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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1258 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 395 comments
2.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		669 points by tonkkatonka 3 days ago \| 373 comments
3.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		579 points by picture 1 day ago \| 56 comments
4.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		628 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 164 comments
5.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		262 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 459 comments
6.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		364 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 647 comments
7.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		381 points by azeemba 3 days ago \| 61 comments
8.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		316 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 154 comments
9.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		750 points by confusing3478 1 day ago \| 688 comments
10.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		129 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 48 comments
11.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		144 points by ioblomov 4 days ago \| 130 comments
12.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		307 points by techlover14159 1 day ago \| 341 comments
13.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		140 points by ingve 22 hours ago \| 82 comments
14.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		198 points by higuidebot 17 hours ago \| 59 comments
15.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		173 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 20 comments
16.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		282 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 183 comments
17.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		266 points by xmprt 15 hours ago \| 43 comments
18.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		84 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago \| 52 comments
19.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		389 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 261 comments
20.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		177 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 65 comments
21.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		50 points by zammitjames 16 hours ago \| 24 comments
22.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		162 points by leoedin 19 hours ago \| 28 comments
23.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		244 points by nafnlj 11 hours ago \| 54 comments
24.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		127 points by kevinsundar 4 days ago \| 24 comments
25.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		102 points by Tomte 17 hours ago \| 57 comments
26.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		91 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
27.		Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon (cnn.com)
		167 points by mooreds 1 day ago \| 123 comments
28.		The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry (theguardian.com)
		72 points by n1b0m 4 days ago \| 34 comments
29.		Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf] (clp.unesp.br)
		87 points by Qem 14 hours ago \| 42 comments
30.		NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
		100 points by Tiberium 13 hours ago \| 22 comments
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