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1.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
1984 points by x01 1 day ago | 1924 comments
2.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
775 points by udit99 1 day ago | 252 comments
3.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
592 points by tokyobreakfast 1 day ago | 188 comments
4.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
601 points by linolevan 2 days ago | 201 comments
5.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
363 points by aleyan 1 day ago | 553 comments
6.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
250 points by ananas-dev 1 day ago | 113 comments
7.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
249 points by ingve 1 day ago | 90 comments
8.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
522 points by weaksauce 2 days ago | 358 comments
9.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
275 points by kristianp 2 days ago | 200 comments
10.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
366 points by Nezteb 1 day ago | 280 comments
11.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
402 points by tombh 1 day ago | 175 comments
12.
Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
281 points by kaizenb 1 day ago | 281 comments
13.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
197 points by noleary 1 day ago | 188 comments
14.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
104 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 53 comments
15.
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
187 points by muggermuch 2 days ago | 65 comments
16.
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
163 points by bobbiechen 2 days ago | 37 comments
17.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
129 points by gtsnexp 2 days ago | 57 comments
18.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
144 points by waihtis 1 day ago | 50 comments
19.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
337 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 209 comments
20.
Game Theory Patterns at Work (daeus.blog)
129 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 9 comments
21.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
209 points by znah 2 days ago | 26 comments
22.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
504 points by MattIPv4 1 day ago | 402 comments
23.
Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
200 points by arrowsmith 2 days ago | 227 comments
24.
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
176 points by zaik 1 day ago | 201 comments
25.
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
119 points by PaulHoule 6 days ago | 25 comments
26.
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
300 points by redman25 1 day ago | 81 comments
27.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
114 points by IgorPartola 5 days ago | 27 comments
28.
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
98 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago | 4 comments
29.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 6 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
120 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 12 comments

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