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1.		The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)
		422 points by matt_d 2 days ago \| 96 comments
2.		LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
		1124 points by poisonfountain 2 days ago \| 1059 comments
3.		Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (gavinray97.github.io)
		893 points by gavinray 1 day ago \| 407 comments
4.		Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (github.com/devenjarvis)
		390 points by devenjarvis 2 days ago \| 70 comments
5.		Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)
		259 points by davidbarker 2 days ago \| 32 comments
6.		How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
		485 points by howToTestFE 1 day ago \| 230 comments
7.		Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/anthropics)
		530 points by predkambrij 2 days ago \| 303 comments
8.		What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (unix.stackexchange.com)
		229 points by tosh 4 days ago \| 88 comments
9.		Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
		296 points by pramodbiligiri 3 days ago \| 203 comments
10.		Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)
		173 points by Anon84 2 days ago \| 75 comments
11.		Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries (github.com/valvesoftware)
		282 points by babuskov 2 days ago \| 133 comments
12.		Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
		318 points by toephu2 3 days ago \| 923 comments
13.		Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust (symbolica.io)
		162 points by mmastrac 3 days ago \| 29 comments
14.		Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
		148 points by supermatou 4 days ago \| 84 comments
15.		Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)
		172 points by gscott 2 days ago \| 86 comments
16.		An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight (radioworld.com)
		207 points by pkaeding 2 days ago \| 259 comments
17.		My Software North Star (kristoff.it)
		217 points by kristoff_it 5 days ago \| 155 comments
18.		Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
		153 points by gmays 5 days ago \| 31 comments
19.		How liminalism became the defining aesthetic (hyperallergic.com)
		195 points by zeech 2 days ago \| 109 comments
20.		Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
		138 points by zdw 2 days ago \| 19 comments
21.		I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
		314 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 days ago \| 268 comments
22.		Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× (fergusfinn.com)
		152 points by kkm 5 days ago \| 45 comments
23.		Boron Buckyballs: B80 cages in the lab (acs.org)
		124 points by crescit_eundo 4 days ago \| 36 comments
24.		Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 (righto.com)
		92 points by elpocko 1 day ago \| 28 comments
25.		Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) (podman.io)
		129 points by daesorin 2 days ago \| 8 comments
26.		My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
		88 points by aself101 1 day ago \| 25 comments
27.		Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
		123 points by old_sound 4 days ago \| 39 comments
28.		Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
		144 points by maxloh 1 day ago \| 54 comments
29.		The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) (theamphour.com)
		73 points by ChrisGammell 5 days ago \| 7 comments
30.		Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup (github.com/garethgeorge)
		98 points by flexagoon 7 days ago \| 7 comments
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