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1.
The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
1384 points by herbertl 2 days ago | 692 comments
2.
Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
937 points by nichochar 4 days ago | 747 comments
3.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
460 points by NaOH 2 days ago | 325 comments
4.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
631 points by Topfi 3 days ago | 448 comments
5.
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
376 points by phoenix120 2 days ago | 188 comments
6.
fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
309 points by handfuloflight 2 days ago | 134 comments
7.
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
590 points by tomasreimers 3 days ago | 447 comments
8.
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
296 points by fittingopposite 2 days ago | 33 comments
9.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
451 points by _djo_ 2 days ago | 404 comments
10.
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
327 points by andros 2 days ago | 121 comments
11.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
664 points by haunter 3 days ago | 560 comments
12.
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
542 points by flaburgan 2 days ago | 306 comments
13.
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
336 points by porridgeraisin 2 days ago | 223 comments
14.
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
162 points by j4mie 2 days ago | 288 comments
15.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
444 points by otherayden 2 days ago | 73 comments
16.
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
614 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 419 comments
17.
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
281 points by pizzaiolo 3 days ago | 73 comments
18.
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
423 points by jp_sc 2 days ago | 297 comments
19.
Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
621 points by KolmogorovComp 2 days ago | 157 comments
20.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
287 points by newusertoday 2 days ago | 440 comments
21.
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
394 points by Vinnl 2 days ago | 195 comments
22.
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
267 points by andrewjanke 8 days ago | 69 comments
23.
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
296 points by zeristor 2 days ago | 59 comments
24.
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
181 points by rglover 2 days ago | 48 comments
25.
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
107 points by whobre 8 days ago | 57 comments
26.
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
192 points by jeroenjanssens 2 days ago | 40 comments
27.
Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
257 points by honungsburk 2 days ago | 154 comments
28.
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
313 points by cwwc 2 days ago | 503 comments
29.
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
80 points by bwm 2 days ago | 43 comments
30.
The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
179 points by cyndunlop 2 days ago | 64 comments

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