.co.uk)
    23 points • by against • last Wednesday at 8:56 PM • 1 comment
  43. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
    70 points • by zem • last Friday at 5:31 AM • 48 comments
  44. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    128 points • by cmsefton • yesterday at 3:58 PM • 187 comments
  45. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    101 points • by ActionRetro • last Thursday at 2:00 AM • 40 comments
  46. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (an.dywa.ng)
    852 points • by cbeuw • last Saturday at 5:21 PM • 545 comments
  47. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    685 points • by mysterydip • today at 1:59 AM • 390 comments
  48. Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents (github.com)
    38 points • by NathanFlurry • last Wednesday at 2:06 PM • 3 comments
  49. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    385 points • by SatvikBeri • yesterday at 9:33 AM • 164 comments
  50. Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications (www.vatican.va)
    23 points • by theresistor • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 3 comments