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1.		Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
		1305 points by anonymousiam 21 hours ago \| 476 comments
2.		Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
		1309 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago \| 952 comments
3.		Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
		908 points by stefanpie 1 day ago \| 621 comments
4.		Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
		1003 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago \| 800 comments
5.		Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
		834 points by psxuaw 1 day ago \| 446 comments
6.		David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
		771 points by defrost 1 day ago \| 150 comments
7.		An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
		479 points by ColinWright 1 day ago \| 174 comments
8.		Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
		387 points by willmeyers 1 day ago \| 118 comments
9.		Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
		360 points by sbt567 1 day ago \| 224 comments
10.		AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
		382 points by speckx 22 hours ago \| 150 comments
11.		Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
		239 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago \| 96 comments
12.		US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
		320 points by david-gpu 1 day ago \| 482 comments
13.		Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
		1607 points by CliffStoll 3 days ago \| 247 comments
14.		You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
		201 points by MrBruh 21 hours ago \| 125 comments
15.		AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)
		246 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago \| 176 comments
16.		Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
		357 points by rustoo 3 days ago \| 564 comments
17.		Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
		389 points by wslh 1 day ago \| 358 comments
18.		Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
		299 points by cemsakarya 3 days ago \| 129 comments
19.		Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
		687 points by ribtoks 1 day ago \| 349 comments
20.		Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
		363 points by HieronymusBosch 2 days ago \| 160 comments
21.		A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
		582 points by mwheelz 1 day ago \| 286 comments
22.		Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
		146 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 62 comments
23.		Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
		199 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 76 comments
24.		PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
		141 points by ibobev 1 day ago \| 63 comments
25.		GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
		127 points by foltik 1 day ago \| 63 comments
26.		Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
		391 points by mittermayr 1 day ago \| 315 comments
27.		ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
		271 points by Borkdude 1 day ago \| 72 comments
28.		All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)
		73 points by akkartik 3 days ago \| 50 comments
29.		A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
		101 points by timvisee 4 days ago \| 31 comments
30.		The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
		151 points by cainxinth 2 days ago \| 190 comments
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