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  1. An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)
    (124 points | Comments)

  2. Guid Smash
    (180 points | Comments)

  3. Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz
    (211 points | Comments)

  4. Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)
    (116 points | Comments)

  5. X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
    (168 points | Comments)

  6. Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
    (146 points | Comments)

  7. Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning
    (163 points | Comments)

  8. Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
    (108 points | Comments)

  9. A Lisp in 99LOC
    (108 points | Comments)

  10. Office on HP-UX and Unix
    (102 points | Comments)

  11. One person was able to claim 20M IPs
    (224 points | Comments)

  12. Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
    (516 points | Comments)

  13. Tversky Neural Networks
    (131 points | Comments)

  14. Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
    (186 points | Comments)

  15. OpenAI Progress
    (391 points | Comments)

  16. Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
    (268 points | Comments)

  17. Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material
    (111 points | Comments)

  18. Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
    (690 points | Comments)

  19. Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
    (359 points | Comments)

  20. Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop
    (110 points | Comments)

  21. Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
    (434 points | Comments)

  22. Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
    (182 points | Comments)

  23. Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
    (200 points | Comments)

  24. How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)
    (176 points | Comments)

  25. Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
    (185 points | Comments)

  26. Traps to Developers
    (256 points | Comments)

  27. Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
    (186 points | Comments)

  28. Pfeilstorch
    (324 points | Comments)

  29. Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
    (339 points | Comments)

  30. Oil states thwart agreement on plastics
    (128 points | Comments)

  31. Good system design
    (957 points | Comments)

  32. PuTTY has a new website
    (506 points | Comments)

  33. Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems
    (183 points | Comments)