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1.
Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
760 points by tosh 6 days ago | 284 comments
2.
Asus Bike Booster (asus.com)
625 points by wiradikusuma 10 days ago | 451 comments
3.
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)
624 points by Narishma 6 days ago | 332 comments
4.
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
713 points by pentagrama 6 days ago | 278 comments
5.
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)
451 points by dgellow 7 days ago | 371 comments
6.
The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
334 points by mlenhard 6 days ago | 129 comments
7.
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
281 points by pdet 12 days ago | 31 comments
8.
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
322 points by ingve 7 days ago | 247 comments
9.
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
658 points by stagas 6 days ago | 202 comments
10.
Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
173 points by theanonymousone 6 days ago | 158 comments
11.
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
138 points by ibobev 9 days ago | 70 comments
12.
Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
124 points by emptybits 9 days ago | 26 comments
13.
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
118 points by homarp 6 days ago | 29 comments
14.
Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)
198 points by Bluestein 11 days ago | 64 comments
15.
A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
165 points by frizlab 12 days ago | 38 comments
16.
Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
84 points by tobr 7 days ago | 20 comments
17.
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
161 points by txrx0000 9 days ago | 49 comments
18.
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
114 points by Eridanus2 6 days ago | 31 comments
19.
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)
198 points by maxutility 6 days ago | 139 comments
20.
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
196 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 149 comments
21.
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
437 points by Alifatisk 6 days ago | 154 comments
22.
A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
114 points by austinallegro 6 days ago | 12 comments
23.
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
98 points by matt_d 10 days ago | 39 comments
24.
Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)
98 points by lermontov 8 days ago | 27 comments
25.
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
92 points by johnsillings 6 days ago | 42 comments
26.
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
335 points by hruvhwe 6 days ago | 187 comments
27.
Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
68 points by xalfotis 10 days ago | 16 comments
28.
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)
59 points by turtushig22 7 days ago | 4 comments
29.
Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com/wmww)
86 points by schmorptron 7 days ago | 17 comments
30.
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)
164 points by abelanger 10 days ago | 113 comments

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