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1.
How to build a coding agent (ghuntley.com)
421 points by ghuntley 23 hours ago | 112 comments
2.
The cost of interrupted work (2023) (oberien.de)
263 points by _vaporwave_ 1 day ago | 195 comments
3.
A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website (lina.sh)
715 points by shaunpud 16 hours ago | 367 comments
4.
A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt (smithsonianmag.com)
169 points by sensiquest 1 day ago | 54 comments
5.
Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account (twitter.com/zack_overflow)
484 points by helloplanets 11 hours ago | 173 comments
6.
Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras (github.com/roryclear)
164 points by roryclear 14 hours ago | 46 comments
7.
Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve (arstechnica.com)
113 points by amichail 4 days ago | 15 comments
8.
Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp (github.com/phantomics)
106 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 21 comments
9.
Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime (ericmjl.github.io)
130 points by apwheele 14 hours ago | 69 comments
10.
It is worth it to buy the fast CPU (howardjohn.info)
212 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 398 comments
11.
Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs (marianogappa.github.io)
254 points by maloga 11 hours ago | 177 comments
12.
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes (newscientist.com)
149 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 76 comments
13.
Rolling the dice with CSS random() (webkit.org)
132 points by zdw 3 days ago | 30 comments
14.
Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor (github.com/kagehq)
106 points by lexokoh 23 hours ago | 43 comments
15.
Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012) (steamstatic.com)
225 points by Michelangelo11 18 hours ago | 176 comments
16.
Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations (youaretheassistantnow.com)
82 points by iamwil 20 hours ago | 36 comments
17.
Burner Phone 101 (rebeccawilliams.info)
279 points by CharlesW 4 days ago | 104 comments
18.
ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs (github.com/martianlantern)
63 points by martianlantern 22 hours ago | 4 comments
19.
Show HN: Bicyclopedia (lemoing.ca)
102 points by lemoing 15 hours ago | 39 comments
20.
Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case (darkcoding.net)
103 points by goranmoomin 1 day ago | 39 comments
21.
Turning Claude Code into my best design partner (betweentheprompts.com)
205 points by scastiel 18 hours ago | 74 comments
22.
What if every city had a London Overground? (dwell.com)
73 points by edward 3 days ago | 93 comments
23.
Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing (atomic14.substack.com)
36 points by iamflimflam1 1 day ago | 38 comments
24.
Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018) (equal-earth.com)
66 points by bjelkeman-again 20 hours ago | 51 comments
25.
Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 (cloudflare.com)
135 points by achalshah 2 days ago | 29 comments
26.
We put a coding agent in a while loop (github.com/repomirrorhq)
116 points by sfarshid 10 hours ago | 83 comments
27.
Programming People (2016) (leftoversalad.com)
72 points by saulpw 23 hours ago | 16 comments
28.
Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years (theguardian.com)
41 points by forthelose 1 day ago | 14 comments
29.
NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter (scientificamerican.com)
62 points by apress 3 days ago | 27 comments
30.
AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem (vincirufus.com)
178 points by vincirufus 1 day ago | 393 comments

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