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1.
Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)
1213 points by tosh 6 months ago | 247 comments
2.
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (derflounder.wordpress.com)
562 points by zdw 5 months ago | 464 comments
3.
The “S” in MCP Stands for Security (elenacross7.medium.com)
730 points by skilldeliver 5 months ago | 183 comments
4.
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive (tansanrao.com)
485 points by tansanrao 6 months ago | 180 comments
5.
Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps (umich.edu)
153 points by gnabgib 6 months ago | 119 comments
6.
The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters (utcc.utoronto.ca)
254 points by NGRhodes 6 months ago | 115 comments
7.
Lessons from open source in the Mexican government (lwn.net)
328 points by signa11 6 months ago | 95 comments
8.
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit (lesswrong.com)
579 points by paulpauper 5 months ago | 458 comments
9.
The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done (add.org)
365 points by rzk 6 months ago | 216 comments
10.
New Theoretical Research Trends in Cartography (2001) (researchgate.net)
47 points by bryanrasmussen 6 months ago | 9 comments
11.
Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript (sometechblog.com)
72 points by l5870uoo9y 6 months ago | 33 comments
12.
Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair (technicshistory.com)
87 points by cfmcdonald 5 months ago | 15 comments
13.
SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators (machinelearning.apple.com)
171 points by pizza 5 months ago | 36 comments
14.
Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension (nautil.us)
192 points by dnetesn 5 months ago | 87 comments
15.
Blacksmithing and Lisp (funcall.blogspot.com)
159 points by aebtebeten 6 months ago | 83 comments
16.
QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence (qwenlm.github.io)
121 points by wertyk 6 months ago | 26 comments
17.
My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers (motifanalytics.medium.com)
126 points by jjp 6 months ago | 32 comments
18.
Serving Vector Tiles, Fast (spatialists.ch)
103 points by altilunium 6 months ago | 17 comments
19.
Breaking computers taught me to build them (danielsada.tech)
117 points by dshacker 6 months ago | 70 comments
20.
Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians (capitoltrades.com)
324 points by gscott 5 months ago | 120 comments
21.
Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock (reddit.com)
243 points by byry 5 months ago | 56 comments
22.
Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain (pypi.org)
70 points by m463 6 months ago | 11 comments
23.
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet (bleepingcomputer.com)
174 points by andy99 5 months ago | 78 comments
24.
Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark (localscore.ai)
124 points by sipjca 6 months ago | 24 comments
25.
Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO (homeip.net)
70 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 24 comments
26.
Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows (peteronprogramming.wordpress.com)
63 points by donpedro1337 6 months ago | 48 comments
27.
Pitfalls of Safe Rust (corrode.dev)
168 points by pjmlp 6 months ago | 139 comments
28.
Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely (github.com/brannondorsey)
113 points by braxxox 5 months ago | 70 comments
29.
What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested (laist.com)
193 points by littlexsparkee 6 months ago | 127 comments
30.
The Treachery of Image Files (2020) (beyondloom.com)
52 points by appleorchard46 5 months ago | 5 comments

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