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1.
Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (reuters.com)
1623 points by jumpocelot 22 hours ago | 3894 comments
2.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (xeiaso.net)
788 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 583 comments
3.
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) (nullprogram.com)
102 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 24 comments
4.
IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] (github.com/iquestlab)
171 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 44 comments
5.
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
552 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 1103 comments
6.
A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector (siliconjunction.wordpress.com)
135 points by jensgk 3 days ago | 39 comments
7.
Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (data.stackexchange.com)
786 points by maartin0 6 hours ago | 403 comments
8.
The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (refactoringenglish.com)
476 points by mtlynch 12 hours ago | 96 comments
9.
Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot (ccc.de)
139 points by aberoham 7 days ago | 22 comments
10.
The C3 Programming Language (c3-lang.org)
310 points by y1n0 12 hours ago | 195 comments
11.
Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (lffl.me)
235 points by Loeffelmann 1 day ago | 131 comments
12.
Adventure 751 (1980) (bluerenga.blog)
56 points by quuxplusone 1 day ago | 6 comments
13.
Recursive Language Models (arxiv.org)
129 points by schmuhblaster 17 hours ago | 23 comments
14.
Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
378 points by taubek 9 hours ago | 335 comments
15.
UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space (bbc.co.uk)
137 points by vekerdyb 3 days ago | 77 comments
16.
The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest (thephd.dev)
66 points by ingve 3 days ago | 54 comments
17.
How Smell Guides Our Inner World (quantamagazine.org)
55 points by anarbadalov 6 days ago | 12 comments
18.
Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star (phys.org)
48 points by wglb 1 day ago | 9 comments
19.
Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling (github.com/tomasf)
86 points by bdcravens 3 days ago | 30 comments
20.
Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
366 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 310 comments
21.
X-Clacks-Overhead (hleb.dev)
112 points by hleb_dev 17 hours ago | 40 comments
22.
Sirius DB (sirius-db.com)
114 points by manoji 3 days ago | 17 comments
23.
Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024) (yosefk.com)
81 points by hun3 17 hours ago | 13 comments
24.
Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack (corviont.com)
80 points by packet_mover 12 hours ago | 23 comments
25.
Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (myembeddedstuff.com)
85 points by edent 4 days ago | 4 comments
26.
World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (wikipedia.org)
75 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 20 comments
27.
Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone (github.com/lyehe)
93 points by yxl448 1 day ago | 37 comments
28.
Experiments with Ableton-MCP (jhurliman.org)
78 points by jhurliman 5 days ago | 12 comments
29.
Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time (xr0.dev)
66 points by Alifatisk 10 hours ago | 19 comments
30.
Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026 (jobswithgpt.com)
77 points by sp1982 1 day ago | 28 comments

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