1. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    reverse engineeringcomputer securityold tech challenges
    222 points by zdw about 4 hours | 66 comments
  2. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com)
    container isolationtypescriptapple
    151 points by jimminyx about 3 hours | 45 comments
  3. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (www.bbc.com)
    archaeologyuk historyroman finds
    17 points by breve about 3 hours | 2 comments
  4. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (apple1.chez.com)
    apple historycomputer industryopen source
    174 points by janandonly about 8 hours | 113 comments
  5. My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math (journal.rafaelcosta.me)
    iphone limitationsmath calculationstech frustrations
    129 points by rafaelcosta about 5 hours | 54 comments
  6. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    rsync backuptime machine alternativeautomated backups
    15 points by accrual about 2 hours | 5 comments
  7. Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing (martinalderson.com)
    ai userstechnology gapemerging trends
    18 points by martinald about 2 hours | 14 comments
  8. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    tailscale alternativegerman vpnpeer-to-peer networking
    641 points by l1am0 about 16 hours | 241 comments
  9. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    adventure game studioopen source softwaregame development
    264 points by doener about 12 hours | 49 comments
  10. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    82 points by jandrewrogers 2 days | 14 comments
  11. I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    neighborly relationsconflict resolutionvolume control
    516 points by firefoxd about 7 hours | 210 comments
  12. Founding is a snowball (blog.bawolf.com)
    31 points by bryantwolf 3 days | 9 comments
  13. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    6 points by rebane2001 about 1 hour | discuss
  14. History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021) (web.archive.org)
    4 points by brudgers about 2 hours | 1 comments
  15. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    c++uint128efficient programming
    18 points by PaulHoule about 5 hours | 1 comments
  16. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
    54 points by zem 3 days | 29 comments
  17. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    opinionated codingai developmentsoftware design
    347 points by SatvikBeri about 16 hours | 149 comments
  18. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (www.cnx-software.com)
    175 points by mikece 3 days | 51 comments
  19. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (www.ycombinator.com)
    about 7 hours
  20. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (www.lrb.co.uk)
    7 points by against 4 days | 1 comments
  21. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    wordle strategiesgame design issuespuzzle solving challenges
    45 points by cyanbane about 8 hours | 57 comments
  22. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    205 points by kohlschuetter 5 days | 105 comments
  23. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    time machineappleos x tahoe
    176 points by rcarmo about 6 hours | 98 comments
  24. Amiga Unix (Amix) (www.amigaunix.com)
    unixoperating systemsretro technology
    110 points by donatj about 15 hours | 40 comments
  25. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)
    fosdemopen-source conferencebrussels
    179 points by yannick2k about 15 hours | 105 comments
  26. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    agent systemsmulti-agent systemsscaling complexity
    40 points by gmays about 8 hours | 17 comments
  27. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    60 points by CzaxTanmay 3 days | 14 comments
  28. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (www.sciencedaily.com)
    magnetic resonance imagingbrain healthphysical exercise
    62 points by amichail about 4 hours | 16 comments
  29. The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)
    linux routingnetwork administrationopen source
    200 points by 0x54MUR41 about 18 hours | 38 comments
  30. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (yaledailynews.com)
    printed bookhigher educationacademic reading
    113 points by cmsefton about 10 hours | 150 comments
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