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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1287 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 404 comments
2.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		734 points by tonkkatonka 4 days ago \| 403 comments
3.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		719 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 191 comments
4.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		592 points by picture 1 day ago \| 57 comments
5.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		252 points by higuidebot 1 day ago \| 72 comments
6.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		324 points by xmprt 1 day ago \| 52 comments
7.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		269 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 465 comments
8.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		369 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 676 comments
9.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		154 points by kevinsundar 4 days ago \| 27 comments
10.		On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018) (benningtonreview.org)
		229 points by tie-in 20 hours ago \| 104 comments
11.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		327 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 157 comments
12.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		384 points by azeemba 4 days ago \| 61 comments
13.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		300 points by nafnlj 21 hours ago \| 79 comments
14.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		133 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 52 comments
15.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		764 points by confusing3478 1 day ago \| 728 comments
16.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		145 points by ioblomov 5 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)
		146 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 91 comments
19.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		293 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 189 comments
20.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		183 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 20 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)
		85 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago \| 54 comments
23.		NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
		117 points by Tiberium 23 hours ago \| 27 comments
24.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		394 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 264 comments
25.		Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
		133 points by previnder 21 hours ago \| 35 comments
26.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		177 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 74 comments
27.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		59 points by zammitjames 1 day ago \| 28 comments
28.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		107 points by Tomte 1 day ago \| 62 comments
29.		Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf] (auckland.ac.nz)
		116 points by commandersaki 4 days ago \| 86 comments
30.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		93 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
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