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1.How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
834 points by laurentiurad 10 days ago | 548 comments
2.My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
546 points by seg6 11 days ago | 252 comments
3.Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
292 points by Klaster_1 10 days ago | 69 comments
4.Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
325 points by david927 10 days ago | 1202 comments
5.Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
438 points by ike_usawa 10 days ago | 380 comments
6.Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
612 points by satvikpendem 10 days ago | 286 comments
7.We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
344 points by adletbalzhanov 11 days ago | 260 comments
8.Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
668 points by akyuu 10 days ago | 597 comments
9.Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
384 points by jmusall 11 days ago | 45 comments
10.Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
263 points by jggonz 11 days ago | 167 comments
11.Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
351 points by bobbiechen 22 days ago | 41 comments
12.Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
173 points by hakkikonu 14 days ago | 91 comments
13.OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
190 points by hexomancer 10 days ago | 93 comments
14.Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
174 points by BruceEel 10 days ago | 76 comments
15.There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
198 points by gukoff 10 days ago | 33 comments
16.I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
232 points by gregsadetsky 10 days ago | 174 comments
17.Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
131 points by smartmic 10 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 10 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 10 days ago | 95 comments
20.Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
165 points by oskrim 10 days ago | 106 comments
21.Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
301 points by ilamont 12 days ago | 226 comments
22.The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
146 points by simonpure 10 days ago | 117 comments
23.The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
105 points by Lammy 10 days ago | 86 comments
24.Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
173 points by mfiguiere 11 days ago | 72 comments
25.John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
148 points by Kiboneu 10 days ago | 135 comments
26.TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
104 points by frozenseven 11 days ago | 20 comments
27.Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
128 points by tchalla 11 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 10 days ago | 101 comments
29.Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
69 points by jackdoe 13 days ago | 42 comments
30.Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
82 points by davidbarker 17 days ago | 33 comments

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