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1.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1093 points by rrampage 18 hours ago \| 592 comments
2.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		918 points by benholmen 15 hours ago \| 125 comments
3.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		392 points by UglyToad 1 day ago \| 212 comments
4.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		246 points by zakki 3 days ago \| 125 comments
5.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		357 points by skrebbel 3 days ago \| 158 comments
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		557 points by robtherobber 23 hours ago \| 802 comments
7.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		132 points by bobajeff 18 hours ago \| 58 comments
8.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		198 points by car 1 day ago \| 61 comments
9.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		265 points by hosolmaz 1 day ago \| 221 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		314 points by hallak 19 hours ago \| 77 comments
11.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		390 points by gm678 17 hours ago \| 283 comments
12.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		552 points by croes 22 hours ago \| 533 comments
13.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		402 points by meetpateltech 15 hours ago \| 112 comments
14.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		141 points by deegles 18 hours ago \| 53 comments
15.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		300 points by emschwartz 17 hours ago \| 84 comments
16.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		114 points by mitchbob 1 day ago \| 207 comments
17.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		137 points by janandonly 3 days ago \| 24 comments
18.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		131 points by EPendragon 16 hours ago \| 104 comments
19.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		167 points by detaro 2 days ago \| 35 comments
20.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		197 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 328 comments
21.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		72 points by codydeluisio 1 day ago \| 10 comments
22.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		125 points by Bluestein 12 hours ago \| 41 comments
23.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		114 points by jackbravo 18 hours ago \| 151 comments
24.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		131 points by elektor 11 hours ago \| 21 comments
25.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		134 points by ran3000 12 hours ago \| 28 comments
26.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		65 points by chapulin 4 days ago \| 10 comments
27.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		182 points by lapcat 2 days ago \| 152 comments
28.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		464 points by Hamuko 15 hours ago \| 225 comments
29.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		140 points by hyperbrainer 16 hours ago \| 69 comments
30.		How Python grew from a language to a community (thenewstack.io)
		121 points by lumpa 1 day ago \| 79 comments
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