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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1282 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 402 comments
2.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		728 points by tonkkatonka 4 days ago \| 398 comments
3.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		703 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 188 comments
4.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		590 points by picture 1 day ago \| 56 comments
5.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		244 points by higuidebot 1 day ago \| 69 comments
6.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		318 points by xmprt 23 hours ago \| 49 comments
7.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		268 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 462 comments
8.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		369 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 671 comments
9.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		153 points by kevinsundar 4 days ago \| 27 comments
10.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		325 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 157 comments
11.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		382 points by azeemba 4 days ago \| 61 comments
12.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		299 points by nafnlj 19 hours ago \| 78 comments
13.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		132 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 52 comments
14.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		762 points by confusing3478 1 day ago \| 725 comments
15.		On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018) (benningtonreview.org)
		223 points by tie-in 18 hours ago \| 102 comments
16.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		145 points by ioblomov 4 days ago \| 132 comments
17.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		312 points by techlover14159 1 day ago \| 349 comments
18.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		145 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 88 comments
19.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		180 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 20 comments
20.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		290 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 188 comments
21.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		186 points by leoedin 1 day ago \| 32 comments
22.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		84 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago \| 53 comments
23.		NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
		117 points by Tiberium 21 hours ago \| 26 comments
24.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		394 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 262 comments
25.		Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
		133 points by previnder 19 hours ago \| 34 comments
26.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		177 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 73 comments
27.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		58 points by zammitjames 1 day ago \| 28 comments
28.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		106 points by Tomte 1 day ago \| 61 comments
29.		Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf] (auckland.ac.nz)
		115 points by commandersaki 4 days ago \| 83 comments
30.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		93 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
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