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1.		Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
		1416 points by schlarpc 2 days ago \| 346 comments
2.		What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
		570 points by tosh 2 days ago \| 178 comments
3.		Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
		266 points by campuscodi 2 days ago \| 143 comments
4.		How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
		571 points by vanpra 2 days ago \| 167 comments
5.		My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
		279 points by bwb 2 days ago \| 123 comments
6.		How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
		380 points by shortcrct 2 days ago \| 79 comments
7.		My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
		413 points by ibobev 2 days ago \| 175 comments
8.		To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
		477 points by andsoitis 2 days ago \| 264 comments
9.		A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
		404 points by ryanvogel 2 days ago \| 128 comments
10.		Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (elis.cc)
		388 points by el1s7 2 days ago \| 154 comments
11.		Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
		301 points by pjacotg 3 days ago \| 60 comments
12.		Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
		199 points by the-mitr 2 days ago \| 123 comments
13.		Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
		196 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago \| 73 comments
14.		MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
		217 points by boilerupnc 2 days ago \| 98 comments
15.		Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
		346 points by taubek 2 days ago \| 288 comments
16.		Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)
		223 points by dbreunig 2 days ago \| 250 comments
17.		I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
		692 points by dr_pardee 2 days ago \| 291 comments
18.		The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
		180 points by userbinator 2 days ago \| 90 comments
19.		NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
		140 points by stared 3 days ago \| 39 comments
20.		The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
		182 points by cocacola1 2 days ago \| 128 comments
21.		Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
		299 points by tchalla 2 days ago \| 156 comments
22.		Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
		387 points by dredmorbius 2 days ago \| 152 comments
23.		Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
		188 points by mdp2021 2 days ago \| 227 comments
24.		I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
		366 points by raybb 2 days ago \| 151 comments
25.		I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
		88 points by rznicolet 3 days ago \| 59 comments
26.		Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
		114 points by zdw 3 days ago \| 117 comments
27.		JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
		163 points by zX41ZdbW 2 days ago \| 107 comments
28.		Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
		131 points by speckx 3 days ago \| 22 comments
29.		I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)
		128 points by Sir_Twist 2 days ago \| 120 comments
30.		The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
		164 points by allisdust 2 days ago \| 145 comments
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