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1.Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (dlazaro.ca)
788 points by dnlzro on Aug 9, 2025 | 160 comments
2.OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second (hyperknot.com)
609 points by hyperknot on Aug 9, 2025 | 133 comments
3.Debian 13 “Trixie” (debian.org)
974 points by ducktective on Aug 9, 2025 | 407 comments
4.My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup (simonwillison.net)
430 points by vismit2000 on Aug 9, 2025 | 115 comments
5.Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia (cam.ac.uk)
355 points by hhs on Aug 9, 2025 | 124 comments
6.Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop (quickshell.org)
373 points by abhinavk on Aug 5, 2025 | 50 comments
7.A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package (righto.com)
314 points by robin_reala on Aug 9, 2025 | 107 comments
8.The Framework Desktop is a beast (world.hey.com)
498 points by lemonberry on Aug 8, 2025 | 448 comments
9.The current state of LLM-driven development (tolki.dev)
222 points by Signez on Aug 9, 2025 | 233 comments
10.Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API (ch.at)
269 points by ownlife on Aug 9, 2025 | 72 comments
11.Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants (forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel)
253 points by hhs on Aug 9, 2025 | 540 comments
12.Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment? (nber.org)
196 points by lxm on Aug 9, 2025 | 491 comments
13.Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets (ratfactor.com)
217 points by zdw on Aug 9, 2025 | 32 comments
14.People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say (bbc.com)
96 points by bookofjoe on Aug 7, 2025 | 14 comments
15.MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems (julsimon.medium.com)
409 points by yodon on Aug 9, 2025 | 227 comments
16.An engineer's perspective on hiring (jyn.dev)
191 points by pabs3 on Aug 9, 2025 | 239 comments
17.I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (shkspr.mobi)
285 points by blenderob on Aug 6, 2025 | 237 comments
18.An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language (acm.org)
112 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2025 | 21 comments
19.Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite (sandstorm.org)
183 points by nalinidash on Aug 9, 2025 | 43 comments
20.ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol (github.com/geo-tp)
164 points by geo-tp on Aug 9, 2025 | 31 comments
21.R0ML's Ratio (glyph.im)
77 points by zdw on Aug 9, 2025 | 13 comments
22.A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021) (carlini.com)
87 points by jxmorris12 on Aug 6, 2025 | 13 comments
23.Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread (usda.gov)
273 points by burnt-resistor on Aug 9, 2025 | 198 comments
24.Let's properly analyze an AI article for once (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
226 points by pabs3 on Aug 9, 2025 | 140 comments
25.Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution (tribblix.org)
95 points by bilegeek on Aug 9, 2025 | 35 comments
26.Testing Bitchat at the music festival (primal.net)
105 points by alexcos on Aug 6, 2025 | 55 comments
27.Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong (cbc.ca)
230 points by Sgt_Apone on Aug 6, 2025 | 266 comments
28.Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths (arxiv.org)
99 points by pentestercrab on Aug 9, 2025 | 3 comments
29.How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements (sirre.al)
86 points by dmsnell on Aug 8, 2025 | 46 comments
30.What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem (ethanding.substack.com)
173 points by whoami_nr on Aug 9, 2025 | 49 comments

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