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1.		Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (himthe.dev)
		1656 points by bobsterlobster 14 hours ago \| 1301 comments
2.		ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)
		1460 points by JKCalhoun 3 days ago \| 967 comments
3.		Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		251 points by justaboutanyone 5 days ago \| 52 comments
4.		Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)
		599 points by DGAP 13 hours ago \| 815 comments
5.		There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him (fastcompany.com)
		313 points by coloneltcb 5 days ago \| 147 comments
6.		Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
		396 points by brk 14 hours ago \| 50 comments
7.		Show HN: The HN Arcade (andrewgy8.github.io)
		311 points by yuppiepuppie 18 hours ago \| 82 comments
8.		Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)
		170 points by peter_d_sherman 5 days ago \| 59 comments
9.		Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp (fb.com)
		245 points by ubj 22 hours ago \| 124 comments
10.		SVG Path Editor (yqnn.github.io)
		236 points by gurjeet 6 days ago \| 39 comments
11.		Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)
		301 points by trenning 1 day ago \| 538 comments
12.		Make.ts (matklad.github.io)
		220 points by ingve 21 hours ago \| 115 comments
13.		Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)
		432 points by wubin 7 hours ago \| 105 comments
14.		I overengineered a spinning top [video] (youtube.com)
		138 points by bane 6 days ago \| 40 comments
15.		Android's desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)
		190 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 267 comments
16.		Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (dimamik.com)
		200 points by dimamik 12 hours ago \| 82 comments
17.		Some notes on starting to use Django (jvns.ca)
		221 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 113 comments
18.		Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers (github.com/ratatui)
		182 points by orhunp_ 11 hours ago \| 42 comments
19.		Extremophile molds are invading art museums (scientificamerican.com)
		143 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago \| 68 comments
20.		Pandas 3.0 (pydata.org)
		265 points by jonbaer 5 days ago \| 114 comments
21.		ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions (asml.com)
		330 points by dep_b 20 hours ago \| 334 comments
22.		Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection (computerhistory.org)
		133 points by ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago \| 24 comments
23.		AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release (aisle.com)
		192 points by mmsc 1 day ago \| 129 comments
24.		I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) (notmyhostna.me)
		102 points by dewey 5 days ago \| 41 comments
25.		Spinning around: Please don't – Common problems with spin locks (siliceum.com)
		92 points by bdash 12 hours ago \| 33 comments
26.		[dupe] ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants (bmj.com)
		432 points by dberhane 16 hours ago \| 253 comments
27.		Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy (hcs64.com)
		94 points by hcs 20 hours ago \| 36 comments
28.		Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array (physicsworld.com)
		68 points by mooreds 3 days ago \| 26 comments
29.		Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)
		128 points by jmuncor 10 hours ago \| 56 comments
30.		Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)
		147 points by linolevan 1 day ago \| 44 comments
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