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Programming Tools and Languages // 1898 ❤️‍🔥

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays 712 ❤️
Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS 336 ❤️
Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C 62 ❤️
Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates 363 ❤️
Racket v9.0 289 ❤️
A ncurses-based command line torrent client for high performance 6 ❤️
Editing Code in Emacs 130 ❤️

Software Development Practices // 97 ❤️‍🔥

Tech Innovation // 271 ❤️‍🔥

RuBee 26 ❤️
New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries 93 ❤️
µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D 105 ❤️
Particle Life 47 ❤️

Environmental Impact and Transportation // 267 ❤️‍🔥

The Cloudflare outage was a good thing 13 ❤️
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air 254 ❤️

Other // 680 ❤️‍🔥

The Rust Performance Book 28 ❤️
Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring 1 ❤️
Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd 113 ❤️
A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2 364 ❤️
MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces 174 ❤️

Mathematics and AI // 560 ❤️‍🔥

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf] 256 ❤️
Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine 204 ❤️
An Economy of AI Agents 100 ❤️

Innovative Projects // 212 ❤️‍🔥

A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development 56 ❤️
Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation 113 ❤️
Band of Holes 5 ❤️
Sunsetting Supermaven 38 ❤️

Personal Stories and Reflections // 847 ❤️‍🔥

After my dad died, we found the love letters 841 ❤️
A Unified Theory of Ego, Empathy, and Humility at Work 6 ❤️

Popular GitHub Repos (Last 60 Days)

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy 1398 ❤️

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem 1009 ❤️

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DeepSeek OCR 656 ❤️

SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 484 ❤️

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support 462 ❤️

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think 434 ❤️

MinIO stops distributing free Docker images 432 ❤️

Recall for Linux 429 ❤️

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser 397 ❤️