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1.
The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
1395 points by herbertl 3 days ago | 697 comments
2.
Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
949 points by nichochar 5 days ago | 756 comments
3.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
462 points by NaOH 3 days ago | 327 comments
4.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
633 points by Topfi 4 days ago | 448 comments
5.
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
378 points by phoenix120 3 days ago | 192 comments
6.
fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
311 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 134 comments
7.
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
592 points by tomasreimers 4 days ago | 453 comments
8.
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
298 points by fittingopposite 3 days ago | 33 comments
9.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
453 points by _djo_ 3 days ago | 415 comments
10.
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
327 points by andros 3 days ago | 124 comments
11.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
670 points by haunter 4 days ago | 561 comments
12.
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
342 points by porridgeraisin 3 days ago | 225 comments
13.
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
543 points by flaburgan 3 days ago | 307 comments
14.
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
165 points by j4mie 3 days ago | 296 comments
15.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
446 points by otherayden 3 days ago | 73 comments
16.
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
614 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 419 comments
17.
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
281 points by pizzaiolo 4 days ago | 73 comments
18.
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
424 points by jp_sc 3 days ago | 299 comments
19.
Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
622 points by KolmogorovComp 3 days ago | 158 comments
20.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
289 points by newusertoday 3 days ago | 450 comments
21.
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
396 points by Vinnl 3 days ago | 198 comments
22.
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
268 points by andrewjanke 9 days ago | 69 comments
23.
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
297 points by zeristor 3 days ago | 59 comments
24.
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
181 points by rglover 4 days ago | 48 comments
25.
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
107 points by whobre 9 days ago | 57 comments
26.
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
193 points by jeroenjanssens 3 days ago | 40 comments
27.
Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
258 points by honungsburk 3 days ago | 160 comments
28.
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
313 points by cwwc 3 days ago | 502 comments
29.
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)
81 points by bwm 3 days ago | 44 comments
30.
The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
179 points by cyndunlop 3 days ago | 64 comments

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