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1.		Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (cloudflare.com)
		1124 points by rrampage 19 hours ago \| 601 comments
2.		Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (benholmen.com)
		946 points by benholmen 16 hours ago \| 125 comments
3.		So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
		394 points by UglyToad 1 day ago \| 213 comments
4.		OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware (openipc.org)
		255 points by zakki 3 days ago \| 128 comments
5.		How we built Bluey’s world (itsnicethat.com)
		357 points by skrebbel 3 days ago \| 160 comments
6.		Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (fortune.com)
		559 points by robtherobber 1 day ago \| 806 comments
7.		My Ideal Array Language (ashermancinelli.com)
		134 points by bobajeff 19 hours ago \| 60 comments
8.		Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (qwenlm.github.io)
		425 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago \| 115 comments
9.		How to grow almost anything (howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site)
		198 points by car 1 day ago \| 61 comments
10.		DrawAFish.com Postmortem (aldenhallak.com)
		322 points by hallak 20 hours ago \| 80 comments
11.		Objects should shut up (dustri.org)
		399 points by gm678 18 hours ago \| 295 comments
12.		Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (solmaz.io)
		267 points by hosolmaz 1 day ago \| 221 comments
13.		Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)
		557 points by croes 23 hours ago \| 537 comments
14.		Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		141 points by deegles 20 hours ago \| 53 comments
15.		How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (v8.dev)
		320 points by emschwartz 18 hours ago \| 96 comments
16.		Customizing tmux (evgeniipendragon.com)
		138 points by EPendragon 17 hours ago \| 107 comments
17.		Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft (bl.ag)
		172 points by detaro 2 days ago \| 37 comments
18.		Why doctors hate their computers (2018) (newyorker.com)
		114 points by mitchbob 1 day ago \| 207 comments
19.		New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials (phys.org)
		137 points by janandonly 3 days ago \| 24 comments
20.		NASA's Curiosity picks up new skills (nasa.gov)
		125 points by Bluestein 13 hours ago \| 42 comments
21.		Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)
		119 points by jackbravo 20 hours ago \| 159 comments
22.		Content-Aware Spaced Repetition (giacomoran.com)
		142 points by ran3000 13 hours ago \| 37 comments
23.		Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth (ft.com)
		197 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 328 comments
24.		What Can a Cell Remember? (quantamagazine.org)
		68 points by chapulin 4 days ago \| 10 comments
25.		Everything to know about UniFi OS Server (deluisio.com)
		72 points by codydeluisio 1 day ago \| 10 comments
26.		I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)
		191 points by lapcat 2 days ago \| 169 comments
27.		Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable (nytimes.com)
		135 points by elektor 12 hours ago \| 23 comments
28.		Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
		467 points by Hamuko 16 hours ago \| 227 comments
29.		A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability (notashes.me)
		142 points by hyperbrainer 17 hours ago \| 69 comments
30.		Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)
		84 points by pseudolus 2 days ago \| 156 comments
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