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Today’s top stories reflect a community deeply invested in both the practicalities of coding and the high-stakes future of AI. A guide on essential Git commands for code review has taken the top spot, proving that fundamental workflows remain a favorite for engineers looking to sharpen their craft. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is sparking intense discussion about securing software as AI models become more integrated into our daily infrastructure.

Technical curiosity is also on full display with a successful port of Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii, a feat that perfectly captures the site's love for creative, "just because" hacking. This interest in control extends to privacy, where updates on the VeraCrypt project and its recent friction with Microsoft highlight ongoing concerns about digital sovereignty and the tools we use to protect our data.

The list is rounded out by significant world events and quirky science. A provisional ceasefire between the US and Iran has generated massive debate, while stories about hero landmine-sniffing rats and the history of GPUs remind us of the unexpected ways technology and culture intersect. It’s a diverse mix that keeps the curiosity high.

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1Git commands I run before reading any codepiechowski.io1866grepsedawk19 hours ago394
2Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI eraanthropic.com1483Ryan54531 day ago797
3I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wiibryankeller.github.io1340blkhp1912 hours ago227
4Veracrypt project updatesourceforge.net1166super25620 hours ago429
5Lunar Flybynasa.gov928kipi1 day ago238
6System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]anthropic.com824be7a1 day ago631
7Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)sam-burns.com776sam-bee1 day ago233
8US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technologycnet.com658giuliomagnifico15 hours ago385
9Are We Idiocracy Yet?idiocracy.wtf622jdiiufccuskal1 day ago540
10GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasksz.ai608zixuanlimit1 day ago251
11US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefiretheguardian.com591g-b-r1 day ago1925
12Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphonesskoda-storyboard.com547ra19 hours ago548
13Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates404media.co499donohoe13 hours ago186
14Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing ratbbc.com473speckx1 day ago124
15They're made out of meat (1991)terrybisson.com438surprisetalk16 hours ago129
16We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer codejuxt.pro427henrygarner1 day ago199
17ML promises to be profoundly weirdaphyr.com415pabs314 hours ago442
18Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.netjola.dev409shintoist1 day ago204
19OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)slate.com381surprisetalk1 day ago114
20Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum securitycloudflare.com378ilreb1 day ago112
21S3 Filesallthingsdistributed.com369werner1 day ago111
22Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]youtube.com358tetrisgm22 hours ago124
23Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creatornytimes.com346jfirebaugh20 hours ago288
24Every GPU That Matteredsheets.works328jonbaer1 day ago202
25Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilitiesanthropic.com309sweis1 day ago52
2612k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)sciencealert.com306pulisse1 day ago120
27I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issuenickvecchioni.github.io304nickvec10 hours ago147
28Protect your sheddylanbutler.dev301baely1 day ago75
29Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?ishormuzopenyet.com296anonfunction6 hours ago132
30Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligencemeta.com293chabons11 hours ago304