1. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    reverse engineeringcomputer securityold tech challenges
    464 points by zdw about 11 hours | 135 comments
  2. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
    macbookprodfu
    71 points by zdw about 5 hours | 14 comments
  3. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (journal.rafaelcosta.me)
    iphone limitationsmath calculationstech frustrations
    263 points by rafaelcosta about 12 hours | 120 comments
  4. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com)
    container isolationtypescriptapple
    331 points by jimminyx about 10 hours | 107 comments
  5. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    wikipediasocial mediadoomscrolling
    142 points by rebane2001 about 8 hours | 58 comments
  6. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (apps.dtic.mil)
    formal modelsconcurrency theorycomputer science
    67 points by kioku about 7 hours | 27 comments
  7. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    derivationflakedeployment
    38 points by todsacerdoti 1 day | 8 comments
  8. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (apple1.chez.com)
    apple historycomputer industryopen source
    221 points by janandonly about 15 hours | 127 comments
  9. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    adventure game studioopen source softwaregame development
    308 points by doener about 18 hours | 60 comments
  10. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (www.bbc.com)
    archaeologyuk historyroman finds
    56 points by breve about 10 hours | 19 comments
  11. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce (www.wired.com)
    scam compoundenslaved workforcecryptocurrency
    76 points by smurda about 3 hours | 9 comments
  12. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    rsync backuptime machine alternativeautomated backups
    70 points by accrual about 8 hours | 30 comments
  13. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    c++uint128efficient programming
    67 points by PaulHoule about 12 hours | 31 comments
  14. Ian's Shoelace Site (www.fieggen.com)
    shoelaceslacing techniquesknot tying
    126 points by righthand about 14 hours | 20 comments
  15. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    ai userstechnology gapemerging trends
    157 points by martinald about 9 hours | 131 comments
  16. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    114 points by jandrewrogers 3 days | 27 comments
  17. Founding is a snowball (blog.bawolf.com)
    70 points by bryantwolf 4 days | 26 comments
  18. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (www.cnx-software.com)
    208 points by mikece 4 days | 69 comments
  19. Rev Up the Viral Factories (www.science.org)
    3 points by etiam 3 days | discuss
  20. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    tailscale alternativegerman vpnpeer-to-peer networking
    672 points by l1am0 about 23 hours | 256 comments
  21. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    fosdemopen-source conferencebrussels
    224 points by yannick2k about 22 hours | 145 comments
  22. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    agent systemsmulti-agent systemsscaling complexity
    77 points by gmays about 14 hours | 27 comments
  23. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    wordle strategiesgame design issuespuzzle solving challenges
    87 points by cyanbane about 14 hours | 92 comments
  24. Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
    17 points by hasheddan 2 days | 20 comments
  25. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    neighborly relationsconflict resolutionvolume control
    668 points by firefoxd about 13 hours | 312 comments
  26. Amiga Unix (Amix) (www.amigaunix.com)
    unixoperating systemsretro technology
    121 points by donatj about 21 hours | 51 comments
  27. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
    telegram bot developmentcloud computingweb development
    16 points by flashblaze about 5 hours | 2 comments
  28. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (www.ycombinator.com)
    about 14 hours
  29. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    9 points by speckx 5 days | discuss
  30. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    77 points by CzaxTanmay 3 days | 18 comments
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