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1.		BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp (birdy.chat)
		702 points by joooscha 1 day ago \| 469 comments
2.		Banned C++ features in Chromium (googlesource.com)
		236 points by szmarczak 2 days ago \| 247 comments
3.		Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms (twitter.com/nicerinperson)
		490 points by AffableSpatula 1 day ago \| 321 comments
4.		Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered (windowscentral.com)
		524 points by blacktulip 1 day ago \| 322 comments
5.		Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)
		466 points by user5994461 1 day ago \| 270 comments
6.		Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)
		218 points by signa11 6 days ago \| 156 comments
7.		Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) (albedo.com)
		216 points by topherhaddad 1 day ago \| 70 comments
8.		Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison (the-diy-life.com)
		211 points by verginer 1 day ago \| 88 comments
9.		Maze Algorithms (2017) (jamisbuck.org)
		168 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago \| 35 comments
10.		Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
		206 points by goopthink 1 day ago \| 121 comments
11.		European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
		787 points by s_dev 2 days ago \| 496 comments
12.		Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
		249 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago \| 61 comments
13.		How I estimate work (seangoedecke.com)
		512 points by mattjhall 1 day ago \| 299 comments
14.		Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)
		348 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago \| 211 comments
15.		Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)
		291 points by zdw 5 days ago \| 88 comments
16.		Memory layout in Zig with formulas (raymondtana.github.io)
		129 points by raymondtana 1 day ago \| 28 comments
17.		Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (tansu.io)
		107 points by rmoff 5 days ago \| 25 comments
18.		Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg (bloomberg.github.io)
		126 points by clarus 5 days ago \| 29 comments
19.		Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public (sharedclaude.com)
		84 points by reasonableklout 1 day ago \| 26 comments
20.		I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog (micahcantor.com)
		289 points by hydroxideOH- 1 day ago \| 100 comments
21.		Agent orchestration for the timid (substack.com)
		119 points by markferree 1 day ago \| 29 comments
22.		Understanding Rust Closures (vandecreme.net)
		67 points by avandecreme 1 day ago \| 34 comments
23.		When employees feel slighted, they work less (upenn.edu)
		338 points by consumer451 5 days ago \| 246 comments
24.		“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)
		173 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 71 comments
25.		80386 Multiplication and Division (nand2mario.github.io)
		104 points by nand2mario 1 day ago \| 30 comments
26.		Traintrackr – Live LED Maps (traintrackr.co.uk)
		98 points by recursion 6 days ago \| 30 comments
27.		Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (github.com/nrrb)
		205 points by andsoitis 1 day ago \| 97 comments
28.		Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
		215 points by io_eric 5 days ago \| 68 comments
29.		Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents (simonwillison.net)
		71 points by lumpa 2 days ago \| 53 comments
30.		Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)
		180 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 114 comments
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