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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1249 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 387 comments
2.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		574 points by picture 1 day ago \| 56 comments
3.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		644 points by tonkkatonka 3 days ago \| 368 comments
4.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		260 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 453 comments
5.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		363 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 640 comments
6.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		584 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 159 comments
7.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		380 points by azeemba 3 days ago \| 61 comments
8.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		308 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 153 comments
9.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		747 points by confusing3478 22 hours ago \| 676 comments
10.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		126 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 46 comments
11.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		144 points by ioblomov 4 days ago \| 128 comments
12.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		307 points by techlover14159 1 day ago \| 339 comments
13.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		139 points by ingve 19 hours ago \| 78 comments
14.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		172 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 20 comments
15.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		277 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 180 comments
16.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		84 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago \| 49 comments
17.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		389 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 259 comments
18.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		175 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 65 comments
19.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		155 points by leoedin 16 hours ago \| 27 comments
20.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		190 points by higuidebot 14 hours ago \| 58 comments
21.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		46 points by zammitjames 13 hours ago \| 24 comments
22.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		98 points by Tomte 14 hours ago \| 56 comments
23.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		241 points by xmprt 12 hours ago \| 40 comments
24.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		91 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
25.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		121 points by kevinsundar 4 days ago \| 22 comments
26.		Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon (cnn.com)
		167 points by mooreds 1 day ago \| 122 comments
27.		The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry (theguardian.com)
		72 points by n1b0m 4 days ago \| 32 comments
28.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		213 points by nafnlj 8 hours ago \| 45 comments
29.		Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty (simonschreibt.de)
		151 points by cremno 4 days ago \| 43 comments
30.		Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf] (clp.unesp.br)
		83 points by Qem 11 hours ago \| 38 comments
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