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1.		I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
		485 points by codetheweb 14 days ago \| 105 comments
2.		Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
		1040 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago \| 662 comments
3.		Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
		557 points by dbushell 14 days ago \| 428 comments
4.		Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
		357 points by yesturi 14 days ago \| 119 comments
5.		Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
		476 points by rocauc 13 days ago \| 307 comments
6.		Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
		403 points by pavel_lishin 13 days ago \| 434 comments
7.		Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
		456 points by tosh 13 days ago \| 208 comments
8.		Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
		387 points by personjerry 14 days ago \| 358 comments
9.		Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
		278 points by rvermeulen98 14 days ago \| 89 comments
10.		Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
		1122 points by nhod 14 days ago \| 537 comments
11.		KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
		263 points by bpierre 14 days ago \| 112 comments
12.		New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
		298 points by sarreph 13 days ago \| 157 comments
13.		Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
		165 points by nomaxx117 13 days ago \| 62 comments
14.		The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
		246 points by at1as 14 days ago \| 338 comments
15.		Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
		348 points by mustaphah 14 days ago \| 136 comments
16.		Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
		126 points by hahahacorn 13 days ago \| 23 comments
17.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		248 points by benbreen 14 days ago \| 154 comments
18.		AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
		469 points by zdw 17 days ago \| 238 comments
19.		Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
		105 points by mnazzaro 13 days ago \| 45 comments
20.		Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
		147 points by timsneath 14 days ago \| 35 comments
21.		Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
		286 points by ibobev 14 days ago \| 144 comments
22.		AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
		502 points by mefengl 14 days ago \| 273 comments
23.		Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
		183 points by whiteros_e 14 days ago \| 129 comments
24.		Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
		82 points by janandonly 19 days ago \| 31 comments
25.		Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
		92 points by avaer 14 days ago \| 22 comments
26.		Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
		94 points by chaz6 13 days ago \| 26 comments
27.		Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
		236 points by 01jonny01 14 days ago \| 194 comments
28.		Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
		121 points by chmaynard 17 days ago \| 14 comments
29.		Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
		110 points by elpocko 13 days ago \| 14 comments
30.		Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
		143 points by marklit 18 days ago \| 102 comments
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