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1.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
2019 points by x01 2 days ago | 1987 comments
2.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
790 points by udit99 2 days ago | 260 comments
3.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
598 points by tokyobreakfast 2 days ago | 191 comments
4.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
603 points by linolevan 2 days ago | 204 comments
5.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
367 points by aleyan 2 days ago | 557 comments
6.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
252 points by ananas-dev 2 days ago | 113 comments
7.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
255 points by ingve 2 days ago | 93 comments
8.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
524 points by weaksauce 2 days ago | 361 comments
9.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
370 points by Nezteb 1 day ago | 281 comments
10.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
275 points by kristianp 2 days ago | 201 comments
11.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
407 points by tombh 2 days ago | 176 comments
12.
Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
285 points by kaizenb 1 day ago | 286 comments
13.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
200 points by noleary 1 day ago | 194 comments
14.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
106 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 55 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)
164 points by bobbiechen 2 days ago | 37 comments
17.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
130 points by gtsnexp 3 days ago | 57 comments
18.
Game Theory Patterns at Work (daeus.blog)
140 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 9 comments
19.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
146 points by waihtis 2 days ago | 51 comments
20.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
343 points by azhenley 2 days ago | 211 comments
21.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
212 points by znah 3 days ago | 26 comments
22.
Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
216 points by arrowsmith 3 days ago | 236 comments
23.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
508 points by MattIPv4 2 days ago | 406 comments
24.
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
185 points by zaik 1 day ago | 207 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)
301 points by redman25 2 days ago | 81 comments
27.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
114 points by IgorPartola 6 days ago | 27 comments
28.
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
101 points by sohkamyung 6 days ago | 4 comments
29.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 7 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
121 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 13 comments

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