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1.
Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)
1194 points by tosh 2 days ago | 242 comments
2.
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (derflounder.wordpress.com)
550 points by zdw 1 day ago | 434 comments
3.
The “S” in MCP Stands for Security (elenacross7.medium.com)
700 points by skilldeliver 2 days ago | 174 comments
4.
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive (tansanrao.com)
475 points by tansanrao 2 days ago | 178 comments
5.
Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps (umich.edu)
151 points by gnabgib 3 days ago | 115 comments
6.
The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (utcc.utoronto.ca)
250 points by NGRhodes 4 days ago | 114 comments
7.
Lessons from open source in the Mexican government (lwn.net)
322 points by signa11 4 days ago | 94 comments
8.
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit (lesswrong.com)
552 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 421 comments
9.
The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done (add.org)
361 points by yamrzou 2 days ago | 213 comments
10.
New Theoretical Research Trends in Cartography (2001) (researchgate.net)
46 points by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago | 9 comments
11.
Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript (sometechblog.com)
71 points by l5870uoo9y 4 days ago | 33 comments
12.
Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair (technicshistory.com)
85 points by cfmcdonald 1 day ago | 14 comments
13.
SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators (machinelearning.apple.com)
169 points by pizza 2 days ago | 36 comments
14.
Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension (nautil.us)
185 points by dnetesn 1 day ago | 83 comments
15.
Blacksmithing and Lisp (funcall.blogspot.com)
156 points by 082349872349872 5 days ago | 77 comments
16.
QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence (qwenlm.github.io)
119 points by wertyk 4 days ago | 26 comments
17.
My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers (motifanalytics.medium.com)
123 points by jjp 2 days ago | 30 comments
18.
Serving Vector Tiles, Fast (spatialists.ch)
101 points by altilunium 2 days ago | 17 comments
19.
Breaking computers taught me to build them (danielsada.tech)
116 points by dshacker 5 days ago | 68 comments
20.
Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians (capitoltrades.com)
315 points by gscott 1 day ago | 117 comments
21.
Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain (pypi.org)
69 points by m463 2 days ago | 11 comments
22.
Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock (reddit.com)
233 points by byry 1 day ago | 52 comments
23.
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet (bleepingcomputer.com)
171 points by andy99 1 day ago | 77 comments
24.
Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark (localscore.ai)
120 points by sipjca 4 days ago | 24 comments
25.
Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO (homeip.net)
69 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 22 comments
26.
Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows (peteronprogramming.wordpress.com)
62 points by donpedro1337 6 days ago | 48 comments
27.
Pitfalls of Safe Rust (corrode.dev)
162 points by pjmlp 3 days ago | 138 comments
28.
Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely (github.com/brannondorsey)
113 points by braxxox 1 day ago | 68 comments
29.
What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested (laist.com)
190 points by littlexsparkee 4 days ago | 125 comments
30.
Photons, neutrinos, and gravitational-wave astronomy (arizona.edu)
50 points by ninocan 5 days ago | 10 comments

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