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  1. WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound
    (258 points | Comments)

  2. The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations
    (111 points | Comments)

  3. Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
    (245 points | Comments)

  4. GenCAD
    (440 points | Comments)

  5. An AI Hate Wave Is Here
    (107 points | Comments)

  6. Prolog Coding Horror
    (202 points | Comments)

  7. VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
    (168 points | Comments)

  8. Growing Neural Cellular Automata
    (132 points | Comments)

  9. University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading
    (103 points | Comments)

  10. EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data
    (158 points | Comments)

  11. Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
    (206 points | Comments)

  12. The occasional ECONNRESET
    (119 points | Comments)

  13. At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
    (443 points | Comments)

  14. Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
    (116 points | Comments)

  15. Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
    (147 points | Comments)

  16. Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
    (444 points | Comments)

  17. Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
    (593 points | Comments)

  18. WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
    (327 points | Comments)

  19. I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
    (448 points | Comments)

  20. AI is a technology not a product
    (478 points | Comments)

  21. CUDA Books
    (242 points | Comments)

  22. I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
    (679 points | Comments)

  23. Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
    (355 points | Comments)

  24. Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
    (113 points | Comments)

  25. Native all the way, until you need text
    (452 points | Comments)

  26. AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
    (420 points | Comments)

  27. Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
    (198 points | Comments)

  28. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
    (112 points | Comments)

  29. Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them
    (231 points | Comments)

  30. Polypad
    (225 points | Comments)

  31. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
    (808 points | Comments)

  32. Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
    (327 points | Comments)

  33. Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
    (124 points | Comments)

  34. I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert
    (287 points | Comments)

  35. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
    (252 points | Comments)

  36. Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
    (107 points | Comments)