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1.		My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
		489 points by seg6 1 day ago \| 234 comments
2.		Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
		560 points by satvikpendem 12 hours ago \| 251 comments
3.		Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
		244 points by jggonz 1 day ago \| 160 comments
4.		We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
		328 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago \| 245 comments
5.		Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
		359 points by jmusall 1 day ago \| 41 comments
6.		Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
		334 points by bobbiechen 12 days ago \| 37 comments
7.		Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
		163 points by hakkikonu 4 days ago \| 82 comments
8.		There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
		184 points by gukoff 18 hours ago \| 31 comments
9.		Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
		162 points by BruceEel 20 hours ago \| 68 comments
10.		Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
		361 points by akyuu 10 hours ago \| 297 comments
11.		The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
		200 points by doubletwoyou 21 hours ago \| 97 comments
12.		Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
		79 points by davidbarker 7 days ago \| 30 comments
13.		TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
		89 points by frozenseven 1 day ago \| 15 comments
14.		Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
		110 points by tchalla 1 day ago \| 120 comments
15.		How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
		414 points by laurentiurad 6 hours ago \| 231 comments
16.		Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
		105 points by Rochus 13 hours ago \| 16 comments
17.		Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
		184 points by Klaster_1 11 hours ago \| 43 comments
18.		John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
		126 points by Kiboneu 11 hours ago \| 85 comments
19.		The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
		123 points by michaefe 4 days ago \| 37 comments
20.		The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
		85 points by Lammy 15 hours ago \| 67 comments
21.		Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
		291 points by ilamont 2 days ago \| 212 comments
22.		Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
		174 points by bohaska 1 day ago \| 203 comments
23.		Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
		153 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago \| 67 comments
24.		Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
		182 points by jader201 10 hours ago \| 135 comments
25.		Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
		325 points by minimaxir 22 hours ago \| 63 comments
26.		Datalog Disassembly (github.com/grammatech)
		65 points by aboardRat4 6 days ago \| 6 comments
27.		Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
		205 points by ike_usawa 14 hours ago \| 167 comments
28.		Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
		124 points by oskrim 14 hours ago \| 86 comments
29.		Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
		57 points by ibobev 5 days ago \| discuss
30.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
		170 points by david927 8 hours ago \| 636 comments
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