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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1099 points by sandebert 18 hours ago \| 424 comments
2.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		581 points by sofumel 19 hours ago \| 525 comments
3.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		598 points by ssiddharth 15 hours ago \| 280 comments
4.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		349 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago \| 165 comments
5.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		718 points by speleo 12 hours ago \| 166 comments
6.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		762 points by speckx 15 hours ago \| 662 comments
7.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		405 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 103 comments
8.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		316 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago \| 98 comments
9.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		438 points by root-parent 11 hours ago \| 172 comments
10.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		357 points by OuterVale 21 hours ago \| 234 comments
11.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		271 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 53 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		544 points by napolux 19 hours ago \| 319 comments
13.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		333 points by asenna 15 hours ago \| 98 comments
14.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		283 points by mattas 12 hours ago \| 350 comments
15.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		290 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 326 comments
16.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		176 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 66 comments
17.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		359 points by apwheele 3 days ago \| 256 comments
18.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		249 points by jaredwiener 12 hours ago \| 84 comments
19.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		295 points by qaz_plm 10 hours ago \| 86 comments
20.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		252 points by wapasta 1 day ago \| 188 comments
21.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		95 points by pvtmert 2 days ago \| 46 comments
22.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		76 points by gustrigos 13 hours ago \| 22 comments
23.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		223 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 76 comments
24.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		117 points by gmac 3 days ago \| 34 comments
25.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		136 points by siteshwar 3 days ago \| 21 comments
26.		Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
		246 points by sanity 14 hours ago \| 135 comments
27.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		183 points by louiereederson 1 day ago \| 386 comments
28.		Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)
		215 points by speckx 10 hours ago \| 114 comments
29.		Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
		154 points by jger15 3 days ago \| 117 comments
30.		Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
		169 points by shideneyu 19 hours ago \| 82 comments
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