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1.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1158 points by rrampage 21 hours ago \| 633 comments
2.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		978 points by benholmen 19 hours ago \| 131 comments
3.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		394 points by UglyToad 1 day ago \| 217 comments
4.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		272 points by zakki 3 days ago \| 130 comments
5.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		461 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago \| 130 comments
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		563 points by robtherobber 1 day ago \| 816 comments
7.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		136 points by bobajeff 22 hours ago \| 62 comments
8.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		422 points by gm678 20 hours ago \| 315 comments
9.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		361 points by skrebbel 3 days ago \| 161 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		342 points by hallak 23 hours ago \| 91 comments
11.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		358 points by emschwartz 21 hours ago \| 114 comments
12.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		198 points by car 1 day ago \| 61 comments
13.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		270 points by hosolmaz 1 day ago \| 222 comments
14.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		150 points by EPendragon 19 hours ago \| 115 comments
15.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		181 points by detaro 2 days ago \| 39 comments
16.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		561 points by croes 1 day ago \| 549 comments
17.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		145 points by deegles 22 hours ago \| 55 comments
18.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		130 points by jackbravo 22 hours ago \| 171 comments
19.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		135 points by Bluestein 16 hours ago \| 43 comments
20.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		154 points by ran3000 15 hours ago \| 56 comments
21.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		210 points by lapcat 2 days ago \| 201 comments
22.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		114 points by mitchbob 1 day ago \| 211 comments
23.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		138 points by janandonly 4 days ago \| 24 comments
24.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		71 points by chapulin 4 days ago \| 10 comments
25.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		197 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 330 comments
26.		Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
		97 points by pseudolus 3 days ago \| 176 comments
27.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		72 points by codydeluisio 1 day ago \| 10 comments
28.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		138 points by elektor 15 hours ago \| 26 comments
29.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		472 points by Hamuko 19 hours ago \| 234 comments
30.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		143 points by hyperbrainer 20 hours ago \| 69 comments
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