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1.Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (reuters.com)
1771 points by jumpocelot 6 days ago | 4681 comments
2.Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (data.stackexchange.com)
1538 points by maartin0 6 days ago | 995 comments
3.2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (xeiaso.net)
834 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 637 comments
4.The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (refactoringenglish.com)
689 points by mtlynch 6 days ago | 133 comments
5.IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
587 points by Brajeshwar 7 days ago | 1191 comments
6.The C3 Programming Language (c3-lang.org)
370 points by y1n0 6 days ago | 258 comments
7.Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible (swifdroid.com)
292 points by mihael 6 days ago | 232 comments
8.A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) (nullprogram.com)
104 points by ibobev 7 days ago | 24 comments
9.IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] (github.com/iquestlab)
182 points by shenli3514 7 days ago | 49 comments
10.A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector (siliconjunction.wordpress.com)
148 points by jensgk 9 days ago | 42 comments
11.Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot (ccc.de)
141 points by aberoham 13 days ago | 22 comments
12.Recursive Language Models (arxiv.org)
160 points by schmuhblaster 6 days ago | 23 comments
13.Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024) (cr.yp.to)
97 points by INGELRII 12 days ago | 53 comments
14.Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (lffl.me)
262 points by Loeffelmann 7 days ago | 144 comments
15.Take One Small Step (thinkhuman.com)
150 points by jamesgill 6 days ago | 32 comments
16.Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time (xr0.dev)
114 points by Alifatisk 6 days ago | 65 comments
17.UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space (bbc.co.uk)
150 points by vekerdyb 9 days ago | 88 comments
18.Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (myembeddedstuff.com)
113 points by edent 10 days ago | 7 comments
19.Sirius DB (sirius-db.com)
144 points by manoji 10 days ago | 17 comments
20.Adventure 751 (1980) (bluerenga.blog)
60 points by quuxplusone 7 days ago | 7 comments
21.Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
413 points by taubek 6 days ago | 403 comments
22.Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models (arxiv.org)
84 points by remexre 6 days ago | 15 comments
23.The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest (thephd.dev)
66 points by ingve 9 days ago | 64 comments
24.How Smell Guides Our Inner World (quantamagazine.org)
61 points by anarbadalov 12 days ago | 14 comments
25.Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star (phys.org)
48 points by wglb 7 days ago | 9 comments
26.Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling (github.com/tomasf)
92 points by bdcravens 9 days ago | 34 comments
27.Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
379 points by josephcsible 7 days ago | 321 comments
28.Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack (corviont.com)
102 points by packet_mover 6 days ago | 38 comments
29.X-Clacks-Overhead (hleb.dev)
124 points by hleb_dev 6 days ago | 45 comments
30.Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024) (yosefk.com)
92 points by hun3 6 days ago | 13 comments

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