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1.
Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)
1355 points by zdw 3 days ago | 702 comments
2.
“I just chose words carefully” (aresluna.org)
1235 points by zdw 2 days ago | 353 comments
3.
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)
246 points by vntok 2 days ago | 95 comments
4.
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)
800 points by shscs911 2 days ago | 402 comments
5.
Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)
353 points by greenlightning 2 days ago | 272 comments
6.
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (haiku-os.org)
357 points by metrofun 2 days ago | 101 comments
7.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (nasa.gov)
294 points by JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | 103 comments
8.
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
207 points by joebig 2 days ago | 60 comments
9.
RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (python.org)
305 points by lumpa 8 days ago | 66 comments
10.
Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
402 points by davidmckenna 2 days ago | 276 comments
11.
Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (texastribune.org)
441 points by DeepLogin 3 days ago | 349 comments
12.
Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals (goto10retro.com)
148 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | 21 comments
13.
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)
531 points by trap0xcc 2 days ago | 540 comments
14.
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
174 points by rzk 2 days ago | 49 comments
15.
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
466 points by nickslaughter02 2 days ago | 199 comments
16.
Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
217 points by WilsonHarper 4 days ago | 30 comments
17.
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com)
132 points by pwg 2 days ago | 24 comments
18.
Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver (github.com/kodemunkie)
127 points by SillyUsername 2 days ago | 41 comments
19.
Sort branches by last commit date (ryangreenberg.com)
139 points by speckx 7 days ago | 53 comments
20.
Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
347 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 447 comments
21.
Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)
119 points by tosh 2 days ago | 82 comments
22.
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
177 points by sashk 2 days ago | 101 comments
23.
Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) (sander.ai)
134 points by peter_d_sherman 2 days ago | 48 comments
24.
Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
322 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 216 comments
25.
Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)
123 points by smoores 2 days ago | 49 comments
26.
Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (theregister.com)
346 points by defrost 2 days ago | 284 comments
27.
Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
84 points by sys42590 5 days ago | 18 comments
28.
Electric rain can eat through metal (scientificamerican.com)
116 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago | 26 comments
29.
What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s (askmike.org)
146 points by askmike 8 days ago | 82 comments
30.
Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (muppetlabs.com)
87 points by Bluestein 7 days ago | 20 comments

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