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1.		Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)
		1410 points by Kaibeezy 10 hours ago \| 485 comments
2.		Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org)
		904 points by sohkamyung 17 hours ago \| 211 comments
3.		SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B (twitter.com/spacex)
		793 points by dmarcos 1 day ago \| 948 comments
4.		Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
		733 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago \| 353 comments
5.		Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen (asteriskmag.com)
		678 points by nkurz 2 days ago \| 454 comments
6.		Making RAM at Home [video] (youtube.com)
		586 points by kaipereira 2 days ago \| 172 comments
7.		GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry (cli.github.com)
		421 points by ingve 15 hours ago \| 306 comments
8.		Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) (luminousmen.substack.com)
		320 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 235 comments
9.		Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
		413 points by xnx 14 hours ago \| 202 comments
10.		Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM (jasoneckert.github.io)
		184 points by jasoneckert 3 days ago \| 147 comments
11.		3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)
		298 points by marklit 15 hours ago \| 232 comments
12.		5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)
		465 points by zdw 3 days ago \| 109 comments
13.		We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)
		479 points by danpinto 9 hours ago \| 143 comments
14.		Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)
		415 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago \| 101 comments
15.		Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)
		282 points by hubraumhugo 12 hours ago \| 209 comments
16.		Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
		201 points by ndr42 1 day ago \| 146 comments
17.		Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms (psu.edu)
		207 points by t-3 13 hours ago \| 61 comments
18.		Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary (nrehiew.github.io)
		310 points by pella 9 hours ago \| 175 comments
19.		How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)
		221 points by alfanick 17 hours ago \| 49 comments
20.		XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		207 points by ingve 20 hours ago \| 203 comments
21.		CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production (brex.com)
		127 points by pedrofranceschi 1 day ago \| 54 comments
22.		Bodega cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)
		168 points by zdw 5 days ago \| 59 comments
23.		Garbage collection without unsafe code (fitzgen.com)
		109 points by foota 3 days ago \| 67 comments
24.		Technical, cognitive, and intent debt (martinfowler.com)
		215 points by theorchid 11 hours ago \| 51 comments
25.		Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment (courthousenews.com)
		98 points by geox 1 day ago \| 12 comments
26.		Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (ieee.org)
		96 points by pseudolus 3 days ago \| 2 comments
27.		Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com/jaffray)
		104 points by ibobev 14 hours ago \| 36 comments
28.		MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation (github.com/google-deepmind)
		111 points by modinfo 4 days ago \| 23 comments
29.		Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)
		180 points by ajeetdsouza 9 hours ago \| 106 comments
30.		FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX (fortune.com)
		222 points by ineedasername 1 day ago \| 153 comments
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