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1.		2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
		882 points by simonw 1 day ago \| 536 comments
2.		Linux is good now (pcgamer.com)
		883 points by Vinnl 17 hours ago \| 697 comments
3.		Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (ccc.de)
		515 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago \| 187 comments
4.		Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)
		461 points by max_lt 22 hours ago \| 143 comments
5.		I rebooted my social life (jamesomalley.co.uk)
		458 points by edent 1 day ago \| 339 comments
6.		Cameras and Lenses (2020) (ciechanow.ski)
		457 points by sebg 20 hours ago \| 52 comments
7.		Python numbers every programmer should know (mkennedy.codes)
		386 points by WoodenChair 23 hours ago \| 158 comments
8.		2025 Letter (danwang.co)
		338 points by Amorymeltzer 23 hours ago \| 254 comments
9.		A website to destroy all websites (henry.codes)
		606 points by g0xA52A2A 17 hours ago \| 313 comments
10.		BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal (bloomberg.com)
		284 points by toomuchtodo 22 hours ago \| 451 comments
11.		Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)
		377 points by coldpie 1 day ago \| 442 comments
12.		Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (wiley.com)
		226 points by Luc 1 day ago \| 334 comments
13.		Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (github.com/quickemu-project)
		183 points by teekert 3 days ago \| 37 comments
14.		Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)
		214 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago \| 47 comments
15.		Can Bundler be as fast as uv? (tenderlovemaking.com)
		284 points by ibobev 16 hours ago \| 89 comments
16.		If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app (jgc.org)
		224 points by jgrahamc 4 days ago \| 131 comments
17.		50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player (lightcapai.medium.com)
		228 points by ResisBey 22 hours ago \| 272 comments
18.		iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan (developer.apple.com)
		399 points by eklavya 1 day ago \| 356 comments
19.		Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)
		132 points by jbaptiste 1 day ago \| 67 comments
20.		Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points (jeffgeerling.com)
		139 points by thomasjb 18 hours ago \| 76 comments
21.		C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)
		85 points by thetechstech 6 days ago \| 13 comments
22.		Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)
		146 points by picture 1 day ago \| 10 comments
23.		Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them (sherwood.news)
		307 points by wtcactus 1 day ago \| 106 comments
24.		Pokémon Team Optimization (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		182 points by nchagnet 6 days ago \| 64 comments
25.		Pixar's True Story (computerhistory.org)
		93 points by kristianp 1 day ago \| 24 comments
26.		Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes (tomshardware.com)
		263 points by gloxkiqcza 21 hours ago \| 90 comments
27.		Build a Deep Learning Library (quarto.pub)
		120 points by butanyways 22 hours ago \| 14 comments
28.		Build Software. Build Users (dima.day)
		65 points by dinerville 5 days ago \| 18 comments
29.		Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)
		146 points by aussieguy1234 1 day ago \| 116 comments
30.		All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)
		119 points by Kyro38 4 days ago \| 61 comments
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