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1.		How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
		835 points by laurentiurad 37 days ago \| 548 comments
2.		My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
		547 points by seg6 38 days ago \| 252 comments
3.		Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
		293 points by Klaster_1 37 days ago \| 69 comments
4.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
		325 points by david927 37 days ago \| 1203 comments
5.		Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
		438 points by ike_usawa 37 days ago \| 380 comments
6.		Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
		612 points by satvikpendem 37 days ago \| 286 comments
7.		We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
		345 points by adletbalzhanov 38 days ago \| 261 comments
8.		Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
		671 points by akyuu 37 days ago \| 598 comments
9.		Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
		386 points by jmusall 38 days ago \| 45 comments
10.		Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
		265 points by jggonz 37 days ago \| 168 comments
11.		Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
		352 points by bobbiechen 49 days ago \| 41 comments
12.		Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
		173 points by hakkikonu 41 days ago \| 91 comments
13.		OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
		190 points by hexomancer 37 days ago \| 93 comments
14.		Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
		174 points by BruceEel 37 days ago \| 76 comments
15.		There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
		198 points by gukoff 37 days ago \| 33 comments
16.		I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
		234 points by gregsadetsky 37 days ago \| 174 comments
17.		Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
		131 points by smartmic 37 days ago \| 40 comments
18.		Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
		121 points by Rochus 37 days ago \| 22 comments
19.		New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
		133 points by berghoffer 37 days ago \| 95 comments
20.		Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
		165 points by oskrim 37 days ago \| 106 comments
21.		Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
		302 points by ilamont 39 days ago \| 226 comments
22.		The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
		146 points by simonpure 37 days ago \| 117 comments
23.		The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
		105 points by Lammy 37 days ago \| 86 comments
24.		Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
		173 points by mfiguiere 38 days ago \| 72 comments
25.		John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
		148 points by Kiboneu 37 days ago \| 135 comments
26.		TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
		104 points by frozenseven 37 days ago \| 20 comments
27.		Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
		128 points by tchalla 38 days ago \| 139 comments
28.		The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
		210 points by doubletwoyou 37 days ago \| 101 comments
29.		Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
		69 points by jackdoe 40 days ago \| 42 comments
30.		Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
		82 points by davidbarker 44 days ago \| 33 comments
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