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1.Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
740 points by l1am0 11 days ago | 281 comments
2.Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
859 points by zdw 10 days ago | 291 comments
3.Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
404 points by doener 10 days ago | 92 comments
4.MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
255 points by mikece 13 days ago | 119 comments
5.Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
270 points by janandonly 10 days ago | 159 comments
6.In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
308 points by ingve 11 days ago | 168 comments
7.Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
530 points by jimminyx 10 days ago | 224 comments
8.FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
253 points by yannick2k 11 days ago | 241 comments
9.Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
245 points by ColinWright 11 days ago | 122 comments
10.Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)
313 points by CrossVR 15 days ago | 125 comments
11.List animals until failure (rose.systems)
362 points by l1n 11 days ago | 187 comments
12.Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
843 points by firefoxd 10 days ago | 368 comments
13.Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
287 points by schlichtm 14 days ago | 886 comments
14.Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
140 points by donatj 11 days ago | 61 comments
15.Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
153 points by jandrewrogers 12 days ago | 47 comments
16.Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
275 points by kohlschuetter 15 days ago | 130 comments
17.Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
186 points by marojejian 11 days ago | 85 comments
18.What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
420 points by SatvikBeri 11 days ago | 172 comments
19.The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
227 points by 0x54MUR41 11 days ago | 39 comments
20.Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
148 points by surprisetalk 15 days ago | 18 comments
21.VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
180 points by demail 14 days ago | 89 comments
22.The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
199 points by doppp 15 days ago | 156 comments
23.Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
143 points by behnamoh 11 days ago | 115 comments
24.Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/datadog)
134 points by tanelpoder 14 days ago | 15 comments
25.Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
106 points by gmays 10 days ago | 36 comments
26.A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
133 points by cyanbane 10 days ago | 138 comments
27.Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
119 points by merelysounds 15 days ago | 30 comments
28.EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
53 points by 1970-01-01 13 days ago | 31 comments
29.Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)
93 points by zaptrem 12 days ago | 37 comments
30.A web server on a single floppy disk (ddns.net)
118 points by ActionRetro 14 days ago | 45 comments

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