Link Khan: Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZrr
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Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CYEx
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Benefits of choosing email over messaging (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)

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The QNX Operating System (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZaE
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Which table format do LLMs understand best? (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CRG9
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If the University of Chicago won't defend the humanities, who will? (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZme
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What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZNW
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BYD builds fastest car (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZmN
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Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2qy
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Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2NE
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1 Trillion Web Pages Archived (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2Wn
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Structured Procrastination (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3cp
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The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CNuS
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Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)

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Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CNAM
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Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZFV
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Hey HN,
I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.
For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,
- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)
- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512
- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random
- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff
- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime
- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr
- Color & Design: color (convert)
- Reference: unicode
For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more).
Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.

NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System (Score: 151+ in 21 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CZkV
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Show HN: While everyone builds AI apps, my spreadsheet reached 2,300 users (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3VL
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Everyone’s chasing AI hype.
I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.
In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!
No launch. No funding. No AI.
Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.
I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com
Now, more than 2,300 people use it.
It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.
People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem.
This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.
Build something useful.
Solve a real problem.
Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.
So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3B7
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The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2dh
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