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1.
Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (visualrambling.space)
849 points by damarberlari 3 days ago | 132 comments
2.
AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (agents.md)
822 points by ghuntley 4 days ago | 382 comments
3.
Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (cmpxchg8b.com)
815 points by taviso 3 days ago | 895 comments
4.
Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (pistachioapp.com)
803 points by Sayrus 4 days ago | 305 comments
5.
Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering (github.com/rasbt)
413 points by ModelForge 3 days ago | 57 comments
6.
Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix (tidewave.ai)
296 points by kieloo 3 days ago | 58 comments
7.
Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (github.com/zedless-editor)
552 points by homebrewer 3 days ago | 317 comments
8.
Sequoia backs Zed (zed.dev)
445 points by vquemener 3 days ago | 321 comments
9.
How to Think About GPUs (jax-ml.github.io)
391 points by alphabetting 5 days ago | 120 comments
10.
Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler (github.com/luminal-ai)
146 points by jafioti 3 days ago | 60 comments
11.
An Update on Pytype (github.com/google)
196 points by mxmlnkn 3 days ago | 66 comments
12.
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) (rudyrucker.com)
182 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 101 comments
13.
Pixel 10 Phones (blog.google)
434 points by gotmedium 3 days ago | 953 comments
14.
Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
530 points by mbix77 4 days ago | 247 comments
15.
Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life (nautil.us)
160 points by jnord 4 days ago | 73 comments
16.
OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple (openpolicyagent.org)
144 points by crcsmnky 3 days ago | 51 comments
17.
Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover (imperialcollegelondon.github.io)
143 points by ljlolel 3 days ago | 103 comments
18.
Introduction to AT Protocol (mackuba.eu)
193 points by psionides 3 days ago | 108 comments
19.
Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
145 points by glawrence13 3 days ago | 98 comments
20.
AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong (lastweekinaws.com)
378 points by keithly 3 days ago | 277 comments
21.
Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python (github.com/plutoprint)
158 points by sammycage 3 days ago | 48 comments
22.
French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells (arstechnica.com)
192 points by pabs3 6 days ago | 151 comments
23.
Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP (browser-use.com)
181 points by gregpr07 3 days ago | 118 comments
24.
The value of hitting the HN front page (mooreds.com)
208 points by mooreds 4 days ago | 104 comments
25.
Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache (github.com/railsjazz)
87 points by amalinovic 5 days ago | 6 comments
26.
How I Made Ruby Faster Than Ruby (noteflakes.com)
86 points by ciconia 5 days ago | 28 comments
27.
Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) (gregoryszorc.com)
209 points by thundergolfer 4 days ago | 198 comments
28.
Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025 (gfw.report)
217 points by kotri 4 days ago | 180 comments
29.
Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation (databricks.com)
177 points by djhu9 4 days ago | 205 comments
30.
Improvements to OCaml code editing: the basics of a refactor engine (tarides.com)
99 points by nukifw 3 days ago | 18 comments

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