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  1. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    213 points • by zdw • yesterday at 9:30 PM • 61 comments
  2. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com)
    142 points • by jimminyx • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 40 comments
  3. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (apple1.chez.com)
    173 points • by janandonly • yesterday at 5:36 PM • 111 comments
  4. My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math (journal.rafaelcosta.me)
    128 points • by rafaelcosta • yesterday at 8:51 PM • 52 comments
  5. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (www.bbc.com)
    12 points • by breve • yesterday at 10:14 PM • 1 comment
  6. Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing (martinalderson.com)
    15 points • by martinald • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 8 comments
  7. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    641 points • by l1am0 • yesterday at 9:44 AM • 241 comments
  8. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    264 points • by doener • yesterday at 1:56 PM • 49 comments
  9. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    11 points • by accrual • today at 12:00 AM • 3 comments
  10. Founding is a snowball (blog.bawolf.com)
    28 points • by bryantwolf • last Thursday at 6:46 PM • 6 comments
  11. I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    509 points • by firefoxd • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 201 comments
  12. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    79 points • by jandrewrogers • last Friday at 4:02 PM • 13 comments
  13. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
    53 points • by zem • last Friday at 5:31 AM • 29 comments
  14. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    347 points • by SatvikBeri • yesterday at 9:33 AM • 147 comments
  15. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (www.cnx-software.com)
    174 points • by mikece • last Thursday at 4:54 PM • 50 comments
  16. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (www.lrb.co.uk)
    6 points • by against • last Wednesday at 8:56 PM • 1 comment
  17. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by anteloper • yesterday at 6:41 PM • 0 comments
  18. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    16 points • by PaulHoule • yesterday at 8:40 PM • 1 comment
  19. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    44 points • by cyanbane • yesterday at 5:54 PM • 53 comments
  20. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    173 points • by rcarmo • yesterday at 7:38 PM • 95 comments
  21. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    205 points • by kohlschuetter • last Tuesday at 8:57 PM • 103 comments
  22. Amiga Unix (Amix) (www.amigaunix.com)
    109 points • by donatj • yesterday at 10:57 AM • 39 comments
  23. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    177 points • by yannick2k • yesterday at 10:30 AM • 105 comments
  24. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code (self)
    60 points • by CzaxTanmay • last Friday at 4:59 AM • 14 comments
  25. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    39 points • by gmays • yesterday at 6:00 PM • 16 comments
  26. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (www.sciencedaily.com)
    60 points • by amichail • yesterday at 9:37 PM • 14 comments
  27. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    199 points • by 0x54MUR41 • yesterday at 7:50 AM • 38 comments
  28. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    112 points • by cmsefton • yesterday at 3:58 PM • 149 comments
  29. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (www.visualjj.com)
    148 points • by demail • last Wednesday at 6:20 PM • 66 comments
  30. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    146 points • by arwt • yesterday at 7:47 PM • 65 comments
  31. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (www.theguardian.com)
    64 points • by mitchbob • last Friday at 7:41 PM • 30 comments
  32. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    130 points • by zdw • yesterday at 9:33 PM • 68 comments
  33. The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (www.youtube.com)
    185 points • by doppp • last Tuesday at 5:07 PM • 141 comments
  34. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    93 points • by ActionRetro • last Thursday at 2:00 AM • 33 comments
  35. Ian's Shoelace Site (www.fieggen.com)
    17 points • by righthand • yesterday at 6:38 PM • 0 comments
  36. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (www.sintef.no)
    14 points • by PaulHoule • yesterday at 6:15 PM • 10 comments
  37. Good if make prior after data instead of before (www.lesswrong.com)
    10 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 4:39 PM • 1 comment
  38. Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (www.quantamagazine.org)
    169 points • by marojejian • yesterday at 12:00 AM • 80 comments
  39. Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge (www.quantamagazine.org)
    8 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 6:52 PM • 1 comment
  40. FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect (ftp.belnet.be)
    9 points • by obeleh • yesterday at 6:49 PM • 0 comments
  41. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival (phys.org)
    72 points • by bikenaga • yesterday at 5:33 PM • 20 comments
  42. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
    230 points • by ColinWright • last Saturday at 9:14 PM • 111 comments
  43. Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. (collections.leventhalmap.org)
    46 points • by speckx • last Tuesday at 4:44 PM • 9 comments
  44. Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown (github.com)
    39 points • by dhruv3006 • yesterday at 3:09 PM • 21 comments
  45. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (an.dywa.ng)
    833 points • by cbeuw • last Saturday at 5:21 PM • 523 comments
  46. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com)
    125 points • by tanelpoder • last Thursday at 12:36 AM • 14 comments
  47. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com)
    64 points • by ddaniel10 • yesterday at 1:50 PM • 45 comments
  48. Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
    144 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 9:33 PM • 13 comments
  49. Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)
    244 points • by todsacerdoti • last Saturday at 9:06 PM • 210 comments
  50. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (www.nature.com)
    41 points • by PaulHoule • yesterday at 6:51 PM • 2 comments