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1.		An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
		1213 points by participant3 22 hours ago \| 716 comments
2.		US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)
		1794 points by belter 1 day ago \| 3454 comments
3.		Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (github.com/lwthiker)
		447 points by mmh0000 1 day ago \| 116 comments
4.		Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com/luskaner)
		439 points by apitman 1 day ago \| 90 comments
5.		Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
		349 points by matser 1 day ago \| 139 comments
6.		I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
		587 points by Fred34 1 day ago \| 549 comments
7.		AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
		679 points by Tenoke 1 day ago \| 441 comments
8.		Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)
		417 points by nimbleplum40 1 day ago \| 254 comments
9.		AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)
		813 points by adrianvoica 1 day ago \| 123 comments
10.		A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)
		351 points by pseudolus 1 day ago \| 472 comments
11.		An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com/juanfont)
		324 points by quyleanh 1 day ago \| 79 comments
12.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
		249 points by whoishiring 3 days ago \| 380 comments
13.		John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)
		215 points by pseudolus 4 days ago \| 229 comments
14.		Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)
		458 points by ChiptuneIsCool 5 days ago \| 72 comments
15.		Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age (kiessling.net)
		350 points by briankelly 21 hours ago \| 257 comments
16.		Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)
		382 points by meetpateltech 23 hours ago \| 256 comments
17.		MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks (shd.mit.edu)
		245 points by imakwana 1 day ago \| 18 comments
18.		Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point (aom.org)
		161 points by rustoo 2 days ago \| 119 comments
19.		InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/initware)
		163 points by sunshine-o 1 day ago \| 99 comments
20.		New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers (science.org)
		76 points by rbanffy 4 days ago \| 17 comments
21.		Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)
		151 points by liadyo 21 hours ago \| 48 comments
22.		Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (github.com/c3lang)
		143 points by lerno 1 day ago \| 101 comments
23.		Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
		98 points by jonbaer 1 day ago \| 12 comments
24.		Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball (ploopy.co)
		117 points by namanyayg 5 days ago \| 49 comments
25.		How Servo Motors Work (jameco.com)
		102 points by kaycebasques 20 hours ago \| 23 comments
26.		The cultural evolution of distortion in music (royalsocietypublishing.org)
		63 points by anigbrowl 19 hours ago \| 28 comments
27.		How Big Is VMS? (vmssoftware.com)
		62 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago \| 58 comments
28.		Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)
		293 points by joshdickson 1 day ago \| 146 comments
29.		Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative (github.com/hail-hydrant)
		98 points by darkseid_is 1 day ago \| 13 comments
30.		Flame – BBS and MUD (ucc.asn.au)
		55 points by shakna 4 days ago \| 18 comments
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