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1.
Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter (bitsnpieces.dev)
1267 points by random_moonwalk 8 days ago | 209 comments
2.
Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses (bleepingcomputer.com)
480 points by speckx 3 days ago | 297 comments
3.
My stages of learning to be a socially normal person (sashachapin.substack.com)
618 points by eatitraw 5 days ago | 421 comments
4.
FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools (github.com/medusalix)
330 points by Medusalix 3 days ago | 90 comments
5.
Project Gemini (geminiprotocol.net)
322 points by andsoitis 3 days ago | 186 comments
6.
WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model (blog.google)
288 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 130 comments
7.
Compiling Ruby to machine language (patshaughnessy.net)
284 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 52 comments
8.
Where do the children play? (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
405 points by casca 4 days ago | 255 comments
9.
A file format uncracked for 20 years (landaire.net)
298 points by todsacerdoti 14 days ago | 59 comments
10.
How when AWS was down, we were not (authress.io)
199 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 74 comments
11.
PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator (picoide.com)
184 points by st_goliath 3 days ago | 46 comments
12.
Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” (quantamagazine.org)
163 points by wjb3 3 days ago | 54 comments
13.
Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis (github.com/francescopace)
208 points by francescopace 3 days ago | 50 comments
14.
Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) (hwisnu.bearblog.dev)
267 points by mithcs 3 days ago | 259 comments
15.
Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies (angadh.com)
127 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 201 comments
16.
Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop (github.com/anandchowdhary)
163 points by anandchowdhary 5 days ago | 60 comments
17.
Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication (scientificamerican.com)
254 points by pavel_lishin 6 days ago | 219 comments
18.
A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents (shoosmiths.com)
204 points by toomuchtodo 3 days ago | 193 comments
19.
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (britneyspears.ac)
285 points by lachlan_gray 3 days ago | 87 comments
20.
“One Student One Chip” Course Homepage (oscc.cc)
183 points by camel-cdr 8 days ago | 50 comments
21.
Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL (peterullrich.com)
174 points by pjullrich 9 days ago | 52 comments
22.
A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser (greg.technology)
137 points by vaibhavsagar 3 days ago | 37 comments
23.
Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware (github.com/felipenlunkes)
124 points by doener 2 days ago | 37 comments
24.
Building a Simple Search Engine That Works (karboosx.net)
274 points by freediver 3 days ago | 79 comments
25.
How to escape the Linux networking stack (cloudflare.com)
147 points by meysamazad 3 days ago | 59 comments
26.
Google is killing the open web, part 2 (oblomov.eu)
407 points by akagusu 3 days ago | 355 comments
27.
The time has finally come for geothermal energy (newyorker.com)
156 points by riordan 3 days ago | 271 comments
28.
A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism (newrepublic.com)
122 points by Thevet 3 days ago | 227 comments
29.
An official atlas of North Korea (cartographerstale.com)
227 points by speckx 3 days ago | 124 comments
30.
Are you stuck in movie logic? (usefulfictions.substack.com)
233 points by eatitraw 3 days ago | 185 comments

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