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1.		Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
		1348 points by schlarpc 1 day ago \| 335 comments
2.		What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
		543 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 175 comments
3.		Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
		261 points by campuscodi 1 day ago \| 140 comments
4.		How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
		549 points by vanpra 1 day ago \| 161 comments
5.		My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
		273 points by bwb 1 day ago \| 122 comments
6.		How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
		371 points by shortcrct 1 day ago \| 77 comments
7.		My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
		393 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 171 comments
8.		To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
		467 points by andsoitis 1 day ago \| 261 comments
9.		A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
		386 points by ryanvogel 1 day ago \| 124 comments
10.		Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
		194 points by the-mitr 1 day ago \| 120 comments
11.		Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
		299 points by pjacotg 2 days ago \| 60 comments
12.		Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (elis.cc)
		380 points by el1s7 1 day ago \| 148 comments
13.		Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
		192 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 68 comments
14.		MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
		216 points by boilerupnc 1 day ago \| 98 comments
15.		Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
		341 points by taubek 1 day ago \| 284 comments
16.		Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)
		215 points by dbreunig 1 day ago \| 224 comments
17.		I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
		679 points by dr_pardee 1 day ago \| 289 comments
18.		The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
		178 points by userbinator 1 day ago \| 89 comments
19.		NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
		139 points by stared 2 days ago \| 38 comments
20.		The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
		181 points by cocacola1 1 day ago \| 124 comments
21.		Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
		289 points by tchalla 1 day ago \| 152 comments
22.		Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
		384 points by dredmorbius 1 day ago \| 152 comments
23.		Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
		185 points by mdp2021 1 day ago \| 212 comments
24.		I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
		359 points by raybb 1 day ago \| 147 comments
25.		I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
		87 points by rznicolet 2 days ago \| 59 comments
26.		Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
		109 points by zdw 2 days ago \| 107 comments
27.		JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
		162 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago \| 104 comments
28.		Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
		131 points by speckx 2 days ago \| 21 comments
29.		I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)
		124 points by Sir_Twist 1 day ago \| 120 comments
30.		The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
		163 points by allisdust 1 day ago \| 140 comments
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