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1.		Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
		539 points by dbushell 1 day ago \| 412 comments
2.		Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
		997 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 629 comments
3.		Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
		343 points by yesturi 1 day ago \| 116 comments
4.		Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
		461 points by rocauc 1 day ago \| 303 comments
5.		Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
		386 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago \| 410 comments
6.		Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
		429 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 197 comments
7.		Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
		380 points by personjerry 2 days ago \| 351 comments
8.		Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
		268 points by rvermeulen98 1 day ago \| 87 comments
9.		Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
		1048 points by nhod 1 day ago \| 506 comments
10.		KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
		255 points by bpierre 1 day ago \| 112 comments
11.		New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
		290 points by sarreph 1 day ago \| 155 comments
12.		I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
		469 points by codetheweb 1 day ago \| 103 comments
13.		Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
		161 points by nomaxx117 1 day ago \| 61 comments
14.		The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
		231 points by at1as 1 day ago \| 321 comments
15.		Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
		120 points by hahahacorn 1 day ago \| 21 comments
16.		Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
		327 points by mustaphah 2 days ago \| 130 comments
17.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		243 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| 150 comments
18.		AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
		465 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 228 comments
19.		Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
		147 points by timsneath 1 day ago \| 34 comments
20.		Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
		97 points by mnazzaro 1 day ago \| 43 comments
21.		Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
		278 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 137 comments
22.		AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
		497 points by mefengl 1 day ago \| 271 comments
23.		Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
		179 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago \| 126 comments
24.		Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
		82 points by janandonly 6 days ago \| 31 comments
25.		Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
		84 points by avaer 1 day ago \| 20 comments
26.		Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
		90 points by chaz6 1 day ago \| 25 comments
27.		Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
		104 points by elpocko 1 day ago \| 14 comments
28.		Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
		118 points by chmaynard 5 days ago \| 13 comments
29.		Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
		226 points by 01jonny01 1 day ago \| 185 comments
30.		Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
		141 points by marklit 5 days ago \| 99 comments
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