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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1054 points by sandebert 15 hours ago \| 417 comments
2.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		565 points by sofumel 16 hours ago \| 518 comments
3.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		754 points by speckx 12 hours ago \| 651 comments
4.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		540 points by ssiddharth 12 hours ago \| 267 comments
5.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		404 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 103 comments
6.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		264 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 54 comments
7.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		351 points by OuterVale 18 hours ago \| 232 comments
8.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		331 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago \| 159 comments
9.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		289 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago \| 94 comments
10.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		287 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 323 comments
11.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		587 points by speleo 9 hours ago \| 137 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		505 points by napolux 16 hours ago \| 304 comments
13.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		416 points by root-parent 8 hours ago \| 169 comments
14.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		175 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 65 comments
15.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		298 points by asenna 12 hours ago \| 92 comments
16.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		256 points by mattas 9 hours ago \| 321 comments
17.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		250 points by wapasta 1 day ago \| 186 comments
18.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		222 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 76 comments
19.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		115 points by gmac 3 days ago \| 34 comments
20.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		135 points by siteshwar 3 days ago \| 20 comments
21.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		182 points by louiereederson 1 day ago \| 383 comments
22.		Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
		152 points by jger15 3 days ago \| 117 comments
23.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		294 points by apwheele 3 days ago \| 218 comments
24.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		271 points by qaz_plm 7 hours ago \| 83 comments
25.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		218 points by jaredwiener 9 hours ago \| 80 comments
26.		Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
		165 points by shideneyu 16 hours ago \| 81 comments
27.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		92 points by pvtmert 2 days ago \| 45 comments
28.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		68 points by gustrigos 10 hours ago \| 21 comments
29.		A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (wired.com)
		230 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago \| 82 comments
30.		Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
		116 points by smugglerFlynn 3 days ago \| 55 comments
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