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1.		Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
		1159 points by schlarpc 15 hours ago \| 305 comments
2.		Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
		251 points by campuscodi 1 day ago \| 130 comments
3.		What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
		502 points by tosh 23 hours ago \| 159 comments
4.		My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
		259 points by bwb 1 day ago \| 105 comments
5.		How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)
		345 points by shortcrct 23 hours ago \| 72 comments
6.		How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
		479 points by vanpra 18 hours ago \| 141 comments
7.		To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)
		461 points by andsoitis 1 day ago \| 260 comments
8.		A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
		363 points by ryanvogel 21 hours ago \| 115 comments
9.		My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
		347 points by ibobev 20 hours ago \| 146 comments
10.		Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
		186 points by the-mitr 22 hours ago \| 109 comments
11.		Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)
		296 points by pjacotg 1 day ago \| 60 comments
12.		MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)
		215 points by boilerupnc 1 day ago \| 95 comments
13.		Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (elis.cc)
		353 points by el1s7 18 hours ago \| 121 comments
14.		Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)
		328 points by taubek 1 day ago \| 268 comments
15.		Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)
		166 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago \| 59 comments
16.		I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
		665 points by dr_pardee 23 hours ago \| 281 comments
17.		The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)
		177 points by userbinator 1 day ago \| 89 comments
18.		NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)
		138 points by stared 1 day ago \| 38 comments
19.		The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
		181 points by cocacola1 1 day ago \| 113 comments
20.		Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)
		193 points by dbreunig 19 hours ago \| 177 comments
21.		Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
		275 points by tchalla 19 hours ago \| 143 comments
22.		Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
		382 points by dredmorbius 23 hours ago \| 150 comments
23.		Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
		179 points by mdp2021 22 hours ago \| 205 comments
24.		I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)
		353 points by raybb 1 day ago \| 147 comments
25.		I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)
		86 points by rznicolet 1 day ago \| 54 comments
26.		Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
		103 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 101 comments
27.		JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
		161 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago \| 99 comments
28.		Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
		128 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 21 comments
29.		I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)
		124 points by Sir_Twist 1 day ago \| 119 comments
30.		The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
		158 points by allisdust 19 hours ago \| 135 comments
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