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1.		Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks (kdpcommunity.com)
		602 points by captn3m0 1 day ago \| 302 comments
2.		Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (deuxfleurs.fr)
		632 points by ibobev 23 hours ago \| 138 comments
3.		History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com/dgoettlich)
		832 points by iamwil 1 day ago \| 398 comments
4.		1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (jeffgeerling.com)
		601 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| 222 comments
5.		GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust (mullvad.net)
		592 points by km 1 day ago \| 123 comments
6.		Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)
		604 points by pember 2 days ago \| 109 comments
7.		CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)
		620 points by frizlab 17 hours ago \| 180 comments
8.		Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)
		246 points by fosterfriends 23 hours ago \| 242 comments
9.		TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy (evilsocket.net)
		314 points by sibellavia 21 hours ago \| 94 comments
10.		Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
		1336 points by keepamovin 1 day ago \| 313 comments
11.		Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
		462 points by ivmoreau 1 day ago \| 56 comments
12.		Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens (ngrok.com)
		286 points by samwho 3 days ago \| 69 comments
13.		8-bit Boléro (linusakesson.net)
		291 points by Aissen 1 day ago \| 41 comments
14.		Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes (lorendb.dev)
		288 points by LorenDB 1 day ago \| 150 comments
15.		The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project (github.com/freebsdfoundation)
		167 points by mikece 1 day ago \| 62 comments
16.		Rust's Block Pattern (notgull.net)
		198 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 105 comments
17.		Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/lulzx)
		210 points by lulzx 1 day ago \| 27 comments
18.		A better zip bomb (2019) (bamsoftware.com)
		158 points by kekqqq 17 hours ago \| 54 comments
19.		Great ideas in theoretical computer science (cs251.com)
		194 points by sebg 1 day ago \| 44 comments
20.		Believe the Checkbook (robertgreiner.com)
		157 points by rg81 23 hours ago \| 71 comments
21.		Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say (washingtonpost.com)
		172 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago \| 217 comments
22.		Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format (github.com/fastserial)
		147 points by cryptonector 7 days ago \| 37 comments
23.		Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model (huggingface.co)
		113 points by dvrp 1 day ago \| 20 comments
24.		From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4 (sdiehl.github.io)
		141 points by rwosync 6 days ago \| 20 comments
25.		Performance Hints (2023) (abseil.io)
		107 points by danlark1 22 hours ago \| 32 comments
26.		Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations (alexschapiro.com)
		115 points by bearsyankees 21 hours ago \| 60 comments
27.		NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models (noaa.gov)
		118 points by hnburnsy 2 days ago \| 79 comments
28.		Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code (pckf.com)
		166 points by deevus 1 day ago \| 27 comments
29.		The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself (hatchet.run)
		83 points by abelanger 3 days ago \| 6 comments
30.		2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results (ads.apple.com)
		252 points by punnerud 1 day ago \| 271 comments
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