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1.		Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (himthe.dev)
		1688 points by bobsterlobster 16 hours ago \| 1319 comments
2.		ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)
		1461 points by JKCalhoun 3 days ago \| 967 comments
3.		Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)
		619 points by DGAP 15 hours ago \| 852 comments
4.		Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		253 points by justaboutanyone 5 days ago \| 55 comments
5.		Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
		416 points by brk 16 hours ago \| 51 comments
6.		There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him (fastcompany.com)
		315 points by coloneltcb 5 days ago \| 149 comments
7.		Show HN: The HN Arcade (andrewgy8.github.io)
		318 points by yuppiepuppie 20 hours ago \| 84 comments
8.		Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)
		467 points by wubin 9 hours ago \| 114 comments
9.		Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)
		170 points by peter_d_sherman 5 days ago \| 60 comments
10.		Android's desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)
		215 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 288 comments
11.		Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)
		303 points by trenning 1 day ago \| 538 comments
12.		Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers (github.com/ratatui)
		198 points by orhunp_ 13 hours ago \| 43 comments
13.		Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (dimamik.com)
		213 points by dimamik 14 hours ago \| 89 comments
14.		SVG Path Editor (yqnn.github.io)
		238 points by gurjeet 6 days ago \| 40 comments
15.		Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp (fb.com)
		246 points by ubj 1 day ago \| 128 comments
16.		Make.ts (matklad.github.io)
		223 points by ingve 23 hours ago \| 115 comments
17.		Some notes on starting to use Django (jvns.ca)
		235 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 126 comments
18.		I overengineered a spinning top [video] (youtube.com)
		140 points by bane 6 days ago \| 41 comments
19.		Extremophile molds are invading art museums (scientificamerican.com)
		144 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago \| 70 comments
20.		Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection (computerhistory.org)
		140 points by ChrisArchitect 13 hours ago \| 25 comments
21.		Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks (siliceum.com)
		105 points by bdash 14 hours ago \| 41 comments
22.		Pandas 3.0 (pydata.org)
		267 points by jonbaer 5 days ago \| 115 comments
23.		ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions (asml.com)
		331 points by dep_b 23 hours ago \| 334 comments
24.		Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)
		150 points by jmuncor 12 hours ago \| 74 comments
25.		UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M (mahadk.com)
		319 points by JustSkyfall 8 hours ago \| 95 comments
26.		Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)
		172 points by linolevan 1 day ago \| 53 comments
27.		AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release (aisle.com)
		192 points by mmsc 1 day ago \| 129 comments
28.		I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) (notmyhostna.me)
		103 points by dewey 5 days ago \| 41 comments
29.		Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? (newyorker.com)
		133 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago \| 50 comments
30.		[dupe] ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants (bmj.com)
		434 points by dberhane 18 hours ago \| 252 comments
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