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1.		Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
		893 points by stefanpie 1 day ago \| 608 comments
2.		Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
		1278 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago \| 914 comments
3.		Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
		816 points by psxuaw 1 day ago \| 430 comments
4.		Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
		889 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago \| 734 comments
5.		Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
		1512 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago \| 234 comments
6.		Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
		290 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago \| 125 comments
7.		An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
		368 points by ColinWright 13 hours ago \| 146 comments
8.		Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
		569 points by anonymousiam 6 hours ago \| 193 comments
9.		Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
		280 points by sbt567 22 hours ago \| 182 comments
10.		Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
		646 points by ribtoks 11 hours ago \| 326 comments
11.		Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
		143 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 62 comments
12.		A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
		527 points by mwheelz 12 hours ago \| 265 comments
13.		Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
		191 points by hhs 1 day ago \| 75 comments
14.		David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
		433 points by defrost 13 hours ago \| 85 comments
15.		GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
		118 points by foltik 1 day ago \| 55 comments
16.		Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
		327 points by rustoo 2 days ago \| 523 comments
17.		Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
		377 points by wslh 1 day ago \| 331 comments
18.		ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
		261 points by Borkdude 18 hours ago \| 67 comments
19.		Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
		190 points by xngbuilds 10 hours ago \| 77 comments
20.		Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
		340 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago \| 149 comments
21.		A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
		97 points by timvisee 3 days ago \| 28 comments
22.		Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
		273 points by willmeyers 8 hours ago \| 95 comments
23.		The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
		125 points by cainxinth 2 days ago \| 163 comments
24.		US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
		228 points by david-gpu 13 hours ago \| 337 comments
25.		PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
		117 points by ibobev 10 hours ago \| 52 comments
26.		GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
		195 points by gmays 1 day ago \| 60 comments
27.		Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
		289 points by mittermayr 17 hours ago \| 258 comments
28.		Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit (garrido.io)
		117 points by ggpsv 11 hours ago \| 23 comments
29.		GeoJSON (geojson.org)
		147 points by tosh 15 hours ago \| 70 comments
30.		Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.co.jp)
		226 points by razorbeamz 18 hours ago \| 226 comments
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