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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1357 points by lumerina 6 days ago \| 421 comments
2.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		780 points by tonkkatonka 8 days ago \| 412 comments
3.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		762 points by fanf2 6 days ago \| 211 comments
4.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		610 points by picture 6 days ago \| 58 comments
5.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		265 points by higuidebot 5 days ago \| 75 comments
6.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		349 points by xmprt 5 days ago \| 58 comments
7.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		275 points by SeenNotHeard 6 days ago \| 498 comments
8.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		379 points by NaOH 6 days ago \| 705 comments
9.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		165 points by kevinsundar 9 days ago \| 28 comments
10.		On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018) (benningtonreview.org)
		236 points by tie-in 5 days ago \| 116 comments
11.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		346 points by ksec 9 days ago \| 168 comments
12.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		398 points by azeemba 8 days ago \| 65 comments
13.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		307 points by nafnlj 5 days ago \| 87 comments
14.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		794 points by confusing3478 5 days ago \| 756 comments
15.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		145 points by benbreen 8 days ago \| 56 comments
16.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		152 points by ioblomov 9 days ago \| 133 comments
17.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		321 points by techlover14159 6 days ago \| 358 comments
18.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		154 points by ingve 5 days ago \| 96 comments
19.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		305 points by throwaway19577 6 days ago \| 194 comments
20.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		189 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago \| 20 comments
21.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		198 points by leoedin 5 days ago \| 34 comments
22.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		85 points by PaulHoule 8 days ago \| 58 comments
23.		NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
		129 points by Tiberium 5 days ago \| 27 comments
24.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		401 points by Tijdreiziger 6 days ago \| 273 comments
25.		Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
		142 points by previnder 5 days ago \| 37 comments
26.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		181 points by rrampage 5 days ago \| 78 comments
27.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		60 points by zammitjames 5 days ago \| 29 comments
28.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		113 points by Tomte 5 days ago \| 62 comments
29.		Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf] (auckland.ac.nz)
		128 points by commandersaki 8 days ago \| 114 comments
30.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		96 points by nchagnet 6 days ago \| 20 comments
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