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1.		GitHub's fake star economy (awesomeagents.ai)
		737 points by Liriel 16 hours ago \| 356 comments
2.		All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)
		936 points by ramonga 11 hours ago \| 785 comments
3.		John Ternus to become Apple CEO (apple.com)
		1115 points by schappim 4 hours ago \| 578 comments
4.		Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (rolfmore.com)
		399 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 257 comments
5.		Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)
		299 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago \| 271 comments
6.		A Brief History of Fish Sauce (legalnomads.com)
		229 points by vinhnx 1 day ago \| 99 comments
7.		Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (letsdatascience.com)
		490 points by kevcampb 12 hours ago \| 113 comments
8.		Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (qwen.ai)
		522 points by mfiguiere 11 hours ago \| 275 comments
9.		NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)
		435 points by Palmik 15 hours ago \| 309 comments
10.		Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding (kimi.com)
		557 points by meetpateltech 9 hours ago \| 287 comments
11.		M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (usgs.gov)
		258 points by Someone 15 hours ago \| 120 comments
12.		Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)
		361 points by kyriakosel 11 hours ago \| 202 comments
13.		Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
		207 points by twapi 1 day ago \| 81 comments
14.		ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (posit.co)
		343 points by thomasp85 12 hours ago \| 72 comments
15.		Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (sciencedetective.org)
		141 points by jruohonen 1 day ago \| 51 comments
16.		OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (flyingpenguin.com)
		266 points by feigewalnuss 17 hours ago \| 302 comments
17.		Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (discovermagazine.com)
		163 points by janandonly 3 days ago \| 28 comments
18.		Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated (techcrunch.com)
		287 points by FiddlerClamp 9 hours ago \| 272 comments
19.		WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/arcanenibble)
		196 points by tuananh 13 hours ago \| 175 comments
20.		10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
		186 points by luu 1 day ago \| 101 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)
		193 points by shivampkumar 1 day ago \| 34 comments
23.		I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it (thelibre.news)
		227 points by ndr 4 days ago \| 68 comments
24.		SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
		166 points by neehao 2 days ago \| 85 comments
25.		At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)
		542 points by HotGarbage 7 hours ago \| 265 comments
26.		Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
		148 points by breve 3 days ago \| 24 comments
27.		Swiss AI Initiative (2023) (swiss-ai.org)
		86 points by doener 1 day ago \| 26 comments
28.		Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com/iainmcgin)
		119 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago \| 38 comments
29.		We accepted surveillance as default (vivianvoss.net)
		278 points by speckx 8 hours ago \| 124 comments
30.		Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
		100 points by pseudolus 3 days ago \| 25 comments
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