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1.		Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
		552 points by dbushell 3 days ago \| 424 comments
2.		Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
		1031 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago \| 647 comments
3.		Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
		350 points by yesturi 3 days ago \| 118 comments
4.		Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
		473 points by rocauc 3 days ago \| 306 comments
5.		Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
		398 points by pavel_lishin 3 days ago \| 433 comments
6.		Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
		450 points by tosh 3 days ago \| 203 comments
7.		Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
		384 points by personjerry 3 days ago \| 356 comments
8.		Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
		276 points by rvermeulen98 3 days ago \| 89 comments
9.		Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
		1095 points by nhod 3 days ago \| 531 comments
10.		KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
		261 points by bpierre 3 days ago \| 112 comments
11.		New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
		296 points by sarreph 3 days ago \| 157 comments
12.		I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
		482 points by codetheweb 3 days ago \| 103 comments
13.		Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
		165 points by nomaxx117 3 days ago \| 61 comments
14.		The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
		244 points by at1as 3 days ago \| 336 comments
15.		Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
		342 points by mustaphah 3 days ago \| 134 comments
16.		Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
		123 points by hahahacorn 2 days ago \| 22 comments
17.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		247 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 152 comments
18.		AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
		467 points by zdw 6 days ago \| 234 comments
19.		Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
		103 points by mnazzaro 3 days ago \| 44 comments
20.		Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
		147 points by timsneath 3 days ago \| 35 comments
21.		Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
		285 points by ibobev 3 days ago \| 141 comments
22.		AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
		500 points by mefengl 3 days ago \| 273 comments
23.		Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
		182 points by whiteros_e 3 days ago \| 129 comments
24.		Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
		82 points by janandonly 8 days ago \| 31 comments
25.		Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
		91 points by avaer 3 days ago \| 20 comments
26.		Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
		94 points by chaz6 3 days ago \| 26 comments
27.		Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
		232 points by 01jonny01 3 days ago \| 190 comments
28.		Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
		108 points by elpocko 3 days ago \| 14 comments
29.		Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
		120 points by chmaynard 6 days ago \| 14 comments
30.		Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
		142 points by marklit 7 days ago \| 101 comments
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