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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1218 points by sandebert 1 day ago \| 467 comments
2.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		1056 points by speleo 1 day ago \| 217 comments
3.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		615 points by sofumel 1 day ago \| 558 comments
4.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		412 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| 202 comments
5.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		731 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago \| 330 comments
6.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		398 points by pseudolus 1 day ago \| 117 comments
7.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		438 points by asenna 1 day ago \| 126 comments
8.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		521 points by apwheele 3 days ago \| 404 comments
9.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		355 points by mattas 1 day ago \| 439 comments
10.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		469 points by root-parent 22 hours ago \| 200 comments
11.		Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)
		339 points by speckx 21 hours ago \| 201 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		666 points by napolux 1 day ago \| 404 comments
13.		Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)
		241 points by speckx 21 hours ago \| 78 comments
14.		Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
		330 points by sanity 1 day ago \| 227 comments
15.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		307 points by jaredwiener 23 hours ago \| 109 comments
16.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		803 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 706 comments
17.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		417 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 104 comments
18.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		281 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 53 comments
19.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		362 points by OuterVale 1 day ago \| 242 comments
20.		Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (hollywoodreporter.com)
		172 points by elffjs 1 day ago \| 340 comments
21.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		297 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 341 comments
22.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		108 points by pvtmert 3 days ago \| 56 comments
23.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		178 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 74 comments
24.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		313 points by qaz_plm 22 hours ago \| 108 comments
25.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		95 points by gustrigos 1 day ago \| 26 comments
26.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		255 points by wapasta 1 day ago \| 188 comments
27.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		224 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 78 comments
28.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		121 points by gmac 4 days ago \| 34 comments
29.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		138 points by siteshwar 3 days ago \| 22 comments
30.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		194 points by louiereederson 2 days ago \| 397 comments
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