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1.		Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
		1077 points by chwtutha 71 days ago [ext] \| 486 comments [ext]
2.		Dave Farber has died (nanog.org)
		287 points by vitplister 70 days ago [ext] \| 46 comments [ext]
3.		GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)
		302 points by mooreds 70 days ago [ext] \| 141 comments [ext]
4.		The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
		436 points by iik2616 251 days ago \| hide \| 170 comments
4.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) [ext]
		334 points by david927 70 days ago [ext] \| 1157 comments [ext]
5.		Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
		307 points by ariaalam 70 days ago [ext] \| 112 comments [ext]
6.		Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)
		205 points by todsacerdoti 70 days ago [ext] \| 87 comments [ext]
7.		From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
		46 points by gin5806 20 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
7.		Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)
		331 points by yi_wang 71 days ago [ext] \| 153 comments [ext]
8.		Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
		175 points by nullcathedral 70 days ago [ext] \| 75 comments [ext]
9.		OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)
		340 points by novoreorx 71 days ago [ext] \| 513 comments [ext]
10.		Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
		71 points by fin781 263 days ago \| hide \| 11 comments
10.		The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (blog.svgames.pl)
		142 points by pocksuppet 70 days ago [ext] \| 58 comments [ext]
11.		Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
		269 points by RebelPotato 71 days ago [ext] \| 90 comments [ext]
12.		Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
		140 points by todsacerdoti 70 days ago [ext] \| 78 comments [ext]
13.		The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
		174 points by mem4364 105 days ago \| hide \| 48 comments
13.		Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)
		181 points by tosh 70 days ago [ext] \| 48 comments [ext]
14.		A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
		226 points by HelloUsername 70 days ago [ext] \| 118 comments [ext]
15.		Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
		238 points by aaronng91 70 days ago [ext] \| 272 comments [ext]
16.		How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
		117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago \| hide \| 18 comments
16.		Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)
		196 points by bryanrasmussen 71 days ago [ext] \| 73 comments [ext]
17.		Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version (github.com/momciloo)
		141 points by momciloo 71 days ago [ext] \| 38 comments [ext]
18.		RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
		168 points by ipnon 70 days ago [ext] \| 52 comments [ext]
19.		Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
		344 points by aul1104 368 days ago \| hide \| 7 comments
19.		Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
		117 points by mattst88 70 days ago [ext] \| 38 comments [ext]
20.		Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)
		325 points by brandonb 70 days ago [ext] \| 204 comments [ext]
21.		Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
		271 points by ingve 70 days ago [ext] \| 259 comments [ext]
22.		The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
		469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago \| hide \| 14 comments
22.		Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)
		212 points by vinnyglennon 70 days ago [ext] \| 209 comments [ext]
23.		I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
		342 points by adunk 70 days ago [ext] \| 63 comments [ext]
24.		DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)
		418 points by awaaz 71 days ago [ext] \| 47 comments [ext]
25.		The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
		491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago \| hide \| 105 comments
25.		Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)
		410 points by Ezhik 71 days ago [ext] \| 353 comments [ext]
26.		Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)
		208 points by zhyan7109 74 days ago [ext] \| 68 comments [ext]
27.		Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
		93 points by pacod 71 days ago [ext] \| 4 comments [ext]
28.		The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
		487 points by htx5127 609 days ago \| hide \| 15 comments
28.		Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)
		148 points by jingkai_he 71 days ago [ext] \| 62 comments [ext]
29.		Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)
		186 points by tosh 70 days ago [ext] \| 52 comments [ext]
30.		The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB (aosabook.org)
		89 points by grep_it 76 days ago [ext] \| 12 comments [ext]
31.		From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
		98 points by oem2878 252 days ago \| hide \| 150 comments
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