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1.		Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
		1437 points by anonymousiam 1 day ago \| 526 comments
2.		Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
		1321 points by PriorityLeft 2 days ago \| 971 comments
3.		Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
		913 points by stefanpie 2 days ago \| 622 comments
4.		Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
		1018 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 818 comments
5.		David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
		843 points by defrost 1 day ago \| 159 comments
6.		An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
		495 points by ColinWright 1 day ago \| 184 comments
7.		Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
		842 points by psxuaw 2 days ago \| 453 comments
8.		Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
		402 points by willmeyers 1 day ago \| 123 comments
9.		AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
		410 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 161 comments
10.		Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
		365 points by sbt567 1 day ago \| 228 comments
11.		Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
		243 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago \| 97 comments
12.		US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
		325 points by david-gpu 1 day ago \| 502 comments
13.		Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
		1621 points by CliffStoll 3 days ago \| 248 comments
14.		AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
		259 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago \| 189 comments
15.		You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
		208 points by MrBruh 1 day ago \| 135 comments
16.		Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
		370 points by rustoo 3 days ago \| 592 comments
17.		Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
		392 points by wslh 2 days ago \| 364 comments
18.		Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
		302 points by cemsakarya 3 days ago \| 129 comments
19.		Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
		689 points by ribtoks 1 day ago \| 351 comments
20.		Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
		369 points by HieronymusBosch 2 days ago \| 163 comments
21.		A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
		590 points by mwheelz 1 day ago \| 288 comments
22.		Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
		148 points by hhs 2 days ago \| 62 comments
23.		Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
		202 points by hhs 2 days ago \| 76 comments
24.		PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
		142 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 69 comments
25.		GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
		128 points by foltik 1 day ago \| 64 comments
26.		Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
		418 points by mittermayr 1 day ago \| 318 comments
27.		ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
		271 points by Borkdude 1 day ago \| 72 comments
28.		All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
		76 points by akkartik 3 days ago \| 53 comments
29.		A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
		102 points by timvisee 4 days ago \| 34 comments
30.		The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
		158 points by cainxinth 3 days ago \| 216 comments
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