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1.
Claude for Excel (claude.com)
656 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 445 comments
2.
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (cmog.org)
357 points by speckx 1 day ago | 72 comments
3.
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)
373 points by elashri 1 day ago | 198 comments
4.
Easy RISC-V (dramforever.github.io)
374 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 71 comments
5.
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
685 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 677 comments
6.
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra (benbrubaker.com)
230 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 57 comments
7.
Rust cross-platform GPUI components (github.com/longbridge)
497 points by xvilka 1 day ago | 210 comments
8.
Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)
256 points by dxs 2 days ago | 67 comments
9.
Tags to make HTML work like you expect (jim-nielsen.com)
430 points by FromTheArchives 1 day ago | 231 comments
10.
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization (phys.org)
210 points by geox 1 day ago | 219 comments
11.
MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities (github.com/cisco-ai-defense)
164 points by hsanthan 1 day ago | 48 comments
12.
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in (lalinsky.com)
319 points by 0x1997 1 day ago | 137 comments
13.
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)
952 points by speckx 1 day ago | 447 comments
14.
Corrosion (fly.io)
214 points by cgb_ 5 days ago | 97 comments
15.
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? (seangoedecke.com)
166 points by ingve 7 days ago | 98 comments
16.
The last European train that travels by sea (bbc.com)
173 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 156 comments
17.
Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling (smithsonianmag.com)
154 points by NaOH 6 days ago | 44 comments
18.
We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" (nanit.com)
320 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 249 comments
19.
Recall for Linux (github.com/rolflobker)
533 points by anticensor 1 day ago | 209 comments
20.
TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation (github.com/johannschopplich)
157 points by royosherove 1 day ago | 57 comments
21.
Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012) (tannerhelland.com)
111 points by Bogdanp 4 days ago | 29 comments
22.
The new calculus of AI-based coding (joemag.dev)
177 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 190 comments
23.
Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise (github.com/jdx)
176 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 33 comments
24.
Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers (hacktivate.app)
267 points by twostraws 6 days ago | 109 comments
25.
Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon (github.com/rochus-keller)
89 points by luismedel 1 day ago | 24 comments
26.
Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot (sphere.computer)
98 points by ChrisArchitect 5 days ago | 13 comments
27.
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) (endpointdev.com)
321 points by pera 1 day ago | 359 comments
28.
Show HN: JSON Query (jsonquerylang.org)
141 points by wofo 1 day ago | 68 comments
29.
What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? (hackaday.com)
393 points by marbartolome 1 day ago | 272 comments
30.
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams (adamlogue.com)
214 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 47 comments

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