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1.		Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
		1248 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 390 comments
2.		Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
		647 points by thepoet 1 day ago \| 204 comments
3.		Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
		1070 points by floathub 2 days ago \| 1306 comments
4.		I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
		666 points by gavide 1 day ago \| 83 comments
5.		AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
		375 points by dash2 4 days ago \| 374 comments
6.		Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
		352 points by aakil 1 day ago \| 235 comments
7.		Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
		258 points by NKosmatos 1 day ago \| 67 comments
8.		I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
		487 points by rcymerys 2 days ago \| 486 comments
9.		New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
		277 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 180 comments
10.		People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
		171 points by signa11 6 days ago \| 23 comments
11.		DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
		495 points by dares2573 2 days ago \| 153 comments
12.		Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
		407 points by underdeserver 2 days ago \| 519 comments
13.		How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
		169 points by toebee 1 day ago \| 43 comments
14.		Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
		266 points by rafaelc 2 days ago \| 418 comments
15.		A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
		212 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 234 comments
16.		Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
		697 points by throw7 1 day ago \| 393 comments
17.		AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
		621 points by Cider9986 2 days ago \| 895 comments
18.		A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
		134 points by ra7 2 days ago \| 104 comments
19.		Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
		249 points by mtokmak06 2 days ago \| 194 comments
20.		The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
		269 points by spankibalt 2 days ago \| 146 comments
21.		Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
		379 points by rdmuser 2 days ago \| 225 comments
22.		Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
		80 points by arto 9 days ago \| discuss
23.		Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
		64 points by cainxinth 1 day ago \| 5 comments
24.		Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
		88 points by vicek22 1 day ago \| 13 comments
25.		I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
		148 points by colinprince 1 day ago \| 45 comments
26.		Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
		240 points by marcomezzavilla 2 days ago \| 58 comments
27.		Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
		72 points by rbanffy 5 days ago \| 9 comments
28.		We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
		145 points by signa11 2 days ago \| 83 comments
29.		Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
		148 points by TheP1000 2 days ago \| 64 comments
30.		Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)
		116 points by jakelsaunders94 1 day ago \| 65 comments
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