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1.		Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (himthe.dev)
		1746 points by bobsterlobster 20 hours ago \| 1347 comments
2.		ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)
		1464 points by JKCalhoun 3 days ago \| 968 comments
3.		Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
		468 points by brk 20 hours ago \| 51 comments
4.		Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)
		640 points by DGAP 19 hours ago \| 882 comments
5.		Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU (vectorware.com)
		254 points by justaboutanyone 5 days ago \| 56 comments
6.		Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)
		495 points by wubin 13 hours ago \| 125 comments
7.		Android's desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)
		246 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 321 comments
8.		There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him (fastcompany.com)
		318 points by coloneltcb 5 days ago \| 150 comments
9.		Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers (github.com/ratatui)
		208 points by orhunp_ 17 hours ago \| 45 comments
10.		Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (dimamik.com)
		234 points by dimamik 18 hours ago \| 91 comments
11.		Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)
		305 points by trenning 1 day ago \| 539 comments
12.		Show HN: The HN Arcade (andrewgy8.github.io)
		323 points by yuppiepuppie 1 day ago \| 106 comments
13.		Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection (computerhistory.org)
		160 points by ChrisArchitect 17 hours ago \| 26 comments
14.		Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)
		170 points by peter_d_sherman 5 days ago \| 61 comments
15.		Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)
		174 points by jmuncor 16 hours ago \| 86 comments
16.		Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks (siliceum.com)
		127 points by bdash 18 hours ago \| 50 comments
17.		Some notes on starting to use Django (jvns.ca)
		240 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 130 comments
18.		Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)
		191 points by linolevan 1 day ago \| 59 comments
19.		Extremophile molds are invading art museums (scientificamerican.com)
		145 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago \| 71 comments
20.		SVG Path Editor (yqnn.github.io)
		241 points by gurjeet 6 days ago \| 41 comments
21.		Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp (fb.com)
		249 points by ubj 1 day ago \| 131 comments
22.		Make.ts (matklad.github.io)
		226 points by ingve 1 day ago \| 115 comments
23.		Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? (newyorker.com)
		158 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago \| 53 comments
24.		I overengineered a spinning top [video] (youtube.com)
		143 points by bane 6 days ago \| 44 comments
25.		In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games? (thinkygames.com)
		69 points by tobr 5 days ago \| 60 comments
26.		UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M (mahadk.com)
		359 points by JustSkyfall 11 hours ago \| 128 comments
27.		Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index (github.com/microsoft)
		88 points by SchwKatze 12 hours ago \| 16 comments
28.		Pandas 3.0 (pydata.org)
		268 points by jonbaer 5 days ago \| 118 comments
29.		ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions (asml.com)
		331 points by dep_b 1 day ago \| 343 comments
30.		AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release (aisle.com)
		192 points by mmsc 1 day ago \| 129 comments
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