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1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1235 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 385 comments
2.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		569 points by picture 1 day ago \| 56 comments
3.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		258 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 446 comments
4.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		361 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 620 comments
5.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		589 points by tonkkatonka 3 days ago \| 345 comments
6.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		373 points by azeemba 3 days ago \| 61 comments
7.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		305 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 146 comments
8.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		737 points by confusing3478 18 hours ago \| 665 comments
9.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		518 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 140 comments
10.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		143 points by ioblomov 4 days ago \| 125 comments
11.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		304 points by techlover14159 1 day ago \| 332 comments
12.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		120 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 42 comments
13.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		168 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago \| 20 comments
14.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		84 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago \| 49 comments
15.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		271 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 176 comments
16.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		388 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 257 comments
17.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		174 points by rrampage 23 hours ago \| 65 comments
18.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		130 points by ingve 16 hours ago \| 75 comments
19.		Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon (cnn.com)
		166 points by mooreds 1 day ago \| 116 comments
20.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		91 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
21.		The lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry (theguardian.com)
		71 points by n1b0m 4 days ago \| 31 comments
22.		Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty (simonschreibt.de)
		151 points by cremno 4 days ago \| 43 comments
23.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		139 points by leoedin 13 hours ago \| 22 comments
24.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		41 points by zammitjames 10 hours ago \| 24 comments
25.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		164 points by higuidebot 11 hours ago \| 56 comments
26.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		89 points by Tomte 11 hours ago \| 51 comments
27.		Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality (science.org)
		135 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago \| 77 comments
28.		[dupe] MySQL at Uber (uber.com)
		105 points by Brysonbw 4 days ago \| 67 comments
29.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		206 points by xmprt 9 hours ago \| 33 comments
30.		Publish Your Gaussian Splats with SuperSplat (playcanvas.com)
		56 points by ovenchips 4 days ago \| 9 comments
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