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1.		Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)
		1401 points by theletterf 20 hours ago \| 795 comments
2.		California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)
		812 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago \| 341 comments
3.		A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned (wired.com)
		234 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago \| 122 comments
4.		Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (nih.gov)
		326 points by kelseyfrog 3 days ago \| 149 comments
5.		White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems (ohwr.org)
		193 points by michaelsbradley 2 days ago \| 47 comments
6.		Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
		239 points by rickcarlino 4 days ago \| 73 comments
7.		Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (services.mozilla.com)
		173 points by luu 3 days ago \| 55 comments
8.		C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)
		150 points by xngbuilds 16 hours ago \| 52 comments
9.		Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox (firefox.com)
		181 points by mch82 4 days ago \| 71 comments
10.		Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)
		297 points by vinhnx 1 day ago \| 143 comments
11.		IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)
		148 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago \| 65 comments
12.		Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine (york.ac.uk)
		113 points by sohkamyung 3 days ago \| 53 comments
13.		Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)
		330 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago \| 61 comments
14.		Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)
		544 points by elorant 18 hours ago \| 503 comments
15.		Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
		273 points by jruohonen 16 hours ago \| 71 comments
16.		Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)
		142 points by azhenley 3 days ago \| 58 comments
17.		Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)
		181 points by L_Rahman 14 hours ago \| 74 comments
18.		Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)
		235 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago \| 136 comments
19.		Building Pi with Pi (pocoo.org)
		182 points by mplanchard 1 day ago \| 141 comments
20.		The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
		458 points by razin 1 day ago \| 357 comments
21.		Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (tinyvolt.com)
		63 points by nivter 22 hours ago \| 15 comments
22.		AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)
		122 points by zdw 3 days ago \| 18 comments
23.		I love my Bluetooth keyboard (liquidbrain.net)
		152 points by evakhoury 3 days ago \| 153 comments
24.		Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)
		222 points by Kneenex 9 hours ago \| 46 comments
25.		Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025) (tmj4.com)
		173 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago \| 168 comments
26.		A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)
		123 points by rmason 11 hours ago \| 101 comments
27.		Jensen–Shannon Divergence (wikipedia.org)
		99 points by teleforce 3 days ago \| 15 comments
28.		C constructs that still don't work in C++ (lospino.so)
		119 points by jalospinoso 4 days ago \| 118 comments
29.		Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage (trychert.com)
		56 points by garygao 15 hours ago \| 181 comments
30.		[dupe] Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)
		337 points by benwerd 17 hours ago \| 68 comments
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