Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
631 points by twapi | 207 comments
Obsidian help documentation introducing Bases, a core plugin that turns sets of notes into database-style views with properties, filters, and formulas.
580 points by pil0u | 204 comments
Landing page for Hyperclay, a platform for building, hosting, and sharing web apps as single, portable, self-updating vanilla HTML files.
533 points by braden-w | 135 comments
GitHub directory for Whispering, an open-source, local-first speech-to-text dictation app within the Epicenter monorepo, built with Tauri.
532 points by rickcarlino | 166 comments
GitHub repository for OpenMower, an open source project to upgrade cheap robotic lawn mowers into RTK GPS-based smart mowing robots.
488 points by asnyder | 412 comments
New York Times article on how Counter-Strike, a mod built in a dorm room by Minh Le, became a billion-dollar game; the page loaded as a bot-block screen.
429 points by joshwcomeau | 43 comments
Josh Comeau's interactive tutorial explaining how the SVG path element and its drawing commands work.
406 points by graic | 323 comments
A blog post arguing that programming language syntax should flow left to right so code is valid as typed, critiquing Python's list comprehensions.
396 points by flykespice | 133 comments
GitHub repository from the FFmpeg project containing lessons teaching assembly language programming as used in FFmpeg, with translations.
380 points by Wowfunhappy | 171 comments
A personal essay and setup guide about leaving modern macOS in 2019 to keep using OS X Mavericks, with an accompanying app library.
361 points by alphabetting | 107 comments
Part 12 of Google's "How To Scale Your Model" book, a deep dive into how NVIDIA GPUs work and are networked, and what that means for LLMs compared to TPUs.
232 points by todsacerdoti | 85 comments
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186 points by wdaher | 104 comments
158 points by mooreds | 79 comments
157 points by speckx | 148 comments
124 points by coppolaemilio | 105 comments
122 points by the-mitr | 21 comments
119 points by Ameo | 23 comments
110 points by amirkabbara | 66 comments
108 points by beardyw | 242 comments
108 points by lisper | 27 comments
81 points by todsacerdoti | 8 comments
81 points by tlb | 62 comments
80 points by arbesman | 27 comments
