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1.
Claude for Excel (claude.com)
674 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 457 comments
2.
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)
1210 points by speckx 3 days ago | 526 comments
3.
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (cmog.org)
359 points by speckx 3 days ago | 73 comments
4.
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)
382 points by elashri 3 days ago | 206 comments
5.
Easy RISC-V (dramforever.github.io)
394 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 79 comments
6.
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
725 points by lumpa 3 days ago | 754 comments
7.
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra (benbrubaker.com)
237 points by Bogdanp 3 days ago | 78 comments
8.
Rust cross-platform GPUI components (github.com/longbridge)
508 points by xvilka 3 days ago | 214 comments
9.
Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)
259 points by dxs 4 days ago | 68 comments
10.
Tags to make HTML work like you expect (jim-nielsen.com)
438 points by FromTheArchives 3 days ago | 235 comments
11.
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization (phys.org)
214 points by geox 3 days ago | 229 comments
12.
MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities (github.com/cisco-ai-defense)
168 points by hsanthan 3 days ago | 50 comments
13.
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in (lalinsky.com)
326 points by 0x1997 4 days ago | 141 comments
14.
Corrosion (fly.io)
217 points by cgb_ 7 days ago | 101 comments
15.
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? (seangoedecke.com)
167 points by ingve 9 days ago | 100 comments
16.
The last European train that travels by sea (bbc.com)
174 points by 1659447091 3 days ago | 163 comments
17.
Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling (smithsonianmag.com)
156 points by NaOH 8 days ago | 43 comments
18.
We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" (nanit.com)
325 points by mpweiher 4 days ago | 251 comments
19.
TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation (github.com/johannschopplich)
173 points by royosherove 4 days ago | 58 comments
20.
Recall for Linux (github.com/rolflobker)
544 points by anticensor 3 days ago | 216 comments
21.
The new calculus of AI-based coding (joemag.dev)
200 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 211 comments
22.
Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012) (tannerhelland.com)
118 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 31 comments
23.
Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise (github.com/jdx)
185 points by bpierre 3 days ago | 43 comments
24.
Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers (hacktivate.app)
278 points by twostraws 8 days ago | 110 comments
25.
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) (endpointdev.com)
339 points by pera 3 days ago | 367 comments
26.
Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon (github.com/rochus-keller)
90 points by luismedel 4 days ago | 25 comments
27.
Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot (sphere.computer)
98 points by ChrisArchitect 7 days ago | 13 comments
28.
Show HN: JSON Query (jsonquerylang.org)
148 points by wofo 3 days ago | 69 comments
29.
What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? (hackaday.com)
421 points by marbartolome 3 days ago | 292 comments
30.
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams (adamlogue.com)
217 points by gnabgib 4 days ago | 49 comments

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