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1.Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)
654 points by theblazehen 12 days ago | 243 comments
2.Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (spritely.institute)
234 points by AlexeyBrin 10 days ago | 47 comments
3.Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com/pydantic)
323 points by dmpetrov 10 days ago | 166 comments
4.SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) (xorvoid.com)
381 points by valyala 9 days ago | 79 comments
5.Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)
433 points by jesperordrup 10 days ago | 135 comments
6.The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (washingtonpost.com)
404 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 days ago | 724 comments
7.Software factories and the agentic moment (strongdm.ai)
301 points by mellosouls 9 days ago | 459 comments
8.Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)
251 points by vinhnx 9 days ago | 35 comments
9.Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)
164 points by videotopia 14 days ago | 64 comments
10.France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com/suitenumerique)
815 points by nar001 9 days ago | 345 comments
11.Speed up responses with fast mode (claude.com)
223 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 227 comments
12.We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
822 points by ColinWright 9 days ago | 869 comments
13.First Proof (arxiv.org)
186 points by samasblack 9 days ago | 122 comments
14.Where did all the starships go? (datawrapper.de)
226 points by speckx 13 days ago | 355 comments
15.Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)
123 points by thelok 9 days ago | 32 comments
16.Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions (hpcwire.com)
100 points by gnufx 9 days ago | 69 comments
17.I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
279 points by valyala 9 days ago | 278 comments
18.Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)
173 points by matheusalmeida 12 days ago | 69 comments
19.LLMs as the new high level language (federicopereiro.com)
177 points by swah 14 days ago | 378 comments
20.Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (alaindichiappari.dev)
375 points by alainrk 9 days ago | 594 comments
21.Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)
133 points by onurkanbkrc 10 days ago | 5 comments
22.Dark Alley Mathematics (szczepan.org)
130 points by quibono 14 days ago | 41 comments
23.Selection rather than prediction (voratiq.com)
43 points by languid-photic 13 days ago | 20 comments
24.Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (si.edu)
79 points by gmays 10 days ago | 25 comments
25.PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)
91 points by kmm 15 days ago | 16 comments
26.Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression) (bitsnbites.eu)
59 points by mbitsnbites 13 days ago | 13 comments
27.Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (googleblog.com)
95 points by gfortaine 10 days ago | 34 comments
28.FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs (fda.gov)
144 points by randycupertino 9 days ago | 328 comments
29.Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? (windowscentral.com)
187 points by josephcsible 9 days ago | 284 comments
30.A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System (rs-online.com)
72 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 24 comments

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