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1.		John Ternus to become Apple CEO (apple.com)
		1287 points by schappim 6 hours ago \| 644 comments
2.		All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
		1000 points by ramonga 13 hours ago \| 817 comments
3.		GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
		744 points by Liriel 18 hours ago \| 356 comments
4.		Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (qwen.ai)
		555 points by mfiguiere 12 hours ago \| 290 comments
5.		Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
		300 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago \| 273 comments
6.		Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (letsdatascience.com)
		508 points by kevcampb 14 hours ago \| 116 comments
7.		Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
		404 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 258 comments
8.		Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
		585 points by meetpateltech 11 hours ago \| 299 comments
9.		A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
		230 points by vinhnx 1 day ago \| 99 comments
10.		Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
		382 points by kyriakosel 13 hours ago \| 208 comments
11.		M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
		264 points by Someone 16 hours ago \| 122 comments
12.		NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
		442 points by Palmik 16 hours ago \| 313 comments
13.		ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
		370 points by thomasp85 14 hours ago \| 76 comments
14.		Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated (techcrunch.com)
		306 points by FiddlerClamp 11 hours ago \| 286 comments
15.		Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
		207 points by twapi 1 day ago \| 81 comments
16.		WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/arcanenibble)
		207 points by tuananh 15 hours ago \| 186 comments
17.		10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
		193 points by luu 1 day ago \| 103 comments
18.		Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
		142 points by jruohonen 1 day ago \| 51 comments
19.		OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
		274 points by feigewalnuss 19 hours ago \| 305 comments
20.		Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
		164 points by janandonly 3 days ago \| 28 comments
21.		Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum (sheets.works)
		179 points by akashwadhwani35 5 days ago \| 53 comments
22.		Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
		194 points by shivampkumar 1 day ago \| 34 comments
23.		I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
		232 points by ndr 4 days ago \| 68 comments
24.		SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
		167 points by neehao 2 days ago \| 85 comments
25.		At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)
		553 points by HotGarbage 9 hours ago \| 269 comments
26.		Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
		150 points by breve 3 days ago \| 24 comments
27.		Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (politico.eu)
		157 points by axbyte 18 hours ago \| 74 comments
28.		Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
		86 points by doener 1 day ago \| 26 comments
29.		Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com/iainmcgin)
		122 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago \| 38 comments
30.		We accepted surveillance as default (vivianvoss.net)
		288 points by speckx 10 hours ago \| 124 comments
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