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1.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1216 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 697 comments
2.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		1057 points by benholmen 1 day ago \| 135 comments
3.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		516 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago \| 149 comments
4.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		292 points by zakki 4 days ago \| 134 comments
5.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		424 points by emschwartz 1 day ago \| 146 comments
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		575 points by robtherobber 1 day ago \| 837 comments
7.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		399 points by UglyToad 1 day ago \| 220 comments
8.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		277 points by lapcat 2 days ago \| 265 comments
9.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		198 points by detaro 3 days ago \| 39 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		375 points by hallak 1 day ago \| 100 comments
11.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		167 points by EPendragon 1 day ago \| 141 comments
12.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		139 points by bobajeff 1 day ago \| 69 comments
13.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		446 points by gm678 1 day ago \| 336 comments
14.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		372 points by skrebbel 4 days ago \| 168 comments
15.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		150 points by Bluestein 21 hours ago \| 51 comments
16.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		201 points by car 1 day ago \| 61 comments
17.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		167 points by ran3000 21 hours ago \| 64 comments
18.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		273 points by hosolmaz 1 day ago \| 225 comments
19.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		571 points by croes 1 day ago \| 564 comments
20.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		137 points by jackbravo 1 day ago \| 194 comments
21.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		146 points by deegles 1 day ago \| 58 comments
22.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		116 points by mitchbob 1 day ago \| 214 comments
23.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		140 points by janandonly 4 days ago \| 24 comments
24.		Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
		113 points by pseudolus 3 days ago \| 227 comments
25.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		72 points by chapulin 4 days ago \| 11 comments
26.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		199 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 330 comments
27.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		73 points by codydeluisio 1 day ago \| 10 comments
28.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		143 points by elektor 20 hours ago \| 33 comments
29.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		479 points by Hamuko 1 day ago \| 244 comments
30.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		145 points by hyperbrainer 1 day ago \| 73 comments
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