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541.

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? (akr.am)

435 points by thefilmore 2 months ago | 392 comments

542.

WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system (scitechdaily.com)

435 points by mgh2 1 month ago | 187 comments

543.

Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)

435 points by todsacerdoti 2 weeks ago | 152 comments

544.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)

434 points by varankinv 1 week ago | 360 comments

545.

Vim 9.2 (vim.org)

434 points by tapanjk 3 weeks ago | 193 comments

546.

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) (idiallo.com)

434 points by caminanteblanco 2 months ago | 119 comments

547.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)

434 points by SteveHawk27 2 weeks ago | 74 comments

548.

US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)

434 points by randycupertino 1 month ago | 36 comments

549.

cURL removes bug bounties (etn.se)

433 points by jnord 1 month ago | 264 comments

550.

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)

433 points by danielhanchen 2 weeks ago | 213 comments

551.

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)

433 points by jesperordrup 1 month ago | 135 comments

552.

MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format (maplibre.org)

432 points by todsacerdoti 1 month ago | 92 comments

553.

Ghidra by NSA (github.com)

431 points by handfuloflight 3 weeks ago | 219 comments

554.

CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook (simonwillison.net)

431 points by ck2 1 month ago | 186 comments

555.

Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)

431 points by todsacerdoti 2 weeks ago | 84 comments

556.

Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk (wsj.com)

430 points by klausa 2 days ago | 291 comments

557.

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) (fabiensanglard.net)

430 points by birdculture 2 months ago | 87 comments

558.

Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (publicdomainreview.org)

430 points by apetresc 2 months ago | 85 comments

559.

Breaking the spell of vibe coding (fast.ai)

429 points by arjunbanker 3 weeks ago | 349 comments

560.

Nearby Glasses (github.com)

429 points by zingerlio 1 week ago | 219 comments

561.

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (journal.rafaelcosta.me)

429 points by rafaelcosta 1 month ago | 217 comments

562.

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (cy.md)

429 points by CyberShadow 1 month ago | 142 comments

563.

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations (hakibenita.com)

429 points by haki 1 month ago | 68 comments

564.

What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)

428 points by alexmolas 1 week ago | 251 comments

565.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester (404media.co)

428 points by sedatk 2 days ago | 205 comments

566.

Python numbers every programmer should know (mkennedy.codes)

428 points by WoodenChair 2 months ago | 186 comments

567.

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip? (anuragk.com)

427 points by beAroundHere 2 weeks ago | 256 comments

568.

Wine 11.0 (gitlab.winehq.org)

427 points by zdw 1 month ago | 95 comments

569.

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine (code.idtech.space)

427 points by klaussilveira 3 weeks ago | 89 comments

570.

Why is Claude an Electron app? (dbreunig.com)

426 points by dbreunig 2 weeks ago | 457 comments