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1.		Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
		1275 points by speckx 18 days ago \| 394 comments
2.		Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
		662 points by thepoet 17 days ago \| 213 comments
3.		Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
		1107 points by floathub 18 days ago \| 1383 comments
4.		I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
		688 points by gavide 18 days ago \| 89 comments
5.		AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
		384 points by dash2 20 days ago \| 383 comments
6.		Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
		364 points by aakil 17 days ago \| 237 comments
7.		Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
		269 points by NKosmatos 17 days ago \| 71 comments
8.		I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
		523 points by rcymerys 18 days ago \| 511 comments
9.		New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
		289 points by speckx 18 days ago \| 186 comments
10.		People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
		172 points by signa11 22 days ago \| 22 comments
11.		Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
		437 points by underdeserver 18 days ago \| 569 comments
12.		DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
		498 points by dares2573 18 days ago \| 154 comments
13.		A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
		248 points by speckx 17 days ago \| 281 comments
14.		How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
		171 points by toebee 17 days ago \| 44 comments
15.		Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
		273 points by rafaelc 18 days ago \| 442 comments
16.		Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
		716 points by throw7 18 days ago \| 403 comments
17.		AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
		648 points by Cider9986 18 days ago \| 918 comments
18.		A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
		139 points by ra7 18 days ago \| 110 comments
19.		Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
		264 points by mtokmak06 18 days ago \| 204 comments
20.		The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
		278 points by spankibalt 18 days ago \| 149 comments
21.		Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
		390 points by rdmuser 18 days ago \| 226 comments
22.		Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
		80 points by arto 25 days ago
23.		Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
		67 points by cainxinth 18 days ago \| 5 comments
24.		Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
		91 points by vicek22 17 days ago \| 14 comments
25.		I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
		154 points by colinprince 17 days ago \| 49 comments
26.		Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
		250 points by marcomezzavilla 18 days ago \| 64 comments
27.		Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
		72 points by rbanffy 22 days ago \| 9 comments
28.		We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
		150 points by signa11 18 days ago \| 85 comments
29.		Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
		148 points by TheP1000 18 days ago \| 66 comments
30.		Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
		119 points by jakelsaunders94 17 days ago \| 67 comments
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