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1.		How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
		820 points by laurentiurad 3 days ago \| 543 comments
2.		My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
		540 points by seg6 4 days ago \| 252 comments
3.		Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
		291 points by Klaster_1 3 days ago \| 69 comments
4.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
		315 points by david927 3 days ago \| 1154 comments
5.		Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
		436 points by ike_usawa 3 days ago \| 371 comments
6.		Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
		610 points by satvikpendem 3 days ago \| 282 comments
7.		We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
		341 points by adletbalzhanov 4 days ago \| 255 comments
8.		Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
		666 points by akyuu 3 days ago \| 592 comments
9.		Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
		382 points by jmusall 4 days ago \| 44 comments
10.		Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
		261 points by jggonz 4 days ago \| 167 comments
11.		Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
		339 points by bobbiechen 15 days ago \| 40 comments
12.		Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
		171 points by hakkikonu 7 days ago \| 90 comments
13.		OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
		189 points by hexomancer 3 days ago \| 90 comments
14.		There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
		197 points by gukoff 3 days ago \| 33 comments
15.		Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
		173 points by BruceEel 3 days ago \| 76 comments
16.		I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
		228 points by gregsadetsky 3 days ago \| 174 comments
17.		Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
		131 points by smartmic 3 days ago \| 39 comments
18.		Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
		121 points by Rochus 3 days ago \| 19 comments
19.		New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
		133 points by berghoffer 3 days ago \| 92 comments
20.		Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
		164 points by oskrim 3 days ago \| 105 comments
21.		Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
		300 points by ilamont 5 days ago \| 223 comments
22.		The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
		145 points by simonpure 3 days ago \| 117 comments
23.		The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
		104 points by Lammy 3 days ago \| 85 comments
24.		Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
		171 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago \| 71 comments
25.		John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
		148 points by Kiboneu 3 days ago \| 133 comments
26.		TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
		102 points by frozenseven 3 days ago \| 20 comments
27.		Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
		128 points by tchalla 4 days ago \| 136 comments
28.		The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
		209 points by doubletwoyou 3 days ago \| 101 comments
29.		Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
		69 points by jackdoe 6 days ago \| 42 comments
30.		Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
		82 points by davidbarker 10 days ago \| 33 comments
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