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1.		LLM Writing Tropes.md (tropes.fyi)
		377 points by walterbell 3 days ago \| 189 comments
2.		Ask HN: How to be alone?
		672 points by sillysaurusx 3 days ago \| 553 comments
3.		[dupe] Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
		892 points by aamederen 7 days ago \| 512 comments
4.		IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report (dropsitenews.com)
		2084 points by Qem 15 days ago \| 998 comments
5.		OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
		657 points by rzk 14 days ago \| 196 comments
6.		Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)
		937 points by mikece 24 days ago \| 667 comments
7.		Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)
		195 points by todsacerdoti 22 days ago \| 132 comments
8.		The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself (ahmedeldin.substack.com)
		288 points by 0x54MUR41 23 days ago \| 336 comments
9.		Monosketch (monosketch.io)
		876 points by penguin_booze 26 days ago \| 140 comments
10.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
		334 points by david927 30 days ago \| 1158 comments
11.		Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
		123 points by surprisetalk 35 days ago \| 13 comments
12.		Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
		361 points by azhenley 30 days ago \| 219 comments
13.		Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
		189 points by muggermuch 30 days ago \| 65 comments
14.		They lied to you. Building software is hard (nordcraft.com)
		143 points by xiaohanyu 40 days ago \| 118 comments
15.		The only moat left is knowing things (growtika.com)
		66 points by Growtika 41 days ago \| 51 comments
16.		Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login? (quesma.com)
		144 points by stared 41 days ago \| 79 comments
17.		Text Is King (experimental-history.com)
		184 points by zdw 49 days ago \| 88 comments
18.		Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One (stripe.com)
		163 points by mitchbob 49 days ago \| 35 comments
19.		King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017) (p.migdal.pl)
		65 points by CGMthrowaway 54 days ago \| 62 comments
20.		Ask HN: Share your personal website
		950 points by susam 55 days ago \| 2388 comments
21.		Choosing learning over autopilot (anniecherkaev.com)
		58 points by evakhoury 56 days ago \| 38 comments
22.		How to make a damn website (2024) (lmnt.me)
		246 points by birdculture 56 days ago \| 78 comments
23.		Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
		256 points by david927 58 days ago \| 884 comments
24.		What is code? (2015) (bloomberg.com)
		132 points by bblcla 68 days ago \| 53 comments
25.		Using LLMs at Oxide (oxide.computer)
		711 points by steveklabnik 3 months ago \| 271 comments
26.		Catala – Law to Code (catala-lang.org)
		119 points by Grognak 3 months ago \| 64 comments
27.		Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too (science.org)
		134 points by mmaaz 3 months ago \| 148 comments
28.		Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) (medium.com/atari-club)
		292 points by areoform 3 months ago \| 54 comments
29.		Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
		1343 points by vrnvu 3 months ago \| 289 comments
30.		Blame as a Service (humaninvariant.com)
		127 points by humaninvariant 3 months ago \| 20 comments
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