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1.
Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (reuters.com)
1771 points by jumpocelot 3 months ago [ext] | 4689 comments [ext]
2.
Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (data.stackexchange.com)
1550 points by maartin0 3 months ago [ext] | 999 comments [ext]
3.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (xeiaso.net)
835 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago [ext] | 639 comments [ext]
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Metsera's bold antitrust hack: let Novo Nordisk buy us twice (archive.ph)
377 points by psx3247 84 days ago | hide | 153 comments
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (refactoringenglish.com)
692 points by mtlynch 3 months ago [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
587 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago [ext] | 1195 comments [ext]
6.
The C3 Programming Language (c3-lang.org)
371 points by y1n0 3 months ago [ext] | 259 comments [ext]
7.
When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
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Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible (swifdroid.com)
293 points by mihael 3 months ago [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
8.
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) (nullprogram.com)
105 points by ibobev 3 months ago [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
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IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] (github.com/iquestlab)
182 points by shenli3514 3 months ago [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
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The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.
A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector (siliconjunction.wordpress.com)
148 points by jensgk 3 months ago [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
11.
Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot (ccc.de)
141 points by aberoham 3 months ago [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
12.
Recursive Language Models (arxiv.org)
161 points by schmuhblaster 3 months ago [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
13.
Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.
Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024) (cr.yp.to)
97 points by INGELRII 3 months ago [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
14.
Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (lffl.me)
262 points by Loeffelmann 3 months ago [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
15.
Take One Small Step (thinkhuman.com)
150 points by jamesgill 3 months ago [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
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Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
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Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time (xr0.dev)
114 points by Alifatisk 3 months ago [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
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UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space (bbc.co.uk)
150 points by vekerdyb 3 months ago [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
18.
Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (myembeddedstuff.com)
113 points by edent 3 months ago [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
19.
Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
19.
Sirius DB (sirius-db.com)
144 points by manoji 3 months ago [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
20.
Adventure 751 (1980) (bluerenga.blog)
61 points by quuxplusone 3 months ago [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
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Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
416 points by taubek 3 months ago [ext] | 403 comments [ext]
22.
The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 474 days ago | hide | 135 comments
22.
Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models (arxiv.org)
84 points by remexre 3 months ago [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
23.
The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest (thephd.dev)
66 points by ingve 3 months ago [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
24.
How Smell Guides Our Inner World (quantamagazine.org)
61 points by anarbadalov 3 months ago [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25.
When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.
Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star (phys.org)
49 points by wglb 3 months ago [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
26.
Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling (github.com/tomasf)
92 points by bdcravens 3 months ago [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
27.
Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
380 points by josephcsible 3 months ago [ext] | 322 comments [ext]
28.
The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
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Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack (corviont.com)
102 points by packet_mover 3 months ago [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
29.
X-Clacks-Overhead (hleb.dev)
125 points by hleb_dev 3 months ago [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
30.
Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024) (yosefk.com)
92 points by hun3 3 months ago [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
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From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 9 hours ago | hide | 47 comments

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