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1.
Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks (kdpcommunity.com)
517 points by captn3m0 14 hours ago | 274 comments
2.
1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (jeffgeerling.com)
577 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 218 comments
3.
History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com/dgoettlich)
748 points by iamwil 1 day ago | 367 comments
4.
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
1267 points by keepamovin 9 hours ago | 299 comments
5.
GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust (mullvad.net)
524 points by km 12 hours ago | 110 comments
6.
Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
437 points by ivmoreau 21 hours ago | 55 comments
7.
Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes (lorendb.dev)
276 points by LorenDB 18 hours ago | 145 comments
8.
Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (deuxfleurs.fr)
423 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 88 comments
9.
From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4 (sdiehl.github.io)
137 points by rwosync 6 days ago | 20 comments
10.
Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens (ngrok.com)
264 points by samwho 3 days ago | 67 comments
11.
Great ideas in theoretical computer science (cs251.com)
179 points by sebg 1 day ago | 40 comments
12.
Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code (pckf.com)
150 points by deevus 20 hours ago | 28 comments
13.
Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format (github.com/fastserial)
123 points by cryptonector 6 days ago | 32 comments
14.
2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results (ads.apple.com)
245 points by punnerud 18 hours ago | 261 comments
15.
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project (github.com/freebsdfoundation)
127 points by mikece 9 hours ago | 42 comments
16.
SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA (kernel.org)
66 points by tambourine_man 22 hours ago | 17 comments
17.
Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)
348 points by pember 1 day ago | 59 comments
18.
Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020) (github.com/yarrick)
75 points by linkdd 5 days ago | 26 comments
19.
Making Google Sans Flex (design.google)
109 points by meetpateltech 18 hours ago | 87 comments
20.
Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)
156 points by fosterfriends 8 hours ago | 183 comments
21.
Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails (github.com/envirobly)
77 points by klevo 5 days ago | 11 comments
22.
Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device (atredis.com)
68 points by speckx 4 days ago | 6 comments
23.
Believe the Checkbook (robertgreiner.com)
108 points by rg81 8 hours ago | 47 comments
24.
TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy (evilsocket.net)
197 points by sibellavia 5 hours ago | 56 comments
25.
The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] (youtube.com)
53 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 4 comments
26.
TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (techdirt.com)
282 points by lateforwork 7 hours ago | 322 comments
27.
Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found (kiro.dev)
58 points by nslog 1 day ago | 34 comments
28.
Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan (thebignewsletter.com)
180 points by connor11528 5 hours ago | 131 comments
29.
Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel (ieee.org)
40 points by sohkamyung 7 days ago | 18 comments
30.
The state of the kernel Rust experiment (lwn.net)
117 points by dochtman 6 days ago | 127 comments

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