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1.		Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)
		1073 points by sandebert 16 hours ago \| 422 comments
2.		We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)
		570 points by sofumel 17 hours ago \| 520 comments
3.		Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)
		565 points by ssiddharth 13 hours ago \| 278 comments
4.		AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)
		758 points by speckx 13 hours ago \| 657 comments
5.		Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
		404 points by kageroumado 1 day ago \| 103 comments
6.		Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)
		338 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago \| 163 comments
7.		Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
		354 points by OuterVale 20 hours ago \| 233 comments
8.		The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		267 points by bambax 1 day ago \| 54 comments
9.		Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)
		301 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago \| 95 comments
10.		Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
		641 points by speleo 11 hours ago \| 149 comments
11.		Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
		423 points by root-parent 9 hours ago \| 172 comments
12.		Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)
		520 points by napolux 17 hours ago \| 311 comments
13.		Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
		287 points by aurareturn 1 day ago \| 324 comments
14.		Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)
		310 points by asenna 13 hours ago \| 94 comments
15.		Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)
		272 points by mattas 11 hours ago \| 327 comments
16.		Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)
		175 points by azhenley 1 day ago \| 65 comments
17.		Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
		252 points by wapasta 1 day ago \| 186 comments
18.		Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
		325 points by apwheele 3 days ago \| 239 comments
19.		Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
		222 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago \| 76 comments
20.		Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
		116 points by gmac 3 days ago \| 34 comments
21.		News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)
		233 points by jaredwiener 10 hours ago \| 82 comments
22.		New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
		135 points by siteshwar 3 days ago \| 20 comments
23.		BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
		276 points by qaz_plm 9 hours ago \| 84 comments
24.		Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
		92 points by pvtmert 2 days ago \| 46 comments
25.		OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
		183 points by louiereederson 1 day ago \| 386 comments
26.		Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)
		71 points by gustrigos 11 hours ago \| 21 comments
27.		Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
		153 points by jger15 3 days ago \| 117 comments
28.		Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
		168 points by shideneyu 18 hours ago \| 81 comments
29.		A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide (wired.com)
		234 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago \| 83 comments
30.		Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
		220 points by sanity 12 hours ago \| 119 comments
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