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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1022 points by sandebert 13 hours ago \| 409 comments
2.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		557 points by sofumel 14 hours ago \| 498 comments
3.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		404 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 99 comments
4.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		745 points by speckx 10 hours ago \| 641 comments
5.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		261 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 53 comments
6.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		505 points by ssiddharth 10 hours ago \| 258 comments
7.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		340 points by OuterVale 16 hours ago \| 228 comments
8.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		286 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 319 comments
9.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		321 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago \| 153 comments
10.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		175 points by azhenley 22 hours ago \| 63 comments
11.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		272 points by pseudolus 13 hours ago \| 89 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		474 points by napolux 14 hours ago \| 284 comments
13.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		397 points by root-parent 6 hours ago \| 164 comments
14.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		250 points by wapasta 23 hours ago \| 185 comments
15.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		493 points by speleo 7 hours ago \| 121 comments
16.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		222 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 76 comments
17.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		115 points by gmac 3 days ago \| 34 comments
18.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		274 points by asenna 10 hours ago \| 89 comments
19.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		133 points by siteshwar 2 days ago \| 20 comments
20.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		235 points by mattas 7 hours ago \| 293 comments
21.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		181 points by louiereederson 1 day ago \| 381 comments
22.		Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
		149 points by jger15 3 days ago \| 115 comments
23.		Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
		162 points by shideneyu 14 hours ago \| 81 comments
24.		A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (wired.com)
		226 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago \| 78 comments
25.		Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
		116 points by smugglerFlynn 3 days ago \| 54 comments
26.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		255 points by qaz_plm 5 hours ago \| 77 comments
27.		Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos (github.com/kouhxp)
		88 points by mrkn1 1 day ago \| 42 comments
28.		FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
		87 points by WhyNotHugo 11 hours ago \| 38 comments
29.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		90 points by pvtmert 2 days ago \| 44 comments
30.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		201 points by jaredwiener 7 hours ago \| 75 comments
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