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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1115 points by sandebert 19 hours ago \| 434 comments
2.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		587 points by sofumel 20 hours ago \| 527 comments
3.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		631 points by ssiddharth 16 hours ago \| 287 comments
4.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		785 points by speleo 13 hours ago \| 174 comments
5.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		359 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago \| 172 comments
6.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		327 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago \| 98 comments
7.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		769 points by speckx 16 hours ago \| 673 comments
8.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		407 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 103 comments
9.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		449 points by root-parent 12 hours ago \| 178 comments
10.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		351 points by asenna 16 hours ago \| 102 comments
11.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		294 points by mattas 13 hours ago \| 368 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		562 points by napolux 20 hours ago \| 338 comments
13.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		359 points by OuterVale 23 hours ago \| 237 comments
14.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		272 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 53 comments
15.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		383 points by apwheele 3 days ago \| 269 comments
16.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		290 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 329 comments
17.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		257 points by jaredwiener 13 hours ago \| 89 comments
18.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		177 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 68 comments
19.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		297 points by qaz_plm 12 hours ago \| 88 comments
20.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		101 points by pvtmert 2 days ago \| 46 comments
21.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		81 points by gustrigos 14 hours ago \| 22 comments
22.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		253 points by wapasta 1 day ago \| 188 comments
23.		Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)
		235 points by speckx 11 hours ago \| 127 comments
24.		Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
		259 points by sanity 15 hours ago \| 146 comments
25.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		224 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 76 comments
26.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		118 points by gmac 3 days ago \| 34 comments
27.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		136 points by siteshwar 3 days ago \| 22 comments
28.		Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)
		178 points by speckx 10 hours ago \| 50 comments
29.		Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (hollywoodreporter.com)
		133 points by elffjs 13 hours ago \| 266 comments
30.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		186 points by louiereederson 1 day ago \| 387 comments
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