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1.		Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
		1128 points by speckx 20 hours ago \| 364 comments
2.		Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
		554 points by thepoet 17 hours ago \| 188 comments
3.		Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
		795 points by floathub 22 hours ago \| 928 comments
4.		I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
		555 points by gavide 21 hours ago \| 66 comments
5.		DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
		482 points by dares2573 23 hours ago \| 150 comments
6.		AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
		309 points by dash2 3 days ago \| 322 comments
7.		Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
		275 points by aakil 19 hours ago \| 182 comments
8.		I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
		374 points by rcymerys 22 hours ago \| 366 comments
9.		Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
		259 points by rafaelc 1 day ago \| 406 comments
10.		New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
		243 points by speckx 21 hours ago \| 165 comments
11.		Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
		663 points by throw7 21 hours ago \| 371 comments
12.		Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
		208 points by NKosmatos 15 hours ago \| 57 comments
13.		How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
		146 points by toebee 18 hours ago \| 34 comments
14.		AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
		566 points by Cider9986 1 day ago \| 855 comments
15.		People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
		138 points by signa11 5 days ago \| 14 comments
16.		A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
		123 points by ra7 1 day ago \| 69 comments
17.		Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
		237 points by mtokmak06 1 day ago \| 187 comments
18.		The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
		260 points by spankibalt 1 day ago \| 142 comments
19.		Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
		363 points by rdmuser 1 day ago \| 212 comments
20.		Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
		76 points by arto 8 days ago \| discuss
21.		Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
		60 points by cainxinth 20 hours ago \| 4 comments
22.		Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
		77 points by vicek22 15 hours ago \| 11 comments
23.		I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
		136 points by colinprince 19 hours ago \| 41 comments
24.		Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
		222 points by marcomezzavilla 1 day ago \| 54 comments
25.		Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
		70 points by rbanffy 4 days ago \| 9 comments
26.		We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
		144 points by signa11 1 day ago \| 82 comments
27.		Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
		147 points by TheP1000 1 day ago \| 62 comments
28.		What happens when a GPU reads memory (doubleword.ai)
		108 points by ibobev 18 hours ago \| 19 comments
29.		Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
		102 points by jakelsaunders94 17 hours ago \| 54 comments
30.		Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
		141 points by underdeserver 1 day ago \| 209 comments
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