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1.
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
734 points by l1am0 4 days ago | 280 comments
2.
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
853 points by zdw 3 days ago | 285 comments
3.
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
403 points by doener 4 days ago | 92 comments
4.
MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
255 points by mikece 7 days ago | 119 comments
5.
Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
268 points by janandonly 3 days ago | 158 comments
6.
In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
308 points by ingve 4 days ago | 167 comments
7.
Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
522 points by jimminyx 3 days ago | 222 comments
8.
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
252 points by yannick2k 4 days ago | 239 comments
9.
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
244 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 122 comments
10.
Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)
312 points by CrossVR 8 days ago | 125 comments
11.
List animals until failure (rose.systems)
360 points by l1n 4 days ago | 187 comments
12.
Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
832 points by firefoxd 3 days ago | 366 comments
13.
Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
284 points by schlichtm 7 days ago | 885 comments
14.
Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)
139 points by donatj 4 days ago | 61 comments
15.
Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
152 points by jandrewrogers 6 days ago | 46 comments
16.
Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
274 points by kohlschuetter 8 days ago | 130 comments
17.
Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)
185 points by marojejian 4 days ago | 85 comments
18.
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
416 points by SatvikBeri 4 days ago | 171 comments
19.
The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
225 points by 0x54MUR41 4 days ago | 37 comments
20.
Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
148 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 18 comments
21.
VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)
179 points by demail 7 days ago | 87 comments
22.
The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)
197 points by doppp 9 days ago | 156 comments
23.
Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)
143 points by behnamoh 4 days ago | 115 comments
24.
Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/datadog)
134 points by tanelpoder 7 days ago | 15 comments
25.
Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
104 points by gmays 3 days ago | 36 comments
26.
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
133 points by cyanbane 3 days ago | 137 comments
27.
Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
119 points by merelysounds 8 days ago | 30 comments
28.
EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)
53 points by 1970-01-01 6 days ago | 31 comments
29.
Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)
93 points by zaptrem 5 days ago | 37 comments
30.
A web server on a single floppy disk (ddns.net)
116 points by ActionRetro 7 days ago | 45 comments

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