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1.		Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)
		1553 points by theletterf 1 day ago \| 879 comments
2.		California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)
		1020 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago \| 456 comments
3.		Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)
		412 points by Cider9986 1 day ago \| 81 comments
4.		A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned (wired.com)
		238 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago \| 124 comments
5.		Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)
		257 points by L_Rahman 1 day ago \| 105 comments
6.		Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (nih.gov)
		332 points by kelseyfrog 3 days ago \| 158 comments
7.		A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)
		221 points by rmason 22 hours ago \| 166 comments
8.		Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)
		433 points by jumploops 20 hours ago \| 805 comments
9.		Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)
		315 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago \| 197 comments
10.		Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
		265 points by rickcarlino 4 days ago \| 82 comments
11.		C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)
		170 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago \| 87 comments
12.		White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems (ohwr.org)
		199 points by michaelsbradley 3 days ago \| 47 comments
13.		Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox (firefox.com)
		185 points by mch82 4 days ago \| 74 comments
14.		Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)
		393 points by thatxliner 21 hours ago \| 108 comments
15.		Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (services.mozilla.com)
		180 points by luu 3 days ago \| 55 comments
16.		Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C (github.com/boratanrikulu)
		106 points by boratanrikulu 5 days ago \| 51 comments
17.		Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)
		301 points by vinhnx 1 day ago \| 147 comments
18.		IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)
		154 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| 69 comments
19.		Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)
		271 points by zdw 18 hours ago \| 299 comments
20.		Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine (york.ac.uk)
		116 points by sohkamyung 4 days ago \| 54 comments
21.		Jensen–Shannon Divergence (wikipedia.org)
		129 points by teleforce 3 days ago \| 21 comments
22.		Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
		556 points by elorant 1 day ago \| 530 comments
23.		Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
		283 points by jruohonen 1 day ago \| 83 comments
24.		Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)
		153 points by azhenley 4 days ago \| 68 comments
25.		Building Pi with Pi (pocoo.org)
		187 points by mplanchard 2 days ago \| 146 comments
26.		Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer (github.com/tantara)
		78 points by tantara 20 hours ago \| 13 comments
27.		The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
		475 points by razin 1 day ago \| 363 comments
28.		Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (tinyvolt.com)
		70 points by nivter 1 day ago \| 16 comments
29.		Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)
		254 points by Kneenex 20 hours ago \| 48 comments
30.		AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)
		125 points by zdw 4 days ago \| 18 comments
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